During the wedding season

During the wedding season that peaks during Onam, the government guest houses serve a full-course Kerala wedding feast - a spread of 21 ethnic vegetarian curries and payasam (milk and rice pudding). The feast completes the pilgrimage. And the traveller returns with the lord's sparkle in his eyes.

Otherwise too, a wedding feast in the holy town of Guruvayur can be ordered at will - for a pilgrimage to Guruvayur is not complete without a sumptuous platter served on plantain leaves.

The chairman of the Guruvayur temple said the shrine on an average hosted 150 weddings every day.