Hindu Wedding Cards & Invitations (UK)
Hindu wedding cards are used to invite guests to a hindu wedding. The way invitations to a hindu wedding are made have evolved over time. A long time ago, invitations were made through personal visits with mithai boxes handed out to close family and friends. However over time hindu wedding families seemed to want a concrete invite to give to their guests, with details of all the functions taking place. Well what better way to do that then to put it down on pen and paper. Since hindu weddings are a lavish and well presented events, this needed to be translated onto the cards. Thus emerged the traditional jazzed up shaadi cards.
Lord ganesh is worshipped when ever beginning any journey. As a hindu marriage is seen as the meeting of two souls commencing a journey of life together it was seen fit to have an image of ganesh placed on the card. Nowadays all hindu invitations have to have lord ganesh on either the cards themselves or the inserts. The image of lord ganesh has also evolved over time. Nowadays one can see many modern and contemporary images of lord ganesh on invitations.
The other image that is also quite popular is that of Aum. Aum is placed at the beginning of most wedding invitation text as it is considered to be sacred. It gives the invitations a feel of calmness and traquility, denoting that the wedding itself may take place in a very serene environment. One may also opt to have other god symbols that they believe in, on their hindu wedding invitations.
Lately hindu wedding cards have evolved to be contemporary and elegant with designs being very subtle and colours though vibrant but pleasing. The size of these cards also known as kankotris in gujrati are preferred to be smaller and the phrase "less is more" being utlised more and more. |
