Archive for February, 2014

24 Feb 2014

The New and Improved As You Wish

Hello everyone, and thank you for taking the time to visit our new and improved blog! This post is dedicated to the grand unveiling of our brand new website (YAY!!), that was designed and created by Stephanie Casassa. Stephanie is one of our 2013 brides whose wedding will be gracing the presence of this blog in the near future, so stay tuned. In the meantime, we’d like to walk you through some of the new features on our website. We worked closely with Stephanie to bring our vision to reality. We wanted to keep the As You Wish brand, but...
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24 Feb 2014

Bridal Mehndi

This past week our Hampton Roads ISES chapter hosted an event focusing on Indian Wedding celebrations.  We learned so many amazing things from speaker Erin Calvimontes, but today we would like to focus on bridal mehndi.  Mehndi is a very important part of both Hindu and Muslim weddings in India and we are going to share a glimpse of it with you. For starters, mehndi and henna are essentially the same thing; a dye that is used to color skin, clothes, hair and nails. It is a powder/paste that is derived from the henna plant, and depending on its strength, the dye...
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