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Things You Must Know About Kerala Bridal Make-Up

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Kerala Bridal Make Up

When you think about a Kerala bride, there are a few things which you always recall in your memory like a beautiful kanchipuram white saree with golden border and the bride wearing heavy gold jewelry. However, with different culture and traditions across the southern states, you still find various unique things in their rituals and Kerala wedding customs. Let’s take a close look at the some of the important things of Kerala bride make-up for marriage.

Special hairdo: Generally, you can easily see a Hindu Kerala Malayali bride in braiding hair or pinning some hair then leaving the rest to cascade. They also love to decorate their hair-buns and hairdo with fresh strings of jasmine flowers and a gold mangtikka to decorate the forehead. But, if it’s a Christian Kerala bride, then you see her wearing a nice white veil and a tiara for her hair.

It’s all about gold jewelry: Gold is an integral part of Kerala matrimonial rituals and you can’t imagine a Kerala bride without gold jewelry. Gold clad bride symbolizes the financial status of the bride’s family. You can easily notice bride wearing more than two-three heavy long necklaces. You can see many Kerala brides wearing kasu mala, a kind of gold necklace made of gold shaped coins and its length touches the waistline of the bride. It signifies the financial status of the girl’s family and one of the primary pieces of jewelry worn by Malayali brides from prominent families.

Gold chain: The gold chain is another important jewelry piece for bride. It may vary in shape, size, weight and length as well. Some of the traditional chains are Poothali, Elakkathali, Manonmani and Kuzhimini. These chains can enhance your overall looks and compliment your beauty and you can consider these as important part of your bridal jewelry.

Temple jewelry: This jewelry is very popular among Kerala brides. This temple jewelry have idols of Gods and Goddesses. It is studded with semi-precious stones in red, green and white along with different colored stones.

Minnukettu/Mangalsutra: The tradition of Mangalsutra or popularly known as Minnukettu in Kerala is a Hindu custom adaptation by Syrian Christian from Kerala. It is similar as mangalsutra in any Hindu wedding. Its design generally consists of a small leaf pendant made of gold. You can also see a cross on it made of different  beads. It is looped through thread made from twenty one threads taken from the bride’s wedding saree. After seven days of wedding, this is put in a gold chain and worn as a symbol of marriage.

Kamarband, an essential jewelry: This is one of the most essential jewelry worn by all Kerala brides. It is a mandatory custom to wear this kamarband on her waist and add definition to the kasuvu saree.

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Easy Tips To Get More ‘Interest’ In Your Matrimonial Profile

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Hindu Wedding Rituals: Traditional & Fun-Filled!

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Hindu Wedding Rituals

Wedding rituals are holds special place in Hindu family. Generally, hindu people also call it ‘Vivah’ and the wedding rituals are known as ‘Vivah Sanskar’. Hindu marriages take place all over India and even loads of Hindu’s who are settled abroad still prefer Hindu marriage traditions.  Hindu marriage has different rituals to follow in different regions, different color themes and ceremonies as well. Mainly you can divide these rituals in three main categories: pre-wedding rituals, wedding rituals and post wedding rituals. A lot of importance is given rituals and traditions in Hindu weddings. Here, we are discussing the seven most common and popular rituals of Hindu wedding.

Ganesh pooja: Most of the Hindu families begin their wedding rituals by invocation to God Ganesha, the Hindu god of wisdom and salvation. The main logic of invoking him was to remove all future obstacles from the wedding ceremonies. You can perform a Ganesh pooja anywhere from a few days before the wedding day.

Arrival of barat: The wedding procession from the groom’s side which include groom’s family members, relatives and friends. Barat is also known as vara yatra, which has a long procession including band, dhol and other drums. The bride’s parents, brother, male members of the family greet them with akshat, tilak, aarti and garland and welcome them to the wedding venue.

Jaimala ceremony: This is the first ceremony is generally conducted after receiving the barat. The bride and groom exchange garland. After jaimala, the bride and groom proceed for other wedding ceremonies.

Kanyadan ritual: The bride is generally led to the wedding mandap by her brothers or maternal uncle, where the groom waits for her with her parents. The bride’s parents offer their daughter in marriage in a pious and solemn ritual known as kanyadan in Hindu matrimonyHer parents wash their feet with milk and water purifying them for their new life together. Hindu bride and groom hold their hands open and the father of the bride holds his open palm over their hands. The mother of the bride then pours water over her husband’s hand that subsequently falls on the hands of the bride and groom.

Mangalsutra bandhan and sindoor ceremony: Groom adorns bride’s neck with the auspicious mangalsutra, symbolizing good luck, love, commitment and care for rest of the life. Groom also applies kumkum on bride’s forehead as wedding ritual. This is a very important wedding ritual in Hindu marriage.

Saat phere/ saptapdi: In this ritual, the bride and groom take seven rounds to the sacred fire of havan. This is very important ritual and takes place tying the mangal sutra. Every phera is important and has its special meaning. After this ritual the bride-and-groom are lowfully wedding.

Aashirwad: This is the symbol of end of the wedding rituals. After completing the saat phera, the bride and groom touches the feet of their elders and take blessings.

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Some Unique Wedding Rituals Across The World: Extraordinary & Interesting!

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Different countries have different wedding rituals, some are sweet, some are confusing and some are funny. But, these rituals give you a sense of joy, togetherness and bind the people together. Knowing the different wedding rituals is really interesting. India is not the only county where you find and noticed different wedding rituals, but across the world you can notice unique wedding rituals making their wedding customs different from others. Let’s take a look at some of the most interesting and extraordinary wedding rituals across the world.

Mauritania wedding ritual, fatter wife for god luck: Generally most of the girls want to look slim and beautiful in their wedding dress. But, in Mauritania, a fatty, plump, full-bodied wife is said to signify good luck and prosperity in a marriage. Therefore, the family members of the girl often forced her to become fatter for the wedding day. Sometimes, it causes them endless illness and health issues because of sudden increase in the weight.

South Korea, beating the groom’s feet: In South Korea, the rituals of beating the groom’s feet takes place after the wedding ceremony. In this ceremony, the groom’s friends remove his shoes and tie his feet together with a rope of sash. They then lift his legs off the ground and start beating the soles of his feet with a stick or dried yellow corvine. They believe that it will make the groom stronger before the first wedding night. It is more a kind of fun tradition, where the friends and family members check the strength of the groom by doing so. Even they also ask different questions and quizzes to check his knowledge.

France, drinking the leftover from toilet bowl: This is probably one of the most weird and unique custom in its nature. Once the wedding ceremonies are over, the family members and friends of the bride collect left-overs and then stuff it in a toilet bowl. Once they fill the toilet bowl with it, they enter the couple’s room and threaten that they will not leave until and unless the couple drinks it.

Malaysia, newly wedded couple can’t use toiled: In Malaysia, the Tidong community don’t allow the newly wedded couple to use the toilet after wedding. They are not allowed to go to bathroom for three days. The family members keep a close watch on the couple and they are allowed to have minimal amount of food and drinks. If they break this custom they supposedly brings bad luck to the couple, in the form bad luck, in the form of broken marriage, death of their children or infidelity.

Kenya, spitting on the bride:  This is another unique and bizarre wedding rituals of Massai from Kenya. When the people of this community held any wedding, the bride’s head is shaved and lamb fat and oil is applied on her head. After all the wedding rituals, the father of the bride blesses his daughter by spitting on her head and breast. Generally, we consider spitting as symbol of disgrace, but here the custom is regarded as blessing and brings good luck and fortune in her life. After this ritual, the newly wedded bride leaves her home with the groom and doesn’t look back.

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No More Big, Fat Weddings-No More Extravaganza, Lok Sabha Asks To Cap On Guests

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A recent bill placed in the Lok Sabha seeks to put a limit on the number of guests to be invited and different cuisines and dishes to be served in wedding to check ‘ show of wealth’. They also ask for a contribution towards marriages of poor girls from those who will spend more than Rs. 5 lakhs in wedding.

According to the bill introduced by the Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan, if any family spends more than Rs. 5 lakhs on a wedding, it has to contribute 10 per cent of the amount on marriage of the girls from poor families.

This Marriages (Compulsory Registration and Prevention of Wasteful Expenditure) Bill, 2016, may be taken up as private member’s bill in the upcoming Lok Sabha session.

Rajneet told that the main objective of introducing this bill is to prohibit extravagant and wasteful expenditure on marriages and to enforce simpler solemnization.

She further added, “Great importance should be assigned to the solemnization of marriage between two individuals. But unfortunately, these days a tendency of celebrating marriages with pomp and show and spending lavishly growing in the country.”

“These days, marriages are more about showing off your wealth and as a result, poor families are under tremendous social pressure to spend more. This is needed to be checked as it is not good for society at large.”

She also mentioned that “if any family intends to spend more than Rs 5 lakh towards expenditure on marriage, such family shall declare the amount proposed to be spent in advance to the appropriate government and contribute 10 per cent of such amount in a welfare fund which shall be established by the appropriate government to assist the poor and Below Poverty Line families for the marriage of their daughters.”

The bill says that once this proposed legislation comes into force, all marriages shall be registered within 60 days of the solemnization. It also requested government to fix an upper cap for guests and relatives and number of dishes to be served and the same criteria will be implemented on the reception held thereafter as it may help in minimizing the wastage of food items in the wedding.

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