The Cinnamon Club is one of the most unusual restaurants I've ever visited, so when I found out it was available as a wedding venue, my imagination was fired with ideas for exotic wedding themes.
Housed in the historic former Westminster Library, the Cinnamon club is a sprawling, fine-dining Indian restaurant that retains many of its bookish features, with oak-panelling throughout. Available for hire are its mine dining room, mezzanine floor and subterranean bar, where delicious Indian-style canapés and cocktails can be served.
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Bollywood is big news and if you want a Bollywood-style wedding then Zinc Occasions have plenty of experience to bring you a dream wedding. Wedding planner Ibrar Hamed started the company last october after helping out planning a friend's wedding and ending up with orders for more! Now he can create weddings for parties of 180 to events for 2500 guests though he enjoyed a challenge when 700 guests were invited only to see 1500 people turn up on the day. Ibrar said: "Those are challenges I love. If there's a problem I have a trusted team to resolve it and I never panic."
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Following a redesign, the wedding directory at the Asian Wedding Network has relaunched with a plethora of businesses dedicated to helping you find suppliers for your wedding. Find businesses dedicated to doli and palki hire, decorations, hair, makeup, venues and more.
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Are you of Middle-Eastern, Caribbean, African or Asian descent? Then you might be interested to know that Continental Bride magazine is relaunching and also redesigning their website. The magazine has been in hiatus since May 2005 but will be back in October with a brand new look and a cover price of £3.50.
In the mean time, we're still here and we're still free.
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US-Indian weddings are finding it easier than ever to have a spectacular start to their weddings. Elephants and white horses can be hired for the marriage procession - or baraat - but prices aren't cheap. Horses cost a mere $500 compared to the minimum of £8,500 that Minnie the elephant will set the groom back and that cost could rise to £30,000 depending on how far she has to travel.
"Elephants are the latest trend - and because there are not many around the demand is always high,'' Sonal Shah, who runs an event planning agency Save The Date, told BBC News. Shah also commented, "There's a great craze for new unreleased models of cars like Aston Martins, Ferraris and Lamborghinis for the baraat and I am also doing one where the groom will land on a helicopter." [via BBC News]
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If you want to see some beautiful wedding imagery, Shooting Star Weddings has plenty on their newly launched site. The wedding planners are experienced in organising weddings as far away as Dubai and Egypt alongside homespun UK nuptials. Also catering for Asian ceremonies, they have a great Asian makeup gallery with some stunning looks like the one pictured here.
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Once upon a time, before you even got to the point of picking out a wedding dress, you actually had to find the right person to marry. In today's high-pressure, time-poor society that is no easy feat. Many of my single friends ask me where all the good men are as if there is some hiding place where the nice ones are stashed, and I just don't know. I suspect men might be wondering where all the good women are too. So what does a person do when s/he wants to settle down but doesn't have the other half? Enter Asian marriage broker Aneela Rahman who in a new BBC2 series is applying Asian marriage brokering techniques to Western clients.
The idea is quite simple. Every woman has relatives and friends and each of these people know single men and other people who also know single men. For some of us that might sound like matchmaking hell, but if you're on the look out for a potential mate and can't find one, you may as well accept some help and let your friends and family choose one for you, or, at the very least, suggest a person.
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