1.  Fine Dining

Reignite the romance by reserving seats in your spouse’s favourite place to dine. Greet them with flowers and pull out the chair for them because nothing can compete with charming old school romance! Have the time of your life whilst dining and making memories.

2. Staycation with your beau

Make the most out of Valentine’s week by taking your spouse out for a staycation. The cosy vibes with the gentle touch of nature paired with you and your Valentine, need we say more!

3. Surprise, surprise!!

Surprise them with a customized gift that they can cherish for the life to come! Be it a mug with their images on it or a custom-made calendar, everything with a personalized touch is sure to steal their heart all over again.

4. Balloons, candles and lots of love!

Make the extraordinary from the ordinary by simply decorating the room with balloons, flowers or candles. Whatever is your spouse’s favourite take that as a roadmap to their heart by decorating your room with it!

5. Self-prepared meal

Everyone loves food, right?! Something that never goes out of style is a candlelight dinner. From starters to desserts prepare everything with your love and see the smile it brings to your BAE!

6. Recreate your memories!

This Valentine’s Day, recreate the memories by reliving the day you met your spouse! Go to the same cafe all over again and order everything as you had done before. Afterwards go for a nice nature walk and chat about how things change yet love remains the same!

7. Gifts are just heartfelt gestures

Gift them something they have been longing to have but somehow couldn’t buy it. Gift them what they truly deserve and make their day better than ever!

8. Time for Adventure!

If you and your partner enjoy an adventurous journey then NOW is the time to do it. Paragliding, ice skating, bungee jumping are just a few of the several things you can do to create new memories. Book your tickets, travel together and experience the unknown!

9. Something out of the box

Last but not the least, DIY something with your own hands and lots of love. Create the moment even more magical by using your creativity. Explore what you are good at and try using that strength in your Valentine’s gift. If you enjoy sketching then create a sketch art of you and your loved one, if you like writing then write something from your heart for your beloved, similarly explore what you’re good at and make the most out of it!

Use this special occasion to express your affection towards your loved one! Make this Valentine’s day a memorable one by carrying your heart on your sleeve.

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This article covers “The Yellow Bride,” aka Paven’s awe-inspiring wedding, the decor and the amazing styling, which was planned meticulously by the gorgeous bride. “We went for a Mughal old world charm vibe for the wedding day with tropical greenhouse shots following the wedding. For the reception – went for a more high fashion couture renaissance theme, something out of Bridgeton!” said Paven.

Excited to go see the amazing wedding photoshoot? Well, let’s get some context first. Here’s their classic high school love story.

Their Story

Gopi and Paven were high school sweethearts who met when we were 16. They started talking on Facebook thanks to their common interest in Hockey, which led to her going to watch one of Gopi’s games and a classic movie date. From the beginning, Paven had a gut feeling that this was it.

“I guess my gut was right because almost 10 years later, after graduating high school, going to university together and having full-fledged careers, here we are getting married this summer.  We grew from being dorky teenage kids into somewhat mature adults lol, and I wouldn’t have it any other way! We got married 3 weeks before our 10th anniversary – so our mini-moon celebrated our marriage, our relationship, and a small honeymoon all in one,” added Paven.

Honestly, this classic love story has already warmed our hearts, but their wedding photoshoot just blew our minds with the absolutely jaw-dropping shots.

The Pre Wedding Photoshoot

Paven wore a gorgeous sharara with eccentric patterns and prints true to her persona and paired it with beautiful stone accessories for this absolutely mind-blowing pre-wedding photoshoot. Gopi contrasted her fabulous outfit with a beautifully simplistic grey kurta pyjama. The focus of this shoot of course shifts to the backdrop. In these photos, the couple’s beauty is elevated by the mountains’ blissful and peaceful yet dramatic natural backdrop.

The Mehndi Ceremony Look

The tropical plant, the muted and earthy tones of her gorgeous printed lehenga, the subtle warm makeup and the lovely mandala mehndi give these photos a warm and soft touch. However, the main attraction point of this photoshoot is just the beauty of Paven. Her statuesque, sculpted features, intense eyes, beautiful hair and majestic presence, we can’t take our eyes off the beauty she possesses.

The Wedding Day Photoshoot

We’ve seen brides deviate from the classic red norms, we’ve seen brides wear all sorts of bright and pastel colours, but seldom have we ever seen a bride slay a yellow outfit on her wedding day. Paven dawned a marvellous yellow lehenga with intricate stonework and Gopi wore a beautiful white and gold anarkali sherwani and white jacket with intricate floral embroidery. The couple truly gave us chills with the Mughal-E-Azam vibes, don’t blame us for fangirling!

The Reception Photoshoot

Oh boy, where do we even begin with this one! Reception Photoshoot or a Vogue Photoshoot? We can’t decide, can you? Looking like models straight from a fashion magazine’s front page, Paven gave us a blue and gold suit with unique net details in the neckline and sleeves, finishing it off with a long net train, and Gopi gave us a dapper white suit which brings out his beautifully shaped beard and dark eyes. These photos just scream perfection from the outfits to the poses to the locations to the big blue floral wedding cake. Have a look for yourself.

So that was Paven and Gopi’s wedding, and we don’t think we’ll ever get over this gorgeous couple who gave us just wedding photoshoot goals. Which look was your favourite? Let us know!

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Wedding Vendors

Photography: Amrit Photography

Mehndi Outfit: @rimpleandharpreet

Pre Wedding Photoshoot Outfit: @anitadongre

Wedding Day

Venue: @poplarmeadows
MUA: @aquarius_art81
Brides outfit: @alixeeshantheaterstudio
Grooms outfit: @houseofneetalulla
Jewellery: @jiji.studio
Kaliray: @mrinalinichandra @kalirasbymrinalinichandra
Clutch: @sabyasachiaccessories  
Trousseau trunks + lap covers: @pataaree
Bouquet: @floralista
Styling: @pashionltd
Turban: @maharajaturbans
Mehendi: @jasmineshenna
Home Decor: @instyleevents
Ceremony Decor: @universaldecor

Reception Day

Venue: @poplarmeadows @fairmontvan Pl
MUA: @aquarius_art81
Brides outfit: @kartikeyaindia
Grooms outfit: @wearmodello
Earrings: @christienicolaides
Clutch: @sabyasachiaccessories  
Styling: @pashionltd
Reception Decor: @universaldecor
Tents: @dhtenthouse
Bar: @travellingtavern

Table Centerpieces

Green moss and olive branches used as a table runner looks very refreshing. On the top of that, candles, and floral bunches as centerpieces evelate the whole look of the dinner table and will lift up everyone’s mood at the table.

Overhead Decor

Plenty of attractive options are there for overhead decor in garden weddings. Apart from the most commonly used ceiling string lights, there are some really unique garden wedding trends such as: Hanging chandeliers from open ceiling, trees embraced in rice lights and an overhead table runner will falling lanterns.

Wedding Entrance

Entrance in a garden wedding has to be filled with lights and candles to lighten up the way to the wedding. The greenery surrounded by these light sources creates a magical aura for everyone who walks into the wedding.

Floral Addons

Floral arrangements always stands out in a garden wedding decor. You may add an entrance floral stand to welcome all guests. Decorate the trees at venue by wrapping floral garlands around them and add matching fabric drapes to complete the look.

Welcome Signage

Acrylic welcome sign boards are pretty popular these days. Moreover, the transparent glass look with greens in background looks very modern.

Green Mandap

Green mandaps looks absolutely breathtaking with the mix of elements like sprigs of various plants, branches hanging out of the mandap, colorful flower bunches, and lights hanging from the top.

These green wedding decor ideas are amazingly beautiful. If you are as thrilled as us after reading this, do not forget to get inspired from this list to plan the coming wedding.

Neon Sign

Neon signs look eclectic and robust making them a must-have for cocktail decor. Apart from this, there are plenty of options for neon signs including the wedding monogram, couple hashtag, and classy party signs to choose from.

Hanging Decor

Hanging decor is something that attracts guests right from the entrance and is a key element to the cocktail decor. You can have gold or rose gold sparkly sequins falling from the ceiling. Disco ball ceiling decor also gives major party vibes and you can pair it up with silver hanging decor.

Centerpieces

Centerpieces for cocktail decor can have small table units with floral arrangements installed over them. You can also go for mirrored centerpieces for guests’ seating areas. You may also use these centerpieces to fill up the empty corners and spaces around the venue.

Guest Seating

Mirrored tabletops with transparent glass chairs look phenomenal with the dim cocktail hour lights. You can also opt for a complete gold look with metallic golden-colored couches, pouffes, tables, and table decor to keep it all glittery.

Bar Decor

A bar counter is a place that garners the most amount of guests and is crowded throughout the evening. To make the most out of it, offering your guests a bar set up with a twist is a great way to incorporate it into the theme. There are multiple cocktail decor ideas for a variety of bar setups like a humongous boom box, a glass hookah bar section, an outdoor vertical bar unit, and so on.

Mehendi

Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal’s Mehendi setup was oh so romantic! Mehendi had a white and pink decor theme with pink cushions and ottomans. White mogra hangings with pink flowers at the end and white flowing fabric cabanas, floral arrangements, and sun umbrellas, and gold geometric metal candle holders as centerpieces looked mesmerizing.

Haldi

Haldi decor was enchanting with a golden jhoola embellished with marigolds with a curtain of marigolds in the backdrop. A brilliant combination of white, yellow, orange marigolds and baby’s breath stems completed the look with giant banana leaves forming a roof-like pattern from the back.

Mandap

The poolside mandap decor looked mesmerizing and surreal when the roof was filled with series of twinkling fairy lights. The inside of the mandap was as beautiful as the outside decor and it was covered with flowers and lush green details. The mandap ceiling had hanging decor consisting of rajnigandha, green sprigs of ivy, eucalyptus, dried pampas grass, and springeri. While the pool was filled with floating trays of glowing vintage lanterns and flower bunches.
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Get inspired by the versatile, modern, classy decor of their wedding and use these inspirations to plan the upcoming weddings this season.

Wedding Favors

Organic soaps, wooden carved candle holders, and pocket sized plant packagings are some of the best options for giving out eco-friendly wedding favors to all the guests. You can do more research on this and get more ideas for the wedding.

Wedding Mandap

Eco-friendly wedding mandaps are not only good for obvious reasons, but they also look so unique and stunning. They elevate the whole look by using cane, wooden frames, bamboo mandap, and lush green detailing on the ceiling.

Cane Basket

Cane baskets are multipurpose and can be used with different settings. You can use them as ceiling decor, lamps, backdrops, hanging decor, and more.

Tyres

Waste items lying around the venue like tyres can also boost the wedding decor if you place them in a quirky way. It’s also a great way to reuse and recycle the waste.

Leafy Centerpieces

Centerpieces are one of the most used wedding decor and using green elements here is an amazing way to plan an eco-friendly wedding. Centerpieces like palm leaf, and banana leaf looks staggering when placed on a glass table setting.

Jute Tie Up

Replace ordinary fabrics with jute and you will know how gorgeous jute looks when used with the right elements. Jute chair tie ups in guests seatings and a wrap around over centerpieces looks astonishing. It also blends in with all the natural decor seamlessly.

Khatiya

Get those old khatiyas out in the open and color them pretty to have a perfect seating arrangement with a traditional Indian touch. You can place some popping color pillows on it to make it comfortable and appealing.

Rustic Backdrop

Wooden planks and crates can be used to create a rustic backdrop for a bar counter or a photo booth. Variety of lush green plants and flowers falling out from places look fascinating.

Check out these eco-friendly wedding ideas and plan the ultimate zero waste wedding to wow your guests. Go green this wedding season!

Cane Basket Mandap

These cane baskets look absolutely beautiful when hung on mandap ceiling. Light bulbs in the middle of lush green branches attached to these baskets elevate the look of the mandap.

Bamboo Mandap

This eco-friendly mandap constructed from bamboo sticks stands out from ordinary mandaps. Bamboo corners and ceiling look minimalistic and blissful along with the floor decor with the flower bouquet. You can also wrap fabric drapes around bamboo to add a modern touch.

Green Mandap

These lush green structures are one of the best eco-friendly mandaps out there. Pick some olive branches, lush green branches and add floral touch according to the wedding theme.

Floral Mandap

When nothing seems like a perfect choice, flowers are the way to go. These floral eco-friendly mandaps are prepared by wrapping flowers around wooden structures and branches. You may go for pastel, popping or themed flowers.

Natural Mandap

If you happen to have a big tall tree inside the wedding venue, make it a statement mandap tree. Set up the arrangements right below that to create an instant no-effort eco-friendly mandap.

Boho Mandap

These boho mandaps are designed on a wooden frame. Some of the most frequently used decor elements for these mandaps are dried pampas grass, palm leaves, and a bunch of dry and wooden flowers.

Check out these eco-friendly mandap ideas and pick out the best for your upcoming wedding inspirations. Go green by choosing this over traditional mandaps and save your time and money. Good deal, right?

Reception Mirror Stands

These standalone mirror stands look astonishingly beautiful as a reception decor piece. You can use them at the entrance, as corner decors, and further, amplify the look by adding pillar candles and flower bouquets on the top.

Welcome Sign

One of the first decor piece that your guests encounter as they enter the wedding venue is the welcome sign. A mirrored welcome sign grab everyone’s attention and you can’t miss how pretty it looks. You can always add flowers, lush green details, and a captivating frame design to suit the wedding aesthetics.

Statement Piece

Statement mirror decor is something that looks unique and eye-catching. These mirror decor items are placed at only a few places around the entire venue. A mirrored snack rack, a bar counter, and a photo booth wall are some of the options to look into.

Table and Centerpieces

Bringing mirror decor to the table setting is a great way to impress everyone at the table. You may choose to cover the entire table by a mirror tabletop or you can place mirror placemats for the centerpieces to give a sophisticated look.

Engagement Ring Tray

Engagement ring trays are one of the most popular pieces for mirror decor. These widely popular mirror decor trays are very easily accessible and you can order customized ones from a local vendor.

If you get inspired by any of these mirror decor ideas, play around with these inspirations and update them according to your style or use them as it is at a wedding to get the most out of it.

Candleholder Favors

Wooden carved candleholders are easily available at wholesale markets and you can even get a local artist to complete the order for these sustainable wedding favors at cheap rates. They come in different shapes and sizes and you can customize your order according to your budget.

Plant Favors

Plant-based sustainable wedding favors are widely popular these days. Couples prefer giving out low-maintenance plants that require very little time and effort. The most popular favors are low-maintenance plants like eucalyptus, bamboo, and other cacti plants.

Oil Favors

If you have spend some extra bucks for favors, tiny oil bottles are great idea for sustainable wedding favors. You can pick any essential oil and get your wedding monogram pasted on the bottles.

Feel Good Favors

Wedding favors does not always have to be for your guests. You can offer kind favors that emits a positive vibe when used. Using bird seeds as wedding favors is one such idea.

Coffee Beans

Who doesn’t love some good quality coffee beans? This is an ultimate sustainable wedding favor idea that all of your guests are bound to love. Premium quality coffee is always appreciated and looks very classy and sophisticated when packed in a customized paper bag.

Good Old Chai

All the chai lovers out there, here’s the best wedding favor idea for you. You can get a collection of flavored tea and offer those to your guests as a departing gift.

Green Straws

If you are really serious about making it an eco-friendly wedding, surprise your guests with these bamboo straws while they leave. These imprinted straws will surely make your sustainable wedding favor idea stand out and everyone will remember your wedding whenever they use it.

Organic Soaps

Talk about sustainable wedding favors and organic handmade soap is one of the first things to mind. You can pick an all-natural, chemical-free range of soaps in a variety of flavors like lime, rose, essential oils, lavender, and more. Organic soaps are always a safe choice as your guests are bound to try them and they can be used across all genders and age groups.

Use these ideas to minimize any waste on the wedding favors. Offering sustainable wedding favors also send out a great message and encourage others to do the same.

Natural Greens

Organizing the wedding amidst nature is one of the best ways to plan a minimalistic wedding. A rustic forest wedding, a garden, farm, and a backyard wedding can be the perfect places to plan such wedding. You can stop worrying about things like setting up a photo booth when you have a gorgeous view surrounding you all the time.

Floral Accents

Add floral arrangements at different spaces to elevate the look with minimal efforts. Limit the floral setups to one single variety of flowers to keep it simple yet elegant. These can be placed as table centerpieces, back of the chair, hanging garlands and to decorate the mandap.

Popup Color

You know what, minimalistic wedding is not always supposed to be all white in color. You can mix and match different color schemes and it would still be a minimalistic wedding. So leave all those neutral shades behind and add up a pop up color to add a bit of fun in the wedding.

Lighting

Lighting can make or break any event and as far as it goes for weddings, it can surely lift up the whole mood with just the right setting. There is nothing more serene than a series of string lights placed overhead at an outdoor wedding or hanging lights at the entrance. You don’t need those big illuminating lights to kill the vibe, keep it subtle with just the right amount of it to enjoy the beauty of the wedding functions during the evening time.

We are so thrilled to tell you how easy it is to plan a staggering minimalistic wedding and how little it takes to put it all together. If you liked the ideas as well, get inspired from them and plan the upcoming wedding.