India is land of culture and traditions.Indian wedding is celebrated at grand scale lots of ceremonies take place before marriage .After long long wedding ceremonies celebrated by all family members now its time for newly wed couple to celebrate their wedding .Wedding night ceremony is for new couple .Suhaag raat is Hindi phrase used for wedding night ceremony in Indian tradition .The suhaag raat signifies the union between the bride and groom.According to Indian tradition groom and bride are not allow to meet before marriage .Nightof romance brings lots of hopes and suspense for both the mate as traditionally the groom met his bride for the first time on the suhaag raat.
The bedroom is beautifully decorated with fragrant flowers and the bed is decorated with hanging flowers, silk sheets and cushions, and rose flower petals. The room is lit with diyas (Indian oil lamps). Provisions are made for sweets, fruits, drinks, incense and perfumes .Humerous games are played with couple by there friends and family they have to give amount of cash demanded by their friends and families after that they are allowed to enter their room this is also one of rituals followed in indian wedding.
Visual concept of wedding night culture is shown in many bollywood movies.Now a days wedding night in India also not very cultural.Despite the modern vision of the suhaag raat, the importance of the night remains to be a significant part of Indian culture, whether living in India or other parts of the world.
Wedding reception is held day after wedding.Reception party is big affair in Indian wedding. Groom family pay all expenses but sometimes they are shared between groom and bride family. This is well know that Indian wedding is celebrated at grand scale .Traditions and rituals are soul of Indian wedding .Just like other traditional ceremony wedding reception is also very important part of Indian wedding.Last most ceremony of Indian wedding mainly held to enjoy have fun .In wedding reception bride is introduce to all groom’s family members and friends.In reception party mostly those guest are invited by groom family who are not invited in wedding party this because wedding party is accommodated by bride parents number of guest are already decided guest which are not invited in wedding party they are invited in reception party.These party now a days are influenced by movies and television shows.So parties are organised with beautiful decor and food menu.Reception party is held in banquet hall now a days open lawns are preferred.On this occasion the bride is mostly dressed in traditional Indian dress like sari or lehenga with heavy ethnic jewelry and the groom is dressed in either ethnic Indian wear or western suit. But now bride and groom wear indo western kind of dress in these kind reception party .The ceremony ends with a sumptuous meal, which mostly includes Indian dishes arranging wedding reception is not an easy task lots of work are involved till the last .All the wedding guest an d family and friends are drop in to greet and wish newly wedded couple.
1)Party invitation 
Party invitation are no more boring cards in India now There are trendy invaitaion cards are avaialble for you . You can go for theme invitation cards instead for regular invitation card .Design of the cards may be floral or bridal gown or heart shaped.special cards of thanks accompanied with some chocolates can be sent to the guests who have made the occasion great by their presence .Try to put your date and expected time for reception at the start of the invitation. Also you can attach some directions, So that your guests can easily get there. Further you can also mention your phone no or mobile no that can be contacted by guest for their inquiries. In addition to this, you may also need RSVP.
2)Party venue
AS reception party is celebrated at grand scale it should be celebrated in banquet hall.Now a days gardens, open lawns are preferred first instead of all halls open area is very much in demand .If you want you want unique party you can go for party at five star hotels, resorts, beaches.The space chosen will have its own ambiance and one will have to decide wheather it needs to be transformed into something wonderful or merely complemented.
3) flower arrangement
Floral and flower arrangement are integral part of every weeding .Couple stage is designed with help of flowers nad lights .Theme of flower color should be used at party as per decoration color .Roses are now not more an eye catching flower.I suggest you decorate your wedding with Jasmine or orchid flowers they really look amazing i used this on my wedding party too.
4) Reception party music /entertainment
Most of all music every party is incomplete without music .Good dj should be booked dj is in evry part part from tat you can hire jugglers ,live band or dancers will rock your party always keep dj floor near to dj soo that maximum number of people can enjoy.
Good food is symbol of good party .You Can hire good catering service you ccaters service you will find through Internet.Now a days apart from Indian food ,Chinese ,continental,south Indian all kind of food is part of Indian wedding.
6)Decoration of party /theme party
Indian wedding are no more old traditional parties now everybody is having one or another unique things in there party rather than having regular party.These fantasy themes surely create a memorable evening for everyone.Plan a them party arabain style wedding put on Arabic music some belly dancers with decor in arabian style .Beach party with dinner in moon light.flower theme put on different variety of flowers in your wedding.
7)What to wear?
One most asked question what to wear ?As you all know traditional wedding is over ,reception party is held to over come all the stress you had in planning all marriage ceremonies time for fun and enjoy .I suggest you not to wear saree or regular salwar suits these are some sort of traditional wears .Go for indo western kind of dresses in which you can able enjoy and dance and which are easy to carry in whole wedding party .Wear something more trendy instead of ethnic .
Wedding cake
Last but not the least how one can forget wedding cake .Its time for newly wed couples to celebrate there wedding by cutting cake.Wedding cake must be plan according to number of guests also according to thememe of wedding .
Ceremony take place in betwenn wedding .As par indian wedding rituals this tradition for bride’s sisters and cousins to steal the groom’s shoes.These are only returned to him at end of wedding in exchange for a fee – usually gold-rings for sisters and silver rings for cousins or more commonly, money!.Ring or gift is given usually to small sister by groom.rest of bridemaids gifted silver ring .Ceremony end up with cracking jokes with groom and other family members of groom.
Pag phera is one of post wedding ceremonies which is followed in all indian weddings.According to old tradition bride stay at there parental home for some days . The bride’s brother usually comes to the groom’s home to take back his sister for this ceremony.But now a days both bride and groom perform this ceremony they both visit bride’s parental home are blessed by there parent.Parents give both of them gifts as a shagun to couple as a symbol of there first visit to bride’s parental home after wedding.
This ceremony is aslo important as per indian weddding rituals .All this ceremony make weddding more memorable .Dwar rokai ceremony starts when newly married couple arrives at grooms place.All the famliy member give couple a warm welcome .But couple is not allow to enter home.They are only allowed when groom sister given gift or shagun by the couple.
Bride mother in law welcome bride by droping few drop of mustard oil on main door of home in order to protect newly wed couple from evil eye.Bride is welcomed to her new home by traditional arti perform by her mother in law.As per rituals she kicks rice filled in pot after that bride puts her right foot onto a tray of vermilion powder mixed in water or milk, representing the arrival of good fortune and purity and she is ask not to look back which symbolize the arrival of fertility and wealth in her marital home. According to the traditions, the new bride is regarded as Goddess Laxmi.There take place certain games between the bride and the groom and other family members
Ring finding game in which ring is left in mixture of milk n roses padels groom n bride put there hand into a mixture to find ring .Traditionally it is said whomsoever found ring first will be leading her spouse entire life.
This ceremony one of the tradition followed in indian wedding which invovles exchanging of flower garlands between bride and groom .These flowers garlands are mostly made up of roses and jasmine flowers.garlands with currency is old now adys people donot perfer those kind of garland .Ceremony held on wedding day.
Ceremony begins when groom enters wedding venue bride mother welcome him by applying tilak, drizzle of rose water arti of groom is done in order to keep evil away from groom.Then the groom is welcomed on well decorated stage by all family members.after few minutes bride enter wedding venue bride comes along with her brothers .Brother holding sheet of roses over her head .Groom welcome bride by holding her hand move forward to stage.The Jaimala ceremony begins with the bride trying to put garland around the neck of the groom.usally groom being taller in height making diffcult for bride to reach up to his neck and sometimes groom freinds play and lift up groom.The groom also puts the garland around bride’s neck in this case bride brother lift up there sister to challenge groom . This ceremony indicates that the bride has accepted the groom as her loving husband.
