Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus and Your Wedding

The world has literally turned upside down in light of the Coronavirus and it’s having a devastating impact on the wedding industry. But this article is for our brides only. This is a heartfelt and open letter to our wonderful community of South Asian brides who are planning a wedding in 2020 and beyond.

We’ve consulted a few of our industry friends over the past couple of weeks to provide you with the most up to date information about the Coronavirus and the impacts it could have on your weddings. There’s information about contracts, how to postpone or re-schedule, insurance policies and plenty of tips and advice to help you get through this difficult and challenging period.

The Maharani Diaries ultimate Indian wedding planning checklist printable

We all know how stressful Indian or South Asian wedding planning can be and with so much more inspiration out there for brides to be in 2020, the stress and overwhelm could potentially get worse.

Which is why we finally decided that it was time to spread some love during these difficult times and provide you with our free wedding planning checklist printable.

Print it, stick it on your fridge or save it on your mobile. You can do this maharanis!

An Indian Pakistani Cross-Cultural Wedding In Sydney - Shaheen and Qaseem

We’ve been featuring a lot of cross-cultural weddings on the blog recently and once again it gives us so much pleasure to feature another colourful Sydney wedding that took place at Sydney’s premiere Indian wedding venue, Le Montage.

Shaheen and Qaseem’s backgrounds are poles apart, but they count their lucky stars today with both families coming together for their glam Indian Pakistani wedding.

We can’t wait for you to check out Shaheen’s beautiful velvet Sabyasachi lehenga too!

Indian designer, Rahul Mishra debuts bridal Jutti Collection with Fizzy Goblet

We’re beyond thrilled with the announcement of internationally renowned, Indian designer, Rahul Mishra collaboration with jutti powerhouse, Fizzy Goblet.

Take a sneak peak of the beautiful new collection here.

5 Things You Should Blow You Indian Wedding Budget On

If you think about the cost of a South Asian wedding these days, it really does vary.

There’s no bigger reality check though, than when you look at your wedding budget and then you’re like.. maybe I can’t have it all?….

We always talk about setting your wedding priorities straight from the beginning and focus on how much you want to put aside for each element of your wedding. So, this week we’re discussing the key things that we think you should splurge on!

Modern Sri Lankan Poruwa Wedding Ceremony at Gunners Barracks in Sydney, Australia

You have probably known us long enough to know how much we adore cross-cultural weddings.

Today’s wedding is no exception of course, with the lovely Erandi sharing everything with us about her beautiful and modern Sri Lankan Poruwa wedding ceremony which was held at the breathtaking venue, Gunners Barracks.

Overlooking the harbour, this gorgeous venue provided the perfect backdrop for Erandi and her groom, Daniel to host their intimate wedding and reception events.