Category: Fun Facts
A Quick Guide to Finding the Perfect Wedding Vendors: Tips for a Seamless Celebration Start Early: Popular vendors often get booked well in advance, so start your search as soon as possible to ensure availability. Set a Budget: Determine your budget for each vendor type and stick to it. This will help you narrow down […]
Beautiful people, crowded dance floors, great food, and an open bar – typically, these are all on the menu for many Punjabi weddings. However, there is much more than that. In this post, we are going to break down the Sikh wedding week, event by event. Keep reading, if you want to learn more! Table […]
Wedding festivities and rituals are deeply integrated into various cultures within the Indian Subcontinent. These traditions vary by region and community. Bengali weddings are amongst the most intricate and symbolic traditions that come out of South Asia. While the staple of a Bengali wedding follows a specified format of differing events– traditions vary in regards […]
Welcome to our first wedding comic issue. We’ve titled it, “Loki ki kain gey?”, which translates into “What will people say?”. Our South Asian communities have so many wonderful aspects to them. However, there are many aspects of our culture that need to be fixed. We asked our Instragram followers for the most absurd gossip […]
Before we dive into the culture and wedding traditions of the Siddi people, an Afro-South Asian community, we wanted to preface this post with why we are doing it. Nearly a month ago, many of us were expressing our support for racial inequality and the Black Lives Matter movement on social media. Instagram was flooded […]
For this blog post, Farawayland Weddings shared a few wedding traditions unique to the Parsi community. The term, Parsi, is a term used in South Asia to refer to people following the Zoroastrian faith. Without going too much into a historical discussion, Parsis came from modern-day Iran during the 8th-10th century, to avoid religious persecution. To […]
I am sure this question surfaces A LOT – it is pretty simple, actually. I would say the obsession started around the age of 18 when I discovered wedding highlights videos on YouTube. Growing up I would dream about my wedding day, and I got such happiness out of watching these videos that it became […]
An interactive timeline that takes lets you explore the history of the Lehnga.