Month: July 2018

Indian weddings have a unique air about them. It doesn’t have to be the most extravagant wedding, or the most elaborate. The very rituals and site of an Indian wedding like the wedding banquet or wedding places make it stand apart from weddings all over the world. Find these features and ideas to make your wedding as one of those who become the talk of the town. Given below are some of the features and ideas.

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1. Multicultural Customs

The best thing about Indian weddings is that you cannot think of just one kind of wedding when you hear about a big Indian wedding.

Of course, the tendency would be to think about the weddings you have witnessed, and they are mostly similar in one part of the country. But you won’t be technically correct to think of just a Punjabi wedding or a Bengali weddingwhen you hear “Indian wedding”.

1. Every State has a Tradition

There are many common factors about Indian weddings. The seven circles around the holy fire, the vermillion, the haldi before the wedding, there are many rituals that are similar to most Indians. But each culture has its own little specifications that make the customs so different. There are some customs that are so typical to the cultures.

1. Modern Indian Wedding has a Broader Perspective

All these differences together make Indian weddings so interesting. With an increase in the number of interstate marriages, actually more like, inter-culture marriages, the modern Indian wedding is customised to fit the significant rituals of both cultures, giving a new twist to Indian weddings

Indian weddings are extravagant. People here love splurging on weddings. The rich splurge like nobody’s business, and the middle-class splurge like rich people. The wedding attires, jewellery, food, venue, band party, all scream big fat Indian wedding.

1. Rich Weddings Cost Crores in the Name of Pomp

Of course, most weddings are not 100 crore deals. The sons and daughters or multimillionaire business tycoons wear bridal wear and jewellery worth 100 crores. Stinking rich Indian weddings cost over 400 crores. But we do not need to look at those weddings to back our claims about the regular pomp at Indian weddings.

1. Regular Weddings are filled with Brightness and Cheers

India is known for the bright eastern colours, the crowd, the chaotic charm, and the enthusiastic people. An Indian wedding is the best example of all this.

Indian weddings are all about how many colours you can add to the drapes in the wedding decoration. Or how much jewellery and flowers you can deck up the bride with. Indians like being extra at weddings.

1. Spread over Many Days

Unlike other countries, Indian weddings are not quiet, or monochromatic. Indian wedding traditions and rituals start with an official engagement and end at the wedding reception from the groom’s house. Throughout this phase, the guests love partying and dancing. They shower the bride and groom with riches and blessings. This isn’t just a part of the rituals. These blessings come from the hearts of these people.

1. Be Wise in Planning

If you want to match up to the excitement of your guests, plan a grand wedding. You do not have to go beyond a reasonably fair budget to pull off a big Indian wedding. You just need to be enthusiastic about every step of it.

1. Add zest and fun

Make sure your haldi, sagaai, or mehndi functions do not involve just the rituals and food, and goodbyes. Incorporate fun games to make the families bond. Dance to peppy Bollywood and Punjabi songs to liven up the place. Enjoy yourselves like never before.

Make sure the bridal makeup is on point. Indian weddings aren’t the place to go minimalistic. So, stop at nothing.

1. The significance of the Indian Bride

The guests at an Indian wedding are more decked up than brides in the West. The striking thing is, all this is heartwarming instead of annoying. All the dancing and excitement rubs off on even the quiet and peaceful people. All the makeup makes the bride look gorgeous instead of funny. Nobody but an Indian bride can pull off such pompous appearance with grace.

1. Never Compromise on Food

Indian wedding makeup, Indian clothes, the Indian way of having fun, Indian wedding rituals, we love all of it. Oh, Indian food! The most important thing of all. Splurge on the food plate rates. A wedding is a once in a lifetime event. You don’t want to spend the rest of your life wondering if people think you had been a miser. Save for your, or your child’s wedding well beforehand so that you can afford the wedding you deserve to host.

1. Add More Dhamaka

Enter the wedding scene on a chopper, or on elephants. Wear diamond studded sarpanch or veil. Make all the exotic dishes, both vegan and all meat. Go for the most dramatic eye makeup, the most elaborate jewellery, and the best possible wedding dress ever. Have dance performances ready for the entry. Have your entire family dance. Go for a destination wedding abroad, or better still, in India. Go for an Udaipur or Goa wedding. Go to the Andaman Islands for your dream wedding. Have a Rajasthani or Kashmiri themed wedding, or an Italian theme.

1. Let Go and Be Happy

Whatever you do, make sure you are hosting a grand wedding. Big fat Indian wedding brides do not cry at their wedding, they make a royal appearance, stunning everybody, and the rest of the evening is hers. A big fat Indian wedding groom is royalty worthy of that sassy Indian bride, a hunk himself. On this day, the bride and the groom isn’t just each other’s princess and hero. They are the Queen and the King of the event. So behave like that. Don’t tone down your sass, don’t control your smiles. You want to dance, you dance. You want to sit there and watch the entertainment, you do that.

1. Have No Regrets

Whatever you do, make sure you don’t look at your wedding album reminiscing, and think you could have done it better. You go all in and pull off a great wedding, big and fat enough to leave no room for doubts or regrets.

A wedding is just once in a lifetime affair…..Make sure you have the best one! We wish just one thing………a happily ever after, always!

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Weddings are fun. But they are tough on the people who arrange it. With the size of families getting smaller, and people moving out of the city for their jobs, we hardly have any helping hands anymore. This is why you need to hire wedding planners to execute your wedding arrangement ideas be it for wedding banquet halls location, catering or any other related service.

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The professional planners also need to give you suggestions for unique wedding decorations. Also, if your plans are impractical in parts, the planners should help you find a similar alternative, or work a way around the technical impossibilities.

• Balloon Walls

It takes a lot of money to decorate every wall with flowers. The idea is clichéd as well. Giant white balloons, on the other hand, make a very good background for the wedding photographs.

Leave some gaps at regular intervals to put colourful flowers in them to balance out the white.

• Drapes

Colourful or white drapes both work. Cover light sources with translucent yellow or orange drapes. Put white drapes on the walls before sticking the balloons on. White brightens up the place and colourful satin drapes work as good lampshades, making everywhere the light touches, more colourful.

• Lampshade Centre Pieces

You should get real lampshades as centre pieces for wedding seating tables.  Have multicoloured lampshades or single coloured lampshades of different colours at different tables, your choice.

If you prefer a more symmetrical look, go for the same colour and type of lampshades for all the tables.

• Mandap Decoration

The mandap has to have both, drapes and flowers. But make sure the flowers don’t get lost in the drapes. Sometimes people make mandap drapes out of various colours of drapes and add whatever flower strings they get. Nothing can look tackier than that. You need to stick to a maximum of two colours for the drapes.

You can match the colours with the latest bridal dresses, or contrast it. You can go for lighter shades like white and yellow or white and peach for daytime under the sky weddings. For the night, go for the warmer tones like red, purple, and orange. Match the flowers with the colours of the drapes and hang them from strings evenly all across the outside of the drapes.

• Piñata

This is the most uncommon of all wedding arrangements. A piñata is for birthdays. But a wedding is the birth of a wife and a husband. It is the beginning of a new life for the bride and the groom. Put all the best wishes from the guests, especially the close ones, and put it inside the piñata. Make it a heart-shaped piñata if you want to maintain symmetry for the occasion. Let the bride and the groom together break it, to find the notes. Alternately, you can have two piñatas, one for the groom and one for the bride, and have their respective friends and relatives write their best wishes for each of them.

• Garden arch

The mandap is there. If there is a garden or outdoor wedding, the mandap needs to be in the garden. Or if there is a lush green open space but the mandap is indoor anyway, put arches made of leaves on the garden. Fix them well into the floor so that some rain and storm cannot harm the setup.

These arches can be made broader and wider so that you can put chairs in their shade and people can sit in the shade. If you have a big space, keep these arrangements at a good distance from each other. You need to be able to arrange for chairs and these arches for at least 40 percent of the guests.

• Plants

Flowers cost a lot and they look too clichéd for weddings. Also, you need to get a lot of flowers on the very day of the wedding. Too much flowers slow down the implementation of ideas of wedding decorations process. Replace most of the flowers with little green tubs of plants. You can get this done even the night before the wedding. All you need to make sure the next morning is that they are sprayed with water to keep looking fresh. The cost and the hassle are reduced tenfold with green leaves and plants. Also, the place smells so much better and feels so fresh because of the plants.

• Flowers

No matter what was said in the above statement about getting more green plants, you do need flowers. Flower decorations for wedding is essential. To complement the green on the plants, get some white flowers. Lilies, tulips, orchids, jasmine bunches, all of these flowers are beautiful.

• Lighting

If the lighting is off, everything gets ruined. You need enough light for people to see where they are walking. You need less enough light to make the other decorations more visible. You need lights inside and outside the area. The building needs good lighting on its outer walls. Once again, multi-coloured fairy lights are just as tacky as multicoloured mandap drapes.

Stick to some signature colour combinations like blue and white, red and yellow, just yellow, or to reduce the cost of lighting, use as many fairy light strings as you can. But do use enough brighter lights to actually make the wedding dinner look good. The dinner tables must have enough lighting. Make sure all the light sources are either covered by translucent lamp shades or drapes.

These were 9 comprehensive ideas for Indian wedding arrangements. They are all pocket friendly and easy to do. Also, you can have most of it set up a night before. Add to these ideas, or customise them as you please.

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The modern Indian wedding has warmed up to a lot of changes in the Indian wedding venues ,traditions and rituals. The rituals all remain but are customised. For example, many people don’t do kanyadaan anymore, to respect the bride as a person and not as a gift to be given away. However, the wedding garlands is a tradition that remains as it is. Or is that so?

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Fun Garlands Exchange

Exchanging of the Jaimala or Varmala as some call it, is a tradition that nobody has a problem with. But to be honest, it is quite a boring ritual. People don’t mind standing by and getting it done with, but nobody has fun.

Of course, it is a serious ritual, with a spiritual significance. But who cares about that as long as the pandit is saying all his chants right and the bride and groom are following him right? If you can make it fun, then why not?

The only fun garlands exchange game is the bride and the groom dodging the other one when they try to put the garland around their neck. In some traditions, the respective families hold up the bride and the groom as high as possible to make their own candidates taller than the other person.

But these are lame and clichéd little games. How about making the garlands fun instead? Some traditions need the wedding garlands exchanged thrice. Some, just once. We cannot make variations to these rules. They are rituals that should stay the way they are.

But we can make the garlands fun so that we do not have to think about anything else or risk disrupting a traditional ritual and offending the elders while trying to have some innocent fun.

Fun Varmala Ideas

Now, the fun ideas can range from anything between harmless fashionable varmala designs for wedding, to pranks with them. Here are all the ideas we can think of. You can add to the list with the help of your creatively mischievous mind, and your friends and cousins.

• Matching Garlands

Usually, wedding garlands are all orange, made of marigold, or all red, made of roses, depending upon the traditional practices of the family. They often have some white flowers in them with the orange and red. What if you ditched the cliché and got the garland made out of flowers of the colour that your partner is wearing?

Say the bride is wearing a mauve bridal suit as one of her latest bridal wedding dresses, get the groom’s garland made of liatris and tulips. If the groom is wearing white and maroon, get the bride’s garland made of white lilies and dark red roses. It is crucial that the garlands should match the partner’s outfit because it will get lost in the camouflage if it matches their own outfit.

• Designer Garlands

Modern Indian wedding garlands are made to look much better and bigger than mere common flower garlands. Fake flowers are used. Velvet and silk are used. You will find these garlands at any big shop. You might need to do some searching. Sometimes garlands come in pairs, and sometimes in unique single pieces. Go pick two identical designer garlands or two very different ones. Whatever you choose, make sure they both have a fair amount of real flowers though.

• Heavy Garlands

It’s one thing to make a garland look big and poofy, and totally another thing to actually make it heavy. The first kind is a simple attempt at making the garland look unique. It is still fluffy and innocently made only of flowers, real and fake. But the second one is a sneaky prank that you need to pull off well.

Whoever you pull the prank on, needs to be conditioned to thinking that finding the wedding garland too heavy is a bad omen. The ritual of exchanging wedding garlands is done to see if the two people are ready for the burden of marriage. If they find it too heavy to carry or complain about it, they are not ready for marriage. Then comes the garland with some tiny little iron balls hidden in the flowers.

The person putting the garland on the partner to be pranked needs to pretend like it is not heavy to them. Once it lands on the target, their job is over. Watch your partner’s smiles turn fake and head starting to bend. He or she cannot even take it off or complain.’

Let them know they were being pranked before it stops being funny and plain painful instead. If the partner in question already has stiff neck issues, don’t do it. If you are from one of those cultures where the garland is exchanged multiple times, make sure the heavy one ends up around the right neck. Else you will just end up caught in your own trap.

Don’t worry about the elders finding out and getting all offended, you have already conditioned your partner to not complain about it. As long as nobody outside the prank circle handles the garland, nobody has to know.

• Bugged Garlands

One big scare is if the garland has bugs or bees in it. Put some fake bugs in it just for a natural decoration, maybe one or two fake butterflies here and there. If you want to prank, place one single realistic bee on it and point it out after it has landed around the victim’s neck. This one will be lame if the victim sees through it in a second. So do it only with people who are so scared of bugs and bees that they will do a little dance on stage before realising it is fake. You can use fake spiders too by the way.

• Xmas Tree Garlands

You might not care about the pranks. All you want is a unique pair of wedding garlands. You can decorate them with Xmas tree decorations. This idea can look stupid if you put too much of the decorations. Just a few is fine. This idea works best if you are having a mixed wedding between a Christian and a Hindu.

• Spray Painted Garlands

Get white garlands and spray paint them all over to join you in Holi matrimony. You see what I did there? Okay, you won’t appreciate it. But you will appreciate a dash of colours artistically placed. If you have no respect for puns, at least you will have respect for art.

• Bicoloured Garlands

Get double layered garlands with two colours running along parallel.

This will be a welcome change from the monochromatic or alternately bicoloured varmala designs for wedding.

• Pearl String Garlands

If you want to show off your wealth, add a string of pearls hanging from both the garlands. This will not only make the garlands look more beautiful and fun, but also add to your accessories! Make sure there is someone to take off the pearls from the garlands and putting them away safely when you’re done with the garlands.

• Missing Garlands

Coming back to pranks, how do you think losing one of the garlands at the end moment will work? It will make the bride or groom look irresponsible. Actually, it will make their families look careless. Everybody cuts the bride and groom some slack on their wedding day. Look everywhere for the garlands until someone starts panicking and then pull the garland out from a cover right near the stage, with a “I am here, stupid” note on it. Give the garland googly eyes to make it realistic.

Make sure you do the fake search for the missing garland only as long as it is still fun. The real fun is in the googly eyed garland sitting with sassy messages. You don’t want to waste time or actually make anybody panic.

• Garlands with Secret Messages

Talking about little notes, you can make it romantic and sweet, instead of playing pranks. Put posts on each of the garlands. These posts will be notes from the partner, and his or her family, for the new son or daughter to be. The messages can be anything from funny to real sweet. Keep them short and make sure people sign their names so that the bride and groom will know who it is. Get the posts ready the night before and just stick them all over, carefully when the garlands arrive.

This is how to make modern Indian wedding garlands fun. Add to these ideas, or customise them. But make sure, you pull it off with some maturity. Do not play too big pranks or push them for too long.

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DIY nail art designs are not as difficult to pull off as they look. All the nail art videos you have seen involve complicated procedures. Of course, it is all worth it because it’s your wedding. But what if you don’t have the time for the same as you have to get ready to reach the wedding banquet for the ceremony.

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Here are some simple nail art tricks to help anybody wade through the nail art passion with some flair. Each of them involves very easily available props if there are props at all. Before you start experimenting with any of these designs, take a read and determine what colour combinations you’d like for each design.

• Loofah Trick

Cut a loofah to spread on your nail. You already have the first coat of the nail paint on. Let it dry. Now place the loofah well stretched, on each nail while you paint it with the second colour. You will get a symmetrical mesh design.

Alternately, if you want just the net lines and not filled diamond shapes for the second layer, stretch the loofah strip, apply the second nail polish on it, and press it over your nail. Remove immediately without the slightest shaking.

• DIY Matte Nail Enamel

If you want a matte finish, just dab some eyeshadow as the top coat for your nail polish. This will give your nail paint a unique shade. Leave just one nail glossy to accentuate the matte effect.

• Bobby Pin Polka Dots

Use bobby pins or matchsticks to put polka dot designs.

Wait for it to dry before putting a coat of transparent gel to lock the polka dots in.

• White Canvas

A white nail polish base serves as a canvas for many simple yet bright nail art techniques. You can go for polka dots of multiple colours on each nail, or a different colour for each nail. You can go for coloured splashes on a white base.

1. Black and White

Black and white nail polish is the most stylish yet formal combination.

If you want to deck up your nails even when you have a corporate job to go to every day, this is your go to colour combination.

• Sello Tape Lines

You might have tried the horizontal, vertical, or slanting stripe patterns on your nails, only to have it all messed up. The trick is to use sellotapes. If you want just two halves of different colours, be it vertical, horizontal, or diagonal, paint your entire nail with the first colour. Wait for it to dry and put a transparent coat. After that dries, cover half the nail with a sellotape and paint over the other half with the second colour. Remove the tape after it dries.

If you want stripes, cut thin strips of tape and stick them on carefully on a dried first coat. Paint over the entire nail with the second colour.

• Crumpled Plastic Print

If you want a messy pattern, crumple up some plastic and put some nail polish on it. Dab it on the first coat of the base colour. Asymmetric patterns will appear, wait for it to dry.

• Hole Guards

If you want bigger polka dots or semi-circles, use hole guards like you used tape. You can go for the half moon at the edge. You can even go for three different colours perfectly separated from each other, with the help of hole guards.

• Golden Sharpie Lines

Golden sharpies brighten up any colour of nail polish. Go for simple lines or boxes. Try making different designs for different nails if you want. If you want it to be simple and formal, draw the pattern on only the ring fingernail. Leave the rest with plain nail paint.The best thing about golden sharpies is, it adds to the bling suitable for wedding nail art, and goes with any colour of the base.

• Sharpie Marker Texts

Use thin sharpies to write texts on your first coat of nail polish of a contrasting colour. You can draw small animal figurines as well. Simple diagrams like smileys, sun, moon, animals, fish, drawn with a black sharpie on white or yellow nail paint looks cute. If you want it to look less childish, go for texts or simple patterns.

• Semi Dry Scribbles for a Second Coat

Before you throw away your old drying nail polish, try this trick. Make sure it is not completely dry, but just a little thick. The kind of dry that can be fixed with some drops of acetone. But don’t fix it yet. Put a coat of normal nail polish and then after it dries, brush through with the semi-dry polish to create a rough pattern.

• Sponge Texture

Sponges have curious patterns on them already. If you want something more symmetrical than crumpled plastic, use a sponge. Put the first coat, wait for it to dry. Then generously apply the second shade on the sponge and press it over your nail. Make sure no part of the sponge is dry, without the nail paint layer. Any unpolished part of the sponge will stick to your nail, ruining the entire nail.

• Minimalistic Single Lines and Dots

If you want your nail polish to look more naturally handcrafted, go for simple stripes and dots instead of using tape or bobby pins.

Use a thin nail polish brush to make the dots and lines on your own. The lines may be a little shaky, and the dots differently sized, but it will be a perfect DIY nail art.

 

• Polish splatter

Splatter colours with other nail polish shades on a white, black, or any dark or light shade. Thin down the nail polish, you are splattering; else there will be big globs on some nails, and nothing on the rest.

• Layers

Layer up your nail polish with the sellotape technique. Make it look layered but apply the different colours only where they need to be, with the help of the tape that will peel off with the extra nail polish stroke.

• Glitter

To make any nail art design turn into a nail art for the wedding, just throw on some glitter. Try using some discretion while determining the glitter pattern which matches your unique bridal wedding dresses. Let the nail polish dry completely. Put a top coat of transparent gel and sprinkle the glitter on the nail beds or tips before it dries. Use the sellotape way if you want definite lines for the glitter. Put the transparent coat only after the tape has been placed.

• Half Nail Paint

Women wear big chunky earrings on just one ear now. Some people wear trousers cut to different lengths. A lack of symmetry is in.

So, instead of going for two different coats for each nail, you can cover the naked nail with tape and paint over just half of it. You don’t even need the tape if you have got steady hands. This is the quickest way to a quirky nail art.

• The illusion of Half Nails with Nude Shades

If you don’t want to do the half nails thing but like the idea of it, put a base coat of a totally nude peach shade. Let it dry, cover it up, and paint the other half with a prominently dark shade. Do not go for exactly half of the nail. Keep it 1/3rd or 2/3rd.

• Shearing Scissors for Tapes

For zigzag nail art designs, use shearing scissors to cut the tape before pasting it on a dried base coat. Paint over the nail with a contrasting colour and when you lift the tape, the line separating the two colours will be a zigzag one.

• Fan Brush Strokes

If you want a carefully devised careless strokes effect, use a fan brush or washed mascara liner to zigzag through the first coat. It will look like careless brush strokes through the first coat.

So here were some nail art designs for you to follow for your unique wedding reception. Most of them are simple. The target is to make every nail look good. You may not be the most creative person, or the person with the steadiest hands, or someone with ample time for nail art. That does not mean you don’t get to enjoy nail art every once in a while.

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The blouse design can make or break your saree no matter how expensive and beautiful the saree itself is. You need to spend the time to creatively think of a blouse that would look good on you. At a wedding, the saree is more about the blouse if you have an eye for fashion.

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Here are some latest blouse designs to help you decide what kind of blouse you want. The drape of the saree, the necklace you wear, your hairdo, the bridal makeup all depend on the blouse.

• Contrast sleeves

If you are going for a contrast, why not be a little more experimental and get a bicoloured blouse itself? Say, a yellow blouse with orange sleeves? You can match the colour of the sleeves with the saree, or go for a dual contrast with three major colours, the colour of the saree, the sleeves, and the blouse, all different! Again, choose a tasteful combination.

• Dori Back

The Dori back is probably the sexiest blouse trend. It came into fashion and stayed. If you are feeling extra bold, go for a single tied dori to hold your blouse together. But to be honest, when it comes to the dori back blouse, more is better. Go for a blouse with more than 4 doris and tie them all symmetrically. Just one suggestion, avoid pompom doris. They look ridiculous. Go for a classy dori style.

• Backless

You can go for a simple backless blouse. It is bold and trendy but simple at the same time. Flaunt your tattoos with this one. Since it is a wedding ceremony we are looking at, if you don’t have tattoos, get some henna tattoos.If you are the bride, looking into some backless blouse designs, get a translucent veil to keep it classy and mysterious.

1. Asymmetrical Backline

A unique wavy cut of the back always adds to the attractive element of a blouse. Make sure there is a wide border so that your blouse does not look basic. Also, make sure the backline of the blouse hides your bra fully. You don’t want to dress lousy at a wedding.

• Contrast

This isn’t quite one of the latest blouse designs if we are looking at Bollywood. But very few women dare to pull off a contrast blouse colour with their sarees in real life.So, be the trendsetter of the squad. Go for statement colours like pink, fuschia, yellow, orange, neon green, and turquoise. Set a tasteful contrast. Blue and yellow, pink and orange, brown and yellow, green and blue, are some of the good bold combinations.

• Pot Neck

The pot neck is both, trendy and conventional. It is one of the few blouse neck designs that are good for women of any age.With embroidered borders, your pot neck blouse can spark up the plainest saree. The best thing about a pot neck blouse is, you get to flaunt your upper back tattoo no matter where it is.

 

• Designer Embellishment

If we are talking about slight embroidery, border embellishment, and some bling on the blouse, it isn’t an option. It is a wedding for heaven’s sake! Your blouse has to be attractive. But you can go for a totally embellished blouse and that is an option.Get a unique designer embellished blouse. When you have a blouse with heavy work, go a little lighter with the sequins on the saree. You don’t want to look like a walking mirror. Balance it out.

• Kerala Saree blouse

There is a typical beauty in a Kerala blouse design. The colours are mostly traditional, like red, white, and gold. If you want a traditional look, go for this option.The people with an eye for it will see the class in your choice of blouse. Others will simply think you make anything look great.

• Net/ lace

Laces have been in fashion forever. But it is a risky choice. With nets and laces, you can either look like a fairy princess, or totally classless. You need to use just the right amount of net and lace at the right places. Keep the front of the blouse totally solid and the back semi-solid, with the net adorning the extra portion of the blouse.

You can have net sleeves, no matter the length. Laces are easier to carry. Put them on the borders of the sleeves or on the base of the blouse, or both. Make sure the colours in a net blouse are sober one like light green, or blue, or a traditional one like red or maroon. Nets and laces look great in black but that’s not quite the colour for a wedding, especially if you are the bride. But white and golden are the go-to colours that you can never go wrong with.

• Embroidery

Nothing in bridal dresses speaks class like original handmade embroidery. It is a wedding, so don’t go around minimalistic. Get a full embroidery covered blouse on a contrast base.White base with golden embroidery is undoubtedly the best option. But if you don’t want to wear a white or golden saree, colourful embroidery on a light base is good too.

• Full Sleeves

Sleeveless and half sleeves are common. With a full sleeved blouse, you get the maximum space to flaunt the latest blouse designs.The sleeves can be net, embroidered, or a contrast pattu or cotton fabric. Make sure there are borders to complete the look.

• Halter neck

Halter necks seem to be going out of fashion. But if you have a slender frame you must flaunt a halter neck.Nothing looks as delicately sophisticated as delicate collar bones and shoulders in a halter neck. With a halter neck blouse, go for a bold colour and leave the embellishments for the saree.

• High Neck

High neck blouses or boat necks are the best styles for women with a long neck. Flaunt your tall frame with a high neck blouse and don’t forget to wear a generous string of pearls or a custom necklace with these blouse neck designs.

• Banarasi Cotton

Comfortable, classy, and sophisticated. Banarasi cotton blouses do justice to the bright colours. It is a highly recommended fabric for a wedding.

• Floral on Chiffon

Multi-coloured floral designs on a sober chiffon base are traditional and bright. It is a perfect wedding blouse that can make any saree look good. Though, they go best with plain sarees without any prints. Focus on the blouse. This will make your saree look good.

• Zari

Weddings are one excuse to wear all the zari you want. The best thing about zari is that you can wear it with any colour saree. You can have a contrasting blouse colour to add to the brightness. The zari will take care of the wedding look. You can have zari on your saree too. The bad thing is, it is difficult to maintain. The slightest pull or pricking can ruin the blouse. So, be very careful while pinning the pallu on.

• Kundan and mirror work

The kundan and mirrors blouse design is very dicey. Mirrors can make the blouse look too sparkly. Of course, little kids will try to see their reflection in the blouse and that is annoying, or cute. But you can never go wrong with just kundan. Go for a dark shade of blouse to let the kundan work stand out. If you are going for mirror work, go for a light shade of blouse even if it has kundan work. That will give a toned down illusion to the reflection.

• Puffy sleeved

Puffy sleeves are as traditional as it gets. The Bongs call it the ghoti haata, meaning the pot sleeve, because of its shape.

You can choose the amount of the poof in the puffy sleeves. It is recommended to go for a full out puff and pull it off with confidence and a traditional bun typical to the wedding hairstyle.

• Artsy cuts in sleeves

If you don’t feel bold enough to go for dori, or backless, but still want to go for some cuts anyway, go for cuts on the sleeves. This will make the whole blouse, in fact, the whole saree look unique. You can also go for asymmetrical sleeves with different artsy cuts on either sleeve. Keep the rest of the saree traditional and bright to balance out the funk.

• Motifs

Get colourful motifs on the borders of the sleeves. This works best for full sleeves or three quarters. You get more surface area to flaunt colourful motifs stitched in golden thread. This will make your saree look conspicuous even if it is the simplest one.

With all these beautiful blouse neck designs and sleeve, designs don’t wear your pallu down. Flaunt the blouse with the choicest jewellery and your most confident gait.

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The eyes of a woman hide a world of mysteries. The eyes of a bride reveal hints of her innermost thoughts at a glance. The coy look she gives to her beau hides some mischief. The smile she has shows happiness but her eyes keep looking for her family. These beautiful eyes are not to be ignored. They are meant to be adorned in the most elaborate way possible, for her wedding day. Eye makeup for brides isn’t all just about elaborate ideas for bridal makeup though. There has to be balance. There has to be perfection.

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Bridal eye makeup regime does not depend merely on the makeup artist. It depends on the time the bride invested on making her eyes look good for the day.

 

The Real Thing

Makeup is exactly what the name says it is. It makes up for the imperfections. You cannot leave everything up to makeup and expect to look flawless. It doesn’t matter if you have hired professional bridal makeup artists. If you have dark circles, dark patches, shedding eyelashes, and too thin or too thick eyebrows, makeup will not make anything better.

In fact, when the concern is eye makeup bridal look makes your face look worse if it isn’t done right or overdone to hide flaws. Therefore, it is crucial to get a few things right before the wedding day.

1. Sleep

You need to get at least 7 hours of sleep every night just to be healthy. Before your wedding, you need to sleep 7 or 8 hours every night for about a week. Your beauty sleep is irreplaceable. No matter how much work you have, no matter how stressed you are, you need to sleep.

1. Hydration

If you haven’t noticed, your skin isn’t the only thing that looks dull if you don’t drink enough water daily. Your eyes lose their lustre too.

Also, if you are dehydrated, your eyes will start getting irritable, making it difficult to apply makeup. Have 4 litres of water daily for a week before the wedding. In general, have at least 3 litres of water every day.

1. Moisturising

You need to moisturise your body and your face too. If you have oily skin prone to breakouts, your face does not need external moisturising.

But the area around your eyes always needs it. Use a dedicated under eye cream to avoid dullness and puffiness of the eyes.

1. Avoid Excess Cosmetics

You need to take a little extra care of your eyes if you want them to look a little better than usual. Avoid cosmetics at any cost.

Don’t put too much eye makeup. Let your skin breathe. This goes for your entire skin and not just for weddings.

1. Special Care Regime

Your eyes need to be wide open and bright on your wedding day. Ditch the cosmetics, use some natural home remedies. Put two slices of cucumber on your eyes for 10 minutes twice a day. Once after the shower, and once when you go to bed.

Use cotton balls dipped in a mixture of baking soda and cooled tea liquor, to get rid of the dark circles. Do this once a day for 20 minutes for at least 2 weeks before the wedding. This will make your eyes brighter and give your face a fresh look, naturally.

1. Eyebrows and Lashes

You will have your eyelash curler and everything but you need your eyelashes to be naturally pretty as well. Lashes and bros complete the bridal eye makeup. Unless you are wearing elaborate fake lashes for a statement appearance. Your eyebrows need to be in shape too. Take an earbud or Q tip. Dip it in some castor oil. Very carefully apply it just to your eyelashes and draw over your eyebrows with it. Make sure there is no excess because it could make your skin breakout. Also, your eyes will burn if it goes inside. Do this for two weeks, you will have naturally thicker and more defined eyebrows and eyelashes.

Get your eyebrows threaded to shape two days before the wedding so that the redness and any mark is gone.

Bridal Eye Makeup Tips

You need to follow the right makeup guidelines on your wedding day. Eye makeup for brides will take time and patience. You need to let the makeup artist take enough time. Here are some tips to help you get the perfect look.

• Rehearsals

You need some practice makeup trials to make sure that the makeup artist can pull off the look to perfection. You need to sit with the designated makeup artist a few weeks before the wedding and determine the type of look you want. There should be no experimenting on the wedding day.

• Cleanse

Clean your face with a mild face wash or natural face wash. Pat dry gently. Make sure there is no fabric from the towel stuck to your lashes.

• Ice

Right after cleansing, use some ice on your face to make sure you are not perspiring. Close the pores to make sure no makeup will bleed.

• Moisturise

Use a moisturising foundation to lock in the moisture. Use water-based one if you have naturally oily skin, and a cream based one if you have dry skin.

• Concealer

If you don’t have any dark patches or dark circles. If your skin under and above the eyes match the colour and tone of the skin of your forehead and the cheeks, you don’t need a concealer. But if you do need it, don’t skip it.

• Eyeshadow

You must have already chosen the shade of the eyeshadow. You can either go for a pink or reddish brown one common shade or match it with your latest bridal dresses. Make sure you are not reusing someone else’s brush. If you hired a makeup artist, buy your own brush and own eye makeup.

If you are doing it yourself, here is the guide. Start from the inside and move outwards. The second coat should be from the middle of the eyelids. Don’t do the entire area above the eyes. Blend in and fade out towards the top. Use a single shade darker for the outer part for the smoky eye effect.

• Kohl

You obviously know how to apply kohl. Now, don’t make the lines too thick and leave the inner part of your waterline for some white kohl. Blend in with the black, or blue kohl that you applied on the outside to the middle.

• Eyeliner

For the upper eyelid, use some waterproof liquid liner. Keep it black or make it gold or blue if you can carry it off. Make sure your hands are steady. Practice your winged liner several times before. Today your eyes have to be on fleek.

• Mascara

If you are not using false lashes, which you should wear after the foundation and bases are covered and before the shadow and liners start, you will need mascara. Make sure you are putting just a single stroke for one area. Start from the inside and move out. Don’t apply the second coat even if someone suggests it like a pro.

• Eyelash Curler

When the mascara dries, use an eyelash curler to shape your eyelashes. Without this, the mascara is incomplete.

Bridal eye makeup is time consuming. You will go wrong if you don’t practice it first. On your wedding day, you won’t have the time to clean your face repeatedly and do the eye makeup again and again. It will ruin your foundation. So make sure you have practised before and make sure you use the brand that suits you best. Do not let the makeup artist force you to try a new brand. If you are not that into eye makeup, go for any top brand. Make sure you are not using the makeup artist’s eye makeup for brides. Eye makeup is not to be shared. Use your own eyelash curler, your own eyeshadow, your own liner and most importantly, your own brushes.

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Indian weddings are full of fun and energy. The ceremonies don’t last just for a day. There are way too many ceremonies to keep a track of. Unfortunately, some people do not get to enjoy all those events because they don’t get leave from their workplace, long enough to go through with all the elaborate processes. But people don’t want to miss out on some singing and dancing ideas for sangeet ceremony or wedding. A wedding is the only time everybody gets to dance with their family without having eyebrows raised. A well-organised wedding choreography symbolises a friendly challenge between the families, establishing “which family is more fun!”

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The Fun Ritual

India is a diverse country, culturally speaking. Everyone wants to uphold their Indian wedding traditions and practices for important events like weddings. No matter how progressive the family is otherwise, no matter how the couple chooses their marriage to be, the wedding has to have all the rituals and ceremonies right in place. So, where does the dancing fit in? Thankfully, the fun is part of the rituals. Everybody looks forward to some fun and dancing at a wedding.

Every Chance to Dance

There is a big chance to dance at the entry of the bride and the groom on the wedding day. When the mehendi night is clubbed with the sangeet night, it is all about dancing and singing. If you are really excited about dancing, you should hire a choreographer for wedding dance, of course, if you don’t already have a relative or friend who is a dancer and has the skills to pull off a wedding dance.

How to do it right

You have to be too naive to think that people looking for fun aren’t looking for some really good dancing and well-organised choreography. If the families of the bride and groom get along, they will surely be at loggerheads on the wedding day. They both will want to have the best entry, groom or bride wise. They both will want to have the best dance performances on the sangeet night. They will not leave any stone unturned to find a chance to impress each other.

So, you need some expert tips to do it right. Here is all the help you need.

• Songs List

You will need to decide upon a list of wedding songs to dance to. It can be Bollywood wedding songs, Bollywood dance numbers, peppy English songs, or choreography on Punjabi songs. You will need to sit with all the members who are going to perform, get together with the choreographer if you have hired one, and determine the track list. You will need a song mixer to smoothly cut and mix the songs to make the tracks you want to dance to. Never play one full song, it gets boring.

• Signature Dance Moves

Do not avoid the signature dance moves of the tracks you are dancing to. Copy them perfectly. The signature dance move of any song usually comes at the chorus part so you have at least two opportunities to nail it. If you are feeling creative, you can create your own signature step for the first chorus, it will surprise the guests. But at the last chorus, go back to the signature dance move from the actual music video and do it perfectly. This is how you win a dance!

• Planning

The planning has to be perfect. The space you need, the clothes you wear, the duration you play each track for before moving on to another, everything is crucial. But the most important thing is to find the time to practice. You already have a lot going on. Both, the bride’s and the groom’s families are busy planning the wedding. Yes, the caterers and the wedding planners are doing their job but they can’t just be left on their own. They need supervising and assistance from the client if they are to deliver exactly what you want. So, while many important people are busy with the other arrangements, have some young people and the dancers of the family come together to plan out the dance sequence. This has to start at least a month prior to the wedding. You won’t even get to meet every day. Time will fly. So get working.

• Entry

The entry dance will be very different from the sangeet ceremony dance. There is very little scope here, time and space wise. But that does not mean you will enter with some lousy steps just moving your hands about!The choreographer for wedding dance needs to pay enough attention to the wedding entry scene. The people accompanying the bride or groom need to be serious about it. You need a good idea about the space you will be entering through, whether there will be a flight of stairs, whether the gateway will be narrow or broad, and so on.

• Preparation

You need more preparations than just the choreography and song mixing. You will need to buy your clothes according to the dance songs you are following. No no, you don’t have to change into a costume or anything. But you need to think about the shoes. If you are not comfortable dancing in heels, you will need a pair of pretty flats and an assistant to carry the shoes around to switch in time. You need people to clear the pathway so that the plan does not fail just because there is a crowd where you were supposed to dance. These little things need to be thought out.

• Stage rehearsals

When you are going for a full out dance performance you will need to see the stage. You might have too many or too few people on the team to fit in or fill up space. You might need to find a convenient place to keep the stereo boxes if there isn’t already a designated spot. If you want to enter dancing, you need to gauge the pathway from the entrance to the stage. So, a stage rehearsal is a must. The positions, the start time for the music, all depends upon it.

• Dress rehearsals

You will practice the dance routine in your shorts and tees but on an important day, you will be on stage in flowing lehengas and sarees. The boys on the team will be wearing suits that hardly give them any room for movement or sherwanis that they might feel too heavy in. So, you all need to practice in similar outfits. Do not wear the exact outfit you will at the mehendi or wedding lest you end up ruining it.

But you do need to wear flowing, poofy, and uncomfortable clothing during practice so that you know what moves you can pull off on the wedding day clothes. For example, if you are going to wear a lehenga, dance in a long flowing skirt. If you are going to wear a saree, practice in any heavy saree. If you are going to wear a suit or sherwani, dance in a collared up shirt and trousers. Find your comfort moves and be prepared for the uncomfortable ones.

• Like Music like Clothing

You need to make sure that your outfit is not too out of place for the songs you are dancing to. Go for some Punjabi wedding dance performance songs because those songs go with just about any bright and beautiful outfit. If you are going for an English track, maybe you’d need to wear a Western gown, lehenga will look odd. So, choose the songs accordingly.

• Live Background Music

To pep things up a little, go for some live background music. Get a band to play. Yes, that is corny and cliché, but it screams WEDDING! Get a DJ if you want to do something trendy. Have some dhol playing. The best thing would be to have your relatives and friends sing along to the music. This is the most enthusiastic moment you will ever get. So, be extra. This is the day.

• Refreshments Room

This is a crucial part of the entire package. In between and after all that dancing, your folks will be dehydrated and exhausted. But you all will have to look your best for the next performance, and for the rest of the day. A Punjabi wedding dance performance is full of energy and you have to pull off at least one Punjabi dance routine with vigour.

So, you all need a dedicated refreshments room with air conditioning, mirrors, comfortable chairs, and cool water, fruit juice, and sodas. Just ask the host for the room with AC and mirrors, and arrange the rest for yourself. Cool off, fix your makeup, hydrate yourself and get ready for the next dance.

When you have thoroughly planned the routine and practised the wedding choreography, all you need to do is look the part and be confident enough to pull off the best wedding dance routine anybody has seen.

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The sangeet night is a hectic yet fun night right before the wedding. The women of the family and their friends are all excited after hearing the ideas for sangeet ceremony. But they are also nervous about the arrangements for the wedding night. The haldi, sangeet, mehendi, wedding, everything commencing in the span of 24 hours is a tad bit overwhelming. The decorations, songs list, dance moves, everything must be ready by now. The only thing left is putting on the beautiful dresses for sangeet function and getting set to groove.

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Set the Bar just Right

Your mehendi dress may or may not be your wedding dress, depending on the time gap between the two events. In many cases, there is time for a change. So plan accordingly. If you are changing into fresh and latest Indian bridal dress after the mehendi function, or if the mehendi was held a day before the wedding, you need to be very careful in choosing the outfit. You need to look like a bride to be. But you cannot outdo your own wedding dress. So you need to set the bar at the exact spot, right below the wedding dress and the reception dress. The dresses for ladies sangeet that you are looking at need to be of a very different colour combination compared to the wedding dress.

12 Sangeet Function Dress Ideas

Sangeet function dresses can be fun if you use a little bit of imagination. Instead of sticking to the confused long shopping day routine, get together with your bridesmaids and friends and figure out how to add a personal touch to the evening.

1. Disney Princess Theme

Wear the Cinderella dress or the Belle dress. Get your bridesmaids the Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, and Merida dresses. Give them all an eastern touch with a lot of poof with embroidery on. Maintain the signature colours of the iconic Disney princess dresses to let the theme stand out.

1. Bollywood Theme

This isn’t a unique idea, but it works. After all, you will be dancing to some Bollywood songs. The sangeet ceremony songs list contains mostly Bollywood wedding songs. You will pick up some steps from Kareena, Katrina, and whoever is your favourite. So, why not look the part? You can go for the Chammak Chhallo dress or the latest Kaala Chashma dress. If you want a royal affair, go for Pinga or the Dola Re outfits. You will look stunning in these dresses. You don’t have to find an exact match. Just take inspiration from these Bollywood outfits.

1. Traditional Monochromes

Traditional outfits in red, purple, pink, and maroon will never go out of style. Go for monochromes but in different shades. Team up a royal blue blouse with a turquoise saree. You will look amazing. Add in a few moves and you are good to go.The conventional monochromatic style will be the perfect dress for ladies sangeet. Anybody can sport this style. But if you are the bride, make sure there are some contrasting embellishments on the monochromatic saree. Your own wedding sangeet function isn’t the place for you to go minimalistic.

1. Contrasts

Matching colours in different shades is fun. It takes attention to intricate details. But if you want something more fun, go for statement colours. Team up a bright coloured blouse with a pretty safe coloured saree. For example, pink blouse with a blue saree, or a yellow blouse with a brown saree. This style looks good when both, the saree and the blouse are all plain, without any prints. But since they are sangeet function dresses, there must be some golden or silver contrasting sequins and embroidery on the borders of both the pieces.

1. The Sassy Bride Outfit

The sassy bride will dance alright but she won’t let go of her bottle of champagne. She will wear whatever she is most comfortable in and she will make it look good. She will have her shades on of course. She is the one who will choreograph some new moves instead of just copying Bollywood dance moves. This bride deserves a poofy lehenga that she can flaunt for photographs. Her choli can be a short one. She has the abs to flaunt.

1. Floral Prints

Floral prints are so out that you cannot wear them even if you love them. But your wedding, or your friend’s sangeet is the day nobody will dare to question your choices. This is the day you can wear the trendiest outfit during the haldi and change into something extremely corny for the sangeet. Bring floral prints right back in for this wedding season.

1. Kashmiri Outfits

If you are performing to a song like Bumro, you need to have a Kashmiri outfit with all its accessories. If you are a Kashmiri yourself, it will be amazing if you wear a traditional Kashmiri dress for sangeet ceremony. Wear the trendiest outfits for the wedding day but keep it traditional to the roots for your sangeet function. Pose for the camera as many times as you can. These outfits are timeless.

1. Rajasthani Outfits

Talking about timeless outfits, traditional Rajasthani dresses are the most popular. Rajasthani art is India’s pride. Flaunt a Rajasthani traditional dress with all the accessories that come with it.

Twirl around in the mirror dress. Your elegance will balance the vibrancy of the outfit. Don’t shy away from bold shades for lip colour.

1. Multicoloured

Bicoloured or monochromatic outfits have become very common now. They look sophisticated alright. But a true fashionista can pull off multi coloured dresses for sangeet ceremony. The trick is to have varying amounts of every colour. If you have an outfit with five colours, make sure there are just two major colours and they both are tasteful. The brightest and boldest colour should be present just in a hint, to add to the dazzle of the outfit but not overdo it.

1. Bedazzlement

Mirrors and colours are good but not enough. Sangeet dress ideas are supposed to revolve around the liveliest of designs. Wear something with a lot of sequins and stones. However, this does not go too well with multi coloured outfits, with the exception of Rajasthani attire. Go for a single or bicoloured outfit that is heavily adorned with tasteful bling. If that is too heavy or sparkly for you, go for the classic colourful embroidery. Nothing speaks sophistication better than embroidery. Go for handmade pieces and not the lame machine drawn ones. Your sangeet is a special event. It deserves a special outfit. Tie your hair in a fashionable braid and put some stoned clips in it. Keep the makeup minimal, focusing on the lips. Your look will be perfect.

1. Rainbow Team

This is for a theme sangeet function dresses idea. You need prior planning with your bridesmaids for this. Let each bridesmaid wear one colour of the rainbow or more colours. Have different people wear each of the following colours. Purple, orange, yellow, dark blue, turquoise, bottle green, light green, brown, baby pink, and whatever more is your favourite. The bride should go for silver, golden, or white with gold and silver embroidery and colourful sequins.

Stand in the middle with the rainbow attired bridesmaids on either sides in a symmetrical order of shades. This will make for some of the best pre-wedding sangeet night photos. Practice some moves in formations. Let the bride not dance if she doesn’t want to. But have the colourful fairies dance around her. Don’t miss capturing the performance on a video camera.

1. Pyjama Hour

All the heavy dresses, the tight hairdo, the uncomfortably high heels and dancing in them, must give way to a few minutes of relaxation. It is not possible until the wedding is over if the wedding follows the sangeet immediately. In that case, you will have to stall this pyjama hour for the day after the wedding, or you could sneak this hour after the haldi ceremony and before starting to get ready for the rest of the evening.

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What is the most important event of a regular personal life? The wedding. And what is the most important thing about the wedding? The feast. Whether you agree with the first statement or not, nobody can deny that the food is of utmost importance at a wedding. In fact, the food is the most important factor in any event. This is why you cannot compromise on the wedding catering service you hire. People will forget the minor glitches on a performance on the stage, wedding traditions and customs, they might not even notice what you were wearing. But people never forget what food was there in the menu and how it tasted.

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Take Care of Half the Wedding in a Snap

We have already established the most crucial element of a successful wedding. It is an impressive feast. Once the food is taken care of, everything else seems easier. You need the caterers to get everything just right. For that, you have to do your bit too. In fact, your bit comes first, and also in the end. Here you will find out how to take care of the food part like a pro. Let’s first list down the various things that could go wrong. That way you will know which parts to pay special attention to.

Fails aren’t an Option

If on the off chance, your catering service fails to deliver the job perfectly, you can ask for a refund, and obviously, you are not making further payments. But the ideas of unique wedding celebration are ruined! This isn’t a house party with just a few tens of people attending. You cannot bring in pizza for all of them. So instead of thinking of what if things went wrong, think of how things could go wrong and avoid them. Prevention is better than cure, we all know. But in case of a wedding feast gone wrong, there is no cure, to begin with.

Possible Catering Fails and How To Avoid Them

Though the wedding caterers you hired is responsible for everything they take on, if they fail, it will be your loss. And it is not just about money. It will be an awkward situation amidst hundreds of unknown faces, letting down tens of close ones.

So, here is a list of common wedding feast fails. Learn from the mistakes of others right here.

1. Undecided Menu

This sounds almost impossible, doesn’t it? How can anybody forget to or simply not bother to set the menu? It’s not quite so. People sometimes leave the decision up to the caterers. They do tell you what they have planned and it sounds fine so you give them the green signal.

But for some reason, you have not taken the initiative to customise the menu for yourself, could be because you are too overwhelmed with many other things at the moment or because you are totally confused with too many options.

No matter what, you should never leave the decision regarding the most important part of the evening up to a group of strangers. It doesn’t matter how efficient they are. The food menu has to be a personal touch. Of course, the caterers could add something to the list or say they cannot make one particular thing. But that’s about it.

1. Altered Menu

It is totally okay to replace a particular dish on the menu with something else, for convenience, budget, or complication issues. But all that has to be run through you before being brought on the platter. The final decision must not change at the last minute.

As the client, you have your responsibilities too. You should not coax the wedding caterers to do something new at the last moment. Take your time making the plan, but once it’s done, stick to it.

1. No Trial tasting

 

It is not enough to go for a mere cake tasting. It’s an Indian wedding, there might not even be a cake. But you need to taste samples of every item that will go on the menu. Also, do not forget to taste samples of the refreshments that do the rounds in the form of finger food. You might not even have anything uncommon on the menu. But taste it anyway.

Make sure the food is perfect, the blend of spices isn’t extreme, and the textures and colours are just right. Don’t hesitate to ask for a retake of the items you did not like. Be helpful enough to mention what changes you want.

1. Unfamiliar Chef

The entire point of the tasting is to make sure that the food is exactly the way you want it to be. Sometimes unforeseen circumstances result in a last moment change in the chef. You might not even know about it until you taste the food for yourself after the guests have eaten.

That would be too late. So, keep a tab on the wedding catering team. Make sure that it is the same group of chefs whose food you tasted and approved.

1. Pressing for Exotic Dishes

When you try too hard to impress, it shows, in a bad way. Ever seen the writing of a person who has a penchant for grandiloquent vocabulary overdose but cannot even construct sentences properly? Putting too many exotic dishes on the menu, that doesn’t even complement each other, is a similar blunder. Also, don’t push the caterers to make something they are not sure about. If the elaborate gourmet dishes are a must, hire the chefs who can do it.

1. Unprofessional Caterers

People often forget about the wedding catering services. The food being there is not enough. The caterers should be polite, prompt, and professional. When you are not around, at the dining hall, the caterers are the standing hosts. They must have the soft skills to make your guests feel warm. Great food served by rude or inefficient caterers is a fail. Instruct the caterers to be generous with the food, beverages, and finger foods. Keep a tab on them to make sure they are doing their job.

1. Delivery Delay

A wedding dinner is best ready by early evening. Even if the wedding extends late into the night, there will be people who need to catch a train or hit the road before too late into the night. Unless you have arranged for accommodation for every guest, you will need to make sure the dinner is ready in time for them.

1. Quality Fails

The grade of the ingredients might be worse than what you had at the tasting. Caterers might just try to decrease the cost price in order to increase the profits. The only way to avoid this is to assign a trusted family member or friend to accompany the caterers when they go out to shop for your ingredients. The assigned person must be an expert in determining the quality of fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat, chicken, and fish.

1. Quantity Fails

There are a lot of ways in which the quantity could fail. The caterers might have been miserly in their estimations. The turnout might be more than you expected. The guests you counted as vegetarians might just start digging into the non-vegetarian counter and vice versa. Make sure you have counted all heads invited. Keep about 20% extra food than estimated in both, the vegetarian and non-vegetarian menus.

1. Limited Options on the Menu

One big rookie mistake is to forget about vegetarians and vegans. You cannot let your guests starve because you forgot a little detail. Also, the beverages must be stocked up. Especially in the summer, there should be no shortage of cool drinks. Increase the options in the soft drinks menu. Add some mocktails. Increase the number of salads.

For the meat eaters, keep both, chicken, and red meat. Do not compromise on the food. The stomach is the way to anybody’s heart.

1. Lack in Seating Arrangements

One despicable myth at an Indian wedding is, “buffet means there is no seating arrangement”. No! Stop these lame excuses. Find a perfect wedding venue that is spacious enough to seat all your guests at least in turns. You cannot expect people to enjoy their meals standing in a crowd full of other people holding the weight of their plates. Be a good host. Make sure guests get to sit and rest their plates on a table while they eat.

1. Improper Lighting

The lighting is very important for a wedding feast. People should get to see what they are having and where they are walking. But the light shouldn’t be too in their faces.

Hang a regular bulb on top of each table and use yellow and green lampshades. This makes eating convenient for your guests and the dining area aesthetic as well.

The catering services for wedding food must be constantly overseen by a close family member. Make sure your guests are enjoying the meal. Don’t forget to treat yourself too. After all, happy tummies means happy guests which means a successful wedding.

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A wedding album is incomplete without the bridesmaid photo sessions. No matter how busy the bridesmaids are on the wedding day, there must be time to get clicked with the bride. The bride deserves to have forever pictures of herself alone, and herself with all her favourite people.

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1. Eloping

Go back to your teenage fantasies and recreate some of them. If you had not considered actually eloping with your lover, you must have at least thought about it. There is this certain romance in the idea. Get ideas of pre wedding photoshoot with your beau, like you are running away with him or elope to the wedding venue itself. You are all decked up in your bridal attire, now just pose like you just stopped running to look back with a cheeky smile. This way the photographer can get the entrance of the wedding venue in the frame as well.

1. Running Away

A running to the groom pose can be complemented by a running away from him pose. Be your own Julia Roberts in The Runaway Bride or Rachel Green in the pilot episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

The “marriage is scary” joke isn’t the patent of the men. If your beau has been joking around about the marriage this way, this is your answer to him. You can always tease him about getting cold feet yourself.

1. The Happy Reunion

Your wedding day is the day when you meet so many old friends. You had planned to meet up and the plans got cancelled every time. This is everybody’s story. But on your wedding day, friends will make it.

They will surely come for you. So, take a photo with just those friends you haven’t met in a while and put a text that makes it nostalgic but funny. Say, something like “Had to get hitched to get these ones to meet”.

1. Best friends Forever

You deserve not one, but lots of photos with just your best friend, or best friends. If you have a group of three or four, the photos will be more fun. Maybe some of your cousins are your best friends too. Add all the best friends in. Take lots of photos. Get a wedding picture of your squad. They are the equivalent of the Western bridesmaid. The wedding album is incomplete without the bride with bridesmaids photo. They are by your side the entire day. Get a lot of photos taken while you are in the makeup room too. Pictures taken when your hair is half done, with eye makeup all done on just one eye, all this is fun and real!

1. The Sassy Queens

Get all decked up and pose with champagne glasses and the cool shades. This is getting a little cliché these days. But that is the reason they are mandatory. The competition here is tough because it has been done so many times in the recent past already. But if you and your squad are the queens, you will pull it off with great oomph. Just bring out all the confidence you have and do justice to all the makeup and hard work at the parlour.

1. The Candid

Now, there are two types of candid pictures. One is candid that you post proudly on your Instagram with the hashtag “candid”. The second one is the one that you never want anybody to see because it is an actual candid.

Well, do both! Don’t shy away from looking your real self while having a moment with your friends and family. Pose for candid pictures too so that the best angles of your face on your wedding day are captured. But do some real candid shots too. 10 years down the line, these will be your favourite.

1. Nostalgic Shots

Talking about 10 years down the line, think about 10 years back. You did not even imagine you would move so far away from your parents. Of course, you knew you might marry or get a job and move to a different city. Maybe you have already done that. But the nostalgia of the bachelorette life is setting in now. Take some shots with your bridesmaids in your childhood bedroom. Talking about shots, pose with some shots with your bridesmaids for the perfect bridesmaid photo. After all, the point is, the tradition of pyjama parties in your bedroom will not change just because you are getting married.

1. Pearl Eyes

Photos of the bride getting a little teary-eyed with her mother, sister, best friends, or cousins, are not to be missed. Now, this is where a real photographer’s skills come in. These shots are best when taken candidly. A bevvy of beauties with slightly teary eyes and a hint of a smile, all sitting close to the bride brings out the perfect bridesmaid poses for a wedding.

1. All the Props

Getting back to all the fun stuff, get all the props. The huge soap bubbles, the colour bombs, the confetti bombs, the firecrackers, balloons, and maybe even the bikes that the sassy bridesmaid squad rode into the wedding. Get pictures with all of these. Make sure each bridesmaid gets focus in various photos with the bride.

1. One with the Guys

The bride has her groom. The bridesmaids deserve some attention with their respective partners as well. It doesn’t matter if you are next in line to get married, or if you just started going out with this guy, or even if you just got hold of him because you didn’t want to go to this wedding alone. All those guys who have come dressed to impress, deserve to be in some of those wedding photos. Do follow some tips for wedding photoshoot.

1. The “I only care about booze”

The first thing that came to a lot of people’s minds with the partners pose is “I don’t have a partner!” Doesn’t matter. You get to get the whole picture to yourself! Share it with booze and food though, because after all, having fun and being happy is the priority of life. And you can do that with or without a partner. It is not surprising that the women with these bridesmaid poses are the pillars of the wedding most often. Being single, they dedicate themselves to the wedding fully. They are the ones who keep things running smoothly. They deserve a drink.

1. One with the Parents

It is tough to get the father to be in the pictures but today, even the mother might hesitate. They don’t want to get too emotional in front of the camera. But they don’t have to! Today’s bride will come home whenever she wants.

Actually, whenever she gets a leave from her office. But the point is, the wedding is a happy day and the bride’s parents deserve to be happy and get a perfect frame standing on either side of their beautiful daughter.

1. Dedicated to the Siblings

If you have siblings you must dedicate some pictures to them. Even if they already got enough footage in the bridesmaid photo sessions, they deserve a dedicated siblings photograph. You don’t need to be told how to pose with your brothers and sisters. You already know each other’s angles and poses. Just get clicking! Get all the poses, smiles, pouts, fighting, grumpy face, candid, hugs. If you have more than one sibling, get pictures with all of them together, and individually. Get a lot of selfies too. This day isn’t coming back. So go mad with the clicking.

1. The One with the Pets

If you have a pet, you must have already decided to take a lot of photos with him or her. If you have more than one pet, it might get a little difficult to get them to pose. You cannot run around after them in your wedding attire. But you can totally get someone to do it for you. Your pets will love all the attention. Give them some props like shades, hats, bow ties, hair bands. Pose with them. They are the most special part of the family. If you’ve not already been away on a job, they will have no idea why your vacation is taking so long. You will miss them most.

1. The One with all the Kids

Get a picture with the kids at the wedding. They will be more than happy to pose. Make sure nobody is trying to get on your lap though. You can depict it any way you want. You could be that bride who is so ready to become a mother or the one who is still a child herself. Get the bridesmaids to pose with you in this too.

These were some of the many bride and bridesmaid poses you can pull off at your wedding. Take out some time to get the best shots because here you will not get retakes for another day.

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