OOTD: An Asian Wedding.

Ladies, (and gents) I present to you something a little different today, and very, VERY exciting...

I got to play dress upppp!

In possibly the nicest and most beautiful way, and for an extremely beautiful occasion...

CALL ME JASMINE PEEPS I BECAME A PRINCESS!

*for two days only.

Yes indeedy this Summer was the wedding of two of my lovely friends, and very special it was.

I spent the weekend with amazing people, eating amaaazing food, and *cue immense girly excitement* wearing not one but TWO amaaaaaaaaazing outfits for the two days of beautiful wedding-ness I attended.

Now anyone who has ever been to any wedding of any kind will know the amount of planning that goes into an outfit.

Fun times for someone like me...

A little while before the big day, and after a quick text (or ten), I was playing dress up like a little girl with a friend of mine who's wardrobe knows no bounds, (hey Sahrah!) having lots of laughs and - well, rather nice samosas...mmmm <3

For anyone who may not know, Muslim weddings tend to last several days; I attended the Mehndi ceremony as well as the actual wedding across one pretty nice August weekend :D

For the Mehndi, I wore a gorgeous pale pink Salwar Kameez which was decorated with pretty beads and jewels and just...ahhhhh. 

Oh, and I wore my newly fixed Shoesies, because they're versatile little beings and go with anything don't you know?

For the second day came my favourite outfit, and the one I wore for the wedding itself - le sari! 

I mean you guyssss, I know I'm saying it a lot, but seriously - EVEN MORE AHHHHHHHHH<3

You know those dollar signs Simon Cowell gets during Leona Moments on X Factor?

Yeah.

You know the iPhone emoji with the little hearts as eyes?

Yeah.

That was me when I saw this beautiful baby of a sari.

Oh my god and I can't tell you how relieved I was that it fit...

Black and gold - two of my favourite colours, and so intricately designed that I've abandoned hope of finding a metaphor that will even begin to cover the amount of work that must have gone into its creation!

Genuinely the most stunning piece of clothing I have ever worn in my life!

Plus a perfect match for my black and gold Shoesies yet again.

Oh yes.

Any excuse to wear them...

#booya

I really did feel like a princess.

On my face I went a little glitter crazy, and splashed more than a good helping of Naked 2 palette goodness across my lids - 'Half Baked' you little gem of a colour you!

I couldn't tell you the rest of the colours I used, hell I think I used them all.

The more glitter, sparkle and colour, the better.

I even did a good old fashioned eyeliner flick oh yerrrr.

Oh and glittery gold nails - fingers and toes, (Models Own 'Gold Rush' - if you don't know, get to know) along with more sparkly jewellery than you can possibly imagine.

I even attempted a beehivey wedding up-do, managing to use pretty much an entire pack of bobby pins in the process, (no lie, I'm pretty sure there's still some in there) - impressive stuff!

Let's just say I didn't do things by halves on that day...

It was nice to finally let my inner sparkle/accessories loving self have her moment in the sun, and for such a beautiful occasion.

I'm gonna leave you with just a couple of snaps from the big day itself, (given that err I only have a couple of snaps) and say a biiiig congratulations to the gorgeous couple that are:

Amar and Farrah :D

(who are on a plane right now as I type to somewhere a bit less September-like than here, eughh)

My Mehndi Outfit

Photobooth fun!

The happy couple (nice pout Amar)

Group shot! The best men :) c/o Saniul Islam

Random and extremely cool looking photo c/o Maciej Pogorzelski and his amazing badass camera

So, the end of my time dressed as a princess came to an end, but what a weekend it was - genuinely such a beautiful and memorable occasion and so nice to see my friends get married :)

I'm now a pro at fastening sari's too - seriously, if anyone else is planning an Asian wedding outfit and needs a hand, just drop me a blog comment and I'm all yours ;)

I should charge and become a millionaire, just in case I don't win the Daybreak competition.

Or the This Morning one for that matter...

Let's just say YouTube served me (and my mum) very well indeed...