TNN Feb 24, 2009, 04.19am IST
PANAJI: Gone are the days when wedding celebrations were simple affairs. Where a Hindu wedding was a temple ceremony with a vegetarian meal served on a banana leaf or just ice-cream for the guests. And a Catholic union had a simple church nuptial followed by a meal cooked in the backyard of the bride’s home. Continue reading
My last Blog was on the Brides roll for her Wedding preparations, this time it’s the Grooms Turn to get his check list on things that he needs to get done, so please print this out.
I would like to specify that it goes without saying that planning your Wedding is the first enduring task a couple may have together which will then follow by making a great marriage. Which means you need to work on it and ensure that every aspect goes as per how you have always dreamed it would be. Continue reading
Francis D’Souza, the mla from Mapusa, wants to do away with Goa’s domicile rule (which makes it mandatory that couples stay here for a month before they can marry). It’s the hurdle, he says, to Goa booming as a wedding destination. “You can’t decide where you are born or where you die, but you can decide where you wed, so why fuss about it?” is how the people’s representative looks at things. Continue reading
PANAJI: The state government has rolled out yet another step to transform Goa into a dream wedding destination for foreign and domestic tourists.
Although, the dream wedding concept seems to be a promising buzzword for the Goan tourism industry, the existing Civil Law and the long list of formalities prevent it from being so. Continue reading
Ervell E. Menezes talks to Lester Melo, who has made it is his business to arrange marriages in the land of sun, sand ‘n’ surf for not only Indians but also NRIs and foreigners
THE open market has opened new vistas for us in India, and especially in Goa. We’ve heard of NRIs coming down for medical treatment. What we are referring to at present is what targets foreigners as well as NRIs. It’s getting married in Goa and the need for someone to do all the arrangements. The thinking is if Goa’s the place to be in, one might as well get married there. It’s also cheaper than abroad. Continue reading
The 10 Ruppee thieves are back in Goa.
We read it all the time in the papers and sometimes dont even give it a second thought of somebody being robbed, where we might even think poor fool. Well i am one of those until last weekend. Continue reading
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This weekend past and the topic of conversation on the Sunday table was Church.
Image by bill barber (very sporadic) via Flickr
My Mother and Brother were chatting about how Saturday Mass in Church was fairly empty and that a lady announced that the people in the back move to the front seats.
Now, my family have been going to this Mass on a regular basis and you know the feeling of how we all have our special seats – whether when we were in a class room, or at our favorite Restaurant – Church being no exception, both my brother and mother who were sat separately moved a row or two in front but not too far from their area of “Zen” as my brother put it. To the astonishment of most in the back rows, the fans were all put off in the rear end of the church leaving all those back seaters hot and flie infested for the rest of the Mass.
I completely understand the intention of the announcer to bring people closer, but we are not living in an autocratic society or religion. During a time where the biggest loser of followers around the world is the Catholic Religion we should be welcoming our flock not letting them heat up because they do not want to move to the front rows. Church goers today are so few – An empty church that needs the front rows filled , now wasn’t that a clue enough for that announcer? Continue reading
