Cherry-Upasna pre-wedding snippets
Mega Power Star Ram Charan and Upasana pre-wedding celebrations are going great guns. The couple before tying the knot on 14th June are busy with pre-wedding celebrations like dinners, get-togethers and religious rituals. Relatives, friends and top personalities from entire film industry started gracing the occasion.
Sangeet Treat
Celebrations kicked off on a grand scale with Sangeet at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad yesterday. Charan and Upasana were dressed in a highly expensive designer wear for the ceremony, which boasted of several dances and skits.
Guests were treated to some exhilerating performances with Shriya and Tamannaah shaking their legs at the sangeet and Daggubati Rana put up an impressive skit.
Sreenu Vaitla, VV Vinayak, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Meher Ramesh, Harish Shankar, Venkatesh, Ravi Teja, Allu Arjun, Sunil, Kona Venkat, Akhil were also spotted having a nice time together.
Pooja at Domakonda fort:
The bride and groom along with their family members have attended an elaborate pooja performed Kamineni family's diety in Domakonda fort near Kamareddy on Tuesday.
Wedding
Ram Charan and Upasana's wedding is to be held on June 14 at 7.30 am at Temple Tree Farms, Gandipet. After the marriage ceremony, a grand reception is being organised for the mega fans on June 15. Going by the buzz, this occasion is tipped to be the biggest marriage ceremony in the history of South India.
Specials at wedding
Both Konidela and Kamineni family are setting a trend conducting a socially conscious wedding unlike big bashes and extravagant arrangements.
Employemnent to locals
For the beginners flowers are not being flown in from Bangkok or Amsterdam, expensive cutlery is not being imported from Europe nor are chandeliers being bought from China.
Cherry and Upasana have employed artisans from the State and other parts of the country, to put together everything from the sets and the mandap to the decorations, with the aim of generating employment for them.
Social Responsibility
Upasana who has taken special care in the arrangements, says ""We wanted to give the wedding a personal touch, so we came up with the idea of a marriage with an emphasis on various social causes.
Post the wedding, we will travel to Tirumala to seek the blessing of Lord Venkateshwara, after which we'll travel to Aragonda, the ancestral village of my grandfather, Dr Prathap C Reddy, where we plan to inaugurate a drinking water plant'.
This was echoed by Event Stylist Dinaz Noria who's doing the decor for the couple's wedding ceremonies, reveals, "Both Charan and Upasna were keen on generating employment through their wedding rather than just opting for those lavish sets.
They would pick designs that would involve the most number of artisans." Speaking about the work underway at the Kamineni farm, Temple Tree, Dinaz says, "An unusual art form of suspending hand-blown glass from ceilings was showcased by a team from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad here.
This art form is being used in the wedding. A Nandi is being put together with lotus-shaped hand-blown glass balls made by artisans from Moradabad and Firozabad.'
The mandapam at the wedding is crafted with beads that are hand-woven in Firozabad. "The block-printing artisans are working on the table linen and chairs and people from Marathwada in Maharashtra are doing the flower-weaving.
Florists from various parts of the country like Coimbatore are roped in. The decor will be mostly handmade. Apart from the florists, flower weavers and the hand-blown glass artisans, everything else is being done locally in AP' from the structures to the air-conditioning."
Traditional Wedding
Talking about the wedding's traditional theme, Dinaz says, "Upasna is a big Shiv bhakt and the wedding will have a Shiva-Parvathi theme. Inspiration for the mandap is drawn from the same and will be designed by Tollywood art director, Anand Sai.
He has also made a Shiva mandir near the mandap where all the pre-wedding pujas will be done. Work is already on in full-swing at the sprawling eight-acre farm near the Himayathsagar lake for the celebrations.
"The wedding will have a walkway courtyard., the main mandap area and the food section will together be spread over 70,000 sq. ft. The whole look will be extremely traditional," she adds.
Charity Gifts
Cherry and Upasana requested guests not to bring any gifts and instead requested them to donate to charity. "Charan and Upasna have asked guests not to bring gifts. And for those who still wanted to give them a wedding gift, they have made a plea to donate the gifts to Upasna's charity foundation, Save A Child's Heart Initiative (SACHi)," says Dinaz.
Post Wedding
The couple will seek the Lord's blessings in Tirupati after the wedding on Saturday morning. The same evening, the couple will head to Aragonda, a village near Chittor town, which is the hometown of Upasna's grandfather, Dr Prathap C Reddy, to fulfil his dream of donating a water treatment plant for the villagers.
Charan and Upasna identified certain orphanages in Hyderabad and Secunderabad and they have already started making trips to them. Ram Charan Tej will be hosting a grand reception for his fans on Friday evening.
News Posted: 13 June, 2012
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