Imagine being invited to a wedding as... a piece of furniture! You stand in the center of the table, in a special hole in the middle, and play the role of a festive table setting. But this is a fairly common job, but two conditions must be met. 
1) You are European with white skin
2) You are in India
Yes, in China you used to be able to get hired at a club as a “foreigner” if you were white-skinned and light-eyed. The place where foreigners go is considered prestigious.
But in India they like to exploit it with a completely different message. They say that a “white-skinned man” works for us as a furniture maker. Quite strange for the 21st century, but in India the middle class loves to arrange this for weddings. 
And this is a mixture of Indian attire and some other kokoshnik
Moreover, weddings are very large, with 100-200 guests on average, everyone will see exactly what luxury the families of the bride and groom can afford.
Who works as a desk worker in India
These are young girls who came to India to travel or find “enlightenment.” But you need to live on something, especially since 10,000 rupees in India is serious money, you can buy a lot with it, and the desk girl gets it in an evening. 
Everyone thinks, “I’ll work as a waitress at a traditional wedding.” Yeah, how about it
Many of these traveling hippies take on far more dangerous temporary jobs. And being in the center of a table among beautifully dressed people in India is one of the safest jobs for a young white girl (the main thing is that someone doesn’t notice you and start stalking you later in the evening).
Why white girls!?
It's not just about the exoticism of another race, which often attracts Asians from China or Japan. There is also a rather painful post-colonial subtext in India. For so many years the country was oppressed by Great Britain with its white-skinned ladies, now the time has come for “reverse balls”, where white-skinned ladies are nothing more than furniture and servants - two in one. 
Girl-candy table from an advertising brochure of one of the companies
It’s not a very healthy thing, but the girls are paid well, no one offends them, because less wealthy, modern families can afford it.
Now the market for “table girls” is more or less established, but at the very beginning the agencies hid from the girls who they would have to work at the wedding. They thought they were just being hired as a waitress or kitchen assistant when they were told “you will be recommending drinks to guests at the table.” 
The desk girl makes... sandwiches?!
They signed up for a job, showed up, and were told to go to the back room, put on a top, a hat, and a table instead of a skirt.
Of course, this is in bad taste, but look at the exaggerated Indian cinema - they simply like more flashy, spectacular techniques and gestures that seem unnatural to Europeans.
Perhaps one day India will overcome its trauma.
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