Bold Modern Times

Gone are the days where the only tasks allocated to a bride would be to follow the instructions from her elders and get really nervous or shy when bringing in the tray of teacups or whenever someone from the groom’s family spoke to her. The brides now are much more outspoken and are fully capable of running the whole show by themselves. The bride and groom these days actively take part in all the wedding preparations and shenanigans.

The Contemporary Stand-Out

With changing trends, brides and grooms are also saying good-bye to a bygone era of embracing everything flowery. Instead, they are adopting a more contemporary approach of sparkle, shimmer and shine- in a classic, elegant manner. Time to let the sparkly sequinned table cloths- magnificently adorned with glittery jam jars and wonderful bloom displays, take over the traditional marigold streamers. Couples aim to allow their day to be a rendering of them, bring in a touch of sophistication, romance and most of all, fun.

The Clan Unites

Guests are received with warm welcomes and fancy welcome kits waiting for them, in their hotel rooms- consisting of all sorts assorted dry fruits, biscuits, and etcetera. The wedding trends concept of destination is used to re-bond and reconnect with the long lost family and friends, while being on a joint vacation.

Pretty Palates

Using colours to address their happiness is among the new wedding trends, the wedding couples seek the decor with a difference. Instead of the typical reds and yellows, couples opt for different new combinations like magenta, orange and yellow, or green, golden and blues. A lot of wedding trends even witness the usage of more subtle pastels. Brides have long ditched the traditional red ‘lehengas’ and switched to either pastels or rose gold or other pretty shades.

Why Just Ethnic?

No wedding trends are complete without the three day ceremonies of Mehandi, Sangeet, Haldi, Pheras and the grand reception. Some even tend to throw a separate reception for their friends or work colleagues. These are the ceremonies where the bride and groom tend to ditch the traditional clothes and don a gown with an ethnic touch and tuxedos, respectively.

Sangeet Sorted

The Sangeet is one of the major weddings trend these days, are a bigger event that the pheras themselves. People plan and prepare themselves for this ceremony, weeks in advance, where the whole itinerary is prepared and songs are sorted as per each family person. This is the most fun part, where everyone come together and spend hours practicing their steps. The actual day of Sangeet everyone gets to taste a little nervousness before they get on to the grand stage for their part of the performance. These wedding trends are all just a great way of coming together for some fun. This of course, requires to be captured lavishly on tape, so that everyone can later sit and enjoy the little things the miss out during the whole chaos.

That’s when a good team of photographers and videographers step in to add to the wedding trends. Couples pay a huge sum to not just get the usual shots clicked, but have some fun and creativity shot right. The whole concept of using cranes and drones to perfectly capture the high running enthusiasm and emotions, is just blissful. No doubt, it’s a huge responsibility on the team to ensure the glitter and glamour is done justice to, and everyone gets to enjoy their contribution to the saga.
Using copious props and large balloons finished with fantastic fringes, create some real visual points around the room, which certainly gets guests’ attention. With the new trends setting in, I’s just safe to say that creativity is something that is constantly changing the way we look at the wedding trends these days. 

 

With brides switching to pastel colored Lehengas and grooms switching from Sherwanis, into classy tuxedos, the wedding inspirations are no doubt, set for a constant change. Every couple feels the need to be different, while still following the traditional ways of celebrating their vows. If you can hear the wedding bells already, it is your que to start planning the event and looking for wedding inspirations that make for a brilliant concept and define your sense of style.
Here are a couple of wedding inspirations that can help you figure your wedding:

1) Bohemian celebrations:

The Bohemian culture represents a free soul indulging into the beauty of arts. Well, if you anywhere relate to this concept, this is one good theme to go by. You can have exceptionally enticing patterns subtly filling up spaces like pretty little scribbles- be it the whole venue, or your dress. You get to play with laces, embroidery and flowers- all at once and indulge into everything chic.

2) Drones flying around:

Many a times, it is impossible to set up a crane to take all those luxurious shots from up above and it is definitely impossible to have someone take those manually. That’s where drones have made our lives much easier with their immense mobility. We can capture some amazingly refreshing angles; pan out and pan in video clips- endless possibilities of creativity and wedding inspirations.

3)Venue Vineyard:

Deciding the venue for your wedding ceremonies or engagement function can be quite a pain. You can consider some good vineyard for such events, where the widespread lands and pretty landscapes are sure to lift the spirits of all guests attending. You can have some majorly fun décor working its’ magic and allow your ceremonies to be some fond memories with these kind of wedding inspirations.

4) Vignette Saga:

The whole idea of these wedding inspirations revolve around as to how well you can play with the décor, throwing the perfect lighting to add that mysteriously dreamy effect. This theme requires a little extra attention, where you need to pay some extra attention to the details.

5) Wedding Greens:

Apart from the pastels and rose gold, the one color that is really doing the rounds, is bottle green. As shabby as the name sounds, the color beautifully intermingles with the traditional gold. Not just the wedding garments, but a bottle green theme color with golden hues does justice to the intention of poise.

6) Proposal Shot:

It is quite a feeling to have your proposal clicked by a professional or a good friend, so that you can go back and always cherish those memories. Imagine having the perfect pictures to show your grandkids, when you tell them your perfect love story.

7) Crystal:

Crystals have been beautifying our homes and offices tremendously all this while, why not just set them right on duty during our wedding as well. They just epitomize a priceless elegance and create a picturesque décor for the guests to dwell into.

8) Timeless sass:

Giving your wedding a retro effect, takes us back to a whole new level of sass. Times when winged liners and elegant buns have returned to take over your look, it is a marvelous idea to have some minimalistic embellishes and vintages rule your wedding.

9) Pakistani mix:

These are wedding inspirations to take in from the neighboring country’s fashion industry, which is quite remarkable. With straight-cut long kurtas and pencil pants already such a hit in the market, we must not fail to observe them for their wedding wear. The highly embellished dresses blended in with a lot of net and then their palazzos – they steal our hearts for sure.

While there are many videos doing the rounds where women apply crazy makeup hacks and turn their looks upside down. It’s a wonder as to what all techniques they use to look good and leave you with makeup goals to ponder.  Here are fifteen makeup ideas that you can use to change the way look:

• Red lipstick as a color corrector:

  For those who have some serious dark circles, they can use some red lip color or maybe even shades of it, under their concealer. This functions as a color corrector and helps conceal the dark circles the best.

• Blush on your lips:

  If you’re looking for a good nude effect on your pout, instead of actually getting some nude shades of lip color, you can instead use a primer and then a nice shade of blush for a nude effect. It looks refreshingly pretty.

• Matte lip colors:

  Can’t find your favorite lip gloss shade in a matte version? Well, you can always use this hack where gloss can be made to look matte by using some powder and then gently blotting it with a tissue paper. Repeat this technique until you get the desired results.

• Concealer as blemish fixer:

  Instead of fixing your whole look using a foundation, which can lead you to looking caked up, set your blemishes with a powder, after blending the concealer at places where it’s required.

• Nivea Aftershave as a primer:

  Rather than using the regular primer, you can raid your boyfriend’s shaving kit and use an aftershave to go. This tightens the pores before the application of makeup and is a great alternative for a primer.

• Beauty blender:

  This is the best tool for application and blending in the makeup, where you don’t have to worry about any stroke lines cause by makeup brushes. It’s quick and quite effortless.

• Oil to clean your face:

  It is just a myth that oil ruins the skin by making it bloat and greasy. For any skin type, you can use coconut oil as an excellent makeup remover, where it not only helps you get rid of all the chemicals, it also nourishes and soothes your skin nicely.

• Clear lip gloss as highlighter:

  In case you run short of a good highlighter to complete your look, you can always turn to a clear lip gloss to substitute for a similar effect. Be sure to blend it in neatly and give your face a classy look.

• Lipsticks by your undertone:

  It is a big mistake committed by many, where they don’t understand their undertone while making purchases. Always buy lip colors based on your undertone, warm or cool. If your veins are bluish, it is termed as cool. Greenish veins are warm undertones. Playful shades such as fuschia and pink are for cooler undertones, while you must get peaches and oranges for warm undertones.

• Lipstick for your whole face:

  This is a pretty amazing hack, that can save you a lot of efforts carrying around different sorts of makeup products. You can use various complimenting shades of lip colors to be used over your base. You can eyeshadow, highlight, blush, contour and what not- with some amazing techniques be blending it all in just perfectly.

• Brown liner

  : As much as it sounds boring, a brown eyeliner can actually rescue any daytime look of yours with just the perfect subtlety. It tones down the whole look by adding a nice and delicate touch to it.

• Filling eyebrows:

  As much as many girls shy away from this technique, filling up the eyebrows gives them an instant boost and is one of the most impactful makeup tricks ever. It just completes the whole look of the face.

• SPF and pictures

  : Ever wondered why your face comes all white and weird in some party pictures? Blame it on the SPF. Foundations with high SPF are bad for pictures are they reflect the light and makes your skin all flashy.

• Bronzer looks better than blush:

  This is one of the best tricks for summers, substituting blush with a bronzer. It looks really natural and glows neatly on your skin.

• Ice for the skin:

  This is one of this best ways to avoid sweating and ruining your looks. Be it any hefty function or a party, where you might just dance your feet off, icing your skin one night before the event helps shut the sweat pores, making it easy for your makeup routine.

The Smash Cake tradition is taking on US and UK by fire. It will not take long for a fun and adorable tradition like this to spread to the rest of the world. While it is not much of a tradition per se, it is most certainly a trend-turned-tradition. On the first birthday of a baby, cake smashing session is the highlight. A cake is specially made for him or her. It is up to the kid what they want to do with it. Here is everything that you should know about a cake smashing session.

What exactly is the Smash Cake:

 

The smash cake is a very small frosted cake made especially for the baby. It is generally prepared for the first birthday of the baby. Usually, it is single layered and comes alongside the decorated main cake. As a part of the celebration, the cake is kept in front of the baby and they can throw it, eat it, drool on it or do whatever they want to do with it. Sounds fun right? It is.

History of the Smash Cake:

 

The history of the cake smashing session is still unknown to the world. One of the theories says that it is done for the baby’s first real mouthful and experience of sugar. The other theory originates from a Mexican tradition called Mordida. In Spanish, Mordida means to bite. On the first birthday of the child, the birthday boy or girl’s face is shoved into the cake by his or her parents for them to take their first bite of cake.

How to prepare:

 

It is funny to think about a preparation for a cake smashing session. After all, it is all about smashes and demolition. But let us help you out with a few basics. Unclothe your baby down to only his diaper. They don’t need no clothes on. Get disposable table clothes, towels, a new set of clothes and soap handy. If you want to watch another round of cuteness overdose after the cake smashing session, throw your baby into the sink or the bathtub for clean up!

Not every baby will dive deep:

 

Your baby will taste the cake for the very first time.  It is not predictable how they would react. It is different from baby to baby. Some kids get too excited and go face first into the cake. The cake smashes all over their faces which is adorable to watch. Some babies take their own sweet time to figure out the cake smashing session. They do what they best- explore. And that is a treat to watch!

Keep a photographer or camera handy:

 

The Cake Smashing Session is a messy but funny affair. Your baby is going to undergo something which would probably top the list of his or her hilarious moments in life. These are the times which are going to get hilarious. You don’t know how your baby is going to react. The more unpredictable it gets the more curiosity it evokes. Babies’ reactions are priceless and every moment is worth capturing.