Month: July 2018

Centrepieces set the tone for an entire wedding event. Designing your wedding centrepieces can be tough even when you are getting married in 5-star banquet halls in Mumbai, Delhi or in any metro-city. After all, to create arrangements for vastly different themes, many centrepieces use various ideas. Centrepieces create the wow factor when guests walk into the room.

Weddings take a considerable time to conclude in India. With so many ceremonies taking place during the entire period of the wedding, you need something to differentiate each function from the other. And here wedding centrepieces can prove to be potent tools to make every function look different. Here, we bring you the best ideas for creating some highly attractive table arrangements for your D day. All you need is just a little imagination.

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• Candelabra

Want your wedding decor to be a magical charm affair? Pick candelabra for centrepieces on tables. These look just so gorgeous and help to add a lot of character along with a certain charm as you put them on tables. They don’t only add to the elegance of the ceremony but also make a style statement. This choice would definitely make a unique addition to the idea of trendy wedding decorations by being classy, mystic in nature and carrying all that extra dose of beauty in it.

• Vintage

 

If you like to experiment, then this is the best option for you. For a couple who wants to differentiate and like to be more relatable in their approach, its best to use the Vintage theme which is simple yet most different in approach. Use mercury glass (the slightly distressed silver finish) or vintage tea tins to incorporate a dash of metallic into your centrepieces. For that extra oomph, you actually don’t need anything else. Especially when paired with other vintage elements, these details will add a different texture and more visual interest.

• Lotus Urlis

Urlis is a favourite thing when it comes to the centrepieces of Indian weddings. These help to add that dose of tradition and look ethnic and just so Indian. Place them on tables and let people admire the peaceful vibe they project throughout the harmonious ceremony! The beautiful flowers with a few tea light candles when styled in Urlis filled with water, add to the uniqueness of the event. As light reflects through the water in the Urlis, they also help to add that extra glam and almost leave you mesmerized at the first glance. As Indian and traditional as they look, lotus Urlis with tea light candles makes a gorgeous choice for centrepieces for the wedding.

• Pastel Party

Choose soft coloured flowers and add them to cute short glasses for a classy, elegant look to your table The short glasses will look elegant, modern and so glam adding a perfect touch of beauty on your tables as a centrepiece. You can also circle them with some fairy lights to add that extra dose of grandeur and finesse.

• Twigs and Crystals

Twigs and crystals are popularly used in weddings these days and they go so well together. Chances are you might get a good deal on them if your decorator already has these centrepieces in his inventory. These make a great combination without doing much, especially if you use just one shade of flowers in these arrangements. For the people who don’t like big table arrangements and want to add something nice and yet simpler in look, this is the best option.

• Potted Plants

This is an exquisite choice for a couple who would like to experiment with non-traditional decor styles. Potted plants do look cute and would be the right choice for a couple who wants their table arrangements to stand out from the rest and look modern and chic. Not very popular in Indian wedding decor, tiny potted plants are a gorgeous pick for wedding centrepiece ideas and are being used abundantly in overseas weddings though. One can style them with more elements as well to add that extra dose of style and make their wedding arrangements stand out. What else? If you’ve not yet decided on the wedding favours, make these potted plants find their homes in your wedding. Moreover, they also make great return gifts for your guests as well, and according to some stories, also prove to be lucky for the couple.

• Bird Cages

You might have seen numerous weddings with centrepieces made with birdcages filled with flowers. Made famous for overseas weddings, these birdcages are now being adopted famously in the Indian weddings too. Whether you have a day wedding or one in the night, you can style these differently with or without some fairy lights and add a lot of glam to your wedding tables. Bird cages can be an amazing wedding centrepiece choice if made a little more functional. You can add a twist here! Along with a few flowers, place the wedding favours in the cages with their names. So your guests can take their wedding favours from their table itself! Great, isn’t it?

• Tiny Doli or Palki

How can we forget this important ritual that is prominent in Indian weddings? After all, traditional Indian weddings have always been associated with the culture. A palki is such a great idea to have as a centrepiece along with some beautiful flower arrangements in it, isn’t it? You can add some pastel or bright coloured flowers in small arrangements to make this a unique centrepiece.  These centrepieces will add more to the beauty of the celebration. The bride will always remember the time she bid adieu to her family and left for the new home sitting in a Palki/Doli!

• High And Low

Create a stunning celebration by using high and low centrepieces. This is a trend these days made popular by overseas weddings. It can simply be managed by using some tall stands along with some short ones beside them to make for a beauteous arrangement on the table. Moreover, it won’t even disrupt the view on the table as well. This kind of a wedding centrepiece works well for any kind of theme – a traditional as well as a modern one with just the interchange of the elements in it.

• Birchwood Delights

Delight your guests by utilizing thick or thin wood slices in your centrepieces. This is trendy, looks simply classy and add such different dimensions to your table arrangement. It is so wonderful to use a Birchwood and display flowers on them, isn’t it? This kind of arrangement doesn’t obstruct the view as well and is beautiful to look at; you can use bright or pastel shades of flowers or other elements with it. Birchwood creates a special feel because it’s a white wood instead of the typical brown.

• Add Some Signage

To make your arrangements a little different, it’s best to add some element which not just makes it more attractive but also works up for fulfilling the purpose. And for this, it’s best to add some kind of a signage which gives information about the essential details of your wedding or anything that a couple would want to talk about. Brighten up your celebration with vibrant flowers and a fun sign with this bright idea. Your guests will appreciate the thoughtful touch.

• Rustic

These days, rustic wedding centrepieces use rugged, natural elements to create interesting arrangements. Rustic wedding centrepieces are often planted or arranged with flowers in vases. With the addition of jewel-toned dahlias, metallic rick-rack, the basic wooden planter boxes or succulents become a bit more glamorous. To create something more wild and untamed than the average centrepiece, use lots of greenery, allowing it to sort of spill out. To highlight the greenery, couples often opt to select white, rather than brightly coloured flowers.  Surround your planters with bits of moss or ivy for a woodsier wedding. We love the idea of using your all-greenery centrepieces in your garden after the big day!

• Majestic Moss

Boost your earthy look by using moss as a table marker. Simple, cutesy and yet conveying so much meaning, it is a rather nice way of getting away from the usual and use something that you don’t get to see often at weddings. To highlight the moss, you just need glass to bring out the ethereal beauty of the moss. The glass coche will keep it looking classy and fresh, along with some lights on the table beside this arrangement. It will do all the talking at your D day by being the perfect table arrangement for your tables. Wedding centrepieces can be an afterthought when planning a wedding, but it’s a perfect opportunity to show off your style and impress your guests. Go for something that speaks about your style, something a couple can relate to and something which goes well with your wedding theme. Make sure it conveys a meaning rather than just being beauty element to look at!

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The best thing about a wedding is all the decking up you get to do. Every woman thinks about their time as a bride when they dress up to attend someone else’s wedding. You might want to deny it or you might really be one of those people who does not think about marriage much, but thousands of couple browse for best wedding venues in Mumbai, Chennai, etc. and plan each and everything on their own.

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If you aren’t the type who gets excited about marriage, you cannot avoid feeling worried about it when people start pestering you with questions. Like it, or dread it, you cannot ignore it. If you are already on the line to get hitched, then Here is something useful for you.

The Most Important Thing

What could be the most important thing on your wedding day? The wedding venue decorations? The food menu? Oh, did the bartender arrive? What about the DJ? Is any guest having trouble finding their way? Yes, things like these are the essentials. But on your wedding day, none of this is supposed to be your concern. You have done your job. Maybe you were the main person arranging all this, weeks or months back. But the wedding day must be all stress-free for the bride or groom. The most important thing for you to do on the D day is to be relaxed, feel good, be well rested, and look gorgeous.

All eyes will be on you on the wedding day. From the moment you step down the stairs with a delicate flower Chaadar shading your head, till the time you go back inside after the events and dinner. This is why your hair, makeup, outfit, and every little accessory, everything has to be on fleek.

Too Many Things

There are too many things to worry about like your appearance on your wedding day. You need to start well ahead of time. Do not go bridal shopping just a month before the wedding. Start with at least six months in hand. There are outfits to buy for the wedding Reception, Haldi, Mehendi, Sangeet, and Wedding day. Even if someone is gifting you the dress like it is traditionally done, you need to be there to choose it. With that comes the accessory shopping. Jewellery like bridal earrings, shoes, handbags, everything has to be on point. Give yourself enough time for all that.

Jewellery

Many youngsters get totally annoyed when their parents take them for jewellery shopping. Say, when your parents asked you to accompany them somewhere and you end up at a jewellery store. There are other sneak modes like they said, they’d buy you one little diamond nose pin for your birthday, but they start looking at chunky wedding jewellery the moment you enter. But you need to understand, gold and diamond jewellery for wedding needs to be well planned and arranged beforehand.

Even if you are rich enough for all that jewellery, you need to shop early. Sometimes maybe, when you are not even planning to get married. You might feel that they are pushing you to get married, but they are actually pre-planning. Once you understand this, even you will take interest in the earrings designs in gold for marriage, or the bridal Maangtika on display.

Spoilt for Choice

Once you start thinking about your trendy bridal jewellery, you will discover a treasure you have never seen before. Brides get more types of jewellery to choose from, but grooms too get their fair share in the form of cufflinks, wristbands, princely necklaces, and Sarpech. As of now, we are going to help the bride with some bridal earrings design choices.

Bridal Earring Options

The earrings are pivotal in bridal jewellery because it is closest to your face. The Maangtika and the nose pin or nose ring go right on your face. But the earrings define the shape of the face. The necklace design depends on the earrings. The hairstyle depends on the earrings. So, it is pretty tricky to get it right. This is why; we will help you out selecting the best earrings for your wedding look.

• Design Matched to Outfit

The common mistake people still make while choosing accessories for their outfit is to find an exact match for the colour. If you are wearing custom jewellery where the earrings are colourful, go for a contrast or a lighter but brighter shade of the same colour that is predominant on the outfit.

• Design Matched to Hairstyle

If you will wear your hair up on the wedding day, buy a chunky but not too round pair of earrings. If you are going to wear your hair down, go for huge studs that will look gorgeous but that keeps getting tangled in your hair or bridal hair accessories.

• Design to Complement Facial Structure

The thumb rule is long slender designs for round faces and hoop designs for long narrow faces. While this rule applies in most cases, your facial structure and hairstyle together will decide what kind of earrings you need. When you go for earrings shopping, take a tasteful friend with you to give their honest opinion.

• Choose the Material

Gold is the traditional bridal jewellery base. It is very common to look for earrings designs in gold for marriage purposes. Diamond is the next most popular thing. You can go for custom made jewellery to control exactly what amount of gold, diamond, silver, or other stone you want in your jewellery.

• Long Teardrop Design

The teardrop design is very popular because it is so sleek and trendy. But you cannot wear a single longish thread for your wedding. If you want to go for the teardrop anyway, go for three chains or five chain designs with a teardrop at the end of each chain.

• Broad Mesh Design

 A mesh design adds a very delicate elegance to any jewellery. It is very practical too as it makes the earrings look big, but it is still very light and comfortable on the ear.

• Intricate Floral Design

Floral designs never go out of fashion. Bridal earrings with floral designs can be worn on other occasions too. You can wear it at someone else’s wedding, or at your child’s first birthday party. If you are worried about the earrings looking too common, your concern is valid. Floral designs are indeed very common. But when you mix meshwork with the floral design, your earrings will be the most unique of all.

• Solid Hoop Design

This is best for long faces with a big forehead. People don’t wear round hoops for weddings usually. Your hoops shouldn’t be plain. The hoops need to be twisted, or studded with stones. If you have a long neck, this is a very good option for you. Diamond studded gold hoops are amazing.

• Traditional Designs

Traditional designs include peacock, elephant, flowers, leaves, mandala, and so on. You can wear Kundan, Jadau earrings with meenakari work. These traditional designs look wonderful in the yellow, blue, green, red meenakari designs.

• Modern Patterns

Modern patterns include abstract designs. When you see a child curiously looking at your earrings, wondering what it depicts, you know your earring is beautiful. But modern patterns will have adults behave the same way. Go for a unique design with some modern patterns. But make sure your earrings are rocking!

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After spending a number of days mulling over wedding celebrations, preparing list of marriage halls in Pune, Delhi, Mumbai or wherever you wanted, followed by food tasting with caterers, choosing themes and decorations for your venue and getting your dresses fitted, it’s somehow natural that you might have skipped planning for your honeymoon beforehand.

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But worry not! In a country like India, you have lots of exciting options in the name of honeymoon destinations. From the high hills to the crystalline beaches, from golden deserts to the bountiful wildlife, India presents a gamut of options if you are truly looking for them. Stating the truth, a honeymoon is a time when the newly-wedded couple spends some quality time in each other’s company. But a perfect honeymoon destination in India on a backdrop is definitely an icing on the cake. Foregoing a hefty wedding, you must be looking for some pocket-friendly locations. The following cheap honeymoon destinations in India would surely give you some ideas regarding your outing. So, let’s start!

• Darjeeling

Like a paradise on Earth, Darjeeling with its panorama of rolling mountains, the lush green tea gardens, colonial architecture, serene ambience, pines and ferns is a perfect destination in West Bengal to explore in your honeymoon. Its breath-taking views of Mt. Kanchenjunga and a divine hilly setting will make your visit worthwhile. You need to reach Bagdogra in Siliguri if you are travelling on a flight. Take a cab and go on an uphill drive from there.

• Nainital

Tucked amid Himalayan region in Uttarakhand, this ‘City of Lakes’ has some prominent tourist attractions that will thrill you with just one look. Go for boating with your spouse to Naini Lake or Bhimtal Lake, hike to Naini Peak, get a mesmerizing view from Snow View Point or just go on a shopping spree at The Mall Road. You may take a road trip from Delhi-NCR. But if you are travelling by air, then Pantnagar is the nearest airport from where you may begin your journey towards hills.

• Munnar

One of the cheap and best honeymoon destinations in India, Munnar can redefine your love in its enclosed haven of landscapes and natural beauty. With the aroma of spice in the air and picturesque mountains, lakes and tea gardens surrounding it, you both can catch a nice deal of relaxation during this trip With no airport of its own, you need to take a road trip from Cochin International Airport or Madurai International Airport. If you are travelling by train, then Aluva is the nearest railway station.

• Manali

If you both are adventure junkies, then Manali is one of the budget honeymoon destinations for you. The thrilling activities that you may take over there will definitely make your trip memorable.The Hadimba temple, Solang Valley, waterfalls, hot water springs and many more are some of the places that you should definitely make a go for.

• Ranthambore

Bored with beaches and hills? Then go deeper into the wilderness at Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan. The fascinating wildlife over there could be viewed with some thrilling jungle safaris and you can camp out in the luxury camps built in the area. Capture the wildlife moments in your jeep safari or canter safari and stay at Tiger Machan or Sher Bagh or Nahargarh Ranthambore during your visit.

• Udaipur

A honeymoon is a special occasion for both of you. Then why not spend some time in a royal style. Udaipur is famous for this! City Palace, Lake Pichola, Lake Palace and many other destinations are a perfect excuse for your honeymoon getaway. Indulge in this regal essence and make the best of your honeymoon.

• Coorg

This is a lovely hill station in Karnataka. While looking for the cheap honeymoon destinations in India, you might not cross path with its name, but Coorg’s unearthed beauty is priceless. Spend the time going on a trek at Brahmagiri Peak and get a glimpse of the majestic Abbey Falls. There is a lot to do and lot to explore when you reach this heavenly place. Nearest to Mysore domestic airport and Bangalore International Airport, you need to take the road to reach Coorg.

• Andaman & Nicobar Islands

An isolated beauty, Andaman & Nicobar Islands have a great romantic aura within its domain. Lots of water sports to explore and lots of beaches to stroll around, the enchanting view of Andaman & Nicobar will leave you hypnotized. It would make a perfect honeymoon destination post your summer or winter wedding. Just book your flights and hotels and get ready to experience the magic.

• Goa

The most awaited destination for many honeymooners, Goa offers an excellent opportunity for a lovely trip within your estimated budget. Not just the beaches and adventure sports, Goa’s mishmash of traditional and Portuguese culture, exotic restaurants, lively atmosphere, ancient cathedrals make for an attractive wandering.

• Ooty

The views and beautiful landscapes seem straight out of frame! Ooty is an adornment of some of the spectacular hilly terrain, pleasant climate, lakes and many tourist spots that are ethereal in themselves. To reach Ooty, you need to take a flight to Coimbatore Airport and then proceed on a road trip further to reach.

• Gulmarg

Located in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, Gulmarg is a hot tourist spot for the honeymooners. If you are looking for peace and relaxation or some adventure as well, then this is the place for you. Try out skiing at Gondola Lift, wander around Alpather Lake or visit the quaint little temple, Baba Reshi Shrine. The pristine white snow that covers the mountains will give you a smashing view from your hotel window.

• Auli

A small hill station located in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand is the best hilly destination available on a budget. While there in Auli, visit Gurso Bugyal, Chenab Lake, Kwani Bugyal, Chattrakund and Joshimath. Though small, this place is full of charm for all the visitors.

Now plan your trip with your spouse as per your decided budget and pack your bags for your trip ahead.

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A Kamarbandh is a nice, exquisite piece of jewellery worn by a bride. Made famous by brides from South India, where a Kamarbandh is necessarily worn on the sari during the wedding ceremony, these days’ brides from across the cultures flaunt the Kamarbandh or the waist chain over their lehengas and saris in a variety of styles. Needless to say, in the past few years, waist jewellery for women has become really popular. The waistband or the Kamarbandh for lehenga is a kind of jewellery that accentuates the waist by adding a glamorous touch with a feminine appeal. The demand for these traditional-turned-trendy waistbands has gone up over the years, and celebrities too have started flaunting them at social events as well as at various marriage halls in Mumbai.

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The best thing is that today, there are a lot many options to choose from. If you love Kundan, then you can opt for a nice Kundan Kamarbandh as one of the bridal jewellery in a double layer or single layer, or if you are looking for a simple fabric Kamarbandh, then that too can be easily designed to match your wedding outfit.

This exquisite piece of an ornament is worn close to the waist and it highlights the waistline very beautifully. It adds such a charm and looks so graceful. Many brides are now sporting intricate Kamarbandhs to add a classic appeal to their look. Let’s look at the best options for today’s bride.

1. Pearl Kamarbandh

Pearls are just so graceful, isn’t it? And there’s certain royalty and distinct charm attached to pearls. Deeply loved by the royals, today pearl jewellery finds its place in almost every other home. Yes, the royal pearl Kamarbandh will take you out of your way to draw all that attention. Gently swaying round your waist, the spectacular and irresistible pearls will be an attraction on your day. Pearls go so well with almost any colour and any kind of outfit complementing your exquisite heavy wear like none other. The jewel is shiny, fun and splendid which adds such a unique charm.

1. Antique Silver Kamarbandh

Silver always speaks volume about your taste, style, and personality and it is something which can easily be bought without burning a hole in your pocket. It can simply be worn for any occasion. In order to put your best foot forward with jewels the day you become a bride, the grandiose silver Kamarbandh will be just over-the-top. You can transform it into a style that you like from an understated design to luxurious jewel.

1. Gold Kamarbandh

In order to have royalty and bridal appeal on full show, Gold is a big factor for any woman. Gold just never goes out of fashion and simply looks stunning over any kind of outfit, weather it’s a heavy lehenga or a simple bridal outfit. It will be a prized possession for your closet being an exquisite piece in yellow metal. You just need to nail the look right with a beautifully created gold or golden Kamarbandh.

1. Thin Chains

If you are the one who likes that minimalistic look, then thin chains are what you should go for. Thin chains also make for great bridal waist belts- whether they are with a sari or a lehenga or any other bridal dresses! Anything can be opted here – the gold, Kundan or silver chain as per preference. If you are wearing an outfit which is not too heavy not too subtle, then these chains do their best job. However, they look the best on a thin waist so if you are a little on the heavier side, avoid wearing these. Well, we can only say, they are elegant and chic and apt for the modern bride!

1. Zardozi Belt

A zardozi belt can be the ideal Kamarbandh for lehenga if you don’t want to go for a heavy jewellery piece. Adding such a wonderful touch to your outfit, a Zardosi belt will help to accentuate your best curves and help you to carry off your attire with élan. It always looks great lending some sort of royalty to the bridal attire! We bet, this is the right choice if you want to add that regal touch to your wedding day!

1. Sequin Magic

Sequins look great, isn’t it? There is nothing that a string of sequins cannot glam up! Sequin adds that oomph factor to any outfit and is subtle as well as absolutely stunning. Besides looking gorgeous, they add a magical effect to almost any outfit. Team this sequin belt with a pastel lehenga or with any of your dark coloured bridal outfit, it will look simply mind-blowing.

1. Fine Florals

Floral, golden and all things elegant which makes floral belts look so different, sweet and add such a vibrant fervour to your bridal attire. We are totally in love with a delicate floral golden waist belt this particular season.

Moreover, if its summers, it’s bound to make you feel so fresh and rejuvenated without making any kind of discomfort. This is the perfect pick if you want to wear a Kamarbandh but want to keep it simple at the same time!

1. Necklace Kamarbandh

The cue is to go for a necklace-designed Kamarbandh if you are planning to flaunt something evergreen, yet chic. It’s nice, exquisite and adds such a beautiful touch to your bridal outfit. It’s traditional and won’t look out-dated either. If your outfit is a little subtle, then this Kamarbandh would be the best choice. To give your D-day look a stylish twist, there are luxurious designs to choose from like Jadau, Kundan drops, pearls, etc. It’s time to try out this one for your big day, don’t you agree?

1. Classic Leather Belt

Statement maker by Sabyasachi has definitely been a fave amongst our Bollywood celebs this season! Don’t you remember Anushka Sharma from her wedding reception? The gorgeous golden belt that she wore was so different, trendy and totally cool. After all, the modern bride wants to try something offbeat from the regular bridal accessories as a waist chain for lehenga, right? Go for a classic leather belt with a unique buckle in a colour that blends well with your lehenga. Stand out from the crowd and make that distinct statement.

1. Net Mesh Style

This style caught a lot of eyeballs as it made its debut at a fashion week. The stand-alone elaborate Kamarbandh that Shilpa Shetty also showcased at an event brought it to life and was no doubt a huge centre of attraction. It’s subtle, unique, gorgeous and is different in look, as well. Go for a broad stylish mesh pattern if you too want something extraordinary and exquisite like the B-town diva. With one of the most infallible pieces, you don’t need anything else to accentuate your waist.

1. Dangling Chain

Sporting a beautiful dangling waist chain for lehenga is an ultimate way to either show off your curves or hide your less-than-shapely waist. A favourite option by the modern bride, it looks so chic and helps to give a nice contemporary look as well.

Different layers adorning your waist will look highly versatile and complement your traditional look as well. Go for an enchanting and aesthetic design and get decked up in a truly ethnic way to walk down the aisle this season.

1. Keychain Design

Women and the keychain have an old connection, don’t you agree? Haven’t we seen the women in our family always wearing the keychain at their waist even when it was for a reason? The classics that your mother used to flaunt at their waist level can look very stylish now and is hugely preferred by the brides of today. Define your waist and your wedding couture in a distinctive way by tucking in a stately Kamarbandh with a keychain. Get your mom’s re-polished or buy a new one for your D-day.

Tips to Style Kamarbandh the Right Way:

• First of all, you should figure out what type of Kamarbandh would go well with your outfit colour and pattern.
• If your outfit has golden embroidery or combination, then don’t go for silver Kamarbandh.
• If your Sari or Lehenga has heavy embroidery, try to go for simple Kamarbandh.
• If your outfit is simple, then opt for three-layered or two-layered Kamarbandh to add up light to your look.
• Make sure you don’t go for a broad Kamarbandh unless it is a very important ceremony that you are attending.
• To keep it simple yet elegant go for pearl or diamond Kamarbandh. This will lift your look with ease.
• If you wearing a Lehenga or Sharara make sure you wear Kamarbandh a bit above your waist.
• If you are styling it with a sari, it should be below or on the waist.
• Sari like cotton or silk can be styled with Chabi Chhalla to maintain the traditional look.
• Avoid overdoing it as it can break your look.

Wearing Kamarbandh is highly trendy and customary essential in some counties of Asia specifically in India. Indian women used to wear Kamarbandhs on a regular basis in earlier days. Though nowadays it is worn only on special occasions, the ornament has not lost its charm. An elegant Kamarbandh will give the bride a sophisticated look.

The creative trend will instantly add a dash of élan to your pretty ensemble and turn you into a head turner on your D day!

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Ahh, the Punjabis!!! Well, we all have Punjabi friends in our life and we know what a fun-loving breed they are! Punjabis are happy-go-lucky and extremely vivacious people. They love to party and are also excellent hosts too; you know you are sure to be filled with the best of food and desserts once you are invited to their homes. Well, their fun-loving nature reflects in their weddings too, and also in all the pre and post-wedding functions whether they are happening in the big Kothis of Punjab or in the wedding lawns of Kolkata, Delhi, wherever.

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The main attractions of any big fat Punjabi wedding are delicious non-vegetarian feasts, delicacies, good music and lots of dancing apart from a lot of jokes and laughter. Well, some adjectives we can use for them are colourful, loud and full of Masti and Dhamal. There’s nothing that you’d want to miss about Punjabi weddings from pretty girls in those adorable ethnic wear, exhibiting their impeccable dancing skills to aunts showing off their dangerous musical talents. Their events are mostly all about light, love, colour, giggles, dancing, songs, gossip and booze!

Let’s get to know the Punjabi wedding rituals in brief. Believe us, even reading them is as fun as being a part of them, till you witness them the next time in your life.

• Roka

Roka ceremony is engagement between the families of the bride and the groom. It is performed on a mutually suitable chosen date as ‘shubhmuhurat’. Gifts and cash are exchanged here and the function is attended by family members and close friends of the families. The marriage date is fixed after roka.

• Sagan

Sacred fire ceremony named “havan” is performed and the ceremony generally takes at the groom’s house. Here, the girl’s father applies the “tikka” on the boy’s forehead who takes the blessing of the girl’s family members. Mithais and cash are given by the relatives and friends present from the girl’s side to the boy. It is indeed a happy and peaceful ceremony between the families.

• Chuda

The ritual involves a havan or puja that is conducted by a pundit or priest and is conducted on the morning of the wedding. The oldest maternal uncle of the bride has an important role to play here and this is also the time when the maternal uncle presents the wedding lehenga to his niece. He is the one who puts the set of red and cream ivory bangles on the bride, touched and blessed by all those who are present as a part of this ceremony.

Flowers are sprinkled on the bride and sweets are distributed to commemorate the beginning of all the other Punjabi wedding traditions. All relatives, friends, and cousins tie kaliras on the kada or bangle on the bride’s wrists once the chuda has been worn by the bride with a sense of pride in her heart.

• Vatna

This tradition is also conducted at the bridegroom’s house. The bride is facing four lamps or Diyas. Here, the female relatives and friends put Vatna (a paste made of turmeric plus mustard oil) on the body of the bride. It is considered to be favourable for all four lamps to remain glowing brightly so that the brightness on the bride’s face rests perpetually. The turmeric acts like a scrub making the bride’s body beautiful and helps to give her that much-needed glow before the wedding. Haldi is applied on the groom’s face as well. All their respective family members and relatives also apply oil on the bride and the groom’s forehead and give their blessings.

• Ghadoli

The relatives, family members, and friends visit the nearby temple to fill a pitcher full of holy water after the completion of the vatna ceremony at the bridegroom’s house. Both the bride and bridegroom go off to get ready for the main wedding as they have a bath in this holy water.

• Chunni Ceremony

This auspicious ceremony is performed by mother of the groom who covers the head of the bride with a red scarf or chunni which signifies that from now on the bride-to-be is responsible for upholding the honour and pride of the groom’s family. The bride also wears the clothes and jewellery brought by her in-laws and the groom marks her head with sindoor or vermilion as a sign of commitment.

• Ladies Sangeet

The ladies get together and have a bash. And well, all the male members die to become apart of this ladies sangeet. The ladies present at the event indulge themselves in eating snacks, gossiping, teasing the bride. Everyone has to come up and dance and be part of the fun and cheerful moments. This event is all about singing, dancing, and merrymaking giving everlasting memories to the bride of her girl’s troupe.

• Mehendi Ceremony

A professional artist is usually called upon the event for fine artistic designs and the mehendi is one of the most important of the several Punjabi wedding rituals. Here, the bride, her sisters and other female members extend their arms to have them designed with different Mehendi designs. Moments like these capture the real emotions of the family and everybody wants to see the hands of the bride for the special design that is applied to her.

• Gana Bandhna

Here, a morning prayer is conducted by the bride and the groom in their respective homes, where the Gana (sacred thread or mouli) is tied to their right wrists in the early morning of the wedding day. The Gana tied with as many knots as possible in order to make it difficult to untie later.

• Sehrabandi

The Vatna is followed by the dressing up of the groom in his wedding attire just like it’s done in the bride’s home. A pooja is performed after the groom is ready in his wedding attire. The “sehra” is then tied to the groom’s head by an elderly relative or the groom’s father. Touched by all the people present in the pooja, the groom ears a pink colour turban on his head. Gifts and cash are given to the boy as a token of good luck by all those who are present.

• Ghodi Chadna

Here, the groom’s sister-in-law lines the boy’s eyes with Surma to ward off all the evils as the groom makes his way to the wedding. Thereafter, the groom’s sisters and cousins feed and adorn his mare. People use cash and perform the Varna ritual to ward off the evil eye.  The groom immediately leaves his home for the wedding venue after this ritual by climbing his horse.

• Milni

As the Baraat is welcomed by the bride’s family, both the families gather for the Milni which is basically a formal introduction of key relatives from each family. Before the actual milni begins, ardaas is done and the relatives of the bride are introduced to the corresponding relatives of the groom. This is one of the warmest rituals of the several Punjabi wedding traditions. Lots of hugs and warm exchanges are done between the family members from both sides who look forward to witnessing rest of the ceremony.

• Varmala

The varmala or the exchange of wedding garlands is the first instance when the bride and groom meet each other on the wedding day. The groom on entering the venue is taken to a raised stage where he sits and waits for the bride. Garlands are exchanged once the bride arrives, and this is a ceremony that involves a lot of teasing and fun along with some show of strong emotions.

• Kanyadaan

The father of the bride gives his daughter’s hand officially to the groom and this ritual is also known in Hindu Traditions as the biggest sacrifice for a bride’s family.

It is hard for the father to convey it to the groom that his daughter is now the official daughter of the new family and that he has given her to the Groom with all his best wishes.

• Phere

The Phera’s include taking seven circles around the sacred flame and it is the tradition in the Hindu wedding that seals the marriage. Pheras are the most sacred part of the ritual and the chanting of mantras during the Phera’s by the bride and the groom has a lot of significance in their married life. Post the Phera, Groom applies sindoor in the division of the bride’s hair and also ties the mangal sutra around her neck. Friends and family shower rose petals on the couple throughout the Phera’s giving them their best wishes. The blessings of all the elders are taken as well by the newly wedded couple.

• Vidaai/Doli

It is indeed the most emotional moment for the bride and her family and just about everyone. By throwing a handful of rice over her shoulders in her family’s direction, the bride bids a tearful goodbye to her family. She expresses her gratitude towards them and makes the first start as the new bride. She bids her last goodbyes as she leaves her maternal home in a decorated car. This bridal procession is known as Doli.

All Punjabis follow their customs wholeheartedly and Punjabi wedding rituals are a traditional extravaganza. When you are a part of a Punjabi wedding, you witness the glory of the functions and also the utmost significance behind each ritual in its utmost form. Punjabi weddings seem to overflow with a lot of good cheer and impending happiness right from the start to the end making you an integral part of it in its own way. Thus, a big fat Punjabi wedding is arguably the one with the greatest fun.

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When you have plans to organize a big fat Indian wedding, you need to have a full grasp of what all are you going to include into your wedding planning checklist. Starting with the search for a perfect venue, whether it is a banquet in South Mumbai or Delhi or Kolkata, or whether this is about some exotic decorations, you have a lot to consider when perfection is what you are looking for in your wedding preparations.

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But, when the wedding is your event, you need to ponder a little with the wedding food menu as well. Food is the backbone of any wedding ceremony. And the truth is that the guests at the venue are equally enthusiastic about what new is going to be served for them.

While discussing food, let’s face the fact that starters are an integral part of any wedding catering. With vegetarian and non-vegetarian, herbs and fruits, caterers these days are preparing creative appetizers that can astonish you with its presentation and unique taste. Have a look at some of the most delectable Indian starters ideas that you should definitely add in your wedding menu.

Before planning out your starter list, keep some of the things in mind and finalize your list eventually.

• Always serve your starters on paper plates with a napkin for your guests. These should be easy to handle, so make them smaller in size. Keep the dips or sauces alongside while serving them to your guests.
• Do not make it only non-vegetarian starter list. Some of your guests might not be comfortable with a non-veg item. Thus, give equal preference to both the sides.
• Keep choice of hot or cold, high or low calorie, baked or fried to let your guests choose by themselves.

Vegetarian Starters

1. Paneer Tikka

Tandoor has a charm of its own. And when paired up with Paneer, you can definitely present the delicious Paneer Tikka for your guests. Marinated with spices and grilled till golden, this dish is the best alternative for any non-vegetarian starter.

1. Baked Samosa

You need to think about the health-conscious guests as well. Give your samosas a twist this time by baking them to perfection rather than frying them out in barrels of oil. You may have a filling of your choice and give your guests a delight to eat.

1. Cheesy sprout fondue

One of the most versatile and unique starter recipes, this food item made of cheese and bread tastes as good as it looks. Serving them for your guests will be a nice choice.

1. Dahi Puri

The crispy Papdi with chutney, curd, and coriander spread over it is sure to give a delicious edge to your starter menu. Mostly popular in North India, the tangy taste of the dish will be well-liked in every way.

1. Broccoli Mushroom soup

Another nice addition to Indian starters, this creamy soup made with pepper is a comfort for winter weddings. When served hot with a beautiful garnishing above, your guests cannot resist having a taste at any cost.

1. Cheese Balls

These cute round balls will burst with cheese when taken a bite of. An outstanding and crunchy dish, the cheese balls are easy to handle and quick to pop into your mouth. Pair them up with chilli sauce and add another layer of deliciousness to your appetizer list.

1. Sandwich Dhokla

Simply amazing! A famous Gujarati dish but with an exotic twist, this dhokla is a combination of Khaman and Rava dhokla. You may add a layer of cheese and chutney within the two and make a fine compact sandwich dhokla all ready to be served for your guests.

1. Dahi Kebab

Bring a treat for your only vegetarian guests with these tasty bits of kebab made in a simple recipe of yoghurt and besan. Add a bit of glory into your kabab starter with Pudina chutney.

Non-Vegetarian Starters

1. Stir-Fried Chili Chicken

An exotic appetizer, this stir-fried chicken with veggies like onion, capsicum, tomatoes will be a favourite when organising a cocktail party or wedding reception.

1. Chicken Wings

Marinated in spicy and sweet sauce, deep fried and garnished with white sesame seeds, this mouth-watering dish makes one of the delectable starter recipes to speak of.

Popular in weddings, these will uplift the gleeful mood of guests to another notch.

1. Tandoori Chicken Crostini

The power of three in one! A tandoori special garnished with Indian flavours and served in an Italian style, this appetizer is a combination of shredded chicken over bread. Make for a popular starter in today’s weddings.

1. Chicken Dimsums

Add a touch of oriental to your starter menu. Dimsums, popularly known as Momos when served with red chilli sauce or mayo and stuffed with chicken will surely please your guests to the core. Serve them steamed or fried and see how demanding it gets at the counter.

1. Creamy Cheese Chicken Bake

Sounds Delicious? Well, you won’t be disappointed when you get a taste of it. Made with chicken and parmesan cheese, these create a delectable picture that would just get impossible for your guests to resist.

1. Chicken Lollipop

This popular hors d’oeuvre is a popular Indian Chinese appetizer dish where the chicken is given the form of a lollipop for an easy eating. Made in different styles, the chicken lollipops will definitely create a buzz among your guests.

1. Fried Prawns

If not much of a chicken fan, you may add this prawn starter recipe in your menu. The crispy fried prawns coated with lime juice, fennel powder and dipped in a cheese dip or spicy sauce will give a divine feeling when eaten.

1. Kakori Kababs

A Lucknow speciality, this juicy and succulent meat dish when peppered with Garam masala and dipped in tomato sauce, will keep a grand impression on your guests.

With such a creative list of dishes to help you out, conjure up your starter menu in your own style and let your guests get a glimpse of your selection.

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Weddings are exciting and a big event in one’s life. But they are very hectic and stressful. Especially in today’s generation, where families mostly have single children with no siblings to help out, and corporate life hardly allows the time to even take care of one’s own health. In such a scenario, arranging and pulling off a wedding successfully becomes the job of a superhuman. We frantically keep searching for things like wedding halls in Mumbai with price, and best caterers in town, hoping to find a team of professionals that would understand the importance of perfection at a wedding and take responsibility to be there throughout the process.

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Detecting the Wrong Choices

A wedding is once in a lifetime event. We do not want to do anything wrong because there are no second chances. Unless, of course, you are Ross from the sitcom FRIENDS, then you have at least three chances to say the right name and get everything right. Otherwise, this one wedding coming up is your only chance. You need to get everything right, the bridal wear, the dupatta fabric for the flower Chaadar for the bride, the food menu, the decorations… the list is endless.

Do not worry. Stressing over things never helped. What you need is the right person for the job. In order to get to the right people, you need to know how to detect the wrong people and reject them until you reach your right team. So, here are some parameters to determine if the people you are talking to, at the moment are to be avoided:

• Crazy high prices: If you happen to have an idea about the prices of wedding halls with arrangements, you will know if a particular company is quoting too high. You deserve the best service but at a reasonable price. Just like you cannot afford to be a miser about this important event, the professional wedding planners and wedding hall management too, need to be reasonable about their quote.
• Poor behaviour: This is a no-brainer. The moment you see the unprofessional behaviour, you should want out. This can come in any form, rudeness or impatience when asked a series of questions, or hang up the phone on you, or not listen to you. The moment you see you are not comfortable talking to a person, you should know you wouldn’t be comfortable trusting them for one of the most important days of your life.
• Insincere attitude: Mere politeness and professional behaviour don’t vouch for a good choice either. Not showing interest in price negotiations, avoiding sharing the details of their workings, not showing up for meetings, all these are signs of insincerity. If you see these signs even after you have hired a team, it is not too late to cancel on them and ask for a refund of whatever advance you have made.
• Low track record: When you run a background check on the professionals you are going to hire for your wedding, you should come across real reviews, manually hunted down, so that you can get the real information behind the performance of the team. No matter what the reviews on their website say, you need real people to vouch for them. If you find no real person who has ever taken their service or been satisfied with it, it is time to check this name off the list.
• Poor website: Every banquet hall and wedding planner has an online presence nowadays. There could be a lot of flowery reviews and ‘About us’ page information. But you need to go to the interface and format of the website and the load speed. If these are not up to the mark, you should not trust them with something real. If they cannot manage their own website, they probably cannot pull off someone else’s wedding.
• Your gut feeling: Despite everything, even if you cannot put your finger on what is wrong, and feel like you cannot trust these people anyway, it is your gut feeling, or your subconscious experience talking. Always listen to it.

Once you have side-lined these people, you will be left with options where people offer you competitive pricing or at least reasonable charges, along with the freedom to choose what you want and demand what you must have.

The Littlest of Things

Once you have got the major things like budget, wedding hall, and wedding planners and caterers sorted, you can focus on the little things like flower Chaadars, dupatta material, couple entry styles. There are too many little things which are all important. So that you do not forget what they are, list them down in chronological order of the proceedings of a wedding.

Dupatta Use at a Wedding

Talking about little things, let us help you out with some dupatta tricks for a wedding. This little piece of fabric can work wonders in large numbers and with the right colour combinations at a wedding. Here are some of the uses of the dupatta fabric at a wedding.

• Wall Cover

Covering the walls of a big wedding hall with flowers gets too expensive and even tacky because they are eventually going to wither away and start falling apart. Covering the walls with bright colours of dupattas and sticking some contrasting colours of balloons on them is both, bright and cheap.

• Flower Chaadar

The bride walks under a flower chaadar to enter the mandap is a crucial part of a wedding. Usually, the dupatta used for the bridal flower chaadar is a family heirloom. If not, you get to choose from all the colours and types of dupattas to match or contrast your wedding outfit. Use tassels, sequins, zari work, or colourful lace borders in addition to the flowers in the chaadar to make it look as gorgeous as the bride herself.

• Tablecloth

The plain white tablecloths look boring. Adding contrasting colours of the dupatta fabric at regular intervals between plates is a good idea to brighten up the dinner table. You can use the fabric for the other tables too.

• Wedding Garment

When dupatta is being used for so many things that it wasn’t originally thought to be useful for, you must make sure that you give it a fresh twist for the original function too. Wear a kurti with Patiala pants and tie the dupatta around your neck like a scarf to make a statement. Wear it as a headband while entering the wedding hall with the bride or groom to throw some sass into the evening. The functions of a dupatta and the ways you can wear them in are innumerable!

• Sun scarf

Wear a dupatta as a scarf to protect your face from the sun rays at a daytime wedding, but wear it in style. You can also tie it just around your face to cover your nose from the pollution while travelling. This will protect your makeup. The bride’s dupatta material has to be comfortable and cool so that she can beat the heat despite wearing multiple layers.

• Mandap Decoration

Dupattas are used to brighten up a mandap. Do not go for too many colours for the same place, it looks tacky. Either go for fiery bright shades like red, pink, orange, and yellow. Or you could go for the cooler shades like sea green, turquoise, blue, brown, and violet.

• Lights

The lighting at a wedding has to be on point. The fairy lights on the outer walls of the wedding hall must be bright and all functional. The lights on the plants inside should be of complementary colour combinations. But there are white lights that look bland. Cover these ones up for a distance with dupattas to reflect their bright shades through the strong white lights. The dupatta can work as a very good lampshade; only, it needs to maintain a fair distance from the source of light. They will cost you way lesser than actual lampshades.

• Token Napkins

You can provide every guest with a token napkin made from the best quality dupatta fabric, at the dinner table. If the napkin is so delicately made, the food must be amazing. Set the bar high for yourself and enjoy the compliments you will receive for weeks after. When you get back to browsing wedding halls in Mumbai with price or wedding planners in Bangalore, make sure you do not forget to mention the little things to make it a perfect wedding.

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It’s no secret that the spring and summer months are among the most coveted times of year to tie the knot, but what you likely haven’t realized is that a cosy winter Christmas wedding can be as magical as an open-air ceremony and reception beneath the stars. Cool-weather celebrations offer the opportunity to plan a party with under-utilized and totally stylish seasonal details when you are planning a wedding in any of the wedding venues in Mumbai .

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We love how a winter wedding can look both chic and unexpected from snowy-white table’s capes to bold red flower arrangements. After months of blush-hued summer weddings, a moody winter celebration is a perfect way to make your big day stand out. A stylish cold-weather wedding will make you want to take the vows again and again during this magical season!

Let’s look at some winter wedding themes that would look apt for your wedding day. Have a look.

• Colour Wedding Themes

A colour-based theme wedding is also a trending wedding theme this season. This theme is considered very fashionable and if your family has no problem with such a theme then you can easily opt for colour-based wedding ideas. This theme is like a fresh splash of some interesting colour combination throughout the wedding décor. It will leave you dumbstruck with its aesthetic feel of different colours adorning different ceremonies of the wedding.

You can use some interesting combination of colours like aqua-blue, vermillion red, bright orange, green or even pastels set up the entire wedding venue perfectly. Some families even decorate the wedding venues in single shades which goes with the ceremony and they even match the colours with the flowers and the attire of the groom and the bride.

1. Soothing Snowdrift and Blue

How would you like a wedding straight out of dreams with fresh white snow all around? Winter is a season during which everything is pure and romantic as nature itself. This is what makes winter the most preferred wedding time. Snowflakes, artificial snow over the lights and pillars, lots of wooden pillar, blue chiffon curtains here and there along with snow hanging from the top panels would look good if you want a perfect snowy theme. Imagine your wedding day in a beautifully lit snowy ambience with your family around, enjoying some classical music.

1. An All-white Wedding

One of the easiest, least expensive and most effective wedding themes are all white. Basically, you’re looking for an absence of colour, it doesn’t have to be dazzling white – you could use ivory or creams here. One of the most preferred winter wedding themes, the overall effect is classic, simple and beautiful, and you won’t have to struggle to match everything to one particular shade!

Use lots of winter white posies here for that perfect touch. You could also get white confetti and scatter it on your wedding tables as decoration. Keep your stationery simple and monochromatic. At the reception, decorate your tables with white tablecloths along with subtle gold and for a really stunning effect have white chair backs too. We don’t want any pops of colour here so keep the candles and table centres in white, cream or ivory. Draw the line at the buffet – after all, we can’t imagine all white food would be very interesting, right?

1. Bollywood Wedding Themes

Indian society has always been influenced by Bollywood in every realm of life. Bollywood theme weddings are among the top Hindu wedding themes nowadays irrespective of the venue. If you have a liking for fun and quirky kind of wedding, then Bollywood theme is perfect for you when it comes to a summer wedding or a winter themed wedding. It is all about a rich display of bright hues, lots of songs and dance, a variety of eating options, attractive centre stage, and also elegant lighting & décor in such a theme. The entire décor speaks in bright colours and decoration that would give guests the feeling that they are on a film set.

1. Winter Wonderland Theme

How about you give winter wonderland a go if you’re looking for a fairytale theme wedding in pastel colours? Make use of a lot of foliage and candles to get that amazing and cosy feel! Twilight forest, is one foggy deal for wedding themes for winter! The enchanted lush green atmosphere in a dark beautiful night will set an unforgettable ambience for the wedding. The fairy tale effect and dim lighting could make it more mystique. Add wooden furniture and secret passages to turn it into a dream wedding location.

1. Scandinavian

Another theme we like is Scandinavian style. A lot of modern Indian weddings are opting for this chic theme option these days. Have tea lights in little glass vases or as table centres in hollowed out wooden containers over a red and white checked or striped tablecloths. Remember to keep things cosy, but also bring a touch of the outdoors inside by hanging branches painted white with tea light lanterns as decoration for a true Scandinavian feel. You could use heart decorations, which are red and white, in true Scandi winter style.

1. The Royal Wedding Themes

Rajasthan is called the land of the “Maharajas” and royalty. Thus, when it comes to organizing a wedding based on the royal theme, we always refer to the Rajasthan style of décor, as it emanates a complete sense of royalty and elegance in every form possible. If you are having a winter wedding then a royal theme would do a lot of justice.  And moreover, if you really want to feel like a prince and a princess on your wedding day, then the royal wedding theme is the perfect theme for you. The Rajasthani royal wedding theme means a touch of royalty in every aspect of your wedding. Thus, the wedding planner has to set up everything straight out of the royal palace. Start with a grand palace-like centre stage, a décor that is filled with lots of lights, flowers, antiques and some imprints of royal culture. The wedding planner should also display some mirror-work and some intricate designing on the walls, ceilings and floors that would reflect the royalty in your wedding. You can also bring in the flavour of local Rajasthani heritage like, colourful hand-stitched umbrellas, handmade hangings and puppets which would definitely add on to the look and feel of the wedding. Dark bold colours will look good here like red and gold, dark orange and fuschia, blues and mustard etc.

1. Heart-Stirring Vintage

One of the best wedding themes for winter is going vintage! Create an antique look to your wedding by going vintage in every nook and sense. You can easily create a retro look by choosing an old royal castle theme for your wedding. Choose the colours which go well with winter-like Marsala, white for snowy effect, gold, silver, dark greens, etc. Moreover, budgeting a castle based destination wedding wouldn’t be a problem if you and your groom are willing to share the expenses mutually for a dream wedding.

1. Neon-lit Decor

Neon-lit decor for the reception lawn or the courtyard comes right in time for winter weddings. The look is very mesmerizing and fantasy-like for sure, with waterfall flower arrangements on the circumference of the lawn. Spruce it up with dim lighting around and white fair lights draping the reception tables. Use a lot of blues here and you can also opt a lot of silver to give it that perfect look for a winter wedding.

1. Statement Floral Arrangements

The statement chandelier floral arrangement over the tables would be a very luxe affair to flaunt at your wedding. This is best for reception decor and for winter weddings, which denotes elegance and romance, feelings of togetherness and magical affairs.

Use giant flower arrangements, dark and bold colours for the flowers. You can mix and match the colours of the fabrics with the colours of the flowers.

1. Romantic Soft Lights

To create more romance with the ambience around, and if you are having an outdoor Mandap for the rituals to take place in, play with soft dim lanterns as lighting options. Have lots of dim lights to add that touch of warmness during the cold weather and to help add a lot of romantic touch.  Nothing speaks of more love and cosy mushy feelings than a couple of white paper lanterns spread across the lawn on a dusky wedding evening, right?

With such unique themes to choose from, let your wedding be the most romantic symphony ever created! An Indian wedding is an affair like no other. All of it is an experience in itself – the five-day long drama, the loud Sangeet competition, the overnight Phere, the numerous dresses to be worn, innumerable days full of Hungama and relatives you never knew existed!

It is all about the loud music, the games at the weddings or even the colourful fancy clothing and the delicious spread of food. We love the quirky ideas for decor and theme embellishments at Indian wedding venues that we see and witness. To make your wedding a very memorable one, you have got to do something outstanding and different. Sit and brainstorm the same with your wedding planner, and we are sure you would come up with mind-blowing ideas. Seek inspiration and come up with your own creative ways. Let your wedding be a fairytale in every sense!

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Since this is going to be your wedding, the glam factor is already touching the roof for you. While checking out for the wedding venues in Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Pune or anywhere you wish, you get highly absorbed in the process of organizing a jubilant celebration altogether, be it the caterers or the invitations, everything needs to be absolutely perfect.

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Then, why leave the dress out of this. When you are the bride, you get to be precise about what dress you are going to wear, in what colour, what would be your jewellery and what look you are going to put on. Most of the brides in northern India are inclined to wear lehenga and are always searching for some brand-new look to sport on their wedding day. When lehenga is your bridal wear, the dupatta is an essential part of it. If you are in a bit of pickle to wear your dupatta, coming up just for you is a list of bridal lehenga dupatta draping styles.

• Kamarband Style

Kamarbands are back with a bang! Though a style of past, it has garnered a lot of attention among the brides with ideas from Anita Dongre bridal lehengas. It flaunts the waist, sets the pleats and manages the dupatta in a tidier way.

Now, no need to make a fuss with dupatta, whether it is sweeping out the floor with its length or gets a little longer for your petite height. Drape the dupatta like a saree pallu. You may overlay the dupatta in the centre or keep at your shoulder side. Use it as a belt and tuck it inside your lehenga.

• Trail Style

This style is carried out by holding the dupatta from the back by both hands. The most commonly used style from the old times, this style is actually done when the brides want to show their lehenga design to the maximum. It can be paired up with any lehenga wearing style, whether a simple blouse or jacket. Now be confident and get ready to exhibit this style.

• Traditional Drape Overhead

Remember the style of Deepika Padukone in Baji Rao Mastani? Yes, this is the style where the dupatta is draped over the head of the bride in a Mughal style. This is a conservative yet elegant style in every sense. You may even drape the dupatta around your shoulders if you have opted for a demure looking style of blouse. Wrapping the dupatta around the shoulder would be a good idea if yours is a winter wedding. It could be paired up with a shawl on your shoulder as well in a contrasting hue.

• Cowl-Style

When you drape a single dupatta over your front and tie up them at shoulders, you get the cowl style. This is more of a stunner when the dupatta is of sheer fabric with lots of glitter and work on a net pattern. This is a nice way to flaunt your blouse designs. And what more, this is the most trending style on social media. Thus, you get to be a social queen in your pictures.

• Saree Drape

As the name says, in this dupatta wearing style, the bride has to pin up on one side of the shoulder while keeping the other side tucked inside the waistband of lehenga. This is a very lovely style of draping that actually plays a peek-a-boo with your blouse design. With no hassles and lots of glamour, you can surely pick the style and sport it on your wedding. This could even be worn with the conventional head drape or Ghoonghat.

• One Side Free

The very simple yet chic style, this dupatta style is actually pinned at one side and left free otherwise to roam around as you move. It depicts a sensuous style and an easy-breezy look. The style requires no effort at all. Just pick the side where you want to pin up the dupatta to give a fantastic outlook to your attire.

• Dupatta Veil

The trend of dupatta is continued for years. And this style has been adopted by many queens and princesses since generation. Within this, the bride drapes the dupatta over the head like a veil until the need to unveil it. A shimmery dupatta is what you require if you are using it as a veil. The bride’s face is visible but is still hidden from the outer world. Sound enchanting enough!

• Gujarati Style

While you are thinking about how to drape lehenga and dupatta, why not go with the traditional Gujarati style. This style would take a two-piece dupatta. One is draped over the head while the other is spread and tucked in front covering most of the blouse. This traditional style has a royalty of its own as the bride gets an imposing impression over the donned attire.

• U Front Style

A unique style indeed! In this style of dupatta draping, a single dupatta is draped in ‘U’ shape that is brought from behind and gets pinned to another shoulder with a triangle shape in front. An alluring style in every sense, this type of draping looks as beautiful as its intricate style of donning the shape is. The U shape style could also be draped by putting the dupatta on the head as well.

• Border Pleated Drape Style

Within this style, the dupatta is draped over the shoulder in a wafer style where several pleats are collected and tucked on. It displays only the border. Thus, to get a rightful look, your dupatta needs to have a broad border with work of Zari or other trinkets.

So, what did you choose? With lots of styles given above and lots of imagination on your side, you may DIY your dupatta draping pattern and bring out an individuality. Now have the best pick with quality, length and colour and wrap around the dupatta in whichever way you are comfortable.

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Marriage is a celebration of togetherness, a bond to enjoy each other’s company. Imagine your wedding day in one of the best banquet halls in Delhi, the rush of the crowd, the bright lights, and the beautiful distinctive aroma from the dining area. You suddenly realize that you want to cook such delicious food at your home as well. Though marriage is all about togetherness, you have to be quiet independent too and the first step towards this independence is learning to cook by yourself. So, here are some must-know recipes, that will help you to be a step ahead.

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• Aloo curry

This delicious dish is an all-rounder. Since Aloo is not so expensive and can be made very easily. This is one of the most widely made food items in Indian kitchens. The easy method of cooking is what makes it less time-consuming. All you need is potatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, vegetable masala, peas, turmeric powder and chillies. Here’s how you go about it:

• Boil the potatoes for 15 minutes.
• Chop onions, chillies, and other vegetables if you want to add.
• Then peel and chop the potatoes once it’s boiled and softened.
• Heat your wok and add vegetable oil to it, add the chopped onions, chillies, ginger garlic paste and peas and sauté it, until the onions turn orange.
• Then add the turmeric, chilli and vegetable masala powder, and sauté it well.
• Add some water in the end to make curry.

Voila! Your Aloo curry is ready.

• Paneer Butter Masala

We all love the aroma and the delicious taste of paneer. The softness combined with tangy butter masala is one of the greatest combinations when it comes to Indian wedding menu dishes. It is also easy to make and can be served to anyone who doesn’t have lactose intolerance. Be it any occasion or a family dinner, this is one dish that is loved by everyone. Here’s how you make it as a beginner:

• Chop some paneer into small squares and keep it aside.
• Chop onions, chillies, capsicum and tomatoes.
• Heat them up in the wok and fry them till they turn reddish. Then add the planner pieces and sauté it will.
• Add jeera masala, coriander powder, paneer masala, garam masala and lot of Kashmiri red chilli powder.
• Then add ginger garlic paste and sauté it well.
• Add water and stir the curry.
• At the end when the curry is thick and dense, add a bar of a butter and let it melt.

Your paneer butter masala is ready!

• Rice

Making rice sounds easy right? You’ll be surprised how difficult it can be to make rice perfectly. Sometimes after you cook rice, it seems you’ve done a good job but then while having lunch, you realise the rice is uncooked and there goes your lunch, you either toss it aside and have Maggi, or chew that semi-cooked rice. Sometimes you burn the rice or there’s too much water in it. The problem that people face with making rice is the measurement of the rice and water proportion. Here’s the trick to it:

• First, pour the rice into a bowl, wash and rinse it properly.
• Pour fresh water into it.
• Pour enough water to have an inch of water above the rice.
• Start boiling the rice.
• Once it boils, allow the rice to cook slowly over low heat.

After all, all good things take time. Rice is cheap and can be consumed with any kind of curry, it’s filling and gives you good sleep! Rice is the staple diet of many Indians. This is one of the first things you should learn to cook, as a new wife or husband.

• Dal

This is one Indian dish that is easy to make and can be consumed every day with almost anything. There are enough types of pulses for you to have a different dal every day of the week. Dal is nutritious and for the family, it serves as a great source of protein. Making dal can be a bit tricky but once you get the hang of it, you’ll face no problem. This is how you make the perfect dal:

• Add the mashed dal and double the amount of water.
• Take a frying pan, add oil or ghee in it.
• Then you take chopped onions, chillies, Hing, mustard, jeera, ginger garlic paste, tomatoes, red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, and garam masala.
• Fry them together and add water. There will be a thick gravy-like substance.
• Add the mashed dal and water in the pressure cooker, along with the gravy you made and let it cook for 15 minutes.

You just made a delicious dal and proved that healthy food can be tasty.

• Cheese Omelette

This might come as a surprise but this is one dish kids love. Although this dish is not made in every Indian house, and most of the people didn’t even try it, but it is easy to make and is delicious. By learning this delicious recipe, you can surprise your guests and other family members. It can be made for breakfast, or as a side dish for dinner or lunch, or as an evening snack. Here’s the easy recipe for making cheese omelette:

• Heat up your frying pan, add vegetable oil.
• Chop onions, tomato, chilli, oregano and fry it well.
• Crack the eggs and put in a bowl and beat the egg well.
• Pour the yolky material over the chopped fried veggies and let it all fry.
• When the omelette is made, add two slices of cheese and let the cheese melt on the surface of the omelette.

If you have never cooked a cheese omelette before, you will realise the convenience of learning to make this dish.

• Poha

Poha is the perfect breakfast dish. It is easy to make, nutritious, and very filling. Having Poha for breakfast is the best meal of the day. Here’s how to make it:

• First, add some Poha in a funnel basket and rinse it properly and then throw the water.
• Take a frying pan and roast peanuts.
• Add oil in that same heated pan.
• Add cumin, jeera, and Hing.
• Then you can add onions, curry leaves, green chillies, and potatoes.
• Sauté for a few minutes.
• Add turmeric powder and sauté it well until your Poha is ready to eat.

This perfect breakfast or evening snack is not just tasty but can be healthy as well.

Learn cooking before getting married and must include in your wedding checklist too, so that you can take good care of your family and there will be no extra expenditure on a hired cook. If you don’t have the time to cook every day, you can at least make some of these food items for breakfast or for lunch on Sundays.

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