Wedding hair style - Aishwarya Rai

Some things never go out of style and further more, the traditional styles are gaining popularity everyday. The south indian wedding hair style remained intact with minimal variations over the centuries. A bride doesn't look like one without a long braided hair with flowers arranged on or around the hair. I personally love mogra and thought Aishwarya's hair on her wedding day looked simple and fab.

Her Mehendi day style though is different and unique

Sangeet Ceremony - Wedding style

In the past couple of years, sangeet ceremony has become a norm in Hyderabad. In fact, it is one of the important and fun parts of the wedding. There is now a mini industry formed around this event in Hyderabad. There are choreographers who plan the choreography, train the bride, groom and the relatives to dance to the planned string of songs, event planners, staging people who build the beautiful stages and sets for the guests to sit and enjoy,sing and dance and the most important of all the boom box people who sets up the audio equipment for the event.

The sangeet ceremony will be more fun if you have young people in the family to bring in some fun and energy to the event. It is also enjoyable because most often it is limited to the close friends and family.

Here are some sangeet venue decorations..

Baraat - The new telugu wedding style

It has been a tradition in North and among the people from north India but the increase in affordability and wanting to make the wedding a special event has made us the telugu people start a new tradition in our weddings - Baraat. The horse does add some pizzaz to the wedding style and if you can afford it then why not?

1 gram jewellery - Art Karat

With the gold prices sky rocketing everyday, more and more are opting for traditional looking 1 gram jewellery that is well made and looks artistic. They are now available anywhere and everywhere in Hyderabad. Most of the star hotels hold exhibits to sell 1 gram jewellery from Mumbai, Delhi, Rajasthan etc. Kalanjanli, Kalaniketan, Chandana Bros. etc sell these at reasonalble prices but if you are looking for even lower prices, you could go to begum bazar and sometimes, some people make and sell these from their own homes. There are also people who can create a replica of the jewellery that you like.

Art Karat sells some good designs of these jewellery on the web and they hold exhibits every once in a while.

Here are some of the good 1 gram gold designs

Hyderabad Traditional Jewellery - Bindi - PART1

A cut diamond necklace with pearl droppings is a very traditional "hyderabadi" ornament that is usually passed along through the generations. There is an old hyderabadi saying that one never owns one's jewelery, but  rather rents/enjoys it to wear in their lifetime and  then passes it along to the next generation !!

My personal feeling is old/traditional jewellery enhances and embellishes one's beauty in a very subtle way the is not possible with contemporary jewellery.

Here is a traditional bindi set from my aunt, I will be blogging about other traditional jewellery pieces later on. If you have any traditional hyderabadi jewellery that you would like to share on the blog please feel free to email me.

Women in white

White seems to be the in thing now. Most of the women showed up in white outfits at the Prakash Raj - Pony Verma's reception. The halter neck blouses are no doubt the most popular fashion blouses these days.

Reception style

I don't know the names of these women but wanted to post the extreme saree styles at the receptions. This is at the Prakash Raj and Pony Verma's reception.

Prakash Raj and Pony Verma's reception style

Congratulations on their wedding but can't get over the dresses they wore for the reception. I am sure they got the best of the designers to help them with the ceremony and yet they wore not the prettiest of the ones we see.

Wedding style - Doli sajake rehna...

The latest and greatest hyderabadi style weddings include a doli for the bride's arrival. It was a part of some big family weddings in the past and was not part of hindu hyderabadi culture. Now a days you can find so many varities of doli's that you can choose from and some you can even rent for the event itself. As for me, if you can spend a little more and add some style to your wedding then why not.