Yearly Archives: 2016

First Karva Chauth, Make it Special!

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Karva Chauth festival for husband

After marriage in the first year you celebrate all festivals with the new family. Every festival has its importance, but first Karva Chauth is really significant and carries great importance for married Hindu women. For a newly wedded woman it is most important to carry out the traditions of the family and celebrate the Karva Chauth in the same manner. She is showered with blessings of blissful married life ahead. All the married women keep the fast for one-long day for the longevity of their husband.

Nowadays, most of the married women celebrate Karva Chauth festival in group, where all the married women of the community get together and offer all prayers for their husband’s longevity and complete all the vrat rituals together. The festival reflects the joy, excitement and magnificence of being married and reflects the status of a woman with henna, jewelry, the tradition of ‘Sargi’ marital attire and ‘Sindoor’.

The First Sargi: Sargi is the dawn meal, which is generally prepared by mother-in-law. Sargi is consumed before the dawn of Karwa Chauth. This meal includes sweets, fruits and other delicious eatables. The newly wedded daughter-in-law presents some gifts to mother-in-law to show her love and respect for her mother-in-law.

First Baya: Baya is the gift to mother-in-law on the occasion of Karva Chauth from daughter-in-law. This sargi generally consists of salted and sweet mathris, dry-fruits and some special gift. This Baya becomes more important if it’s for the first Karva Chauth. Even for the family of daughter-in-law it is really important. Her mother brings gift for all family members. These gifts consist of some utensils, sweets, clothes for all family members and jewelry and make-up kit for her. However, sweets, utensils and clothes are distributed among the females of the family who are going to participate in the Karva Chauth pooja with the newly wedded bride.

First Karva Chauth Pooja: All the females of the family made special arrangements for the evening and Karva Chauth pooja in a family where they all are going to take part in the pooja with the newly wedded married woman. The newly wedded woman is supposed to wear the bridal lehenga or some heavy sari with jewelry and make up. After performing pooja with the other ladies of the family, she seeks blessings for her happy married life from all elder women of the family. The newly wedded woman distributes mathris and other things amongst the ladies that were a part of baya.

Gifts from Husband: Husband of the woman who observes her first Karva Chauth feels great to see her fasting rigorously whole day for his longevity. To make her feel special and pamper her, he presents her some special Karva Chauth gifts. Nowadays, these days husbands also takes her out for her out for a dinner to save her from the drudgery of day’s cooking work.

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Celebrate victory of Good over Evil on Dussehra and Durga Puja

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Dussehra, Vijyadashmi, Durga Puja

Vijayadashami is also popularly known as Dussehra or Dasara or Dashmi. Dashmi is the tenth day of Navratri or Durgotsav is Hindu festival celebrated in the month of October. It is one of the most widely celebrated festivals in various forms across India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The day ends a 9 day fasting period of Navratri in the Hindu culture. The day also coincides with immersion of idol of Goddess Durga. The people celebrate this festival to with full fervor and spirit. This is the celebration victory of Good over Evil on Vijayadashami day.

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A Men’s Guide to Buy a Perfect Wedding Suit for Big Day!

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Mens Wedding Suits

It is not just important for the bride to look gorgeous on the wedding day; rather the groom should also look good and match up with her beauty. When it comes to the wedding day, the most important thing for a bride and a groom is to look their best on the day. So, it is equally important and complicated for a groom to buy a perfect wedding suit. Wedding shopping is one of the most complicated things and when it’s for the Big Day then it becomes more confusing. It is really difficult to decide whether you want to buy a two piece suit or a modern suit. Although the choice is difficult, but if you are really keen to buy one, then make the right choice for the Wedding Day! However, there are many options to choose from, but here we are sharing some important tips and wedding suit options for you to help you in making the perfect choice.

Right fit for the occasion: Keep this in mind that you are the one who is the showstopper of the day. Therefore, it is very important that your dress should match the occasion and overall vibes of the wedding ceremony. If your wedding ceremonies are in night time and outdoor, then your wedding suit color should be in some light color, but if your wedding venue is indoor then choose a dark color suit. Go for a well-fitted tailor-made suit to catch the eyeballs of the guests at wedding venue.

Don’t follow your business suit style: When it comes to wedding day, all the rules go out of the window and one thing that rules is you need to look good. Therefore, on your special day you too are eligible to make the style statement. You can select a suit that fits you well and can be a bit modern and stylish too. The shape of the lapel and the pocket details also tend to differ from the regular one. So make your own style statement for the day and choose the most perfect wedding suit.

Two-piece suit: A simple two piece suit is most suitable for your wedding day. However, you can choose the one with same color tone or in two-color tones. You can go for light and dark color combination for two color suit to highlight the inner and outer detailing of the suit. If you really don’t want to invest huge amount in buying a two-piece suit then you can go for buying a suit without inner jacket. If you have any inner jacket that can go well with your new suit go for mix and match. A dark blue or black color suit with light color waist jacket and a white shirt with tie is a perfect elegant dress for your wedding day. Here, the choice is yours to buy a brand new two-piece suit or to mix and match your older ones.

Go according to your body type: The key to look good on your wedding day is to dress according to your body type. Don’t forget that everybody is different from other and same is with the body types. If something is looking good on someone, then it is not important that it will look good on you as well. So, before buying a new suit, it is important that you understand your body type and buy your wedding suit accordingly. If you are tall and thin, then you are lucky enough to experiment and try anything you want. But, if you are bulky, then it is better that you go for fitted suit with a little bit of a nip in the waist to give the impression of a leaner you. If you are bulky, then choose dark shades for your suit to look slimmer.

Buy some elegant accessories: Accessories are not just meant for the bride, elegant accessories always compliment the men as well. To get a new look, it is all about going for right detailing and accessories. Try some good and complimenting accessories such as a bow tie, vest, tie, and cuff-links in a different color or style. You can try whatever you think is going well with your suit and enhance your looks and appearance.

Ultimate Men’s Color and Pattern Style Guide (Reference Article)

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Tech-friendly Wedding on Your Mind? Go Digital with These Simple Tips

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Tech friendly marriage digial

We all are spending at least two-three hours every day on different digital things. Technology has become an integral part of our life. It helps in simplifying and upgrading our lives to make it better. So, in such a situation how could you forget to make the most important event of your life digital. Don’t forget to add some digital aspects when it comes to weddings. Here are some important and friendly ways that you can include to make your big day special, appealing and memorable for all your friends and guests.

Go for wedding app: This is one of the most easy and simple way to make your wedding tech-friendly. It will infuse technology friendly element into your wedding. With your wedding app you can easily send mass invitations. It will also help in managing some other important things such as managing finance, making guest lists of connecting with vendors. It can be easily managed and operated without any hassle. Now, you need not to write down everything on paper or notepads as you can download the easier the workable apps. These apps are available with different features such as music, budget and vendors and much more to ease your wedding arrangements and process.

Create your small website: Go for a small website where you can update each and every ritual of your wedding. You can easily update your entire wedding rituals on your website and can go online. You can easily get your wedding website created by any web-designer or you can buy any ready-made website template and customize it as per your requirements. You can upload your photographs, video and other important wedding ceremonies details on the website. It will be good for those friends and family members who will not attend your marriage. This way they will not miss any important event of your marriage and can enjoy all the activities by watching videos and photos.

Fix digital screens: Go for a digital screen at the wedding venue. It can pull and display all the live-Tweets, FB comments, Whatsapp messages as well as you can share the selfies from your guests. You can easily share real-time photos, posts and live video on that big screen. It will help in creating a more interactive atmosphere at the wedding venue. You can also share the guest-book and the list of some special performances and rituals on that big screen.

Create a Wi-Fi zone: This is one of the most welcomed and friendly thing which you can do for your guests. You can ask the venue manager to activate the Wi-Fi service for your guest. They will be happy with this special gesture. This will also enable them to share all the important activities of the place with their friends and family members. This will allow them to access all Whatsapp messages, Tweets, Facebook posts and other important posts.

Charging stations and selfie stick: You can create different charging stations for your guests at the wedding venue. This concept will definitely like by your guest and dear ones. Make the selfie sticks and charger available for your guests. This will help them to click some cool selfies, group selfies to make their day memorable. This idea will be loved and welcomed by guests who love to click selfies all the time. It will be a good surprise for them.

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Tips to Convince Your Parents for Love Marriage

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Love Marriages

Are you the one of those millions of young hearts who has decided to marry with the one whom they want to, but your parents are against your love marriage? Does your mind always filled with questions like why your parents are not supporting you? Why Indian parents are against love marriage? Is there any way, which can help you in convincing your parents? We have some special expert tips to convince your parents and make them understand your point of view.

Discuss freely with your parents: It is really important that you discuss freely with your parents. You should tell them what’s there in your mind. Why you are so much in favor of your decision? Why you think that he/she is just perfect for you. You should put all your thoughts openly in front of parents.

Involve relatives & close friends: If there is someone in your family who understands you and your parents well, you can involve them. If any of your relative or family-friend can help you in convincing your parents, then it’s a good idea to involve them into discussion. You can also seek their help making your point clear in front of your parents if you are not able to discuss it with them.

 Negotiate you’re a child: You should always remember that you are always dear to your parents, irrespective of the fact how annoyed they are with you. You should always negotiate with them like a child and try to get their yes!

Stick to your decision: This is really important that you stick to your decision always. If they are against your love marriage, so they will not leave any stone unturned to hear what they want from you. During that crucial time, it is really important that you will stick to your decision and don’t change your mind with their emotional statements and other tricks.

Rebuild trust with your parents: In India, choosing your life partner and convincing your parents for your decision is not easy. Most of the people still believe that love marriages are not long lasting. So, in your parent’s eyes you have broken their trust and shattered their dreams of choosing your life partner, which they feel must have been most suitable for you. Therefore, don’t add any new element into your love story and try to rebuild your trust.

Highlight qualities of your partner: It is important to convince them with your decision. You can do this only by highlighting the potential of life partner. You must have chosen the most suitable and accomplished partner, but till the time you don’t tell them about the qualities how could they rate him/her. It is really important to tell the achievements and accomplishments of your partner to your parents.

 

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