Real Weddings
Bride of the month – August!
The long awaited bride of the month is here! Quite a few people have asked me when I would post the bride of the month feature and this has in turn motivated me. Thanks to all of you who have evinced interest. Here I present the bride of the month(August) Priyankaa Vijayakumar, a native of Coimbatore currently residing in the US. Excited, when asked about her wedding story, here she enumerates on the various plans she had for her wedding and how she went about it.Prassath and I started talking a year ago. We got engaged in November 2012. We both live...
Bride of the month – July!
This month’s bride is Monisha Ashwin, a very enterprising woman entrepreneur. She cheerfully goes into the details of her wedding and the preparations that went into it.I met Ashwin, my husband in yahoo chat about 6 years back n since then, I have always been dreaming about our dream wedding. We got engaged on June 29th,2012 and got married on November 23rd, 2012. Our sangeet was held on 22nd Nov at Raintree. It took us 5 months to plan every single thing in our wedding in detail and just like any other bride, I was very enthusiastic and took care of...
Bride of the month – May!
The bride of the month is my dear friend Apoorva Balasubramaniam. We have known each other for about 20 years now! She recently got married in our home town and we had a lot of discussions about sarees, accessories, diet etc. while she got ready for her big day! I thought it will be good to share her wedding story with you all and so here she is!Like every girl, I wanted a perfect dream wedding and I had quite a lot of time to plan my big day. My wedding was on January 23rd, 2013 at my home town Gobichettipalayam.Mine was a...
Bride of the month – April
The bride of the month is Kirthi Pradeep. Here's what she has to say about her wedding & of course the shopping!My wedding was on Jan 27, 2013. I had quite a lot of time about 4 months after engagement to prepare myself for the big day. Morning was the marriage followed by a reception in the evening. It was a traditional Mudhaliyar wedding with many rituals. I had to shop a traditional saree for the morning ceremony and the reception was a normal one where I chose to wear a lehenga.Wedding shopping: Morning Ceremony - 1.) A maroon colour...