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Rajput Wedding: Colorful And Traditional

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Rajput Wedding Rituals

A Rajput wedding is all about traditional rituals, lavish and beautiful arrangements and expensive traditional dresses. Their wedding is full of colors and life. The rituals and different ceremonies last for almost a week. The rituals are performed in families, Rajput bride and groom. In a Rajput wedding, you find all the ladies in traditional dress and heavy authentic jewelry. Let’s take a close look at the traditional rituals of Rajput marriage, where the new couple is about to begin their new journey.

Tilak Ceremony: The marriage ceremonies begin with Tilak ceremony. This is generally the official announcement of the engagement or the new alliance. The male members of the would-be bride’s family visit the house of would-be groom. The girl’s brother applies the tilak on the groom’s forehead. The bride’s family member also present gifts such as a sword, clothes, gold jewelry, sweets, fruits and other gift items.

Ganpati sthapana and grah shanti pooja: This ceremony is held a few days before the marriage. This ritual is performed to get the blessing of God Ganpati. To seek his blessings for the most auspicious ritual both the families perform this puja at their homes respectively. In this ceremony, a havan is performed and Ganesha idol is installed in the home.

Pithi Dastoor: This ceremony also takes place in both the families. The females of the family and close relatives of the family apply turmeric and sandalwood paste on the Rajput girl and boy. In this function the ladies of the family sing traditional wedding songs and dance on these songs in group.

Mahira ritual: This ritual takes place in the would-be bride’s and groom’s houses respectively. The uncles donate clothes, jewelry and sweet delicious to the entire family. It is a kind of symbolic gesture to emphassing the fact that the maternal uncle has to lend the financial help to his sister’s family.

Janev ceremony:  The groom is supposed to wear a saffron robe and take part in auspicious yagna with priest on the eve of him taking over the duties of a householder.

Palla ceremony: In this ceremony, the family members of groom visit bride’s family to offer some gifts like clothes, jewelry, makeup-kit, fruits, sweets and some other stuff.

Barat procession & marriage rituals: The groom’s barat procession includes males only. All the males are dressed in traditional outfits. The groom generally wears an achakan in golden color or similar shared with orange or red turban. All the male members of the bride’s family receive the barat. The groom is then escorted to ladies section. Bride’s mother performs aarti and other rituals and later on the proceeds for wedding mandap. The bride keeps her face in long veil during the whole rituals like kandyadan, pheras, etc. Another thing which you find different from others is here in all these ceremonies only the females of the bride’s family participate, no males from both the sides take part in these rituals.

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Baniya Wedding Rituals: Full of Glitters & Long Celebration

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Baniya Wedding, Marriage Rituals

The Baniya community is considered one of the most money minded people after Gujarati’s. These people don’t like spending money and relate everything with ROI of each rupee spent. Generally, we assume that they would practice the similar things in their marriage as well and would not spend much on marriage and marriage rituals. But, reality is far away from the truth. These people love to spend too much money on their Baniya wedding. In fact, Baniya marriage is generally conducted very lavishly and high on expenditure.

Generally, during baniya marriage week the rituals and celebrations last for whole week at both the families at Baniya bride & Groom family. The search of parent’s ends once they find a perfect match within their community. Once both the families accept this new relation, they make the formal declaration of this new relation and fix the dates for different ceremonies. Let’s take a look at Baniya marriage rituals and know them closely.

Fixing the marriage date: The wedding date of Baniya marriage is fixed by matching the astrological charts of Baniya girl & boy for marriage. They fixed a date, which is considered to astrologically auspicious, so that it will bring good fortune and happiness in their married life.

Ganpati puja: The wedding ceremonies start with Ganpati puja. It is also known as the first ceremony or beginning of marriage rituals. The puja is performed in both the families. The ceremony is popularly known as the mandav ceremony and is performed to seek the divine blessing of God Ganpati for successful completion of all wedding functions without any interruption and mishappening and seeking blessing for the new couple who are about to start a new life.

Visiting the porter: This ceremony is conducted by the ladies of both the houses, they take a procession, where they sing and dance their ways to a porter’s place. During the ritual they sprinkle water, sandalwood and flowers on the porter’s wheel. They purchased the pots from the porter and bring it to home to perform further rituals. These pots are then used for various purposes during the different wedding ceremonies.

Exchanging gifts for weddings:  A day or two before the actual wedding day, the families of bride and groom exchange the gifts. The would-be couple is not allowed to participate in these rituals.

Mehendi ceremony: This ceremony is conducted in both families. The ladies of both the families smear mehendi on their hands. The bride and even the groom apply mehendi on their hands. The mehendi has its own significance in Indian wedding and bridal make-up and look is incomplete without mehendi ceremony.

Haldi ceremony: On the day of marriage this ceremony is performed. Firstly, there is another ceremony, which is known as thaapa and haldi ceremony at both homes. After this the next ceremony is Goddess Gauri puja, where the girl is treated as Goddess Gauri. She receives gifts and jewelry from maternal side.

Feet washing ceremony of groom: Once the groom entered the house of the bride on wedding day, her mother washes his feet with honey, curd, milk, ghee and sugar.

Actual wedding rituals: After feet washing ceremony, all other actual wedding day ceremonies take place. The bride and groom exchange the garlands. After that they proceed further for saat phera, but before that the bride’s father performs kanyadan ceremony, where all the responsibilities of the bride like happiness, financial, physical, and emotional and others given to the groom.

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5 Stunning Matrimonial Profile Description Samples

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Registering with any of the matrimonial site is not enough to get the best responses on your matrimonial profile. You should always focus on other information as well. You should always try to fill all the relative information and important information. Besides, updating the information in the given fields you must write an impressive matrimonial profile description with stunning photos. A smartly written profile description is very much necessary to attract right kind of responses. Here, we are sharing some of the  matrimony profile description for your help:

girls matrimonial profile sample written by parents matrimonial profile sample for tamil brahmin man

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matrimony profile sample for engineer punjabi boy

matrimony profile for businessman

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Best Tips For Planning A Perfect Honeymoon Tour

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Tips for Planning Honeymoon Destination

Are you really excited for your honeymoon? Are you really eager to fly to a new destination? It is your turn to make your desired vacation a perfect one. You must have seen your friends updating various pictures of different destinations and you must have felt envy. Now, it is your turn to make other envy with your honeymoon. Here are some tips to make your honeymoon a perfect affair.

Don’t force your choice: Honeymoon is not only for you or your wife. It is for both of you and you should choose a destination collectively. You should always choose romantic honeymoon destination on which you both agree. A honeymoon destination should not be mandatorily a beach. You can also explore different destinations which are of common interest.

Don’t plan for too long: If you both are working, then you should also consider the leave chart of your spouse as well.  Plan your honeymoon for decent number of days. It should not be too long, which will make it boring and dull.

Don’t travel for too long hours: Try to avoid long travelling hours. Plan for a honeymoon destination that is not too far or you need not to spend too much time in travelling. Try to avoid long hours traveling. It will not only consume your time, but at the same time it will also exhaust your energies. If you are travelling for too long, then way to home you will feel more exertion.

Remember you will get what you paid for: If you have booked your honeymoon package from any touring agency or from any website, always ensure that you are getting all the services, which were mentioned in the deal. You must have booked your package with that agent because of various reasons, but don’t forget that you have invested handsome amount to get that deal be it discounted one. Always, remember that every rupee is important and you must get for what you have paid.

Be original: While booking for your destination don’t follow others. Try to book a destination that you think is according to your interest. It is your honeymoon, therefore, choose a destination which you both liked. Pick a location where you think you both will enjoy most and can spend memorable time together.

Hotel should be within budget: Don’t go by words or reviews only while booking your hotel. It is always good that should search a lot and compare different facilities of hotels. It is always good you book a hotel within your budget. A lavish hotel for the sake of showoff is not a good idea. It is always good that you book a hotel which offers you decent facilities within reasonable price.

Don’t go beyond your budget: You must have spent a lot of money on your wedding and honeymoon could be equally expensive affair. It can create a hole in your bank balance, if you go beyond your budget. It is very much required that you fix a budget for honeymoon and try to stick to it religiously.

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Simple Ways to Strengthen Your Bond with Mother-in-Law

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bride-and-mother-in-law-relationIf you recently got married, one thing for which you must be worried a lot is your relationships with your husband and your mother-in-law. It is equally important to maintain a good relationship with your in-laws as well. One of the biggest challenges in first year married life is to get along well with your in-laws. So it is really important that you try to build good and healthy relationship with your in-laws. According to a research, generally 60% of all marriages face tension and complex relationship between the women and her mother-in-law.

Always show respect to her:  This is really important that you show respect to your mother-in-law even if she don’t deserve it or you don’t feel to show respect. When you show respect to your mother-in-law, it will help in building the good relationship. It will also help in building the communication gap and help in developing a positive atmosphere. However, it not easy all the time, but it is worth doing.

Seek advice from them whenever necessary: This will also help in building good relationship between you and your mother-in-law. You should always seek advice from them whenever you feel it is really required. It will increase their involvement and gives her a sense of connection with you.

Treat them as your family: You should not forget that she is mother of your husband and has equal importance in your life as your mother. If you show her equal respect and treat her as your family, in return she will also try to accept you a family member, which is very much required for healthy relationship.

Don’t fake in front of her: Try to remain as natural and normal as you can in front of your mother-in-law. Being yourself will work in your favor. If you try to be something else all the time, you can’t make them happy and even you will never able to enjoy relationship. Therefore, it is important that you should not pretend in front of your mother-in-law.

Nurture it, give it time: Always understand that every relationship needs time. You can’t build a relationship overnight. Even with your husband as well you must be putting lots of efforts to build it. Similarly, you should always give some time and nurture your relationship with your mother-in-law.

Don’t be arrogant & rude: In day-to-day life there comes a time when you feel anger, frustration and you really want to express your thoughts, but it is suggested that you should try to remain calm and cool. Don’t show your arrogance and rudeness in front of your mother-in-law. It will affect your relationship with her.

Pay attention to your words: Whenever you have a conversation with her, pay attention to your words. Don’t show disrespect them in your words. Always choose right words, before saying anything to her, try to assess your words and think about the future consequences of any harsh statement.

Try to help her in day-to-day activities: Your new family will always expect you to do and help your mother-in-law in day-to-day activities. Take initiatives whenever necessary. Whenever and wherever you get change to ease her burden and behave like a helping hand, try and do that. It will strengthen your bonding with her.

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