Indian Wedding Toolkit | Tips, Tricks, Tools & Resources for the Indian Bride
Indian Wedding Planning Tip, Tricks, Tools & Resources to Stay Organized
So you thought you could plan your Indian wedding with just your fiancee. And maybe get away with asking only a few other people like your BFF and parents for help (and opinions). And then there’s your mother-in-law. She has some “good” ideas and says wants to help. What do you assign her? And then there’s your aunty neighbor who… Read More
Updated 2024 With Indians living all over the world, it’s no surprise that fusion weddings are becoming increasingly popular. We’re all trying to make our own wedding unique, but fusion weddings have an extra element of challenge to not only “fuse” two (or more) cultures, traditions and/or religions, but also attempting to please both sides of families. How many events will… Read More
When you close your eyes and think about your upcoming wedding (or even when you’re daydreaming), you’re probably imagining yourself walking down the aisle, flowers all around, candles lit along the walkway and a nicely decorated mandap or altar. You smell the air full of flowers and happiness. You’ve waited a long time for this day…. But what if those candles… Read More
Take yourself back to when you were a kid, say 7 to 10 years old. How many Indian weddings did you attend? Weddings where you didn’t know anyone (except your annoying older brother) and didn’t understand what was going on. I remember a lot of family and family friends’ weddings (including the one where my brother and I locked the… Read More
The Indian wedding reception. A seemingly easy part of wedding planning. It seems that it shouldn’t be one of the most important elements to consider for an Indian wedding reception, so couples don’t put too much focus on it until the end. Despite that, the reception layout is a big part of it, and it intertwines with more decisions than you think. … Read More
You’re engaged! YAY!!! Now you have to decide if you want a bridal party, and then if you do, you have to pick the bridal party (ugh!). Picking Indian wedding bridesmaids should be a fun process but if you don’t take the right steps, it can be a stressful process. There are a bunch of decisions to make in choosing… Read More
Indian brides are inundated with information, ads, products, ideas, inspiration, Pinterest mania and just stuff on websites, and you’re always looking for Indian wedding resources. It’s hard to retain information and know what’s useful. And it’s so annoying when you get an irrelevant ad – hey, why I am getting a Verizon FIOS ad right now?! I don’t care about cable… Read More
Most brides (including myself) don’t think to look up Indian bridal mehndi tips online. Even if you try, it’s not an easy thing to find. When it comes to mehndi application – when, how, where, and 101’s – brides sometimes assume they know the basics, and there’s not much to do. Think again! There are actually lots of questions that… Read More
There’s lots of copycatting with Indian wedding ideas, and it’s hard to stand out of the crowd with a truly unique wedding. Once a “trend” gets used a few times, it feels old. The one thing that never gets old is an Indian wedding monogram otherwise called an Indian wedding monogram- it’s an easy way to make your wedding instantly… Read More
Blissful Indian wedding planning….Ahh… such a soothing tone to it… <screech> Let’s face it, everything isn’t always “blissful” while you’re planning an Indian wedding. Every bride has some level of stress during wedding planning and that level of stress manifests itself in different ways. Chances are, it might even carry over to your wedding day – You don’t want your… Read More