Secret Wedding Blog turns ONE!

Happy 1st birthday to Secret Wedding Blog! My beautiful little blog turns one today, I remember a year ago when I first set it up and was so eager to start building it. This ambition still remains and I have learnt a lot within the first year of developing the blog and keen on seeing how it grows. I feel like I’ve had this blog for ages, as I can’t remember what I did before it! Continue reading

Is it impossible to keep everyone happy at an Asian wedding?

I’m listening back to Nihal on bbc Asian network where he was discussing the topic -

Is it impossible to keep everyone happy at an Asian wedding?

If you haven’t been to an Asian wedding, you’re probably a bit confused. Back in the day the bride and groom’s families would invite pretty much everyone they know. Which is why Asian weddings are usually full of hundreds and hundreds of people. It’s a wedding, it’s not culturally acceptable not to invite your aunties, uncles, cousins etc. This topic arose because a bride walked out of her own wedding in India because the groom’s side were presented with chicken when they demanded mutton by the bride’s family. She walked out, and never returned! Continue reading