While deciding on my sangeet lehenga, I was facing a monstrous dichotomy- I wanted a fun, girly and glamorous lehenga, but I abhor stones, Swarovski and crystals! Now, if you’ve ever shopped for lehengas, you know my dilemma. Fun and sparkly lehengas I came across always had some kind of stones and the ones without … Continue reading
The Wedding Saree Story
How to design a perfect HydBride approved wedding saree in 17 easy steps: Think about how you always wanted to wear your mom’s wedding saree for yours and internally congratulate yourself on your luck for the easy but incredible choice While congratulating yourself, snicker thinking about how run-of-the-mill the other brides’ sarees are because … Continue reading
Of outfits and mantras…
In May 2012, when my parents announced my wedding date, the first thing that came to my mind was: What am I going to wear? I know how that sounds… shallow. But I’ve always been the kind of obsessed about clothes and what better time than now to do exactly that: obsess! And to my … Continue reading
Baaack!
I am back! Well, I’ve been back for almost a month now and can’t wait to spill everything! I promise I won’t go missing again (in case there is a one-in-a-million chance that an actual person is reading this)!
59 Days To Go! Progress Checklist
Just 59 days to go?? I can feel the panic rising up my stomach. But since I am far removed from the actual prep scene (oh the woes of a long-distance bride! Separate post on this later) I calm down seeing that my co-workers around me right now no one around me nearly half as … Continue reading
Skincare, Exercise and Diet
Now if there is one tag that has been attached to me for as long as I remember, its got be be – LAZY! Although I’ve done my best to fight the lazies (yes, that is a word in my vocabulary) since I moved to the US more than three years ago and am proud … Continue reading
The Events
Traditionally, Telugu wedding festivities are supposed to go on for 7 days!! For the sake of convenience, most Telugu weddings these days have not more than 5-6 events, a few of them combined. I initially wanted not more than 3 events, but it is turning out to be more than that. We still have to … Continue reading
Bridal Nightmares
I am in the car, on my way to my Sangeet. I look down at what I am wearing and am horrified! The lehenga I had envisioned turned out to be a drab, ill-fitted one with everything wrong! It was made of some kind of stiff artificial-looking silk that stood up like a tent. The … Continue reading
Introducing… The Cast!
The Queen Bee, Me: I suspect this is a cast member who will be featured most prominently in the blog (eye roll: ye-aahh, its my blog). I am in my mid-twenties and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am a marketing professional and aside from work I love to travel, cook, read and chill … Continue reading
70 Days Until ‘I Do’!
I have just 70 days to go for the D-Day! It all still feels very surreal to me and this very feeling is the cause for the inception of this blog. I’ve been contemplating starting a journal about all my wedding related checklists and trivia, but they are all muddled in different email drafts, Whatsapp … Continue reading
The Hyd Bride 