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Girly Night Out Consider What Makes the Perfect Hen Night?

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:41:12 +0000

Hen nights, traditionally when the bride celebrates her last night of freedom, are increasingly playing a major role in pre-nuptial arrangements. Girly Night Out considers what makes the perfect hen night?

Hen parties are definitely gaining in popularity not only in the UK but throughout the world. Women feel they want to celebrate leaving their single life’s in style. These events are getting increasingly more complex, outrageous and expensive. From choosing the right venue to the guest list, hen night accessories to outfits, the list is endless.

Planning is the key for the perfect hen night. The golden rule is to make sure the bride is happy with all the arrangements so make sure her wishes are taken into consideration. Next ensure the correct guests are invited to avoid offending anyone and that they are comfortable with the theme and hen night plans in case they are offended. There are some excellent hen night accessories such as fancy dress costumes that can liven up any night.

The budget is a very important factor. Good planning and organisation can stretch any budget and it is not necessary to spend a fortune to have a good time. There is always a deal to be had or a discount to be found. A few simple hen night accessories are quite often all that is needed to make the night go off with a bang.

So if planning is the essential ingredient for a perfect hen night ordering ahead from websites, such as Girly Night Out, makes perfect sense. Girly Night Out offers an exciting range of hen night accessories. From shot glasses to fancy dress, hen night games to badges and whistles, hen night accessories will liven up any party.

Bride: Gulf wedding now ‘nightmare’

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:03:24 +0000

Many couples planned their ideal Gulf Coast beach wedding before the BP oil disaster. Now, they’re either scrambling to find new venues or are determined to show their support for the region. Readers share how they’re coping with the oil spill disaster.

‘Hanging on to our dream’
The day the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded was the same day I found myself standing on the Alabama beach I was planning to get married on. I remember taking a moment to stand still on the beach to stare at an oil rig I had never noticed until then. I stood there thinking how unnatural it would look in the wedding pictures. I think about that day often. How silly it was to care that an oil rig would ruin my wedding scene… We are constantly back and forth on whether to change our location somewhere further inland. We have heard that many people in our similar situation have already chosen to cancel their beach weddings. [My fiancée] and I are one of the few hanging on to our dream of getting married on the beach. We are trying our best to not get stressed over all the last minute changes we may have to make in the next few months. We know that this oil spill is much bigger than our wedding. We want the defenseless sea life to be spared and have our fellow Alabama [residents] get the peace they justly deserve. — Casey Boswell (Daphne, Alabama)

‘I cried the entire day’
The day that I found out for sure that we were going to have to change our plans due to the oil spill, I cried the entire day. I felt like my childhood dreams of being a bride and having a perfect wedding had went out the window. I even got messages from my bridesmaids making sure that I didn’t have a meltdown. I am very stressed because it took me 10 months to fully plan my wedding and now I have one month and three weeks to re-plan the whole thing. We are also $400 short now because we lost our deposit for the wedding. My fiancé’s family lost $400 on their flights. My fiancé and I are having to work right up till the wedding to take care of all the expenses…. We have been very fortunate to have family and friends volunteer to helps us decorate and make food for the reception. If it weren’t for people like that we would be left with no choice but to forget a wedding and go to the courthouse. — Kendra Adcock (Murfreesboro, Tennessee)

Daily prayers
Since no one can guarantee that the oil won’t or will hit Fort Myers Beach and since many of the deposits were paid and friends and family had already booked flights and hotels, my fiancé and I decided that we would stick this out! We hope that our decision will encourage others as well because the people of the Gulf Coast need our support now more than ever and we can show support by keeping our summer plans in place and continuing to support their struggling economy. Granted, I still pray every night that I don’t have to get married amongst dead sea turtles and oiled up brown pelicans, but I also know that we are doing the right thing for us by continuing to prepare for our wedding in Fort Myers Beach… Plus if our love can withstand one of the worst disasters this nation has ever seen, then there is nothing that our love can’t conquer. — Kate Chapman (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)

Yashdeep Nain and Sreejita De in Star One Horror Nights

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:45:58 +0000

Yashdeep Nain of Perfect Bride fame will be seen with Sreejita De in one of the stories of Star One Horror Nights..

Star One’s weekend thriller show, Star One Horror Nights has gained good reviews in the initial few weeks, and a flurry of known actors have already been part of the show.

Yesterday, TellyBuzz had reported about Ridhi Dogra, Himmanshoo Malhotra featuring in one of the stories of the show which will be aired on June 12th.

The episode after this will feature Sreejita De and Yashdeep Nani of Perfect Bride fame as the leads.

According to our source, “Sreejita and Yashdeep play a couple who move from Delhi to Mumbai. They take a house on low rent and try to settle down. This is where the main story starts, wherein there is a mirror in the house which is evil. Lot of horrifying incidents happen in the house, after which the wife seeks help from a Professor played by Gufi Paintal to tackle the evil spirit”.

When contacted, Sreejita De confirmed the news and said, “Yes, I am shooting for an episodic of Star One Horror Nights. I am very happy to have got back to Star One with two shows, Miley Jab Hum Tum and Star One Horror Nights”.

For Yashdeep, this will be his first fiction opportunity after being part of Star Plus’ Perfect Bride. When contacted, he stated, “This is my first fiction show, and it is very different from reality. My role here is very good, and I am taking this as a learning experience”.

The duo is shooting for the episode presently, and the episode featuring them will be aired on 19th June.

Star Plus is back at No. 1… for now

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:38:37 +0000

Ten years ago, Star Plus went all Hindi. And as we know, several things happened. Kaun Banega Crorepati and saas-bahu serials became national obsessions. Amitabh Bachchan resurrected his fading career (and how — he’s still doing dozens of films and endorsements). Tulsi and gang became part of everyone’s extended family (but remember, those were the innocent days when the serial was still sweet and homely and Tulsi was half her current size). Anyway, Star Plus zoomed to the top and became the country’s No. 1 channel, which it remained till last year when it was unseated by new entrant Colors. After all those years, the channel had seemed a bit worn at the edges. Just like its soap-serial characters: Ba was about 150 years old, but miraculously still alive and kicking. Tulsi was still staggering from family crisis to family crisis. Parvati had had a makeover but no one could remember why. (That’s because the stories had got so convoluted that if anyone had actually tried to figure them out, their collective brain cells would’ve gone into fatal spasms. Thankfully, no one tried). But at the moment, as Star celebrates its tenth anniversary, things are looking good. The channel is back at the No. 1 position and while it’s unlikely that it will remain at that slot, unchallenged, for another ten years, it has reclaimed its numero uno title by a convincing margin — for the moment, at least.

Tulsi and Parvati have gone away (and not a day too soon) but both of them reappeared as Tulsi and Parvati at the recently telecast Star Parivaar Awards (where the new look of the channel was revealed — everything is a bright red now).

The two bahus spoke about how the Star parivaar is a very happy parivaar and everyone loves everyone and so on and so forth. I had no difficulty believing them because all the actors and actresses came dressed as their screen characters and were addressed by their screen names throughout. (Or maybe Akshara’s real name is Akshara and Dadaji is called Dadaji and nothing else but Dadaji off screen too — who knows?) I also have no idea what all these people look like in real life — I can’t believe that the women waltz around their homes in those 10 kg sarees the way they do in their soaps and serials. I was also a bit distracted by the awards themselves — there were categories like Favourite Saas and Favourite Bahu (naturally), but there were also awards for Favourite Buzurg, Favourite Bhai, Favourite Behen and so on. Because I have to watch soaps and serials (the things I have to do in the line of duty), I could actually recognise quite a few of the characters, but for viewers who aren’t plastered to their TV sets, it must have been a little like Alice in Wonderland.

Prominent guests in the audience included Ekta Kapoor who is back on Star Plus with a new serial Tere Liye (no, that’s not the way Ekta Kapoor spells it —but honestly, you don’t want to know). It’s a Bengali love story in that the characters are Bengali and it’s set in Bengal and has a heavy Parineeta-Devdas hangover. Whether it’s anywhere close to those two movies, well, we’ll have to wait and see.

And finally. Colors is not sitting around either, obligingly ceding its place to Star Plus. New shows include Kitchen Champion, a reality show anchored by Ronit Roy, in which female characters from Colors serials such as Balika Vadhu and Na Aana Is Des Lado participate in a cookery competition. Ronit is a warm, cheerful host and everyone looks like they’re having fun.

And so the channel wars continue!