Wedding Cakes - A Delicious Tradition

A delicious cake crowns the great day of the couple in the Christian weddings. However, many other communities also order wedding cakes to add beauty to the celebrations.

Here Is a Short Guide to the Wedding Cake!

1.      Cutting the cake:

Cured in every detail, the couple cut the cake in any Matrimony. The bridegroom along with their right hand cut the first slice.

2.      Order:

According to the etiquette, the bride’s mother-in-law must serve the first slice. Then give the other slices to other relatives, in the order of importance.

3.      Cake topper:

These are the statues of the newlyweds to put on the cake. Ironic, classic, funny, romantic... now the cake toppers are a must for the wedding!

Types of Wedding Cakes:

1.      Classic wedding cakes: It includes three, five or seven stories cakes. It is the quintessential wedding cake, the best known. The cakes are superimposed on one another and this is supported by a structure.

2.      American Wedding cake: Spongy inside and covered with a creamy paste. Elegant and monumental as the classic wedding cake, also has a facility plans.

3.      Wedding cakes plan: As the word suggests, has a single plan. Hearts, roses and flowers are the great protagonists of the cakes of this type.

4.      Anglo-Saxon Wedding Cakes from Great Britain: These cakes have a pyramidal shape. Adorned with ribbons and flowers, and is constituted by cylinders or cubes stacked in descending order.

5.      Wedding cake hat: The base of the cake is a hat, which is generally round and five feet wide. The wedding cake hat is usually of three stories and is not supported by any structure.

Cutting the wedding cake is one of the highlights of the wedding and, indeed, a necessary moment to capture, only to be treasured for the life. So make sure that you preserve the moments of your Matrimony by clicking it.

Author: Rashmi Karan

The Indian Bridegroom

When you think of the Indian Bridegroom, the first thing that you picture is the traditional Indian attire on the groom. The Indian men wear traditional attire to their wedding. The traditional India garment is the Kurta–Pajama though men now wear western styled coat, trousers and shirts to office. However, in their wedding, men still prefer to don the Indian traditional wedding attire.

India is a land of numerous religions, castes and communities. Each caste and community has their own matrimonial rituals and customs. Even their wedding attire is different. Visit from north to south and east to west, you will find difference in the wedding costumes of the Indian Bridegroom. The southern part of India has wedding mostly during the daytime while the communities belonging to the northern part of India has main wedding function in the night. The hilly regions of the country have wedding attire of the bridegroom quite distinctive from the plains.

The bridegroom from the communities in the southern and eastern part of the country wears traditional Indian clothes-the dhoti and kurta during the wedding rituals. Bridegrooms from the southern states of India wear a Mundu or a Lungi. On top the lungi, they wear a shirt of similar color. The lungi-mundu is usually white and of silk. They also put the Angavastram to complete the look.

The bridegroom from Bengal, the eastern state of India, wears silk dhoti and kurta. During the time of wedding rituals, they remove their kurta and cover themselves with a silk shawl.

In the Northern states of India, like Punjab, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, the bridegroom wears a sherwani or jodhpuri suit. The sherwani are heavily embroidered kurtas with crystals and silk threads. Another common bridegroom item is the headgear. The headgear is known as the ‘sehra’ and has flowers covering the face.

Author: Shipra Sinha

Right Age for Marriage

Marriageable Age

Marriageable age is a topic, which has always been in question. Parents start worrying about our marriage, as soon as we complete our graduation or school for that matter. In case of Indian brides, finding the right match has always been a concern for parents and they start looking for the same at a very young age. In earlier times, education and self- dependence were considered lame excuses for delaying Indian marriages and girls were forced to marry at a very young age. But now with the enactment of laws for marriageable age, parameters have been set for our Indian families to marry their children at respective ages.

Laws have obviously made a big difference in deciding the marriageable age, but mind set up is the most important thing which decides, where you are ready for marriage or not. You need to be mentally, physically and financially sound to bind your soul with another. A sense of responsibility and emotional connect has to come from your inside, to do justice to the sacred bond of marriage. Peer pressure is just not the right thing, when it comes to marriage. You must make your parents understand what you want in life and how do u see yourself growing in future. This helps in settlement of most of the problems in your life. Also, matrimony search these days, have become easier with the growing popularity of online matrimonial sites. These sites help you reaching your prospective bride or groom in flicker of seconds.

Factors like independent, highly qualified, well- settled, mature, understanding are few which tops our preference, when we look out for marriage match. Therefore, before doing so, we should make sure, that we ourselves match these basic factors.

Above all, we should be well prepared for accepting someone in our life and spending our entire life with him happily.