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oo fireworks display i quite like that idea !
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I honestly don't like most entertainment on shaadis...a wedding should be a special night celebrating your union together, not some variety show to make sure guests have something to watch while they stuff their faces with biryani. Most western weddings dont have entertainment besides dancing at the reception either.
Easy solution: have the nikkah before, and have one reception afterwards so that you dont have these pointless events where the only thing to do is eat; that way, rasmein like jootay churayi can be the entertainment. There are also customs to determine who will have the "upper hand" after marriage....I think one of them is finding a ring in a bowl of (uncooked) rice, does that sound familiar to anyone?
Agree with Sara as well, not a huge fan of choreographed dances... unless the dancers are good enough to be on So You Think You Can Dance? anyways :P in the latest wedding in my family, they made it a point to brag about the number of dances and medleys they had on the mehndi. The bride choreographed the dances herself! I thought it was really tacky, what ever happened to surprising the couple?
Anyways though, if you absolutely have to do this, some slideshows can be really cute and they put the emphasis back on the couple...I also went to a shaadi where they invited Moin Akhtar, a band and some singer who did her own versions of bollywood songs. The band and singer were ehh but Moin Akhtar was really hilarious and he incorporated the bride and groom into his act (jokes about marriage for example). The question game by stardust is a really cool idea too, its a tradition to do that in my friend's family but they do it at a family gathering before the wedding.
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Dhol players are good wedding entertainment but I think fire-breathers would be OTT. What do you think?
Haven’t been invited to a wedding where that happened, yet! 
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it looks like we r entertaining circus not wedding stupid idea
Fireworks at wedding
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with this idea at present. I really want to see this at a wedding.
What do you think?
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that's pretty spectacular, especially if they're set off when they pronounce you man and wife.
I wonder if you'd need big bucks to do something similar in Pakistan???
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Oooohhhhh yessssss ive always wanted an awsome firework display at my wedding it depends if its here or pakistan…but both places can source fireworks easily…altho pak wud cost less of course…
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i like the idea a lot. we had it at my aunts wedding in khi, it was pretty nice. i definitely wanna have it at the next family wedding.
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Yup, we had them on my cousins and mamu's wedding plenty of times in Lahore. The photography makes it even greater.
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this is Jews wedding pic,.. they can have like this.. they are rich... ;)
well.. it's quite cheap to have fireworks in Pakistan... but it's all about presentation .. and when to start doing fireworks.. you need a whole plan with timing to accomplish this..
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*** Sitar and tabla players:**
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i never liked the idea of gazal singers or sitar or tabla players... it makes the environment way too uncles type
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^ that’s completely not true! it depends entirely on who is playing the sitar. for my bro’s valima, we hired Prosad who is an awesome guy but more importantly, an amazing sitar player. everyone at the valima came up to him and to us to compliment the playing and it just transformed the entire environment into something much more fun. he plays very lively fusion sitar and also the bansuri- you can hear samples of his work on his website and trust me, “uncle’ish” is the LAST thing you think of! http://sitartoronto.com/
i highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend him! he’s pretty much the bomb shizzy in sitar players.
Yah Prosad is definitely amazing!!! I love his beats!! He’s not even that crazy pricey.
You can have a violinist too..check this guy out..he’s AMAZING!! He plays a mixture of Bollywood and english music…His name is Grenville Pinto!! Youtube it if this link doesn’t work…
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=10150214330705573&ref=mf
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great thread!
since our nikkah will be before the wedding day, on the wedding day just to add some of the oomph factor so it's not enter-eat-leave, and at the same time it's not a circus, some small things i'm going to have:
dhol guy: for the grooms entrance
bridesmaids walking in before me: for my entrance, dimmed lighting, spotlights etc
short speech by my dad: **thanking everyone for coming and announcing whats gonna happen
**cake cutting: so that ppl can eat the cake with their dessert
*food time - **served early so ppl dont go hungry*
speech by my sister accompanied by slideshow abt me:** short and sweet
speech by his sister accompanied by slideshow abt him: **short and sweet
**speech by my best friend
speech by his best friend
take lots of pictures
rukhsati
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what are the kids going to do?: **the ballroom i booked has a small room on the side which can fit 2 round tables of 10 each, going to set up a projector showing alvin and the chipmunks or something, label that this is the kids room so they stay busy and off my stage!
any suggestions girls?
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^ hire babysitters! if you're in toronto, i can refer you to the two awesome ladies who baby sat at my bro's valima- they took $120 for 4 hours (split between them, not $120 each) and we didn't see any kids all evening! they were having such a good time playing games with them and having fun- the parents were very grateful and the kids weren't bored and making a nuisance out of themselves.