Monday 16 January 2012

Theme Based Wedding Cakes


A delicious looking, scrumptious, multi tier cake placed at the centre of a table in a wedding is definitely an eye catcher for the huge gathering present in a wedding. And if your wedding cake is in keeping with the theme of your wedding, then it is indubitably going to raise the oomph factor of your wedding ceremony sending a wave of delight and astonishment through the crowd. These days, theme based wedding cakes are in vogue and are a first choice amidst couples who are opting for theme based weddings.

Believe it or not, a wedding cake is the foremost object of attraction for the guests coming in for a wedding, even before they turn their heads to take a look at the couple. Therefore, your wedding cake must be paid the same amount of attention as you attribute to your wedding dress and set the tune for the theme of your wedding. Hence, you better not abnegate it as a trivia and must pay some extra attention towards picking up your wedding cake. If you just be a bit innovative and carry on a bit of online research for the same, you can work wonders with your wedding cake without impinging upon your budget.

In case, you have been planning a beach themed wedding, you have multitudinous options to get your wedding cake designed in keeping with your wedding theme. Cakes carrying real shells or intricate shells made out of cream and chocolate are a hot favourite in beach themed weddings. However, in case you want to try something different and innovative, then go for marine wildlife cakes, incorporating a myriad of sea creatures like jelly fish, sea stars, dolphins, sea anemones etc and you can perch a little mermaid relaxing under the sun at the top. You can also go for surf cakes, palms and coconut cakes, sandcastle cakes, sea bird cakes, lighthouse cakes etc. besides, you can add a personal touch to your wedding cake and make it even more memorable for the two of you by incorporating something that would remind you two of the long, romantic walks you took along the side of the beach before your wedding, something that is close to your heart.

For a rose themed wedding, there is a lot of scope to innovate and experiment with your wedding cake right from decorating the rims of your wedding cakes with beautiful roses made out of cream and moulded paste and using a rose as your wedding cake topper to getting a rose imitated by your bakery with your names and the date of your wedding inscribed on the petals.


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Thursday 12 January 2012

The Most Apt Wedding Songs


An Indian wedding is so very incomplete without music and dance. The dhol, shehnai, Punjabi wedding songs and also some very popular wedding songs from Bollywood movies form the quintessential elements of an Indian Wedding.

Moreover, wedding songs also serve the purpose of perpetuating and maintaining the theme of one’s wedding to the best possible extent. Imagine a royal theme wedding with some jazz and salsa! Now, imagine a royal theme wedding with shehnai and folk dances, you must be able to comprehend the pivotal role music and dance play in one’s wedding.

Now, that you are about to approach your wedding day, here is a little piece of advice on the process of selection of your wedding songs:

Some people like to welcome their guests with musical tunes and mostly traditional instrumental music is used to welcome the guests. A melodious tune being played on a shehnai automatically sets the mood for the celebration of the big event.

Amidst all the different genres of wedding songs which can be incorporated into your wedding celebrations, love songs have been in tradition since times immemorial and still continue to enjoy its elite status. Right from Bollywood to Hollywood, you have a plethora of varieties to choose from which will stir those little butterflies in your partner’s and your stomach and will make you go crimson.

Another genre of wedding songs which form the part and parcel of an Indian wedding are tear jerkers which are songs which choke your throat and silently makes everybody reach out for their handkerchiefs. In this section, one can choose anything from folk songs to popular Bollywood numbers like the title track of Baabul (2006) sung by Amitabh Bachchan.

Dance numbers are a must in every Indian wedding as although the big event is a moment which weighs down the hearts of the bride and her parents, yet it is also a moment meant for celebration. Dance numbers can vary widely from the Punjabi dhol beats, accompanied by Punjabi wedding songs to some folk dance forms like dandiya, bhangra etc to some fine Bollywood and Hollywood mixes from some Dj.

Whatever wedding songs you select, you must keep in mind the theme of your wedding. Your wedding songs and their genres must synchronise with the theme of your wedding ceremony or else it might spoil all the extra efforts that you have been taking to make your wedding day a flawless one.


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Wednesday 11 January 2012

Shopping for Wedding Dress


Wedding day is the most significant event in everyone’s lives, be it a man or a woman. And you wouldn’t find one creature on the face of this earth who can deny the fact that they have dreamt about their wedding day a plethora of times and wish their wedding day to materialise exactly the way they have picturised it in their reveries. In order to don that perfect flawless dream look, every little detail about your styling on the big day must be dealt with meticulous concern and precision. And of course, wedding dresses tops the list of priorities.

In Indian weddings, although the traditional wedding dresses differs a lot across various cultures, communities, religions and regions, yet in the present scenario, lehanga choli and sarees are the wedding dresses that are gaining popularity among brides across all religions, regions and communities primarily because the wide range of options and choices available owing to the fact that these two wedding dresses are being constantly explored by designers.

In the world of groom wears, the traditional ethnic attire and suits although continue to enjoy their elite status in the market but they are also being explored by designers to create wedding dresses that are a brilliant blend of tradition and novelty. Ethnic wears are also being experimented with and you have a myriad of ethnic wedding dresses to choose from, e.g. - Angarkhas, Bandhgalas, Kurta-pyjamas and Sherwanis.

While shopping for your wedding dress, one thing that must be kept in mind is that you should not go for well placed names in the fashion industry to get your wedding dresses designed until they have been designing dresses for you beforehand as they not only come with huge price tags but they also don’t guarantee the extra attention to your wedding dress because they are already laden with work. Hence, go for some good upcoming designers to get your wedding dress designed and you can be sure that they will try to deliver something that would compel you to approach them again.


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Tuesday 10 January 2012

Themes on Weddings


The concept of theme weddings was popular in the west earlier but now has gained immense popularity in India as well as it presents a fine blend of wild fantasy and elating reality. Besides, it also helps in making weddings more memorable and special for the two people tying the marital knot for a lifetime.

Theme weddings are attracting Indians vehemently because these help to add an element of novelty and unconventionality while keeping the traditional values intact. And moreover, theme weddings also help to cut down the cost of the wedding decor if the theme is planned innovatively. Besides, theme wedding is just the most suitable option for people who cannot afford destination weddings but have been dreaming of exchanging the marriage vows along the sprawling golden beaches or against a palatial backdrop. With the assistance of a wedding planner, your wedding venue may be converted into any fantasyland that you have been dreaming of. Your wedding planner can arrange any theme wedding for you at any wedding venue of your choice.

There are primarily three kinds of theme weddings that are immensely popular amidst brides and grooms these days:

Beach weddings: This kind of theme wedding is arranged along the side of pools, the entire ambience is kept resplendent with palm trees, coconut, shells and lots of tassels of flowers to give the onlookers an impression that they are enjoying a wedding along the golden beaches of Goa.

Royal weddings: A lot of input goes into the designing of a royal setting for weddings, like, colours play a very important role in the wedding decor of a royal wedding. The flowers, chandeliers and the drapes used for decoration must be bright in colour and must harmonise with each other. All this is accompanied by the melodious tunes of shehnai and throne like chairs for the bride and the groom.

Flower theme wedding: These weddings incorporate the use of a variety of flowers in the decor to create an ambience that would give an impression of the wedding venue being some Edenic land of exquisite, fragrant beauties.


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Tuesday 3 January 2012

Wedding Flowers: Some Creative Ideas


An Indian wedding is incomplete without wedding flowers and besides, the task of picking up your wedding flowers is indeed a difficult one and can work wonders with your wedding theme if you add some creativity to it. Wedding flowers need not necessarily be exotic, rare and costly ones. You can use simple flowers which are easily available, add a tincture of your innovation to it and create an aromatic ambience that will be remembered by people for a lifetime.

Instead of using just flowers for your wedding decor, you can make use of beads, diamante buckles, crystals, unconventional twigs, vases, feathers candles. You may add as many wedding flowers as you want to, to your wedding decor or keep it simple and less in numbers depending on the kind of ambience that you want to create on your wedding day. However, one thing which must be kept in mind is that the colour of all the wedding flowers used by you must be in synchronisation with the tones of your wedding palette.

Instead of going for the conventional arrangement of flowers in vases, you can make use of tassels of flowers, using a myriad of flowers and crystals or beads. These tassels can be hung at various heights and produce a magnificent effect on the ambience. Round ball floral arrangements can also be incorporated in your wedding decor and look quite beautiful. These round ball floral arrangements can be used in different ways, like, you can hang them or place them on top of tall vases or you can also use them for centre table arrangements.

You can also go for floral chandeliers or frames. Floral ladis are also in vogue these days. Also urlis with floating candles and aromatic flowers add weight to your wedding decor. Besides these, floral rangoli and floating floral rangoli are also hot this wedding season and add a stupendous effect to your wedding decor.

Paying little attention to little details in the arrangement of your wedding flowers will make the big difference in your wedding decor.

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Monday 2 January 2012

The Royal Wedding Theme

Dreams – everybody has their own set of dreams regarding their wedding day, be it a man or a woman. In the yonder days, all dreams were not meant to be realised but today, one can dare to dream and live them up as well.

If you had been dreaming of exchanging your marriage vows against a palatial backdrop, amidst a harmonious setting ringing with the melodious tunes of a regal shehnai, and affording an expensive royal wedding is way beyond your budget, then do not lose heart, you can go for a royal wedding theme.

Hire a wedding planner, and they will do the best they can to turn your wedding venue into a royal wedding location within your budget. Right from the arrangement of throne like chairs for the bride and the groom to the grand welcoming of your guests with the Itra, every trivial and pivotal event in your wedding will unfold in exactly the way you wanted.

Wedding colour palette holds the utmost importance while planning a royal theme wedding. There must be a sense of harmony between the colours of your wedding palette and it must include regal shades like red, golden, royal blue, silver etc. The choice of colours for your royal wedding palette must start with your wedding invitation cards itself and then extend to the wedding dresses for the bride and the groom which must also be regal in nature, and must suffice to make the bride and the groom look like a prince and a princess.

An appropriate ambience matters a lot when you are planning a royal wedding for yourself and it must include fountains, fresh beautiful flowers matching your wedding palette and light effects tinged with the tunes of a shehnai. You must also be extra careful while picking the cuisine for your royal wedding as it must give your guests a taste of the theme you have planned for your wedding.

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Sunday 1 January 2012

Low Budget Vs Expensive Indian Marriage

Indian marriages have always been known for their elaborate nature, extravagance and grandeur. Besides, they also take a toll on one’s pocket as the budget normally tends to go above what is fixed as the maximum limit for it. The prime reason behind this is the intense pressure on the bride’s family to organist a grand marriage ceremony to match the expectations and the standards of the society they inhabit. However, an Indian marriage is something much beyond the petty constraints of money and budget and no matter, it is an expensive one or a small affair, it carries the same sense of importance, veneration and piety and unites two souls for a lifetime.

Expensive Indian marriages are undoubtedly affairs that do not need an introduction or description. The only point which can be made to describe them is that, in this particular case, money does help you realist your dream in reality. However, people who cannot afford to arrange an expensive Indian marriage doesn’t mean they cannot afford to realist their dreams for aren’t dreams priceless? Firstly, all Indians need to change their approach towards an Indian marriage ceremony as it is conceived by a large section of the Indian society. A perfect Indian marriage need not necessarily be a huge one as well. You need to revise your thought process that instigates you to invite your sister’s mother-in-law’s brother’s cousins because they invited you to their son’s reception party.

A marriage is more about the two people who are getting tied to each other for a lifetime through numerous threads of commitment and about people who are close enough to share this moment of happiness with them and not about the crowd of critics who come to an Indian marriage to pinpoint the shortcomings in the arrangements and welcoming of guests. Therefore, keep your guest list short and yes, hire a wedding planner who can help you organist your wedding within our stipulated budget. Dreams are priceless, doesn’t mean you need to immerse yourself in debts to realist them.


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