Category: Wedding
We live in a country where weddings are larger than life; and to dress impeccably for a wedding is expected out of both men and women. This is why some exclusive wedding shirts and Indian salwar kameez must be a part of your wardrobe. We help you choose the right one, based on your needs.
Wedding shirts for men:
Wedding shirts are very important attire in any mans wardrobe. Whether you are a groom looking for wedding shirts to go inside your suits or are the grooms brother or best friend, your outfit will make a stark difference to the wedding reception and the pictures captured will serve as memories you cherish forever. Hence, picking the right wedding shirts is important, and special care must be given to the colour, cut and detailing.
If it is a church wedding it is much easier because you cannot go wrong with the standard tuxedo wedding shirts. These are stylish tailor made wedding shirts which are fixed with cuff links and collar studs. These wedding shirts make sure that you stand equal to the bride who will be in her lovely gown. Grooms wearing custom dress wedding shirts with embroidery or custom accent have become the fashion nowadays. There can be various accents like the plain interior cuff and custom made plackets, collars or cuffs on wedding shirts.
For functions prior to the wedding like the Mehendi or a pooja, you do not have to necessarily wear a tuxedo shirt. A plain neutral or light coloured shirt with broad collars for a cravat or a tie makes good formal wedding shirts. You can also think of stylish shirt accents with side pleats and French cuffs as wedding shirts.
Try and avoid wearing shirts with textured materials or pin stripes as wedding shirts. When weddings are held during summer wedding shirts made of linen can be used. Whatever the fabric you are using for your wedding shirts, it has to look fashionable and classy.
Indian salwar kameez for women:
While many women do prefer sarees, salwar kameez are far more common for special occasions. The Indian Salwar Kameez has become the most favoured costume among the numerous costumes available in India, and it is not uncommon to see foreigners sporting smart Indian salwar kameez designs these days too. Traditionally it is supposed to have started its journey from the Indian state of Punjab. Now the Indian Salwar Kameez comes in different variations and styles and it has become an integral part of the wardrobe of any woman.
Churidar Kameez is the most favourite variation of the Indian Salwar Kameez. It is almost like the Indian Salwar Kameez but the difference is that the woman wears a churidar instead of the normal pajama. Churidar is the slimmer version of the salwar giving more emphasize to the ankles and knees and has a slimming effect. Kurta or Kurti Kameez is the other variation which is very famous among the youngsters now. Kurti or Kurti means a shorter kameez and women prefer to wear these Indian salwar kameez without the dupatta (the cloth used to cover the bosom). Many well-known brands are coming out with this kind of Indian Salwar Kameez because of its demand.
Undoubtedly, every girl wants to look the best on her big day. One of the most important aspects is thewedding dress. Today I will introduce somewedding dress styles which may help you to choose a right style.
Wedding dress has four major styles, they are A-line, Mermaid, Ball Gown and Column.
A line wedding dresess can be the most ideal and popular style, because it almost suits every one. The a line dress is characterized by a shape that is fitted around the bodice and flows out to the ground with the outline of uppercase A. This kind of dress can make your waist look slim and flatter your bust. Due to its classic and simple style, the a line dress can be suitable for almost wedding themes, from a traditional church to a beach wedding.
Mermaid wedding dresses are tightly fitted to the body from chest to knee. This is a pretty sexy look which highlights the curves of a woman. So brides need to be very confident to their figures and be sure that you are comfortable to sit and walk in a mermaid dress. Whats more, brides also need to pay attention to the under wears beneath the dress for its likely to reveal the outline of under wears, which makes brides come to an embarrassing situation.
Ball gown wedding dresses always have a full skirt and are most suitable for traditional and informal wedding ceremony. Trains are perfect with the ball gown, both cathedral length train and brush lent train. A ball gown can flatter your from head to toe if you have a full bust and a small hip. But for those petite bridals, it not wise to wear a ball gown dress because it make you smaller and seem to disappear into skirt.
Column wedding dresses, also be called sheath wedding dresses, are fitted with a straight skirt. It tends to hug the body so that it shows all curves. There are many ways to change the overall look of a column dress. Different necklines, sleeve length, skirts length and fabrics can give a totally fresh look of the dress. A willowy bride, tall or short, in a column dress is definitely the focus of the wedding. Due to its design, a column dress is not a good choice for the plump brides. Besides, the bride in a column dress may have constrictions on your movement such as sit and dance.
Planning for a wedding is no easy task, even with the help of supportive family and friends you can find yourself exhausted to the born, here is a list top 10 wedding facilities in Calgary, Alberta worth reviewing if you’re hosting the big event in Canada.
Abbeydale Community Hall
Offers an upstairs hall ideal for family events, office parties and yes, weddings, the hall can accommodate a maximum of 80 people. Rates for renting the hall are $250 per event plus an additional damage deposit of $150 (required at booking time). The hall offers a full commercial kitchen for an additional fee of $50 plus GST and is available for booking on weekdays only. There is also the main hall with a seat capacity of upto 170 people costing $425 with $300 damage deposit.
Scarboro Community Hall
This 1200 SQ hall has legal max capacity of 170 people and sit-down dinner capacity of 125 people. Rental rates include access to tables, chairs, standard kitchen, dishes, glassware and cutlery. 20% discount for weekly/monthly users.
Edgemont Community Hall
The Center offers banquet facilities for groups up to 200 people as well as a boardroom and small meeting room. It features include:
* Beautiful Mountain View
* Outside patio
* Maximum capacity 200 people
* Full kitchen facility attached
* Approximately 250 sq. meters
* Round or long banquet tables
* Upholstered seating
* Microphone and podium
Triwood Community Hall
Facility available for rent for special occasions. Service offering include:
* facilities for all occasions
* full service catering
* bar service
* superb food and quality service at reasonable rates
Springbank Links Golf Club
This facility offers a spectacular clubhouse with a huge 3,500 sq.ft. deck located only 21 minutes west of downtown Calgary.
Beddington Heights Community Center
Has a main hall with licensed capacity of 400 people: Facility offerings include:
* Meeting rooms (40 seater capacity)
* Gym
* Commercial sized kitchen
* Podium
* Outdoor skating rink
Cedarbrae Community Hall
This is a 350 seater capacity facility located in 11024 Oakfield Drive SW. Offerings include:
* Meeting rooms
* Standard kitchen
* Public address system
* Gym
* Outdoor skating rink
Silver Springs Community Hall
Facility located on the north bluff of the Bow River it Calgary’s northwest. The community offers views of Canada Olympic Park and the Rocky mountains. Offerings include:
* 212 seat capacity
* Commercial grade kitchen
* 60 seat capacity meeting room
* Public address system & podium
Montana’s Cookhouse Saloon
Facility is a friendly, down-home, casual restaurant with a fully licensed lounge and a menu featuring more than 100 items, including smokehouse ribs, rotisserie chicken and a mile-high mud pie.
Danish Canadian Club Of Calgary
Facility caters to wedding and other special events of upto 350 people. Has several rooms of differing sizes, including the Valhalla Hall ballroom (635 max), the Tivoli hall (114 max). Facility also offers free meeting room or ballroom with food order.
Others include:
Heather Glen Golf Club
The Carriage House Inn
Epcor Center for the Performing Arts
In every season or occasion of celebration, it is of course customary to offer greetings of good will to each other. We now offer this collection of best wishes phrases that can be used for a variety of festive events.
Celebrate Christmas and ring in the New Year with the following best wishes phrases for the coming holiday season.
“A wish that every day for you will be happy from the start and may you always have good luck and a song within your heart.”
“At the close of another year, we pause to wish you a warm and happy holiday season.”
“Our wishes for a Happy Holiday Season and a New Year of health, happiness and prosperity.”
“Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes for a New Year of Happiness in a world of peace.”
“Our wish this Holiday Season – A world to grow in where children will be safe and free. Peace!”
“There is no time more fitting to say “Thank You” and to wish you a Happy Holiday Season and a New Year of health, happiness and prosperity.”
Wish the bride and groom a lifetime of wedded bliss with the following wedding greetings.
“Congratulations! Wishing you a wonderful beginning, and love to last a lifetime!”
“On your Wedding Day, a wish for a lifetime of beautiful tomorrows.”
“Wishing you every happiness as you begin your life together. Best Wishes on Your Wedding Day.”
These next miscellaneous best wishes phrases can be applied to any occasion.
“Climb every mountain in your life. You will reach the top. Best Wishes to You.”
“If dishes were wishes, then I wish you many.”
“Today, tomorrow, and always you are loved and wished the best the future brings.”
“Best wishes to you in whatever you do.”
“If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are.”
“For each petal on the shamrock. This brings a wish your way good health, good luck, and happiness. For today and every day.”
“May you get all your wishes but one, so you always have something to strive for.”
And for compliments of a profound sort, here are a few best wishes quoted from some noted personalities.
“And we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”
-Louisa May Alcott
“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
-Aristotle
“Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.”
-Richard Bach
“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.”
-Washington Irving
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
-Michael Jordan
“If I could wish a wish for you, it would be for peace and happiness not only now, but for the whole year through.”
-Catherine Pulsifer
As it has often been said, it’s the thought that counts. And while simple greetings of “Happy Birthday” or “Merry Christmas” may be enough to show one’s thoughtfulness, well-thought out best wishes phrases can show just how much one has thought of someone on that particular special occasion.
People spend their whole lives looking for a perfect match. The procedure of finding a suitable bride or groom is almost same in every culture with the categorization of it being a love or an arranged marriage. Marriages are made in heaven, but are given a final nod by our parents. In almost all Indian families parents are the final decision makers for choosing the life partner for their children.
Though, the cultures and traditions of all the marriages resolve the purpose of celebrating the marriage with great pop and gaiety and to bless the couple for their successful married life. The marriage ceremonies and rituals vary according to the traditions and cultural background of a particular community. There are few communities in the country which are present all over the world and are defined according to their business and work culture. One of such communities is Banias, they are the people involved in the business like banking, money- lending, or the people dealing with the selling of products like, grains, groceries, spices and oil. Banias can be the people with sir names like Aggarwal, Agarwal, Baniya, Bani, Agarwal Marwari, Banikar, Oswal, Marwari, Mahajan, etc.
These people are popularly known as the thrifty or the penny- pinching community, but their marriages are celebrated at a very large scale with lavishing food and arrangements. Most of the Jains and Hindus constitute the Bania community. The people who follow Hindu religion are called Meshris, where others following Jain culture are called Shravaks. The Banias marriage date are supposed to be fixed by the parents during the time period of Kartika Sud i.e. 11th of October- November to Asarba Sud, i.e. 11th of June- July.
The marriage ceremony in a Bania family starts with the worship of Ganpati ji in both the houses of the bride and the groom, which is performed few days before the actual day of marriage. The ganpati pooja is organized to seek blessing from the god and the ceremony is called Mandav. The decoration of the marriage Mandav is done after the prayers. Then the ladies of the house go to a potters place, signing and dancing, as a procession, there they sprinkle sandalwood powder and flowers on the potters wheel, after which they bring earthen pots back home to be, used in the marriage ceremonies.
A day before the marriage both the Bania families, carry gifts and wedding dress for bride and groom to each others house respectively. The bride and the groom do not participate in these rituals. The wedding dress of the bania bride and the groom is usually a lehnga- choli or saree and a sherwani or kurta pyjami respectively.
On the day of the wedding, both the houses are decorated with all lights and flowers, all the family members, friends and distant relatives are invited to attend the wedding ceremony. To begin with the marriage day ceremonies, balls of cow dung ashes are thrown in all the four directions, meanwhile the brides mother takes seven circular rounds around the groom holding curd in two earthen pots, which afterwards are crushed by the right foot of the groom allowing him to enter the Brides house or the place of marriage.
Then the mother of the Bania bride washes the feet of the groom with honey, curd, sugar, milk and ghee to add the purifying factor. After this, the actual marriage ceremonies take place of Kanyadan (a ritual where the parents gives away the responsibility of their daughter to the groom for the lifetime), phere (seven circles around the sacred fire to promise each others support in all walks of life), after which the groom applies sindur or read powder on the forehead of the groom and then makes her wear a mangalsutra, marking the proof of a married women. All this leads to the completion of the Bania marriage ceremonies, which are more or less like a Hindu marriage.
Then the Bidayi ceremony takes place, a part of which the Bania bride moves away to the grooms house to lead a happy married life. The carriage or the car carrying the bride towards her new house is made to crush a coconut to mark a pure and happy beginning of their married life.
Few useful links:
http://www.jeevansathi.com/
http://www.jeevansathi.com/matrimonials/bania-matrimonial/