Hello people!!!
Ok, maybe you've already guessed what I'm blogging about today... Yep I watched it... And man was it hillarious!!! I was laughing so hard, I actually fell outta my chair... More than a couple of times (I may as well be honest and come out with the whole truth)...
If you haven't watched it yet, what are you waiting for? Shoo... Go on and get going, and watch it... I don't know if my reaction is thus as I'm also hoping to be a bride, and am having the same feelings and emotions as 'Liv' and 'Emma'... Gosh each time I see their reactions and how they are said to have dreamt about June weddings at the Plaza, I really can relate to that feeling... Coz I decided at the tender age of 13, that should I tie the knot, that I will definitely marry at a certain hotel, in my home town...
I especially was looking forward to the movie, as my favorite actress Anne Hathaway is a main character, and my personal opinion is that her acting is way ahead of Kate Hudson, although I must admit, I can't even imagine someone better to do the role of 'Liv' than her... The movie starts with a fairytale begining, with a beautiful friendship but don't get too comfortable with all the loyalty and love around you, coz catastrophy follows when the two brides to-be, come to logger heads about their wedding dates and venues, and each is determined to sit the other out... Heart breaks will follow... Friendships will be tested as all hell breaks loose, when two brides are at war with eachother...
Don't think any further, just watch it, believe me it has a happy ending and that's all that matters; to me anyhow... I end with the words of famous phychologist and best selling author of 'Mars and Venus on a date' John Gray
"Remember the dawn of a new day comes after the darkest moment of the night. Things may get darker but the light of love and relief will come"
~John Gray~
Till my next post... This is over and out!
~DesPeRatE BrIDe~
Friday, March 27, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Me back!!
Whoa... I know it's been actually ages since my first post... Well here I am back with some gossip... Well my birthday is around the corner, so I don't know whether to be happy or not... I don't feel 'especially' glad that I'm getting older, gosh when I was in my teens a birthday was always good news... Each year, I'd get more freedom and be allowed to do things which I was bidding my time for, now, I'm not loving it at all...
Anyways April is always a pretty hectic month here in Sri Lanka, we have the 'Sinhala Aluth Avurudha' (Sinhala New year) happening on the 13th and 14th, and this time thank God it's falling after easter... Oh yes, nearly forgot, easter is like 2 weeks away, and I need to make a confession before Easter is celebrated... Well although I never thought it would happen, little by little my wedding dates are approaching, and nothing has been done as yet... I still need to book my florists, photographers and beauticians for the bridal as well as the home-coming... But it's all exciting! Well before we know it, April will also vanish around the corner, and that's really turning up the heat a little bit...
I'm trying to shape up for the big day, and as I have sometime to do so, I'm vigilently following some workout vedios, and specially concentrating on firming and toning my body... As I'm marrying a buddhist, whereas I'm a catholic, we will be having both rituals to mark our happy day (Poruwa + Church ceremony)... I'm really happy about this, as I've always loved the Poruwa ceremony as well, and my friend are all jealous as I have the best of both events... :)
Other than concentrating on the planning phase of my big day, nothing much is at hand... Still it really is a long way away... Here in Sri Lanka, having a wedding is a huge deal, and needs a minimum of one year to plan and execute properly... Some hotels cannot be booked unless booking are made one year prior to the wedding date... Everything is priced ten times more than the actual price when it's for a wedding, and it's become a huge industry, from the wedding card invitations to the reception, and bridal clothes... Sometimes it's stressing to consider all the aspects of it, but it's great fun too...
Well that's all I can share of my humdrum exsistance for the time being, and till I post again, this is 'Adios Amigos'...
Anyways April is always a pretty hectic month here in Sri Lanka, we have the 'Sinhala Aluth Avurudha' (Sinhala New year) happening on the 13th and 14th, and this time thank God it's falling after easter... Oh yes, nearly forgot, easter is like 2 weeks away, and I need to make a confession before Easter is celebrated... Well although I never thought it would happen, little by little my wedding dates are approaching, and nothing has been done as yet... I still need to book my florists, photographers and beauticians for the bridal as well as the home-coming... But it's all exciting! Well before we know it, April will also vanish around the corner, and that's really turning up the heat a little bit...
I'm trying to shape up for the big day, and as I have sometime to do so, I'm vigilently following some workout vedios, and specially concentrating on firming and toning my body... As I'm marrying a buddhist, whereas I'm a catholic, we will be having both rituals to mark our happy day (Poruwa + Church ceremony)... I'm really happy about this, as I've always loved the Poruwa ceremony as well, and my friend are all jealous as I have the best of both events... :)
Other than concentrating on the planning phase of my big day, nothing much is at hand... Still it really is a long way away... Here in Sri Lanka, having a wedding is a huge deal, and needs a minimum of one year to plan and execute properly... Some hotels cannot be booked unless booking are made one year prior to the wedding date... Everything is priced ten times more than the actual price when it's for a wedding, and it's become a huge industry, from the wedding card invitations to the reception, and bridal clothes... Sometimes it's stressing to consider all the aspects of it, but it's great fun too...
Well that's all I can share of my humdrum exsistance for the time being, and till I post again, this is 'Adios Amigos'...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A New Begining
Hey there people...
I was encouraged to join this blog after reading a similar blog of a fellow blogger in which she had described all the wedding planning phases and put up pictures... I really enjoyed reading her posts, I thought since I too am in the planning phase of my wedding, it would be great to include my up... my downs... my highs and my lows in regard to this part of my life... I live in Sri Lanka where the wedding preparation has become quite a gala event here... I'm feeling more and more tensed by the minute and it's a big responsibility, I keep getting bits and peices of advice from relatives, friends, my parents and my hubby to be as he's the last to be married from his family and I'm the first, I feel really confused and full with information which I feel are swimming around my mind at any given time, but isolating the information long enough for me to act on it is what is lacking at the moment... lol!!!
In the olden days, the wedding was a most intimate affair with a few very close relatives and friends, often the wedding was held at the brides home, and the homecoming in the grooms... There were never huge albums but maybe a few shots of the bride and groom and the bridal party... Now weddings have been commercialised beyond reasoning, and it has become a money making industry... The prices even for the sari blouse, is triple the amount you pay for a normal sari blouse when it's the bridal sari blouse... lol... Sometimes I wish I was a bridal designer instead of a graduate in Business Administration...
My mother always tells me how simply and stress freely they married, and casts up to me each time we talk about the wedding, how the wedding day is not a fashion show, and it's not about keeping up 'appearances' but sometimes when you get caught up with the wedding buzz it's hard not to "keep up with the Joneses" lol... Most of my school pals are on the brink of marriage, and all of us are one after the other being labeled 'married'... It seems so grown-upish and old to be married, and I can never feel thus, as at heart I shall always be sweet sixteen... But I do long to be married and spend time with my would be hubby as we never have the opportunity of it before marriage... In Sri Lanka couples have a strict code of morality to follow, 99.9% have never lived together nor have engaged in pre-marital sex, it's regarded to be a disgrace to have an unmarried girl bear child without consummating a marriage, and virginity is of the utmost importance to a girls character and well being... I'm not saying there are no couples who live very wild lives, and do not conform to traditional Sri Lankan moral code, but a majority are still 'old school' as I like to call it, and although these values are being washed away by the up comming generations I'm still real glad that the value of these old traditions are still kept alive among most people in this country...
Ooooo-K... Well I got side tracked a bit, sorry... But I do hope to focus on many things other than my wedding planning on this blog... So stay tuned for my next installment... Till then... Smile and be happy... Peace...
DesPerAte BriDe
I was encouraged to join this blog after reading a similar blog of a fellow blogger in which she had described all the wedding planning phases and put up pictures... I really enjoyed reading her posts, I thought since I too am in the planning phase of my wedding, it would be great to include my up... my downs... my highs and my lows in regard to this part of my life... I live in Sri Lanka where the wedding preparation has become quite a gala event here... I'm feeling more and more tensed by the minute and it's a big responsibility, I keep getting bits and peices of advice from relatives, friends, my parents and my hubby to be as he's the last to be married from his family and I'm the first, I feel really confused and full with information which I feel are swimming around my mind at any given time, but isolating the information long enough for me to act on it is what is lacking at the moment... lol!!!
In the olden days, the wedding was a most intimate affair with a few very close relatives and friends, often the wedding was held at the brides home, and the homecoming in the grooms... There were never huge albums but maybe a few shots of the bride and groom and the bridal party... Now weddings have been commercialised beyond reasoning, and it has become a money making industry... The prices even for the sari blouse, is triple the amount you pay for a normal sari blouse when it's the bridal sari blouse... lol... Sometimes I wish I was a bridal designer instead of a graduate in Business Administration...
My mother always tells me how simply and stress freely they married, and casts up to me each time we talk about the wedding, how the wedding day is not a fashion show, and it's not about keeping up 'appearances' but sometimes when you get caught up with the wedding buzz it's hard not to "keep up with the Joneses" lol... Most of my school pals are on the brink of marriage, and all of us are one after the other being labeled 'married'... It seems so grown-upish and old to be married, and I can never feel thus, as at heart I shall always be sweet sixteen... But I do long to be married and spend time with my would be hubby as we never have the opportunity of it before marriage... In Sri Lanka couples have a strict code of morality to follow, 99.9% have never lived together nor have engaged in pre-marital sex, it's regarded to be a disgrace to have an unmarried girl bear child without consummating a marriage, and virginity is of the utmost importance to a girls character and well being... I'm not saying there are no couples who live very wild lives, and do not conform to traditional Sri Lankan moral code, but a majority are still 'old school' as I like to call it, and although these values are being washed away by the up comming generations I'm still real glad that the value of these old traditions are still kept alive among most people in this country...
Ooooo-K... Well I got side tracked a bit, sorry... But I do hope to focus on many things other than my wedding planning on this blog... So stay tuned for my next installment... Till then... Smile and be happy... Peace...
DesPerAte BriDe
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