While I am getting congested with the marriage season and making sure you undergo the same while you're on my blog lately, here's something thats surprisingly refreshing. Its called Bride-foo and contains a regularly updated blog of the progress on managing a wedding. With cribbing ranging from caterers to photographers to sharing ideas on the wedding cards and cakes - it makes you want to rush to Texas to be a part of this seemingly fairy-tale wedding.
They also mention the honeymoon flip-flops with Just Married printed on the plastic straps. Cutely hilarious...
The funny thing is the brides there do all the preparations themselves. Here in India, they just sit and look pretty and stick themselves to the phone all day chatting endlessly to Mr. fiance. I think something so special requires extreme involvement when it comes down to the couple undergoing it all - after all marriage happens only once in a lifetime.
Or at least thats what you think when you're getting married for the first time ;)
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lol, now all can realize that how much impact internet have created on everyone's life.. everything on the internet, online.. I won't get surprise if very soon, we will be able to get ice-cream or any food from internet and that thing will get delivered not by any person, but it will get deliverd in a machine like a kind of fax.. remember Hum Paanch(Zee TV)? in that serial they show that thing..
made cooler by Dhaval Faria on November 29, 2003 2:25 PM
Lime,I do think chatting endlessly over the phone before getting married is something very important for that is the last time Mr.Fiance ever gets to speak :P
made cooler by Linus on November 29, 2003 9:59 PM
Marriages nowdays are like an excuse to show off. Brides and Grooms even get a training on how to behave and handle their clothes during the wedding. Its nothing like a wedding. The whole feel is just not there. Everyone's busy flaunting their sparkly dersses and their diamond necklaces. But still, I love it!
made cooler by Rohit on November 30, 2003 12:22 PM
I alwasy did wonder "Do these people really want to marry each other" I mean at there wedding day, they hardly talk to each other, and the bride is much more conscious for her dress, rather than her future, although talking before marriage is something really important, but hearing is something, and seeing is something...and as rohit said...it's all becoming a fashion rather than something natural, people get married coz it's a coustom...and do they regret it later on????
made cooler by Sarthak on November 30, 2003 7:24 PM
You know what, I really dont think they wanna get married. Really, they don't. If their parents were actually interested in their children's future and their own private life and knew the importance of marriages, they wouldn't have ordered that 7 layered cheese cake. My, haven't we deviated from the topic! :)
made cooler by Rohit on November 30, 2003 8:33 PM
Dhaval: Yea.. such technologies are surely under progress I believe! Lets all start some website update blog - the ironies and difficulties in updating a website :P I should do that! It takes me years to update my portfolio!
Sid: Point taken - you male chauvinist you!
Rohit:Well, I am not against learning the proper etiquettes - marriage or otherwise. Example, if couples learn dancing before the wedding night, its very helpful you know.. you don't end up making a fool of yourself. But I wont support the show off thing - thats totally not in the spirit..
Sarthak: I think the whole concept of marriage is flawed. You really need to be comitted to a person - regardless of marriage or not. And once you're through with that bit you can just sign some agreement :P Why go through the whole expensive affair of gettign 'married'. I totally support christian weddings/court marriages - both are very feasible and simple.
made cooler by Lime on November 30, 2003 9:59 PM
I'm not saying I'm against the training. But is it really that necessary and that too from Shenaz Hussain or some other personality just to show off again? And most brides I've known, have had all the etiquettes on this planet. Yet still, show offing comes in the picture. And they don't teach dancing, because as you said, indian brides do just nothing on their wedding, and dancing is just out of the question. :)
made cooler by Rohit on November 30, 2003 10:41 PM
Its not right to stereotypical-fy everything now, Rohit, after all we do have some very sophisticated grand weddings also in this part of the country. Show off is something wrong - but if someone seriously wants to make an effort to make a wedding worthwhile or an affair to remember for the rest of everyone's life, there is nothing wrong in it.
Don't they learn abroad how to walk properly in the aisle with the bridesmaid/bestman whatever... there are wedding planners who co-ordinate all these things. Does it become wrong then? Perfection doesn't come easy, you know :D
made cooler by Lime on December 1, 2003 8:02 AM