Adding a Royal Touch To Your Wedding
India is a land of cultural diversity with numerous communities and each community has its own style of wedding. However, today it is seen that an urban family wants to imbibe a lot from what they see on the silver screen in their weddings and make it a regal affair with all the fanfare. We help add a royal touch to your special day and make it an unforgettable love story.
Choose an apt destination:
It is important to have the shadi or wedding at an appropriate location to add to the charm and grace of a regal wedding. When you talk of royalty, there is no place other than Rajasthan that comes to your mind. So try to look at having a destination wedding in one of the historical palaces or hotels in the Lake City of Udaipur, pink town of Jaipur or grand city of Jodhpur where the royalty reeks from the architecture itself. You could also choose one of the stunning havelis or forts in Jaiselmer.
Decor
Royalty is all about style and flamboyance that exuberates well at their weddings through the decor. So if you wish to have imperial appeal to your wedding make your decor look more from the regal era. Use fresh flowers to do most of your decor. Lighting plays an important role in the wedding decor. You could have huge earthen pots decorated with flowers and candles and place them at the entrance. You could have ethnic hanging lamps for lighting on the sides and a huge grand chandelier as the central piece to add to the effect.
In Indian weddings the Mandap (stage) plays an integral role as most of the wedding ceremonies take place there. So ensure that you do it up in a grand manner. Have a floral mandap with ambient lighting. Have low seating for the poojas with majestic fabric draping the seats like you would see in a big fat Bollywood wedding.
Attire
It is important to look your best on your big day. To look like the classic royal bride you ought to choose the right fabric, colour and adornments. Choose an elegant looking lehenga with embellishments of stones and opulent looking zardozi work.Choose rich fabrics like royal raw silk, brocade, zari, velvet, jamawar and benarsi silk and combine it with intricate motifs and traditional embroidery of badla work, resham handwork or gota patti. Always have your outfit in the royal colour palette of maroon, red, fuschia, orange and emerald green. Acccesorise well with traditional Indian polka or kundan jewelry with heavy earrings, a maang tika, a bold bindi, a gorgeous neck piece and bangles. This will create an aura of luxury reminiscent of the erstwhile Mughal era.
The grooms can look dapper in a traditional sherwani with a turban. You can acceroise it well some jewelry like pearl necklace around the neck.
Enter in Style
Enter the venue in grand style so that everyone around is stunned. The groom can come on an elephant instead of the usual horse or car with some royal music playing in the background. While the bride groom can make her entry in a doli decorated with flowers. This will add to the royal appeal and also make it a tad different.
They say marriages are made in heaven so why not make it extraordinary with the charm of the by-gone royal era. Get set to embark on a new journey together in grandeur and style.