Saira and Kevin brought the best of both worlds to their nuptial celebrations by having a American wedding ceremony and a Bangladeshi wedding reception on the same day. Saira got to wear both a white wedding gown and a gorgeous lehenga (which you’ll see in just a bit), every South Asian-American bride’s dream!

Saira absolutely stunned us in her white gown, so we were ready to see how dapper Kevin looked as a groom, and he didn’t disappoint.
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We love every single thing about Saira’s wedding day look. Her look simply screamed glamour and sass. We adore her fun bouffant with big waves streaming down her back and of course the flash of red on her lips and swipe of dark black eyeliner. And the dress! Oh, the dress. Fiitted at the bodice, with a twirly tafetta bottom—what’s not to love?

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I know we gush tremendeously about inter-ethnic couples, but we can’t help it. We love it when two people find each other despite race, ethnicity, and religion! Today’s inter-ethnic couple, Saira and Kevin, combined both their backgrounds to plan an amazing wedding that contained both Bangladeshi wedding rituals as well as American rituals that they both grow up with.

Our first stop on their wedding train is the oh-so-Bengali tradition of the Gayer Holud. Saira and Kevin chose a red, yellow, and orange theme to create a very traditional Gayer Holud ceremony at the Euclid Community Center in Euclid, Ohio. With red roses in her hair, Saira looks like a true Bengali bride!

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Anyone that knows The Sari-Clad Bride team knows that we’re suckers for beauty products (especially since one of us is a former beauty editor!) so when we learned about Birchbox a couple of months ago, we felt as if we had stumbled into heaven. Birchbox is a monthly subscription service in which for $10 every month, you get anywhere from 4-6 samples of amazing and usually pricey beauty products. Most of the time, the sample sizes are pretty substantial so you can try out a product for a couple of days or weeks and then decide if you like it. It’s a way better process than wasting money on products that don’t really work.

Birchbox decided to take it a step further by putting together a bridal package chock-full of goodies tailored for a bride to use on her Big Day.

The Limited Edition: Here Comes the Bride includes:

• Automatic Apparel Roll-up Ballet Flats in Gold
• Ban.do Mini Pom Pom Set
• Benefit Finding Mr. Bright
• Dr. Hauschka Radiant You
• Eboost Natural Orange Tablets
• Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray
• Tiny Prints Thank You Cards

While we absolutely love the idea of this package, we think it’s better suited as a bridesmaid gift than for a Desi bride. South Asian bridal makeup is often colorful and intricate and this kit doesn’t really include much to keep that in balance. However, many of the contents of the package could be extremely useful to bridesmaids!

For example, the roll-up flats are perfect when bridesmaids are running around completing tasks or when they’re ready to hit the dance floor after a long day of servicing the bride and groom. Benefit’s Finding Mr. Bright’ contains four illumining products that can brighten up your makeup and keep bridesmaids’ looking fresh. The gals will also appreciate Dr. Hauschka’s ‘Radiant You’ clarifying skincare set, which they could use the night before and keep for after-wedding use. The Oribe texturizing spray is great for fixing updo’s and can be a handy member of the Maid of Honor’s bridal arsenal to use on the bride. The mini pom-pom set is sort of useless as are the tiny prints thank-you cards (a bride will most likely need more than the few included in the kit). The eboost Natural Orange Tablets is self-explanatory and can be useful.

We really adore at least five out of the seven of the products, so we’re definitely sold on this idea. For $55, Birchbox’s ‘Here Comes the Bride’ package makes a great bridesmaid gift or a pretty kit to include in the bride’s beauty arsenal!