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May 15, 2005




Plan your wedding



By Rasheeda Haroon


You have thought about it since you were a little girl. When playing with your Barbie doll, you pictured yourself and dreamed of being swept away by your prince charming. Though now you are grown up, your dream of having a fairy tale wedding is still one. And now is the time to prepare for and transform that wish into a reality. You can do it and you can do it in style.

You are expected to look your best at every moment, before, during and after the wedding. But other than the good looks, you also get the social license to indulge your every urge and buy a whole lot of gorgeous outfits. What more do you need?

Start planning. Nothing comes about without a proper plan. Sit down and make a list of what you actually need. There are a hundred things you need for an ideal wedding, which includes wedding invitation, hall decoration, car decoration, mehndi songs, cuisine, wedding dresses, bachelor parties and of course you need to know where is the best beauty parlour of the town along with loads of other things. And you can find the best ideas for all of these things on the Internet.

For a whole lot details on Karachi and at the same time, knowing the places to have your wedding work done, the best place online is still the ApnaKarachi website. Just click on their Fashion and Wedding link and you will immediately be transported to http://www.apnakarachi.com/fashion/fashion.asp. There is a directory of a number of professionals that you would be interested to at least have a word with. There are Beauty Parlours, Jewellers, Boutiques and a link especially for all you excited girls out there, Wedding Dresses. Wedding anniversary cards and Matrimonial Match Making too are the happening things here. But the Fashion Poll has really the silliest and an outdated query: ‘Do you think Jamali’s resignation was the right thing?’ Someone really has a very poor sense of fashion if you ask me.

No wedding is complete without Rasm-e-Henna (mehndi) and there isn’t a function that is complete without lots and lots and lots of songs.

This particular function is the most colourful and pleasurable function of the whole wedding; to make your mehndi flourish and more enjoyable you need the best CDs of mehndi songs. Of course you can also download a whole load of these songs off the Net. And the people here at http://www.dishant.com/album/mehndi+ke+geet really help you achieve that. There are eight specialized mehndi songs that are specifically only for the occasion. However, a link on the left of the page takes you to an even greater place; no less than eight wedding albums are available here and each one of them presents oodles and oodles of songs. Really a wedding delight here. This is rightly the ‘Wedding Songs Khazana’ as the people of the site go on to state: You have found one of the largest Real Audio Wedding Songs collection on the web. Wait no longer, just click on the album of your choice and find the songs you have been craving to listen to. Can’t find your favourite album here?

Another thing that a mehndi would be incomplete without would be henna itself. And all that you want to know about the best of henna can be discovered at a place called The Henna Page http://www.hennapage.com/. Free patterns are just the tip of the iceberg here. There are also Henna Artists, Freebies, Henna for Hair and a How to Prepare the Henna. There is also Learn Henna Patterns, Step-by-Step. But if you feel that all is not here at the Henna Page, then the place to visit and know more about this growing, evolving art, science, traditions and history of mehndi, through its 9000 year development can be found at the Encyclopaedia of Henna http://www.hennapage.com/henna/encyclopedia/index.html. Dozens upon dozens of links make this outing really worthwhile.

Apart from the henna, the whole wedding thing cannot be without the groom you know. Unless of course if you are in the US state of California. Anyway, a nice site to troll though the mens wedding fashion is http://www.shaadi.com/wedding/fashion.php. Colours to flaunt and Closet Cues are some of the links to enjoy here.

Finally, we end our online journey into some of the things that we find interesting for any wedding, we take a look at the Muslim Wedding Checklist http://soundvision.com/Info/weddings/longlist.asp. Here the people have come up with one very simple quote: ‘When you fail to plan, you plan to fail’. That is true for all the things that we do in life. But for a function like wedding, they are absolutely critical. Clothing, food, wedding hall and even the size of the wedding are really necessary to determine before the big day nears.

For all you young out there, wedding is a dream that is full of blue skies and colourful arrangements. But if you don’t plan well in advance for the big day, it can have not so good consequences for all.



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