My grandmother is the eldest of 8 sisters and 2 brothers and my wedding was a chance for 9 out of 10 of those siblings to get together! The picture above is all 8 sisters together for the first time since my grandmother got married! Can you imagine?? With my great grandparents passing away in the last year all of …

The name garba comes from the Sanskrit term Garba Deep. Garba, when translated, most closely resembles the English preposition inside, and Deep is a small earthenware lamp. For this reason, many traditional garbas are performed around a central lit lamp. Traditionally, either the lamp (the Garba Deep), or an image of Amba is placed in the middle of the concentric …

Our wedding festivities started off with a henna night for all of our family. Traditionally a henna night consists of the bride and her female family members and friends getting their hands painted and just hanging out. We however wanted to take this opportunity for both families to meet and mingle so that the rest of the functions would be …

I’ll admit growing up I dreamed of the perfect white dress wedding complete with a tiara and a veil. But come on as an Indian bride you get not one but at least three gorgeous dresses! I actually had four since we had four major events of the wedding together and believe it or not I purchased them all in …

So the first step of planning a wedding is of course the invitations. For us instead of having the same invitation the guy and the girl actually have different invitations. Since I made the trip to India to shop for the wedding I got to pick out both of them, which was actually a lot harder then it seems since …