Did you guys have flower haars/boutonniere for the boy’s side? Just for the groom or everyone in his family? And for the mehndi/shaadi/both days? we’re doing our nikkah at the mehndi if that matters. I’m wondering because I figured that’s what everyone did but his family is huge and there’s a ton of people and my mom said that she doesn’t want to do it unless we can get flowers for everyone because she doesn’t want some of the family members to get offended that they weren’t given importance vs others. I get what she’s saying but now I’m wondering what to do for the baraat arrival. Ideas?
I like the throwing flower petals when they arrive idea but I don’t know if people still do that.
When we got married on the nikaah i organised my sides button hole flowers boutiners lol cant spell it but i got my hubbys as i wanted him to have one in contrast to my bouquet.
Hubby organised his sides.
When he arrived on mehndi we did colorful confetti
Baraat day we just did flower petals thrown and colorful confetti. I avoided the whole maalaa haars as again my hubbys family is huge and fresh ones were expensive and fake ones i didnt like. On my cousins wedding they only put it on the groom and fed his parents mithai etc when they entered
Valima day husvand organised his families button holes while i did his because again i wanted a peacock feather incoroprated for him and couldnt leave thay to him lol
For the flower petals for the shaadi, did you use real ones? I’m looking at freeze dried and fake silk but I’'m scared they’ll look cheap. Hmm I like the confetti throwing idea at the mehndi…that might actually also work for the shaadi too but I want it to be classier so flower petals might be better!
Lol @ classier fair play although we had dholis welcoming the baraat it was a proper fun entry so it was confetti galore and roses in the air lol
We had silk petals and to be honest whose going to notice them? Theyre going to be thrown and walked all over. Plus fresh flowers cost a bomb. If it was pakistan where stuff is so easily available and cheaper i would have used fresh but no one is going to notice. The only thing people will be noticing is
A) who your groom is what he looks like and what hes wearing
B) what youre wearing and everyone else
c) what time you finally enter so food can be served
The small details will only really be appreciated by you. I wouldnt waste money on fresh petals. On my entry i didnt want anything just me my mum and brother down the aisle
omg the classy part came across totally wrong! That’s not what I meant! Yikes, sorry! I just meant that glittery stuff is going to probably not go really well with my venue/decor for the baraat (it’s more subdued) vs the mehndi where I’m going all out colorful.
Yeah, I looked up flower petals and OMGGGGosh they’re expensive. I have to do more research on this freeze dried flower stuff because I’m just now hearing about it.
Are you on instagram? Check out vanityfemme her sister is getting married and they have made a ‘carpet’ out of like twenty thousand petals using a glue gun!
checked with my venue and they’re not allowing confetti for the mehdni. I’m doing silk rose petals for the shaadi…
i’m trying to think of other options for boy’s family’s entrance…
since I’m doing red silk rose petals for the shaadi, maybe I can do different colored rose petals for the mehndi (green, yellow, blue – my mehndi colors)…or is that tacky? They’d function more as “oversized confetti” at that point than anything
My bhabhi spent a bucket load on flowers for her wedding.. nobody remembers , nobody cares. At her rukhsati, she remembered her flower arrangements, which we (the baraat) had to cart off to Mums place.
Seeing the men take off their boutonniere , and the ladies taking off their flower garlands, personally a huge waste of money, which could be spent elsewhere.
Many weddings, I see the ladies refuse the flower garlands or the flower bracelets, it also delays the baraat upon entering.
I personally think fresh flowers look nice as a bouquet etc and if its a small intimate wedding you can do table arrangements. But its so expensive
OP no one is going to bend down and pick ip the petals thrown to see if they are real or fake. No one cares so why worry
Grooms entrance just do the same have petals thrown mithai feeding and allow them to enter thats sufficient i feel. Unless the groom wants the whole dhol bajaana like my one did typical punjabis lol
Yeah, real flowers a no go. The ones that would go with my decor are way too expensive and I don’t even remember if the flowers were real at any of the weddings I’ve gone to. And there’s wayyyyyy too many people on his side to get flowers for everyone and my parents don’t want to only give them to one or two people so they said it’s better to give them to no one. and I don’t like the haars anyways because it covers the outfits and usually just clashes with everything.
haha Yeah he got a dhol player. So he’s gonna walk in with that (I totally forgot to ask and see if the venue even allows a dhol player…oops) but we wanted to welcome them with flower petals.
I just meant that glittery stuff is going to probably not go really well with my venue/decor for the baraat (it’s more subdued) vs the mehndi where I’m going all out colorful.