Announcing the Winter Weddings!

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It's winter! Not only will one find colourful shawls and fancy jackets walking the streets and riding buses, eating scrumptious pithas and playing badminton on alleyways, but this season will also see exquisite designs of holud stages, wedding tables and centerpieces.

A popular wedding planning company Kri is already working on art works, designs and meeting up with brides and grooms to create some beautiful memories, this winter. With the wedding season on, like many other wedding planners, Kri is busy and excited at the same time to be launching some of their unique wedding elements.

"We are mainly a wedding planning company," says Anika Azam, of Kri Wedding & Event Stylist. Kri is sanskrit for "to create". "We help organise weddings from venue booking to arranging decor, clothes for your entourage, musical performances, daala decorations and anything that you would need to make a wedding more special for the bride and groom, their families and the invitees."

Winner of several youth entrepreneurship awards, Anika Azam and a few friends started Kri in early 2009. "We were organising weddings only, for the first three years," says Anika. "Then we diversified and started doing corporate events along with birthday parties for kids (which is a very big thing nowadays). Kri organises corporate events such as award ceremonies, picnics, launching events and so much more. Most of our birthday parties are themed for kids from 1 year old to a girl's 25th birthday that we did recently." 

This December, Kri happens to be very busy with events. "We have a total of eight wedding ceremonies to organise in December alone," adds Anika. "In Bangladesh, that would translate to at least 24 events! The beginning of the month has been slow but from the second week onwards, we have been busy almost everyday. We also have quite a few birthday parties to plan as well. Exciting new designs are in the pipeline!"

Anika however does not agree to the term wedding season. "There is no "wedding season"  as such in Bangladesh anymore," she says. "People are getting married all the time , throughout the year. Every season is wedding season!"

Like many other companies, Kri has also been affected due to the closure of Faceboook. "Business is down as compared to the past years since clients can not contact us or find us online, which is a major problem," says Anika. "Without Facebook you might not remember a certain company or work that you liked and eventually would not look for that page later on. So business is a bit slower than usual actually." 

This winter Anika plans to go all white! "This winter it's all about big pillars, mirrors and lots of whites," she points out. "It's all about elegance. We are also planning an outdoor afternoon open air wedding which we are really excited about!" 

Over the last six years, Anika, along with Kri have been designing and creating moments to cherish forever. Having organised over 600 events, it definitely is difficult for them to remember some of the most memorable moments that the team has experienced as well. "There are so many things happening at a wedding," says Anika. "We have had corporate grooms to run-away brides! But the one that I can remember at the moment is when a client came to the venue and rushed towards me and hugged me tight because she loved the decor! A lot of mishaps happen at events as well, both before and during, but it's appreciations like these that keep us going. It feels great to be able to make the most special day even more memorable!"