For a bride, the day of the wedding is the day of examination – one where what she has worn, how perfect is the makeup and how dazzling are other arrangements are put to the test. The report card may come out clean by the time the wedding is complete and relief replaces stress. However, what’s remarkable is that stress dominates this important day of a bride – a lot of it, at that. And I can say this from what else? – experience.

I was what a bride is supposed to be like on the day of her wedding – nervous. My Lehenga had a life of its own, the jewellery doubled up as a floodlight in the already brightly lit banquet and my state of the art makeup endured – everything that followed. The food and the decoration too passed the test of palatability. Once we graced the stage, the wedding rituals were performed quietly in full display. Not so quietly, in reality. But those present were sure of the fact that the rituals wouldn’t go unperformed. Doesn’t it look like a scene in every wedding? No wedding is complete without rituals. Or at least the one where a lehenga is present, the rituals too are. Yet, other facets of a wedding make for star of the show. And yet, along with a million other uncertainties, a set of what-ifs bother a bride on the D-day. What-ifs associated certainly, not with the rituals.

At Slice of Brides, we attempt at breaking the exterior of bridal finery to access the bride – the woman. We believe in spotlighting the journey from preparation for the wedding to the result on the D-day. Because that’s where the unraveling happens. Our endeavor is to sketch out the arc of emotions experienced at each stage of the preparation– through narrations straight by brides themselves. And in doing so, we might just share with her a twinkle of her eyes and listen to the untold. Her bridehood.