madurai amid chants of vedic hymns floral decorations and a sea of devotees the thirukalyanam celestial wedding of goddess meenakshi and lord sundareswarar was held at the meenakshi amman temple in madurai on tuesday in all grandeurheld on the 10th day of chithirai festival the stage for the wedding was set up at the junction of north and west aadi streets on the temple premises and decked up with tonnes of flowers brought from different districts of the state the deities of lord sundareswarar and goddess meenakshi were taken out in a procession around the chithirai streets before being brought to the stage lord subramaniaswamy from the subramaniaswamy temple at tirupparankundram goddess deivanai and lord pavalakkanivai perumal were brought there two priests enacted the celestial wedding between 830am and 900 am with the divine knot being tied at 842am the ceremony was accompanied by devotional music and hymns chanted by around 30 odhuvarspriests which created a divine atmosphere according to the temple administration around 15000 devotees witnessed the celestial wedding eventmarried women followed the ageold tradition of changing their thali nuptial thread during the ceremony it is believed that unmarried devotees who witness the event will be blessed with marriage in future after the celestial wedding a grand feast was held for devotees at sethupathi government higher secondary school around 125 lakh people relished the food cooked for breakfast and lunch by palamudhir cholai thiruvanantha bhakatar sabhai many shopkeepers in masi streets donated food to the devotees after the wedding later in the evening many devotees witnessed poo pallaku floral palanquin event in which the deities were brought in a procession through the four masi streets madurai corporation conducted 20 medical camps by deploying 69 medical officers around the temple to address medical emergencies as many as 20 water tanks were kept around the temple to cater to drinking water needs of the devotees a total of 14 mobile toilets were set up in the central zone while ambulances were kept ready at 30 important junctions in the city led screens were placed at all junctions around the temple for people who gathered to enter the temple after the event around 5000 police personnel were deployed to manage the crowd during the festival temple trustee karumuthu kannan district collector aneesh sekhar and corporation commissioner simranjeet singh kahlone witnessed the event