Big fat Indian weddings could face the axe

The Indian government is considering proposals to limit the number of guests allowed at weddings to reduce food wastage, according to a government official.

Indian weddings are famous for their extravagance and a wave of new money in the country has led to ever more lavish marriage celebrations, often involving multi-cuisine buffets and hundreds, or even thousands, of guests.

“We are looking into the possibility of reintroducing the executive guest control order created in the early 1960s,” an official at the ministry of food and consumer affairs in New Delhi said.

The rules limited the number of guests at weddings and other functions to deal with the scarcity of food, he said.

“Today the issue is not scarcity, but food is still being wasted and maximum amount of food is wasted at weddings,” the official, who declined to be named, added.