To start the week, I thought we would do an around the world Real Wedding round up...there are so many blogs and bloggers, real weddings and gorgeous pictures to serve as celebration inspiration for your special day. Here are a few of our favorites.
Indian Fusion Wedding - Suneera and Getty - We are a Global Community and this featured story from the fabulous Maharani Weddings is the true definition of fusion wedding - a Hindu/Pujabi bride and Filipino/Catholic groom who couldn’t be more in love. From the Sangeet and Choora celebrations, to the traditional Hindu wedding on through to the traditional Catholic ceremony, "They managed to blend their customs and traditions into one gorgeous fusion Indian wedding, and it sets the tone for the rest of their life." There are five posts to this feature so make sure you hit them all! All photos courtesy of Wedding Documentary Photography
Traditional Bulgarian Wedding from Wedding Noveau featuring Vassil Nikolov Photography
This post is a great lesson in very cultural and time honored wedding ceremonies and despite the push for a modern white wedding these days, there are still some corner of the earth where tradition and heritage matter.
Santa Barbara Wedding by photographer Jose Villa and wedding planner Jill La Fleur
We love this Mexican Inspired wedding from Style Me Pretty and all its super duper, fabulous elements, despite the fact that it was north of the border. The infused with color and a festive feel, this wedding has some steal worthy eye candy for you to oogle!
We will profile some other fabulous Real Wedding finds next week! As always, remember you can find us on Facebook and Twitter. Hope you'll stop by!
Have a deLicious day!
In my daily sweep of all things wedding and wonderful, I came across this totally de Lovely appropriate article, An Indian Celebration and Dance Party, on the My Wedding blog, Delightfully Engaged by Shawna, a guest blogger from Maharani Weddings. Wow, that was a mouth full. She wrote a super helpful piece about some of the celebrations that are usually part of traditional Indian weddings. As we know, these celebrations tend to be multi-day affairs and here is why:
Indian weddings are notoriously known for being days long, and people often wonder, “What the heck are you doing for a week anyhow?” Well, today I going to give you a taste of what we have cooking during the week. The first event is the Choora Ceremony and the second, the party that no Indian wedding is complete without, is The Sangeet.
At the Choora Ceremony, the bride’s maternal uncle and aunt give her 21 red and ivory colored bangles. Modern Indian brides wear more or less and in different colors, but the significance is still the same. In India, these delicate bangles remain on the bride’s wrists for at least 40 days up to 1 year.
Translated into modern/slang-ish English the term Sangeet means Dance Party. I mean, how awesome is that, right? Well, there are a few things that make this particular “dance party” traditional and pivotal to all Indian wedding extravaganzas. Dancing is essential to any Sangeet. Close friends and family members of the bride and groom will prepare dances to Bollywood songs, and will lovingly poke fun at the newlyweds to be.
For the rest of this article by Shawna, head over to today's edition of Delightfully Engaged.
Here is some gorgeous eye-candy courtesy of Wedding Documentary Photography & Video in case you need any more of a reason to take a look.
Seriously, all weddings should be this phenomenally gorgeous and colorful. Thank you again Shawna and Wedding Documentary Photography and Video for letting us share this.
Have a deLicious day!
