Need help with choosing the perfect outfit for your special day? Here’s a list of the latest in eastern bridalwear, to help you make the right decision.
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About half a million years ago, the species called Homo Sapiens evolved and gave us the roots of all that we call civilized today. Although it’s more fashionable to look forward to where marriage is heading, today we take a twist and look back. Let’s trace what has led to the present day concept of marriage, in sum, as we know it today and made us the couples that we are in the 21st century.
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The Gujarati community reflects unbounded enthusiasm in the affairs of matrimonial alliance. Their weddings are organised on a grand scale and their rituals are very colourful. It is important to note that like all Indian communities, there maybe a slight differentiation in matrimonials and rituals performed amongst different Gujarati sects like the Gujarati Patels and Gujarati Naagar Brahmins. However, the difference is negligible.

It is interesting to note that unlike most Indian communities where dowry plays a vital role, the Gujaratis have proved to be quite progressive. In case of the Naagar Brahmins, their girls are often married off with no expectations of wealth from the in-laws side. This is called kanku-kanya, meaning that the bride is welcome only with a vermilion mark on her forehead.
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Indian wedding photography is the photography of activities relating to Indian weddings.

Indian weddings are a Rs. 800 billion industry, which is expected to grow by 25% per annum, with a significant part dedicated to photography.

Indian weddings are significantly different from western marriages. While the western marriage rituals have become common in may countries, they have not become common in India except among the Christians. India weddings use bold colors, not white. Loud music is considered to be proper during parts of an Indian marriage. The ceremonies are elaborate and can take considerable time even when condensed. An Indian marriage is traditionally a public affair, with the bridegroom taken in a procession through the town. Even a modest Indian wedding can have several hundred participants, who are all thought to be “relatives and close family friends”. By convention a photographer is required to include each guest in at least one photograph which includes the bride and the groom. These factors make photographing an Indian wedding significantly different from western weddings.
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Hindi wedding songs is a major genre of Bollywood songs. They often from the backdrop of some very memorable emotional or joyful scenes in Hindi movies. These songs are often played during Indian weddings.

Traditional wedding music
In North Western India, shehnai is considered to be the musical instrument announcing a wedding procession (video search. Its South Indian counterpart is nadaswaram . In North West India, a dhol drum is generally played.

Popular Hindi wedding songs
These are some of most memorable Hindi wedding songs from Hindi movies. Many of them are frequently quoted. Several of them have been rerecorded as remixes and some of them have inspired names of later Hindi movies.
In addition there are many folk songs in several dialects of Hindi regarding weddings; singing, specially by women, has been a tradition. Many of the film songs were inspired by folk songs.

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Mendhi (also Mehandi, Mehendi, etc.) is the application of Henna as a temporary form of skin decoration in South Asia, Southwest Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as by expatriate communities from these areas.
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