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Inevidently, a big number of dance tunes in the newest Bollywood movies that are instantly foot tapping have Punjabi beats and lyrics, which give them a distinctive flavour from other kinds of Bollywood music. These Punjabi fun songs are normally big hits and can be heard playing in the discotheques and pubs all over India for several months past and before the release of the movie.
A Lot of the latest Bollywood movies like Singh is King, Jab We Met and Love Aaj Kal were based on a Punjabi theme and they turned out to be large hits. A big Punjabi joint family has become a very well known backdrop among the directors for storylines of Hindi films in the last few of years.
The Punjabi setting and funk is so popular that several times the director does not even feel the need of having a Punjabi character in the film. Just a couple of Punjabi songs that have Bhangra music lend the film good support and popularity. And in fact, most of this music becomes very popular.
The Punjabi background and cultural setting has also been used in foreign cinema such as in movies like Bend it Like Beckham and Monsoon Wedding. The Punjabi backdrop finds popularity with all types of audience and the loudness of the culture gives an engaging and melodramatic character to the movie.
The excitement of the culture draws interest of movie watchers from all parts of the country. Actually, this fervour is not limited to India alone – the Bhangra based songs are well known amongst people from all across the globe. No matter which part of the world you stay or are from, when the Bhangra beats play, you are bound to stand up and dance your heart out.
So, it comes as no revelation that the latest Bollywood movies are also cashing in on this worldwide phenomenon. After all, it’s making good money for the new Hindi movies’ producers.
When you begin your search for a wedding photographer, youre going to run into a lot of terminology discussing styles that you may not have heard before. Many people make the mistake of thinking that they simply hire a photographer and thats the end of it. Unfortunately, if you dont know what type / style of photographer youre hiring, you may not get the look in your wedding photos that you had been hoping for. By doing just a small amount of research youll be able to hire the photographer that shares your vision of the perfect wedding album. Here are the different types of wedding photography that will be available to you.
Artistic
This type of photography can be given to interpretation. Photographs may be saturated with color, given special effects or may even be hard to decipher as wedding photographs. You may want to find a photographer that utilises this style if you plan on hanging one or several of your wedding photos on the wall.
Candid
While professional photographers do utilise candid photography, its most often the type of picture-taking that you see from amateurs (unless the photographer has bought along a ‘second’ to take care of these particular shots). A bit of a point and shoot approach that doesnt have subjects primping and posing. This type of photography is most often used for more casual weddings.
Contemporary
This type of photography may be a combination of all the other types or a type that utilizes whatever style of photography is currently in vogue. Look through some popular photography magazines or even bridal magazines to see what’s popular.
Documentary
Photographers using this style attempt to convey a true feeling of the wedding and reception through their photographs. Looking through the wedding album will allow you to relive the day as it happened without the use of words or captions. This type of photography is also called photojournalism.
Formal
Sometimes called traditional, these are posed shots where everyone is looking at the camera. Group shots of the wedding party, the couple with their families and the couple on their own are popular.
Its very important that you convey your wishes to any photographer that you are planning on hiring prior to your wedding day. You aren’t gong to get a chance to have them retaken another day (hopefully!). Ask your potential photographer for references and look at their sample albums – many have galleries online to peruse. If they don’t seem to be understanding exactly what you want, move on to the next. Many professionals have a range of styles in their arsenal and should be able to give you several different types of photographs in one album. If the person you are interviewing can’t give you the look that you desire, chances are the next can. Get the right wedding photography for your wedding and you will have photos to cherish forever
A Royal wedding was to be held in the city of Athens between Hippolyta and the Duke of Athens, Theseus. This was to take place in four days time on the first of May.
During their talks about the wedding, Duke Egeus arrives and tells them that he is unhappy about the situation of his daughter not marrying Demetreus, even though he has given his blessing. Hermia has fallen in love with another person, and does not want to marry Demetrius.
Lysander is in love with this other person. Egeus is sure that with all the presents and kind words Lysander has won her over. The Duke comes and points out to Hermia, that it is a law in Athens not to go against a father’s wishes, and that if she refuses to marry Demetrius she will either be condemned to death or will spend the rest of her as a nun in the convent.
The Duke gives Hermia 4 days to decide what she is going to do.
Just outside Athens lies Lysander’s Aunt’s house, and both Hermia and Lysander decide to hide there. Helena is Hermia’s best school friend, so they decide to explain the situation, but Helena does not do as they ask.
She disobeys them, because she is in love with Demetrius and at one time Demetrius was in love with her. Helena tells Demetrius that both Hermia and Lysander are going to run away, hoping that he will be nice with her.
Now Demetrius is going to follow Lysander and Hermia into the woods and Helena decides to follow Demetrius.
Meanwhile some ordinary folk in Athens decide to put on a play for The Duke and his bride. Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snug and Snout are but everday people, and they have no knowledge of playwrighting or acting.
These men can not agree on who should play what so they decide to meet at moonlight in the Woods.
Now inside these same Woods that the men are meeting and that Lysander and Hermia are going to run away, the King and Queen fairies are to be found. They have come here in honour of the wedding.
Oberon and Titania were arguing about a young Indian boy, and one of Oberon’s servants hears them. They both want the Indian boy to work for them.
Oberon plays a trick on Titania by placing magic flower juice over her eyelids so that she will fall in love with the first thing she sees when she awakens.
Demetrius enters the woods in search of Hermia and Lysander, but he is angry that he is followed by the forelorn, Helena. Oberon overhears the conversation between Demetrius and Helena. He feels sorry for Helena and decides to have Puck place the magic flower juice on Demetrius.
He hopes that Demetreus will fall in love with Helena. Puck mistakenly puts the magic flower on Lysander instead of Demetrius. It is nightfall. Both of them, Lysander and Hermia fall into a deep slumber. Helena finds Lysander in the woods and awakens him. Lysander and Helena go off together, now in love.
All the tradesmen meet in the woods. Bottom’s head is turned into the head of an ass by the naughty Puck.
Embarrassed and frightened by his friends, Bottom runs away accidently waking up Titania. Titania then falls in love with Bottom, who has an ass-head. Demetrius finds Hermia in the woods and they fall in love.
In the end, the magic potion wears off. All is back to normal, Hermia and Lysander get married as well as Helena and Demetrius.
Mehndi holds a lot of cultural significance in Indian traditions. Be it weddings, Karva Chauth or other occasions, mehndi plays an important role in all the ceremonies and festivals of India. In todays era of modernization, the new styles and designs of mehndi are coming up, adding glamour and fun to it.
Weddings being the most important day in ones life, mehndi has become an ornament for the soon to be brides. There is, in fact, one whole ceremony dedicated to its celebration popularly known as Mehndi Ceremony or Mehndi Ki Raat. Besides this, the phrase Haath Peele Karna as often heard from elders of the family is a rasam of mehndi directly synonymous to marriage. This significance maybe attributed to symbolic meaning of mehndi i.e. fertility.
Mehndi Ceremony is among the pre wedding rituals in Indian weddings performed a day prior to the marriage. Just as Haldi ceremony symbolizes cleanliness, mehndi signifies beautification. Mehndi-Ki-Raat is usually a private affair with close relatives, friends and family members, celebrated amidst lot of dancing and feasting. This ritual is often combined with Sangeet ceremony and so is primarily a womens function. The atmosphere is imbued with dholak beats and singing of traditional songs while mehndi is applied on brides hands and legs by mehndi experts. The brides mehndi interweaves the name of her would be husband and he is expected to find his name in the pattern. The female relatives of the family also apply mehndi on their palms to take part in the celebrations. This ceremony is performed by families of both the Indian bride and the Indian groom.
Even the color of mehndi is given high importance in Indian culture as the darkness of the color signifies the degree of husbands and mother-in-laws love. It depicts love and affection between the couple as it is believed that the longer it retains, the more auspicious it is. The bride is traditionally not allowed to work in her husbands home until her mehndis color fades away completely.
Mehndi is applied on all the important occasions, festivals and vrats(fasts) in Hindu culture. It is important in festivals such as Karwa Chauth, Rakhi, Diwali etc. It is also considered as a shagun mostly denoted by the pattern of large dot in the centre of the hand with four smaller dots at the sides.
In order to make this conventional trend of henna application more exciting, fashionable and fun filled, there is a vast variety of mehndi designs available today. Arabic Mehndi, Rajasthani Mehndi, Crystal Mehndi, Tattoo Mehndi, etc along with the traditional Indian Mehndi are among the most popular styles of mehndi currently. Mehndi designs majorly consist of floral patterns, religious symbols, etc. while adding beauty and uniqueness to each design applied.
Henna or Mehndi is also known worldwide for its medicinal properties. It was, in fact, used as a cosmetic in earlier times due to its therapeutic features. Mehndi is widely adopted around the world as a conditioner and dye for hair by both men and women. It is a natural dye that renders a beautiful color on hair and creates a lustrous look. Also, mehndi is popular for its cooling effects, thus, used in hot climates in India and other countries. It can also help in lowering body temperature and soothe headaches, fevers, burning feet and even hysteria or a violent temper. It can increase the luster of nails, is effective in muscular rigidity and even in Jaundice.
Henna is in vogue these days with much experimentation happening on ways of its application. It is now prominently used, especially in the West, to make tattoos on different parts of the body. Tattoos are made on arms, wrists, around the navel, the shoulder or the back. Henna is now being used for body art as well.
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Decorating your wedding car is an element in the complex called “wedding preparations” there are many ways to decorate a groom and bride car and even in this small niche there are modern and innovative design along side with old fashion designs. In many places in the world decorating cars with flowers is history, although in some countries wedding cars are still mainly decorated by flower bouquets which are placed (more accurate- glued) to the car’s hood. In general- using fresh flowers is less common, and many are reluctant to use of flowers for such a task.
In the last years wedding cars get more attention than in the past, and people understand the importance of matching the wedding car decoration to the whole wedding’s theme. A decorated wedding car is a sort of a setting for the whole ceremony. Some weddings have a special theme or a special blend of colors in their design that sometimes go all the way to the groom and bride’s clothing for example if light purple or cream color were chosen as the theme colors (curtains, tables, flowers, invitations etc.) you could join your car to the theme and decorate it with matching colors.
Another very important match is the decoration’s match to the color of the car itself. If the chosen car is white- most colors will be a match and any kind of decoration would look colorful and appropriate. As mentioned earlier, car decorations are made without using balloons or flowers. The most common and effective decoration uses tulle cloth, net fabric, organza fabric and designed ponpons.
If you decided to decorate your own car, it is important for you to know what kind of car will be used, what will be its color- for example- while using a white car, I recommend using a different colored fabric(cream, pink, light purple etc.), the color of the ponpons and decoration straps’ colors should be complimentary and matching the fabrics color.
If you chose to purchase a ready-made decoration kit, order a kit that will suit the cars color and size- for example- decorating a small car with a large kit might yield an over decorated tasteless result .on the other hand – a large car decorated with two small ponpons might look ridicules rather than decorated. Even when purchasing a ready-made kit- it is important to take the size and color factors in consideration. If you are renting a car, it might be impossible to know its color in advance.
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