Your bags to carry to your new home

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Your bags to carry to your new home

• By Lisa

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• Recently, in a get-together I had a chance to
  meet one of my friends Shreya. She had got
  recently married and we had attended her wedding.
  In our conversation, she was very much curious to
  know that how we enjoyed her wedding. She was
  eagerly recalling her wedding memories and I was
  enjoying listening her. I asked her why in most
  of the videos she is captured with face down. She
  told that she was carefully watching her steps
  while walking on the Dias as she had put up the
  heels for the first time to match the height of
  her spouse.

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• A little precaution from Shreya would have
  avoided this. As she knew that she had to wear
  the heels for the first time hence she could
  have practiced wearing the heels well before the
  marriage and this could have made her comfortable
  in her footwear on her wedding day.

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• By virtue of nature, we tend to miss some small
  but important points in the marriage excitement
  and this may bring disappointment and/or
  embarrassment to you during your wedding. Below
  we have thoughtfully captured some very useful
  tips for you to take care which if followed will
  not bring any unwanted moment in your wedding. We
  are sure you would never like to be another
  Shreya.

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Respect Time

• There are very few of us who manage their time
  well. Many of us have the habit of postponing the
  things to their last stage. For marriage
  preparations, it can be very dangerous. For
  buying a single item you make take the entire day
  as marriage shopping is a specialized shopping.
  Naturally, for your specialized shopping, you
  would like to see and evaluate multiple shops for
  a single item and then would decide to buy. If
  you would not have ample time for your search and
  selection you might end up buying something at
  high cost and you may also not like the item
  much. Having time in hand would benefit you in
  multiple ways like you would be able to bargain
  better as you are not in hurry, you would not be
  stressed and tensed which would keep your health
  right and you would enjoy your shopping. Hence,
  start your shopping and preparations as soon as
  possible and respect time.

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Dresses/Blouses stitching and trial

• Sometimes available standard sizes do not fit you
  hence you decide to buy unstitched material to
  get it stitched as per your measurement. If you
  are buying a Saree/Lehnga you need to get your
  blouses/cholis stitched. Ladies dress/blouse
  stitching is a tedious job and you are always
  anxious that whether your tailor would be able to
  stitch properly or not. There are high chances
  that the stitching may be wrong beyond correction
  and in that case your costly dresses/sarees
  become useless for you. Hence, you should not
  take any chances in deciding the correct and
  trained tailor. Do some research to zero on some
  two or three trained tailors in your city buy
  some less costly regular dress/blouse material
  and give this first for stitching to the selected
  trained tailors. From this sample stitching you
  would be able to decide that from whom you can
  get your wedding dress/blouse stitched. Always
  try your stitched material first before accepting
  the delivery and paying the full amount, any
  required correction can be done easily and faster
  at this time as once you accepted and paid in
  full then generally the tailors do not lend an
  ear on your complaints.

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Your inner-wear

• Wedding shopping generally includes a number of
  inner-wear pairs. Some of you might have a habit
  of putting any new inner-wear only after a wash.
  If you need to wash before wearing then plan it
  suitably ahead of your wedding day. It is not
  wise to wait for the last day to wash as it would
  be much optimistic to believe that climate would
  always be fine and you can dry it in the sun.
  Hence, plan any washing accordingly so that you
  get enough time to get it completely dry. Be
  cautious of wearing any wet/moisture inner-wear,
  as it can get you itching/infections which would
  be embarrassing and may make you medically unfit.

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Your beauty

• While you are on the shopping spree and/or busy
  in other wedding preparations, it is quite
  obvious that you may miss your regular beauty
  care. However, as a 'Would-be bride' you need to
  take special care for your skin, face and hairs.
  A natural glow and freshness is always far better
  than what you may aspire to get from your
  make-up. So, instead of ignoring yourself and
  thinking you would manage everything with makeup
  better follow some well known practices to get a
  natural body glow which is persistent and not
  short-lived like your make-up.

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• Avoid going out in the hot sun. Plan your
  shopping in the evening to be away from direct
  sun-rays. In case you need to go out in the sun,
  carry your umbrella and wear sun-screen with good
  SPF (Sun Protection Factor).
• Water is the best cleansing agent for your body.
  Drink at least 4-5 litres of water in a day. This
  would help to remove impurities from your body
  which would naturally add glow to your skin.
• Be relaxed and do some meditation. Even just
  chanting 'OM' and deep breathing can do wonders
  and would create 'Aura' around you.
• A simple regular exercise or just walking will
  keep blood circulation proper in your body and
  would help you to stay healthy.
• Take balanced diet with right proportion of
  proteins eat plenty of fresh fruits, salad and
  green leafy vegetables.
• Take sound sleep for at least 8-9 hours to
  avoid/reduce dark circles under your eye.
• Apply lukewarm oil to your hairs and scalp, keep
  it for some time and then wash. This would help
  in rejuvenating your hairs.

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Saree/ Lehanga draping

• Nowadays trend of wearing Saree is less as
  putting on a Saree takes time as compared to
  putting on a western wear and/or a Salwaar
  Kameez. However, as per the Indian culture you
  need to wear heavy Saree /Lehanga on your wedding
  day. Generally, most of us are not aware of how
  to drape a Saree and hence we hire a professional
  to drape us in our wedding dress on our wedding
  day. However, professional help is not available
  always hence you must learn Saree draping (at
  least in normal style) yourself. Start learning
  much prior to your wedding day and try walking,
  sitting, leaning, eating etc while in a Saree
  this would make you comfortable in Saree and
  would avoid any embarrassing moment when you put
  your heavy wedding Saree /Lehanga on your wedding
  day. As per Indian culture, you need to wear
  Saree in your in-law's home if you would know
  how to drape it, you would not only get
  appreciations in your new home but you would look
  beautiful also in Saree.

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Your shopping list

• Planning always helps in saving time, money and
  energy. For different items you need to buy you
  would be required to visit different markets in
  the city. Also, there could be the possibility
  that the same item would be available at high
  price in one market but at the lower price in the
  other market in the same city. Make your shopping
  list and thoughtfully put all the various items
  in your list which you wish to shop. Do collect
  some brief information that what items can be
  bought from which market where you can get the
  right quality with right price. Group the items
  in your list which can be bought from a single
  market. You can also create the priority that for
  which group you need to shop first and so on.
  Such a grouped list would reduce your visits to
  market, save you from getting stressed, save you
  from missing any items to shop and most
  importantly your shopping would be with the right
  quality and price.

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A day before your wedding

• A day before your wedding is the time for you to
  relax. As far as possible, never keep any pending
  things on you till this day, though others in
  your family would be busy arranging different
  things. Sit with your family and enjoy those
  moments at the most. If your wedding is in a
  different city make sure that you reach at the
  place 1-2 days prior as you may need time to get
  adjusted and to arrange your belongings at the
  new place. Relaxation, Meditation, Sound Sleep
  and No Stress on this day will help you get all
  the glow and natural smiles which you need the
  most next day.

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Talk to people

• Experience shows you the real picture. If any of
  your close friend, relative has got recently
  married then talk to them and try learning from
  their experiences. However, just do not go to
  anyone and ask for their experiences as too much
  different inputs might confuse you. To your close
  friends you would be able to ask your questions
  straight and without hesitation and that would
  get you instant answers. However, everyone has a
  different mindset, flexibility and limitations
  when they do their marriage preparations so do
  not blindly follow any suggestion, thoughtfully
  explore whether you can adopt that or not and
  then accordingly follow.

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Your bags to carry to your new home

• Initially for a few days, you would be shy and
  hesitating at your new home. Hence, make sure
  that in addition to the gifts, dresses, jewellery
  etc you carry the things which you need in your
  daily life. This would help you not to suffer in
  silence because of shyness and hesitation. It
  would be also wise to carry some chocolates
  cookies etc as anxiousness and excitement may
  make you feel hungry suddenly at odd times. Get
  everything which you wish to carry at one spot to
  ensure that nothing is left behind, and then you
  can pack these in the bags. Do not leave your bag
  packing for the last day, start packing a week
  before your wedding day as you would see that
  slowly your items list and number of bags would
  increase than what you would have thought
  earlier.

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Thank you

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