Doing the ‘I Do’ Right

It is my Wedding Day.

Hand in hand and Hearts Connected, Celebrating the joy of being United; going from ‘Me’ to ‘You & Me’, A Perfect Wedding, it is meant to be.

It is my Wedding Day.

A perfect occasion to commemorate my love with the special one, to share my joy with my family and friends. A great excuse to feel ‘oh so special’, to get pampered and to bask in the limelight. A beautiful way to freeze a few very special moments of my life, to be later looked at, remembered and relived.

This is how we all dream our weddings would be. Wedding, hands down, is meant to be the one of the most important occasions of our life. Each of us has our own hopes and expectations of that special day. There can be no other event that is orchestrated in so many varied styles and themes, but in the end is meant for celebrating the same thing – uniting two hearts and two families in a life-long bond of caring and sharing. Precisely why it is one of the most rigorously planned events of all times!

From beach weddings to the more traditional mandap weddings, there sure is a lot of planning and organizing that goes into perfectly spelling out the occasion. And of course, we would all hate to have a single straw out of place on this day.

 

Photo Credit: Regan Raj

 

Planning a wedding is more of celebration in itself to us to-be-weds, than being a task. From going shopping with friends and family, hunting for that perfect venue, to deciding what features on the menu, it is all an exciting journey that will be remembered and reminisced.

But we really cannot afford all this to ruin our hard earned wedding glow! Imagine going around ten wedding venues and knowing that seven of them are already booked, skimming through five bridal wear stores and finding out at the end of the day that none is to our taste. Wouldn’t it be too much of a wasted effort?

The Mantra of ‘enjoying’ your wedding planning and not ‘enduring’ it is to Plan, plan and plan. This is how I envision a perfect wedding planning –

1. Make a To-Do list

This includes everything small and big, from picking out the venue to buying a packet of safety-pins. Do not leave out anything, however insignificant, since small things might cost you big on the BIG Day!

2. Sort your requirements & their budgets

Sort the requirements according to their importance & urgency. Make sure you have clearly spelled out budgets for each of your requirements. This will help you narrow down and save you a lot of time & effort!

3. Research and short-list before you venture out

80% of the short-listing has to be done before you venture out to finalize on each of the items on your to-do list. Have clear cut idea on what to look for and finalize accordingly. Do not go unplanned as this might lead to your not finding what you need and you would end up exhausted, stressed and disappointed.

Of course, there is always your best friend or your parent to help you with all the work. But here’s a special someone who has already done most of the job for you. From giving you information on all the wedding venues, photographers, caterers, decorators etc. to providing you their contacts and checking their availability, SayShaadi does it all.

SayShaadi.com makes wedding planning a breeze. We aim at creating a one-stop elegant premium destination for weddings to help you, to-be-weds, at each step of your dream wedding.

We’re excited to be a part of one of the biggest and brightest moments of your life. Let us make it extra special.

It’s time to Say Shaadi!

LIFE, ET CETERA.

It’s a funny thing - life

Makes you stand on a double edged knife

Such is its idea of fun, I had no idea, none

And ‘Dear’, it says, ‘the Game had just begun.’

I had this idea of writing a dedication to life in the hope that I could be able to understand it better when I’m through. Blame it on my mood but I wanted it to be a slap on the face to the phrase ‘Oh Lovely, Lovely Life’- that in honey coated words woven with the silken thread of sarcasm. In my attempt at the same, I end up making a blatant complaint against life in a very loud and gaudy way. Like barfing a nine course meal. Not neat at all. You are expected to be really neat when you have reached twenty three. More so in the case of the so called sophisticated Graduates and Post Graduates. Looks like the Education System here has pretty wide loopholes. Because I fell through one of them. Unscratched. 

It is marvelous how the physical and psychological aspects of a human are so deeply intertwined. Just the idea that something as metaphysical and abstract as a thought or a deep muse is holding so much power that it can show its impact on something as definite and explicit as the body itself is overwhelming. Why this impact is higher when the muse is on the gloomier side is a question that is to be pondered upon.

It starts at a brain cell – just a slight prick

Then begins the game of ‘pass-the-brick’

The needle moves on, piercing each cell

The pain – in words one cannot tell

There are two occasions during which I worry about the size of my head. One is when I’m being an idiot. The other is when it aches. Man, I can actually feel it – the perimeter, the diameter, everything. And it feels small, in fact minute, when I behold the colossal amount of thoughts it holds. Each thought writhing and crawling and fighting to emerge out from within. Each thought, like it has its own life. Oh. That brings me back to the topic we were talking about. Life. I digress quite a lot.

…….

Wow. There I go. Blank. Zilch. Nada. Nothing I can think of writing. Nothing to keep this article going. Of all the trillion thoughts burning away in my brain, none seems to be making it to the top of my head. It’s like crabs fighting to get out of a well. Each one pulls down the one ahead of it in the race to make it to the top. Wicked, isn’t it? Too bad. 

They say stagnation is death

Ask yourself, is it true?

Bread when kept away

Fungus it’ll accrue

Fungus grows, but death doesn’t

So stagnation isn’t death

It’s a negative growth

‘Pause, but don’t stop’. ‘Think’. ‘Proceed’. ‘Life doesn’t give many chances.’ Blah blah. Million things said, trillion advices given.

Whatever. Chill. Live it, do not endure it. So what if there is a negative growth? Amputate it.

There are a few teachers I really admire; who taught me ‘life’. Some in an hour; some over years. One such person said, “Kill the Problem”. Problem is fragile. It dies when you get over it. Avoid it, jump over, take another way, fight, but get over it. Now no needle is sharp enough to prick your brain.

 It’s a funny thing – Life.