South Asian Weddings

Invite questions

I'm Pakistani. In our culture, we have a number of wedding traditions, which makes our weddings last more than one day (it's more like a wedding WEEK haha). Anyways, the mehndi night happens before the wedding day. This is where we have dances, singing (dholki), food, drink (no alcohol since I'm muslim), and just fun in general. Now and days, brides are starting to have mixed mehndi's, but I'm still kind of conservative in that aspect, and want my mehndi to be women and girls only. How should I word my invitations? I know it's early, but since I'm getting my invitations custom made from Pakistan, I need nail the details down now.

Also, even though a good chunk of my family is Pakistan, and in other countries overseas, I still want to send them invitations knowing most of them won't attend. How far in advance do you think I should mail out the invitations? For those in London, Australia, etc. I'm not really worried, but the postal system in Pakistan isn't the greatest. I'm just worried if I take the normal 10-8 weeks, they might not arrive in time, or at all.  

Re: Invite questions

  • edited December 2011

    As a Christian Indian we don't do all the extra stuff, but we are doing Mehndi and most of the girls will send a seperate invite for this. If the whole family is invited to different parts of the wedding celebration then include it in the invitation itself.

    As for mailings I know it takes only two weeks for things to reach India so it might not help you. Just send it as soon as you get it. If they get it super early there is no harm in it.

  • kpwedkkkpwedkk member
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    edited December 2011
    We did a seperate invite for mehendi and haldiwaan, for close relatives and friends. (not included in the wedding invitation)  We also posted this as an event that folks could join if they were in town and instructions were posted that it's a women only event.  

    We did this at my mom and dad's home, so girls and women could go inside and get their mehendi done, and guys were outside, mostly helping out with the wedding prep or just chatting outside in the back yard.

    We didn't have alcohol either, and all of the food was vegetarian. 





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