Dear Brides and Grooms-to-be,

It is with great joy that we present Issue 55 to you all. Amidst the multiple lockdowns and travel restrictions, my team and I worked tirelessly to bring this issue to life. It is packed with resourceful articles on many aspects related to weddings and brides, to inspire you and help you envision your Big Day. We have also brought in the expertise of foreign wedding suppliers in this issue. As always, we want to spoil you with choices and help you plan the wedding of your dreams!

Dear Brides and Grooms-to-be,

It is with great joy that we present Issue 56 to you. With insight into the minds of some of the best wedding suppliers in Sri Lanka and detailed information to streamline your planning, we hope to simplify your wedding planning experience. A wedding is a celebration of a lifetime, and you must cherish every moment - not stress!
This Issue also showcases the most elite and awaited wedding event of the year. After having to reschedule several times, we were able to host Wedding Week 2022, our exclusive Wedding Expo on the 19th and 20th of February at the Galle Face Hotel. My team and I spent months planning on how to bring you a unique experience, while making sure our team, our clients and all those who joined in were safe from Covid-19. I’m overjoyed to share that our event was a huge success that made news around the world!

Dear Brides and Grooms-to-be,

Times have been very challenging, haven’t they? You must’ve had to postpone or cancel your wedding multiple times by now and I understand that this is very frustrating and inconvenient. As much as it pains to postpone or cancel the most important day of your life that you’ve been planning for years or months, you must be grateful that you still have each other through it all. A wedding is the union of love and two families – so use these times to strengthen the bonds of love and foster relationships. And if you are to look at the bright side of things – you can use this time to re-plan your wedding! Yes, go through each and every element of your wedding to see if you really need them, what can be changed, what can be done better and incorporate the details that will add more value and grandeur to your Big Day.

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In this Issue, you will find a collection of extremely inspiring and informative articles on wedding know-how, that are carefully written with expertise advice from our industry professionals. We also have featured veterans and newbies in the wedding industry, where they share their stories, accolades and journey to success. A visual treat and an interesting one to watch out for is Wedspiration, where one who wants to distinguish the between the popular wedding themes Boho & Rustic may find it exteremley useful.

In these uncertain times, I whole-heartedly sympathize with you all who had to postpone or cancel your wedding plans altogether. I can understand how heartbreaking the decision must’ve been and frustrating it is to not know when you can see a possibilty either. The novel coronavirus pandemic has so far killed over 180,000 people and infected over 2.5 million people globally.  It shattered the Sri Lankan wedding industry completely, leaving all suppliers and vendors helpless. With the government and health offcials encouraging social distancing and restricting gatherings, weddings scheduled for the coming months have all become crises to manage, rather than reasons to celebrate.

It is with greatest joy I write this issue’s Editor’s Note My journey as the founder of Brides Of Sri Lanka and leading up to the 50th issue as editor, has definitely been an exhilarating one! Trials and tribulations were a many, but the joy of helping many brides and grooms plan the most memorable day of life has been more rewarding. Over the years, we have tirelessly worked hard to bring out the most inspiring content keeping in par with the global wedding trends yet not forgetting our Sri Lankan culture, traditions and values. We have set fashion trends for brides and grooms to follow with the help of our renowned local designers ensuring our brides and grooms will look their absolute best according to the season and time. And we will strive to publish each coming issue with greater visual appeal and inspirational content.

This issue of your favorite wedding magazine, Brides Of Sri Lanka comes with loads of wedding inspiration and novel ideas for you. It is our greatest joy to help you plan an outstanding and most importantly, a memorable wedding. In hope of that, our team has worked tirelessly to put together Issue 49 for our ardent readers. There’s a good chance you are going to be overwhelmed by all the ideas, images and advice, and may sometimes feel lost with the amount of choices thrown at you - but the best way to make a  decision is to stick to your identity. Your wedding must reflect who you are and not someone else’s opinion or decision. While spending all your saving on an extravagant and lavish wedding may seem the ‘in’ thing, if it isn’t your style - ditch the thought. There are a million ways you can have a beautiful picture perfect wedding without breaking the bank - and we are here to show you how!

In our article line up of this issue, we focus on how to use Double Exposure - a photography technique reborn to bring in artistic beauty to your wedding album, with the expert advice from some of our leading wedding photographers who have mastered the art. Our veteran beautician Ramani Fernando, advices on how you can achieve younger looking skin along with other key factors that will help you look much younger than you are on our wedding day, and this will surely be very useful to mature brides and those tying knot the second or the third time around! Purnima Abeyratne, one of the most trusted and leading designers in Sri Lanka, talks about the impact of global design trends on our local brides’ choice of wedding attire and guides you to choose what’s best for you. With three of your favourite chefs - Jerome, Shashi & Martinesz, prepping some uniquely interesting fillings, you can be sure that your wedding cake will definitely not be ordinary! Arlene Saparamadu will help you hold on your wedding bouquet forever in an interesting read of how you can preserve it as a keepsake. This and many more wedding related topics and inspiring pictures are published in this issue to ensure you stay atop of everything you need for your wedding.

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Brides Of Sri Lanka Magazine - Issue 55, 2021

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