I am back!!! and happily married ![]()
A lot of girls have been messaging me and asking for information. So I thought it was time I posted my reviews for everything. Here it goes
Outfits: Barat outfit was from **Zardozi **and the rest were from different shops at liberty (dupatta gali). His sharwani and mendhi outfit were from shop at the Dulha House by mall road.
Makeup:
Mendhi day by Allenora (party makeup – 5k). I HATED their service. I was asked to show up at 2 pm which I did, my mistake. I waited until 5pm and no one had started any work on me. When I asked the manager why they asked me to show up at 2, she gave me 2 reasons: 1 that no one actually shows up at 2 and second that waiting is a part of the whole experience. I was super upset, they wasted 3 hours. I asked again and this time the manager yells out to find out who is my makeup artist. The makeup artist yells backs and says that I have really bad skin that’s why they don’t want to apply the makeup too early. I was so embarrassed…this was in front of 8-10 other ppl. So the makeup finally started at 5 and was don’t at 5:35. At the time of my appointment I had asked them if fake eyelashes would be included with the party makeup and was told yes. But at the time of my makeup the artist first stated that since I have such nice and long eyelashes…I don’t need fakes once…and when I pushed to get them I was told they are not included.
Barat by Ather Shahzad: (makeup and service 60k + 6K) I loved their service. From the first day I went for my service, they treated me like a queen. The ladies are very polite and they are not pushy about selling their products. Shahzad is super nice. I was told to show up at 2, which again I did. They started on me right away. Shahzad showed up ard 3ish and was finish ard 4ish. I loved my makeup and so did every one else ![]()
Valima by Madeeha (Siffat .-don’t know the price) This was different then the first two places, but a good experience. There were abt 8-10 brides, and the ladies worked on all of us simultaneously. Because of which each bride only waited 10-15 min. Siffat was nice and really listened to me. For my barat day Shahzad had used a peach shade lipstick and dark green eye shadows…which I didn’t think about at the time but caused a little issue for the valima makeup. I wore a emerald green outfit
But I asked her to use black and silver for the eyes and a pink/reddish shade for the lips. She did a great job.
Photoshoot was from AFZL, but only for barat day. They did an excellent job. They charged 28k for the couple shoot and additional 7k for the CD. I loved the fact that they changed the back ground so many times. Since I was still day time (6ish) we actually went out side for some pictures too (back yard)…those turned out awesome. We needed the album in two weeks and they finished it in 10 days.
Mendhi was at Zauj: Nice and clean hall, great food but awful manager/owner. We hired our own stage decorator and the manager wouldn’t let him work at the hall. He had to wait until 6pm for start the stage and the function was supposed to start at 7. Thank god for my inlaws who showed up at 8:30
Later on the manger argued with my family for additional money for that extra hour he let us use the hall. At the time of the booking we had told him that we will be bring in our decorator and he mentioned nothing about timing at that time. Anyways, we didn’t pay him anything extra.
Barat was at Liberty castle. I LOVED this place. There customer service was great. I used their decorator for the centerpieces and stage and they did an excellent job. The decoration was stunning The food was good. They were really good to work with as well. I called them from here (US) and they gave me the same rate at my inlaws got when they visited in person. I exchanged centerpieces idea with them thrgh emails and once i got their they had a piece ready for me to see. They are very professional and very easy to work with.
Valima was at Sapphire hall: The food was great here, the decoration was minimal, but that could be cause that’s how my in-law wanted it. Overall I liked the hall.
The flower decorator was awesome and VERY reasonable with pricing. BUT he told me that he is planning to move to another country (to work with his Uncle or something)…so if you wedding is in the next few months then I can provide you his information. He made my flower jewelry, other flower jewelry that we needed during the wedding, mayyoun stage and mendhi stage.
I will be getting my CD of pictures by the 24 and will have better pictures of the stages and stuff then. Ask me for those then Here are pictures of my outfits: