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Don’t ignore those beautiful hands when buying accessories and jewelry for your wedding! Your hands will be a focus of all your wedding pictures, especially when you are performing the wedding ceremony, cutting the cake or making champagne toasts. So why not spend some money on accessorizing those beautiful hands with jewelry? Here are some ideas on how to adorn those beautiful hands.

• Bangles and Bracelets: This is a no brainer! Bangles/Bracelets are a must. You can’t go wrong with a nice gold bangle set worn with a heavy bracelet worn in the front. There are a ton of fancy styles to choose from, where the sets have a combination of different kinds of bangles.

Intricately designed beautiful diamond bangles

Amazing Combination - Beautiful kundan kada (bangle) with bracelet

Kundan Kada (Bangle) with Meenakari work

Pink Tourmaline and White Sapphire Kundan Bracelet

Silver Bangles Set

Gold Bangles Set

Green Bangle Set

Blue Bangle Set with droplets

• Hathphool: These are bracelets with rings and look absolutely stunning! They enhance the beauty of your hands and also look great with your henna. This hand ornament has a flower or medallion in the center and have chains attached to them on both sides. One side the chain becomes a bracelet which goes around your wrist and on the other end they become rings which go on your fingers. There can be one to five chains. I am obsessed with kundan and polki hathphool!

Polki Haathphool with green tourmalines

Adorning the colors of henna - Kundan Haath Phool

• Cocktail Rings: These look beautiful as well and can be worn on any finger or thumb. For weddings, the most traditional is polki or kundan.

Cocktail Ring - Green Onyx, White Sapphire and Kundan



Cocktail Ring worn on thumb along with Hathphool

Congratulations to AngelaP, our Henna Candle Giveaway Winner!

To all the giveaway participants – Thank You all for your wonderful comments. Thanks to All About Henna for creating such beautiful candles.

In our last post we talked about the use of candles in decor. Candles add a touch of romance to your wedding. How about if this touch of romance was married with tradition? Surinder Marbha, owner of “All About Henna“ did exactly that, where she decorates candles with gorgeous henna patterns. What a beautiful fusion of romance and tradition!

As a child, Surinder dabbled with many crafts. Surinder was inspired by the tradition of mehendi, when she saw her older sister getting henna applied on her hands. Surinder first started applying mehendi/henna as a hobby when she was five years old. When she moved to the US, she took it up again, where she started applying henna tattoos on people. With the encouragement of her friends, she started to take it more seriously. Surinder started experimenting with henna on different media like cloth/candles/candle holders/canvas/frames/boxes/pouches etc. Surinder exclaims, “World is my Canvas!”

Surinder is all about henna! She loves its fragarance, design, and color. Over a year ago she started a business called “All About Henna” (based out of Dallas, TX), where she started applying henna tattoos, selling henna painted candles, paintings and boxes. Her friends affectionately call her “Rockstar of Mehendi”!

For candles, Surinder uses embellishments like jewels, rhinestones, paint, glitter glue, micro glitter, mirrors and Swarovski crystals on the henna patterns. She says that when the candle burns, it plays around with the jewels and glows. She also paints resuable candles and candle holders. Surinder’s uses Arabic henna style in her work. Not only is it trendy, but very gorgeous. She uses flowers, vines, and a lot of dots and swirls. Arabic style has thicker edges with finer work inside and more contrast in color which gives it a bold look.

Surinder’s exquisite candles can be used as centerpieces, and wedding favors. She also personalizes favors with pictures. Recently, she also started to do henna invitations and jewelry boxes. Currently, Surinder is custom designing the entire set of wedding favors order for an Indian Bride in Dallas. The order is an assortment of wax hurricane candles and are individually decorated with a combination of henna, gold paint, red paint, kundans, jewels and svawrovski crystals.

We are giving away one of Surinder’s beautiful hand crafted candles. This hurricane candle is from her new line of flameless candles (operated by AA batteries) adorned with henna art and Swarovski crystals. This candle is inspired by the beautiful colors of spring, where she has incorporated flowers and leaves in the form of henna patterns on this flameless candle and added accents of stunning Swarovski crystals. The end product simply breath taking and will last forever! Its true elegance is seen in a dimly lit room when the warm glow of the flame reflects off the crystals on the surface, creating a mesmerizing hue in the room.

To enter the giveaway, please comment on this blog entry telling us why you like these candles. Don’t forget to mention your email address when making the entry. For extra entries in the giveaway, become a fan of Marigold Events on facebook, follow us on twitter, tweet about it (don’t forget to mention @marigoldevents) or blog about it. If you making extra entries, email us at neha@marigoldevents.com to let us know how many entries you made. The giveaway starts on May 17, 2010 and ends on May 23, 2010. We will announce the winner on May 24, 2010.

Candles adds to the romantic ambience of your wedding. There are a number of ways to incorporate candles in your wedding:

1. Decorating along the aisle with candles secured in hurricane glass or lanterns
2. Adding taper or votive candelabras on the guest dinner tables
3. Creating or Dressing up the Reception centerpieces
4. Accenting the cake or guest book table
5. Using candles as unique wedding favors

Following are the different kinds of candles you can use in your wedding decor:

• Pillar Candles: You can add a dramatic flair to a centerpiece by using pillar candles of varying heights. These are free-standing, thick, round, square or hexagonal columns, which can be plain or decorated. A great idea of using pillar candles could be to tie thick ribbon around the candle and use a bunch of these candles in varied heights, or use them in a secured hurricane glass, surrounded by flower petals. These make excellent centerpieces for guest tables or even sweet heart tables.

Pillar Candles used in varying heights

Hurrican Candles

• Votives: Votives are short round candles displayed in a cup or a votive holder that holds liquified wax residue. They come in many colors. Votive holders come in colored glass, crystal, wood, bamboo, stone and plastic. Hanging votives make a gorgeous centerpiece. Votives are usually hung on natural trees or metal trees, which is an adequate size for the tables. Votives can also be used to accent centerpieces or even as favors.

Hanging Votives

Stemmed Votive

• Tealights: Tealights are very small, short candles, customarily contained in a metal or plastic base. These, again, can be used to accent centerpieces or even on the placesettings as a decorative piece.

Tealights used as centerpieces

Hanging Tealights

• Lanterns: Moroccon style lanterns are very colorful and can add glamor to an Indian wedding. Candles, when placed inside the lantern, creates a great ambience. These can be hung on sheperd hooks along the aisle, or just placed on your reception guest tables to create a romantic atmosphere.

Lanterns

• Floating Candles: Think about using tall cylindrical or square glass vases of varying heights and placing floating candles in them. These look gorgeous and are perfect centerpiece for a sweetheart table. Consider tinting the water with food coloring or adding glass pebbles, leaves, orchids, rocks, sparkeles or marbles to the water.

Floating Candles

• Tapers: Tall and thin, also known as dinner candles, can be placed on candelabras and placed on guest dinner tables.

Tapered Candles used in centerpieces

• Gels:  Gel candles are soft and transparent candles which hold decorative wax items inside. These can make for unique favors or centerpiece accents.

Gel Candle used as favor

Next week we will have another interesting post along with a really cool giveaway. Keep an eye out!

Weddings are all about details. The more attention you pay to these details, the more things will run smoothly. These days, a wedding website is an important detail which you can’t afford to miss. It makes wedding planning easier for you, as well as makes things convenient for your guests. Typically, the link to your wedding website will be shared on your Save-the-Dates and/or formal wedding invitation.

So what should a wedding website be like? What information should it include? You might want to pick colors for your wedding website close to your wedding colors. Here is a list of things which you could include in your wedding website:

1. “How we met”: A lot of couples have a section about how the couple got together. Usually, it would have a separate versions by the bride and the groom. This can be brief and does not have to include a lot of personal detail.
2. “The Proposal”: In this the bride usually talks about he proposed. Again, personal details can be kept to minimum.
3. Wedding Details: Information about all the wedding functions, different venues, maps and directions.
4. RSVP: On your wedding website, you could have an option for your guests to RSVP. This is very convenient for the guests and also lets you know instantly who all will be attending.
5. Gift Registry: A link to your gift registry and information on where to ship the gifts is appropriate to put on the wedding website.
6. Photos: Some couples like to put pictures of themselves, typically engagement portraits, on their wedding website.
7. Guestbook: Often times, couples will have a guestbook for their guests to sign and send them good wishes.

The next question that you may have: How do I go about creating a wedding website? You do not have to be a computer nerd to create a wedding website. You could create it from scratch if you wanted, but these days there are a number of websites which provide free wedding website templates to start from. You just have to plug in information and your wedding website will be ready to go. We will list features of some of the free websites that allow you to create your wedding website:

1. eWedding:
   • Photo Albums
   • Audio and Video
   • Unlimited Events
   • RSVP Management
   • Polls and Quizzes
   • Email Lists
   • Intro Music
   • Password Protection
   • Unlimited Updates
   • Unlimited Support
   • Available for free for one year
   
2. Wedding Wire:
   • Custom URL
   • Unlimited Pages
   • Apps
   • Designer Templates
   • Flash Intros
   • Music
   • Online RSVP
   • Gift Registy
   • 100 MB of storage
   • Audio and Video
   • Photo Albums
   
3. The Knot:
   • Personal web address on TheKnot.com
   • Unique designs
   • Tell your story
   • Share your gift registry
   • Upload photos
   
4. First Phera: This is a website specifically for Indian Weddings
   • Indian Website Designs
   • User Friendly Interface
   • Share Photos and Videos
   • Manage RSVP
   • Customizable Designs
   • Personal Domain Name
   • Password Protection