Big fat Indian wedding

Indian weddings have gone from simple glamour in recent years. There was a time when a good Kancheevaram Sari and some gold jewelry was enough for a wedding. Now, is all about the big fat indian wedding, about clothing designer for the wedding dress, costume jewellery and red carpet show-downs. Tradition and India culture has remained popular among people around the world from immortal time. The vibrant colors and unique dress designs are still the main reason for its popularity. The exquisite, beautiful fine embroidered designs, clothing art cuts and dazzling fashion are well known in the world. The designs of dresses for a wedding and colors are fascinating and are determined to draw attention. Colors and Indian traditional designs and bridal gowns have drawn attention to the fashion industry. Designers have gone further and have customized the traditional designs of Indians to give a modern touch. Design the wedding around the dress & weddings always employ a large company of people, and planners & designers can explore the best way. It is a dream of every bride to search for the best women on their wedding day and these special designers are sought out to help unveil this dream.
Indian weddings are known to be large luxurious celebrations. Everyone related to boyfriend and girlfriend strives to look their best. However, girlfriend is still the center of attraction in this day and the wedding lehengas help them look better. Lehengas for sale hunting begins months before the big day. Designers come with innovative designs ever, demonstrating her artistic side. These lehengas are designed to provide comfort but look stylish. They have gained popularity due to its fascinating patterns and subtle colors, not only among Indian brides, but also international brides.

According to Hindu tradition, red is considered auspicious color for lehengas. However, these days are the wedding with the combination of colors and sometimes lehengas red replaced by some other subtle colors too. Lehenga beautiful designs was found in a range of tissues including tissue, gauze, network, georgette, satin and brocade. These different features cuts as fish cut, short length, style of siren and long touched bottom. Designs and embroidery also vary. Wedding lehengas may be embroidered with precious stones, gold, pearls and others. A combination of heavily designed top associated artistically cut lehenga is going great. To accentuate the aspect more, customize well.
The girlfriend of new era today must manage between labour and the day of his life. Visit hundreds of shops to look for outside wedding lehengas for sale can be daunting, and the best option, then you can buy online. Due to the growing need for online stores, there are now many online stores. These sites not only offer a wide range of wedding dresses for a wedding and bridal collections to choose from, but also shower the bride to be with great deals. We found a wide range of India wedding lehengas at these online stores. Some portals offer a family wedding clothing store solution.
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The music
Slow the Nadaswaram or the Dholak sound used to accompany weddings. A 'posh' reception was where a local band was contracted to perform recent songs. Now, nothing less than an elegant DJ will do. Also, there is almost always a "Special" aspect for a celebrity to the wedding as "oomph" factor. The music is a mixture of English music and Indian music of the India, which has been heavily remixed.
The dress
Ritu Kumar had popularized the designer wedding saris and now every wedding will have in abundance. If the bride or the guests, Georgette slinky embroidered with bling can be observed during receptions.
They are no longer the blouses with saris. Scoop backs, connection strings, work mirror, and embroideries are now the norm. Dressed in much Indian work also are becoming popular, such as salwar kameez which resemble pant suits. Salwar kameez patterns have also become 'modernised' with designs of Halter, belts made of spaghetti etc..
Attire for men is still a good suit or kurta Pajama. However, even these have tags designers. Designer of Bandgalas and Jodhpuris are also very often during Indian weddings.
Accessories
Once again, while the gold and diamonds are still very popular, jewellery and silver jewellery are in vogue. Bags and purses are generally brand, such as the stilettos thin with saris.
Male main accessories are shoes and watches of design.
Food

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A typical wedding India used to serve as Naan, Pulav etc. for receptions. Now, several Indian weddings have taken to serving different types of kitchen and different countries. Although the Persian kebabs are still popular and dosais and chaats remain strong, Thai, Chinese, Italian food and American made on roads at the wedding of the India. Even Sushi and exotic desserts have begun to be served at receptions. For tips on how to lose 10 pounds in two weeks, check out these mobile diet solutions just click the golden apple to go find out how you can now >>>>>>
Baarat
The traditional baarat has boyfriend coming to the wedding Headquarters on a white horse. However, do not expect modern Indian girls still be dreaming of a Prince on a white horse. Thus, new trends of the baarat include from boyfriend in a beautiful car like a Rolls Royce or a limousine. Extravagant weddings have been the boyfriend with a helicopter for his baarat.
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Big Fat Indian Wedding in Auckland

A three-day Indian wedding taking place in Auckland is possibly the biggest, fattest wedding party this city has seen.
Last night, multimillionaire groom Vikram Aditya Kumar arrived at the venue of his wedding ceremony in one of nine helicopters with 53 close friends to a red-carpet welcome and seven "dressed-up" horses.
A fireworks display erupted at the close of the ceremony at the Formosa Golf Resort in Beachlands, where Mr Kumar professed his love to beauty queen-turned-doctor Pooja Chitgopeker exactly a year to the day after they set eyes on each other.
Earlier, traffic in parts of Auckland was brought to a standstill as streets were partially closed for two wedding processions, one led by the groom and his father, Shalabh Kumar, on horses to a temple seeking blessings for the marriage, and the other for the bride's party.
The invitation promised lions and cheetahs to lead the main "baraat", or traditional wedding party, but organisers said logistics had made it impossible, and they were replaced by horses. The change had little impact on the "grandness" of the party, however.
"This is the grandest wedding the Indian community, and I think New Zealand, has ever seen," said Pankay Gandhi, board member of the Bharatiya Mandir Temple in Balmoral, where part of the ceremony took place.

After the temple blessing, a plane pulling a banner "Vikram Aditya Kumar Weds Pooja" flew overhead.
Marriage celebrant Ella Kumar said it was the "biggest" wedding she had officiated at.
The couple met and fell in love when British-born Dr Chitgopeker, Miss India 2007, was studying medicine at the University of Auckland.
Mr Kumar, who was born in Chicago, is a CEO-in-waiting and will take over his father's billion-dollar high-tech global empire, Autotech Viktron Group, a Bangalore-based world leader in computer circuit board equipment.
Harsha Satyanarayan, a friend of the groom who flew in from India, said Mr Kumar was a man "very much in love".
"Just looking at them, I think they are a perfect match for each other."
Another guest from India, Suhas Galgale, said the groom's family had paid for hundreds of overseas guests to come, including about 40 from India.
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A family friend, who did not want to be named, said the wedding was costing close to $2 million.
The Rajasthan-themed wedding is being filmed for the Indian television series My Big Fat Indian Wedding and will be turned into a movie.
Recent immigrant Veena Prashant, who is setting up an Indian wedding planning business, said the television programme would put New Zealand "in the forefront" for a growing number of affluent Indian couples looking for exotic overseas locations to tie the knot.
The Indian wedding market is reportedly worth over US$20 billion ($26.3 billion).
The public procession drew hundreds of onlookers. One, Georgia Thompson, said she last attended an Indian wedding 30 years ago and wanted to experience the "vibrancy" again.
Last night, the groom's party flew to the wedding ceremony venue with choppers in a V-formation, to signify the initial of his forename.
A horse-drawn chariot took him up the red-carpeted aisle, flanked by singers and dancers.
Today, on the third and final day of the wedding, the couple will visit a third temple by helicopter, followed by a feast and party.
By Lincoln Tan

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Yanna and Kosta's big day

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When Yanna Elfes was planning her ultimate big fat Greek wedding in Sydney, she never imagined it would be virtually attended by millions of people around the world or become the subject of a vicious email slur campaign and a police investigation.
But that's exactly what happened after she married her husband Kosta two months ago at the Greek Orthodox church in Kogarah, not only was a big greek wedding but it became a big headache too.
Her friends published photos on their Facebook pages and within days the images were appearing in nasty viral emails that quickly spread across Australia and to workplaces as far flung as London and Dubai.
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Of course, this was no ordinary wedding. The theme was black and hot pink, with Yanna, 25, wearing a pink crystal-encrusted white dress complete with mini-skirt front and tulle train. It was inspired by the Guns N' Roses video clip for November Rain.

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The groomsmen wore tight black tops with pink braces, which matched the bridesmaids' gowns, spotted wedding cake, Playboy-tagged champagne flutes and satin table decorations.
To top it off, some of the 220 guests were ferried to and from the wedding in three stretch Hummers with fur interiors, and the bride and groom were introduced for their bridal waltz with WWE wrestling-style fireworks.
The photographs made the perfect recipe for a viral email hit, but as it spread people began adding their own nasty captions ridiculing the wedding and guests.
One Yanna found particularly crushing: "Dad: `sure am glad to be giving this away'!"
Yanna said she left to go on her honeymoon - a month visiting the USA and Mexico - a few days after the "big greek wedding" and a week later received a frantic call from her sister, Leah, informing her of the emails.
"I've had calls from people in London to Dubai that have got these emails, it's just gone viral crazy," said Yanna.
"It's sad that someone can stoop that low to actually do that. Like, why would someone want to trash someone else's wedding day?
"It's supposed to be a personal and private thing - at the end of the day, I've just got to not let it get to me."
Yanna said her sister called police, who attempted to track down the person who started the vicious email campaign.
She said they initially suspected it originated inside St George bank but further inquiries led them to conclude "a couple of days ago" that it just passed through the bank's offices and probably originated from a Facebook user.
"Once it goes on to Facebook it's public domain they said at the end of the day," she said.
Yanna said she could understand why people would perceive the wedding as outrageous but "at the end of the day all of my family and friends know that's Yanna, I don't want to change it because people will think different of me".
"Everyone walked in there and saw me and said Yanna, this is you, no one could pull this off like you have," she said.
"From day one I said to my mum, `this is how I want to do it' and my mum was like, `that's great, that's you', why would you want to change that?"
Yanna said she knew who took the photos but she had no idea which friend or acquaintance took them off Facebook and spread them across the internet.
The photos have even been published on websites and blogs including Office-humour.co.uk with headlines such as "tacky big Greek wedding" and "Greek wedding of the year".
Yanna said she was even offered money to appear on A Current Affair but turned it down because she did not trust the show's producers and did not want to be perceived as opportunistic like Clare Werbeloff, the "Chk-chk Boom" girl.
"My brother had people who he hadn't spoken to in five years that live in another state call him and say `hey, I saw you in a wedding!'," Yanna said.
"I didn't start this, I didn't even want this to happen, I just wanted a normal wedding day like everyone else."

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Big fat Indian weddings slim down in tough times

Salil Panchal

Preeti Punamiya is a young and excited bride-to-be, preparing for a traditional Indian wedding which usually features days of lavish celebrations.

But the global economic downturn has made her rethink the extravagance, following a trend that has seen many Indian families scale down celebrations.
"It's our families who wanted to make it a grand affair," said Punamiya, a biotechnology researcher in her early 20s who is marrying a US-based software engineer.

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"I have wanted it simple, keeping costs under check," said Punamiya, who cut back the customary five days of festivities to three and also slashed the number of ceremonies to three from nine.
India's wedding seasons from mid-October to January and April to July bring with them street drummers and
musicians, processions and open-air ceremonies. The statement often seems to be: the bigger and louder the better.
The industry is estimated to be worth 1.25 trillion rupees (27 billion US dollars) a year. One leading wedding website Shaadi.com put the average cost of a high-end marriage at 44,000 US dollars.
But wedding planners say that as the worldwide recession hits exports, imports and the service industry, India's wealthier urban upper classes are cutting back on costs.
"People are curbing expenses", said Tejal Kadakia, who founded Knot Forever, a Mumbai-based wedding management firm.
"For Indians, a wedding is a one-time event. People want a stylish, quality event, but they are trimming catering costs and even those on the guest list," she told AFP.
A traditional big Indian wedding is lengthy and elaborate, starting with a trip to the astrologer or family priest who chooses the auspicious day and time of the ceremony considering phases of the moon.
Rings are exchanged at the engagement, followed by the "mehndi" ceremony, where the bride's arms and legs are intricately painted with brown henna dye to ward off evil and strengthen love.
The next day sees an elaborate "sangeet" -- a musical, dance or even Bollywood-style extravaganza. The wedding itself usually comes 24 hours later, followed by cocktails and a lavish evening meal.
Moroccan- or Turkish-style weddings -- with billowing tents, vast pavilions, hookah smoking pipes and finely-upholstered, low-slung divans -- have proved popular with expat Indians who travel home to tie the knot.
But Tejal said: "These themes are vanishing. People prefer Rajasthani or Luckhnowi themes which are traditional and cheaper.
"Until three years back there was a certain childishness, an urge to show wealth. That has gone. Now it is not who beats whom. I would say we all seem to have been beaten by recession."
Candice Pereira, creative head of "Marry Me" wedding consultants, said: "Some people do prefer to combine the 'mehndi' and 'sangeet' events."
Tejal also said families are choosing to skip the music and dance altogether.
"Earlier there was a demand for only well-known singers or bands," she added. "The musical event is becoming optional or is personally choreographed. A lively family dance is considered enough."
Nevertheless, Bollywood song-and-dance events remain hugely popular with overseas Indians, particularly those from the United States and Canada.
Compared with many Western countries, Indian wedding planners like Tejal and Pereira, whose firm charges upwards of one million rupees per event, are a new breed in India.
Wedding management firms have mushroomed in recent years across India's big cities, attracting clientele from medical doctors like Punamiya's family to industrialists and construction firm bosses.
But this year, Tejal said she has organised weddings for just six to eight clients, compared with 10 to 12 in 2008.
Many overseas-based Indians or people of Indian origin choose to get married in India due to cheaper costs and its cultural significance. Overseas, the cost of hiring venues, catering and ethnic Indian wedding wear quickly adds up.
India's urban middle classes are also learning to streamline costs, amid concern for their jobs.
One recently-married Mumbai media consultant, who asked not to be identified, said he had been under pressure to have a traditional "multi-function" marriage -- but was worried about the cost of a big indian wedding.
"At one point I considered a court (civil) marriage, but the process is complex," he told AFP. "We finally did a two-day event, skipping the 'mehndi' and 'sangeet'."
The couple printed few cards, sending out most invitations by email or mobile phone text messages.
"My honeymoon will have to wait. I had to be back at work," he added.

© 2011 AFP
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