June 18th, 2009
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The heritage of wedding goes much beyond two people exchanging vows and saying their “I do’s”. It runs much deeper than lifting the veil and kissing the bride. The traditional western ‘white’ wedding was popularized by the Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. While many political commentators feel that choosing the white color for wedding signified extravagance— feminist theorists believe that it was just a symbol to signify that the girl is still a virgin or is sexually pure. Even though in today’s time and pop culture, a wedding cannot be imagined without the traditional white wedding gown, how many of us even hark back to its past notions? With wedding gowns now being especially designed by fashion houses, they have now been raised to the level of being haute couture rather than being just simple wedding gowns.
Wedding as a heritage is slowly and steadily falling out of favor in the 21st century. That is because an individual is not bound to remain married to another individual for their whole life. Divorces are becoming rampant and second or third marriages are becoming popular. What’s more, people are doing away with the concept of marriages altogether are starting to live together without any formal ceremony. Church marriages are becoming unpopular because according to many, these are cumbersome. So more and more people are choosing to have just a court marriage and throwing a party for friends and family after that. The concept of the white wedding gown too seems to have found less and less takers nowadays especially for women marrying for the second time or at an older ager. They choose to stick to chic designer outfits rather than a billowing white gown. So wedding as a heritage concept is slowly seeing rather a die-out.
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March 18th, 2009
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Most men hate to admit that they have been spending the last week before their wedding going through catalogues, visiting bakeries, and consulting professional confectioners for their wedding cake. But that doesn’t stop the concept of a groom wedding cake from being one of the top attractions at a wedding and a measure of your sense of style. A wedding cake is mostly associated with the bride. And with the layers topped up with miniature mannequins of the bride and the groom locked in an embrace or holding hands— it conjures up the typical Christian wedding in front of our eyes.
Traditionally a groom’s cake is supposed to be a simple fruit cake. Decorated with marzipan, this cake used to be placed beside the actual wedding cake. At the end of the ceremony guests would take little pieces of the cake home, and what’s more, single women who slept with a piece of the groom’s cake under their pillows, would dream of their future husbands! The tradition of wedding cakes for grooms originated in the Southern parts of the US but is now prevalent almost all over the world. Indeed from a simplistic tradition whereby close friends and family could have fun, the wedding cake has become a serious matter which serves many purposes: from symbolizing the groom’s character to upping the ‘It-factor’ of the wedding.
The hunt for the perfect groom cake should begin well in advance, unless you want to fret over innumerable trips to the bakeries and appointments with your personal confectioner just hours before the wedding.
Think of it in the same way as you did the engagement ring. It’s unlikely you just visited the 77 Diamonds website or the jeweller at the last minute to find one, chances are you spent months considering it. Your wedding is the biggest day of you life and you know just how important it is to get things right, so don’t let the groom cake let you down.
January 18th, 2009
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An advantage of preparing the speech in advance is that you can make sure to include all those people you want to be mentioned without improvising and wasting words. A line for everyone, and you can include 100 people in your speech! Easy isn’t it? It will also give you time to remember long lost friends and companions who you had forgotten had helped you at some point of your life. And what better occasion to remember them than in your wedding day! Try to keep the speech as sincere and honest as you can. But again not too honest or your words would hurt other people’s emotions. Try and maintain eye contact with guests while you speak. If you are phobic about this issue, try and look above the crowd which will make it seem as if you are making eye contact with everyone. Eye contact is the way you can make your guests feel at home and a part of your big occasion. Make sure your speech is loud enough to be heard. Don’t speak in a squeaky and barely inaudible voice so that guests have to train their ears hard to catch every single word! It would be a good idea to research a bit before preparing the speech. Check out good quotations, nice humorous jokes that can make the guests laugh. A speech prepared beforehand can definitely stand out in the crowd and make an excellent impression on your guests. So what are you waiting for? Start writing your speech the as early as you can and try to make your mark.
January 6th, 2009
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However for many others, weddings are still the most significant day of their life! Weddings are surely a great deal of familial heritage! And weddings are ideal occasions for getting together with your heritage: friends and your family to celebrate that unforgettable occasion. Nowadays, with the kind of hectic lives we lead, it becomes tough for us to keep in touch with even our parents over maybe even different time zones. Thus weddings make for that perfect setting where one could catch up on the lost moments with the family. It is the perfect opportunity to meet up with long lost cousins and even the old great grand-mother who is still hanging in there to see you get married. Wedding meals make ideal moments for exchanging news with your loved ones, laugh together, give them a timely update on what is happening in your life and loads of other ways of catching up.
Weddings heritage is also the best occasion to forgive and forget. For the ones getting married, it is the beginning of a new life! It is a time to leave behind past grievances, hurting thoughts and painful deeds, and step into a fresh new life. It is a time to forgive all those who had hurt you in some way or the other in the past and forget and move on. What better way to start a new life than to leave behind bad old memories and start afresh making new and better ones!
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The heritage of wedding goes much beyond two people exchanging vows and saying their “I do’s”. It runs much deeper than lifting the veil and kissing the bride. The traditional western ‘white’ wedding was popularized by the Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. While many political commentators feel that choosing the white color for wedding signified extravagance— feminist theorists believe that it was just a symbol to signify that the girl is still a virgin or is sexually pure. Even though in today’s time and pop culture, a wedding cannot be imagined without the traditional white wedding gown, how many of us even hark back to its past notions? With wedding gowns now being especially designed by fashion houses, they have now been raised to the level of being haute couture rather than being just simple wedding gowns.
