Kratagya Rathore

Your bridal lehenga may have taken months to find and even longer to create, so once the wedding celebrations are over, don't let it disappear into the back of your wardrobe. Whether you plan to rewear it, restyle it, sell it or eventually pass it down, how you store it now can determine how it looks years from today.

A wedding can take months, sometimes years, to plan. There are venues to find, guest lists to build, décor concepts to develop, menus to curate and entire itineraries to map out. But when the celebrations are finally underway, the moments people remember are often the ones nobody planned.

There was no year-long wedding countdown for Sharmiela Mandre and filmmaker-producer Sudhan Sundaram. Their auspicious wedding date, chosen by their

Rakhi gifting has come a long way from the obligatory box of sweets and a last-minute shopping run. Today, the best Raksha Bandhan gifts are the ones that have personality, whether that means a beauty pick for the sibling who is always experimenting, a watch for the one with timeless taste, a travel essential for the perpetual jet-setter or an experience that gives them a reason to slow down.

The sixth chapter of our series ‘Threads of Tradition' features real bride Anushka Karekadan, who transformed her late grandmother's traditional

The aftermath of an Indian wedding is almost a ritual in itself: sitting with family, munching on leftover wedding treats, discussing the bills that still need to be settled, while unwrapping a mountain of gifts carrying good wishes for the couple's new beginning. But somewhere between the beautifully wrapped boxes and generous envelopes lies a familiar dilemma of hoarding duplicate dinner sets, artifacts that don't suit your taste, appliances you'll never use, and gifts that often-become pass-ons or end up tucked away in storage instead of becoming part of your everyday life.

The Kolkata-born, Glasgow-based designer talks about Indian textiles, the power of traditional sarees, the rules worth breaking and why the wedding industry needs to stop correcting women before celebrating them.

From a traditional welcome at a hotel in India to romantic Instagram posts, Taiwanese actor, singer, and model Cheng Chang Fan has gone viral for his unexpected cross-border romance. While neither Cheng nor the Indian woman in his posts has publicly confirmed that they are in a relationship, his social media updates have certainly left netizens wondering if there is more to their story.

A wedding can take months of planning, countless conversations and an almost endless list of details to get right. But when the day finally arrives, there is one thing no seating plan, timeline or production meeting can guarantee: that the couple will actually stop to enjoy their wedding. For

Parvati Pyarelal and Sony Theakanath's relationship began in 2024, when a mutual family friend introduced them while Parvati was living in London and Sony in New York. What followed was a relationship shaped by flights between the two cities, weekends together and, eventually, a life built in New York. For their wedding, they brought their families together in Kumarakom, choosing to celebrate in a way that felt deeply connected to where they came from.