Dreaming of marrying someone is one of the easiest things in the world. Sweet fantasies, day dreams, candlelit dinners, going for a long drive on a rainy day, talking to your love on the phone, the whole night, barely keeping those sleepy eyes open while discussing irrelevant issues. Fighting for trivial reasons and planning for the future. These are just some of the favourite things that one likes to do during courtship. However, when finally both the families agree, and when the engagement date is announced, the reality settles in. Especially if the engagement has been announced suddenly and the occasion is just a week away.
Of course you want everything to be according to your choice and wishes. You want to look your best — beautiful, of course, — trendy and exactly like that image which came many times in your mind when you closed your eyes and thought about your partner and smiled unintentionally. It’s quite difficult for a girl to prepare herself in a short time span. Seven days is not a lot of time. The first thing that needs to be known is the latest in fashion trends, something of this era. But the task is made even more tedious if your friends are all busy in their work (hey, the engagement date came as a surprise to them as well). So, to the get the latest and the different from what you see on the TV, you log on to your favourite sites as the Internet yet again proves to be the saviour of the day.
First thing’s first, right? So a ring is a must — never heard of an engagement without a ring, right!. Of course, we have a lot of jewellry stores in the city, but not much time to go around and have a look. And at the same time it has to be different and beautiful according to your desires because you have to wear it everyday after marriage. And a good site to visit is the Antique and Vintage Style Diamond Ring Emporium at http://www.london-victorian-ring.com/emporium1.htm. Here you will find a lot of designs of the diamond ring. Stone embedded rings, plain rings, carved rings, platinum rings, etc. Just go through it, get a printout of your favourite ring and send a copy of the printout to your family jewellry. Hopefully, he’ll copy the design just right.
Another useful site for ring hunters is the Diamonds Rings site, http://www.canadadiamonds.com/diamond_rings.htm. They say that marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. You can find the first two rings on this site and many find the third ring after your marriage. Designs galore abound here. Just don’t pay any attention to the prices. Get the right design and head straight to your jeweller. For our traditional Pakistani girls, the mehndi is also a must have for all festive occasions and wedding functions. After all, a girl should be a girl and the mehndi makes a bride more traditional and beautiful. There are exceptional cases where some girls do not like the mehndi’s smell but they have to put it on because of traditional pressures. However, that too has been taken care of because the odourless mehndi is now available in the market.
As for the designs, it is better to have a clear idea of what you want before leaving your hands at the mercy of the mendhiwali. Click on to http://shadicenter.bizland.com/ MehndiDesigns_Hands-1.htm. Here you will get designs for hands, full two pages of them, for feet as well as for the armbands. Click on the photos and even get printouts of the designs. Another site where you can get hold of beautiful designs is http://www.hennaspirit.com/ where you will find designs to decorate your feet as well.
To get an idea about what you are going to wear on this special day of yours, click to the address http://www.chhabra488.com/bridal-lehenga-choli.html. For girls like me, this site helps you get an idea of how to go about planning the right dresses for the occasion. Images can be enlarged and like the rings, select what you like and send a printout to your dressmaker.
In the end, it’s all about planning your engagement just right. And for that the best site around it the Wedding Ideas site http://www.wedding-ideas.net/. Click here and you will get ideas by the dozens — jewellry just the way you like it, and even the invitation cards that are here and you can print them, saving on a whole lot of money that would have gone to the printer.
There, this should give you a good head start to your engagement planning. Besides these sites, for any other engagement arrangement related problems and confusions that you may have, the Internet is full of solutions for you. You just need to take the time out to look for them.
Dreaming of marrying someone is one of the easiest things in the world. Sweet fantasies, day dreams, candlelit dinners, going for a long drive on a rainy day, talking to your love on the phone, the whole night, barely keeping those sleepy eyes open while discussing irrelevant issues. Fighting for trivial reasons and planning for the future. These are just some of the favourite things that one likes to do during courtship. However, when finally both the families agree, and when the engagement date is announced, the reality settles in. Especially if the engagement has been announced suddenly and the occasion is just a week away.
First thing’s first, right? So a ring is a must — never heard of an engagement without a ring, right!. Of course, we have a lot of jewellry stores in the city, but not much time to go around and have a look. And at the same time it has to be different and beautiful according to your desires because you have to wear it everyday after marriage. And a good site to visit is the Antique and Vintage Style Diamond Ring Emporium at 
