A bride is not complete without being adorned by beautiful mendhi patterns. It has become an essential part of every dulhan and the latest designs incorporate stunning colorful stones or beads to enhance the look of the mendhi as well as the bridal outfit.
The Traditional Bridal Attire is not only significant to an eastern culture but also makes a bride look beautiful with the work of intricate colors, beads and jewelry Read the full story
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.
Read the full story
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.
Read the full story
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.
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.
Read the full story
