Bhubaneswar, May 14 -- In a remarkable and unconventional wedding ceremony that has become the talk of the region, a bride in Odisha's Keonjhar district arrived at the groom's house with a grand musical procession and, after the marriage rituals, took the groom back to her parental home on Thursday.

The rare wedding took place in Chamunda village under Telkoi block and has drawn widespread attention for reversing traditional Hindu marriage customs.

Traditionally, in Hindu weddings, the groom travels with a procession to the bride's house, where the marriage is solemnised before the bride departs to her husband's home. However, this wedding turned every custom upside down in a symbolic and socially significant way.

The rare marriage was...