Archive for February, 2010

Who wore it worse?

Feb 28, 2010 Fashion & Bridal Wear, People & Parties

Is it just us or are you as disappointed with the way these leading ladies wore their sarees at the 2010 Filmfare Awards? Whoever said you can’t go wrong with a saree couldn’t be more wrong. From bad blouses to bad draping, who in your opinion was a bigger disaster with her saree?

(Left to Right) Mugdha, Udita, Sophie, Kalki

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When ‘Up in the Air’ young women married Hi-Flying Businessmen

Feb 24, 2010 Marriage & Wedding Trends

For many years an Airhostess career was most aspirational for beautiful, confident young women in India; a glamorous profession that gave them the opportunity to travel around the world and meet their future life partners. In the 60s, Air hostesses’ Parmeshwar Godrej, Maureen Wadia and Sunita Garware married leading industrialists; Later, biscuit baron Rajan Pillai married Taj receptionist turned Airhostess Nina. Vijay Mallya met his first wife Sameera, an Airhostess on-board an Air India flight. Well-travelled, exposed to life in foreign shores, stylish and articulate, air hostesses fit into the “rich wife” role perfectly. And many young women aspired to work as an Air hostess with Air India. Fast forward to 2000 and later; the emergence of several airlines, affordable air travel and mushrooming of Air Hostess academies, has meant many more women are opting for a lucrative flying career to serve the increasing number of air travellers; except that it’s no more an aspirational choice.  Writer Vir Sanghvi commented in one of his columns: “I can’t really see any of today’s hostesses marrying into a Wadia or Godrej family. Let’s put it this way: It isn’t that we look down on Airhostesses. It’s more that we’ve stopped looking up to them.”

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Honeymoon on Rails

Feb 21, 2010 Marriage & Wedding Trends

Looking to travel around India by Rail? UK based travel agency SDEL Enterprises specializes in luxury and budget holidays for Non- Indians/ NRIs interested in a honeymoon or holiday in India. Travel by Rail is the forte of this boutique agency, once described by Evening Standard Magazine as ‘the best travel agency in the world’. If you’re looking for special offers for travel by luxury trains like the Palace on Wheels, The Indian Maharajah and Golden Chariot get in touch with SDEL Enterprises immediately. The Wembley-based agency also makes special tailor-made travel arrangements for Wildlife holidays and travel in North India, South India and Nepal.

A well-known travel writer who is a regular client of SDEL states: “By far the best way to travel in India is by train and with 70,000 km of rail track and 7000 stations this is very easy to accomplish… all you need to do is get in touch with SDEL, buy an Indrail pass and reserve journeys along the length and breadth of India for as long as you like.”

To contact SDEL email info@indiarail.co.uk or call them on 0208 9033411

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Food features in Bride & Style magazine

Feb 21, 2010 Marriage & Wedding Trends

Bride & Style magazine is published by Delhi based Geetika Sharma. She also organises the popular Bride & Groom exhibition held in India and abroad. The latest issue of Bride & Style (Jan-March 2010) has the typical features on fashion, beauty and relationships, but what we specially liked in this issue were the features on Food—wedding cuisines, home recipes and your post wedding diet.

Well-known dietician Naini Setalvad has written an interesting article on what you should eat during your honeymoon—and what’s good to eat if you’re honeymooning in different parts of the world– China, France, New Zealand, Bangkok and Dubai. Valuable advice by Setalvad- when choosing a honeymoon destination, check what the brochure or website says about their kitchen. Do they offer you an Ayurvedic thali? Vegetable juices? Do they bake their own bread? Wherever you go, try to begin your meal with a salad. If you’re eating soup, make sure they don’t add cream. If you’re eating at resorts with a large no of diners, be specific about what you eat and what you don’t.

The other interesting food articles include ‘menu mania’ by Vijaya Sharma—on the low-oil delicacies and exotic global weddings served at Indian weddings. ‘Chef’s choice’ where master chefs talk about what they love to cook at home. IS Rawat of Jaypee Palace Hotel talks about Bhoonee Chaat while Rakesh Shetty of Ramada Plaza shares his recipe of Palak Patta Chaat. Jiggs Kalra tells us about the Tandoori Duck while Bijner of Tivoli Garden Hotel talks about his favorite Tomato Mozzarella Basil Salad.

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A Solitaire Selection Service from Tanishq

Feb 21, 2010 Fashion & Bridal Wear

Looking to choose buy a solitaire or an engagement ring! The traditional system of picking involved asking the jewellery salesman to show you the range of pieces—and more pieces. Until the salesman got tired or irritated, and his body language indicated ‘now make the purchase’. Now Tanishq, has introduced Tanishq Celeste– an innovative mechanism to let you browse through an online inventory of over 20,000 solitaires—so you choose that perfect solitaire from across the world, at the best price.

All one has to do is, walk into a Tanishq store and browse through the thousands of Solitaires online. This service is available only at select Tanishq retail stores.

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Minister saab weds in style

Feb 19, 2010 Celebrity Wedding Pictures

Neha Seth and Jitin Prasada’s (Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas) wedding at 14 Akbar Road was attended by the who’s who from the world of politics, business and media. Neha, who is a journalist by profession and hails from Lucknow, opted for a grand, yet traditional look— a red brocade saree with the pallu covering both shoulders. A big  maangtika in contrast green dotted her forehead. The good-looking groom Jitin Prasada, wore a well-cut sherwani with red buttons. He looked very happy and cheerful quite unlike other Grooms who sport a stern face at their Power Wedding.

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Power Packed Weddings @ Udaipur

Feb 17, 2010 Celebrity Wedding Pictures, Destination Weddings

The city of luxury holidays, played host to two big weddings this week; and both the brides were named Neha. Neha Hiranandani, daughter of construction magnate Surendra Hiranandani married Mumbai’s Varun Jalan, and Ahmedabad’s Neha Kataria wed Kolkata based Ankit Patni.

The Ahmedabad based Katarias hired the most-in-demand exclusive Wedding Planner– Ahmedabad based Saurabh Agarwal of Red Events. The Hiranandani wedding at the Leelas was planned and managed with the help of their office staff.

Guests tell us Neha’s makeup was done by Cory Walia and she wore the most hatke jewellery and bridal lehengas created by Tarun Tahiliani, Sabyasachi and JJ Valaya. On the wedding experience, one guest states: “The wedding was a most classy affair at the most luxurious locale- The Leela”. For Mumbai’s heavy-heights who couldn’t attend the wedding at Udaipur, the Hiranandanis host the wedding reception at the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai today.

Friends of the Hiranandanis are also talking in hushed tones about the absence of Priti Hiranandani, the bride’s mother at the wedding. Priti and Surendra Hiranandani divorced last year— Surendra is now seeing Alka Kapoor (actor Akshay Kumar’s sister), while Priti remarried recently. What apparently angered the Hiranandani family (including daughter Neha) is that Priti didn’t wait for her daughter Neha to marry, and decided to tie the knot earlier. So Priti Hiranandani was not even invited to her daughter’s wedding!

For the pheras, Neha Kataria wore an ornate, bling-bling outfit which some say was created by Delhi’s Anjalee and Arjun Kapur. And guests guess, that this ‘out of the world’ outfit, could have cost anywhere between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 6 lakh!

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Radhika Singal and Saurabh Dhoot wedding photos

Feb 17, 2010 Celebrity Wedding Pictures

Business tycoons and India’s super-rich were busy with Radhika Singal’s and Saurabh Dhoot’s wedding functions in Delhi and Mumbai. For the different functions, Radhika Singhal wore stunning creations by Ankur Batra, Tarun Tahiliani and Abu-Sandeep. But the one creation everyone loved was the extraordinary pink lehenga choli designed by Tahiliani. Says one of the guests: “The outfit I liked most was the Tahiliani pink lehenga choli with pink threadwork; and Ojas did a brilliant job with her makeup and hairstyling.”

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Just-married Television actress Ashita Dhawan shares her Wedding and Honeymoon pictures

Feb 16, 2010 Celebrity Wedding Pictures

TV actress Ashita Dhawan who married Shailesh Gulabani on January 20th last month is back from her honeymoon in Dubai and Mauritius. She shares with WeddingSutra.com some of her wedding and honeymoon pictures.

Seen here—pictures from the wedding where she wore a maroon anarkali suit. For the reception she picked a lavender corset and skirt. Says Ashita: “Both the creations were designed by my friend. And my makeup was done by Nilesh, who was recommended to me by my friend Malaika Arora.”

Ashita and Shailesh at the Cavali Club, Dubai, and in Mauritius.

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Hyatt owner’s son to wed

Feb 16, 2010 Celeb Weddings to Watch out for

15th May and 16th May will the busiest wedding days in Mumbai this year. Many couples are tying the knot on these two auspicious dates. Varun Saraf, son of construction magnate Arun Saraf is marrying Natasha Mittal, daughter of business tycoon Vinod Mittal (Laxmi Mittal’s brother). The crème-de-la-crème of Mumbai and London is looking forward to attending the wedding which many state will be ‘the wedding of the year’.

Natasha studied at Wharton, then worked at Morgan Stanley and is now working with her father in the Ispat group. Varun studied at Tufts and is now working with his father who also happens to be the owner of the Grand Hyatt hotel. Sources inform us that the Sarafs and the Mittals have been busy scouting for the best wedding vendors—for stuff from trousseau packing, wedding décor and innovative give-aways to the guests. Two of the wedding functions will be at Grand Hyatt itself while the other pre and post wedding functions will be held elsewhere—we too are curious to know the ‘what will be held where’ details so watch this space for more!

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