Muslim Brides In Niqab: Part 1

Assalamualaikum.

I am trying to compile photos of Muslim brides who wear niqab. I have many photos but their owners do not allow them to be published so I googled and founf this 2 photos. It was in my album for quite sometime and I already forgot the link of where I copied them.

If the owner is reading my blog, please inform me and I'll give proper credit to both photos. I do not know any of the couples in the photos but I found the photos in so many blogs. Hopefully it is okay for me to publish them here.

From their faces I can claimed that they are Malaysian. 

How lovely to see more and more brides who are a niqabi wear their face veil on their wedding day. Mabruk!

My Wedding Abaya

Assalamualaikum and Ramadhan Mubarak.

Just now, one of my FB friends mention that she saw a picture of my wedding abaya. Well, I almost forgot that 2 years ago I've made a post about it. And a few months ago I think our friend, JASMINA wrote something about wanting to see my wedding abaya. Hopefully I'm not mistaken.

Anyway, if anyone still interested to have a look, here are the pictures of my wedding abaya.

The outside layer is mosty green while the inside is milky green.

Some close ups:

I love the embroideries, neat and tidy.

Embroideries for the inner layer.

My own design and my brother's SIL made them for me.

The simple decoration on the sleeves.

Pretty isn't it?

Sorry for the blurry pictures. I have to blow up the original ones to make it bigger. Alhamdulillah this abaya is still in good condition after 8 years. And I'm so glad that I can still fit into this abaya. I just wear it during Eid and sometimes when I attend formal events such as weddings and dinners.

What about you dear friends, do you still have your wedding dress?

Wassalam.

Would you wear black for your wedding?

Assalamualaikum and good afternoon everyone.

Talking about wedding dress, wedding gowns or wedding attires, the first thing that comes to mind is WHITE. Yes, most wedding dresses are white but nowadays more and more brides choose other colours. Being creative and adventure.

Even though my wedding dress was in light green, I would still like to wear the abaya that Amal Murad designs above. Simply my style. Gorgeous and beautiful.

Walima Option #1

K, so one of my options, is to have the walima for my family at the beach. We have pretty beaches here. Beach location= free. Boxie and me could get a tonne of clear ballons blown up with helium in the morning, we could pick up the cake, a portable CD player (with CDs I approve of). My family could set up that morning at the same time, making driftwood stumps into tables, placing cheap dollar store votive candles in pieces of coral my father salvaged on beach vacations long ago that I will later in the afternoon, arrange flowers into (as I make my own bouquet out of beach wildflowers and flowers from my Aunt's garden). Bouquet= free. Votive candles=$3.00. We could even splurge on the non-tacky looking tiki torches but not light those until later. We'll arrange place settings out of scrabble chips (inventive--I know). Boxie and I will hang up the balloons on the entrance to the part of the beach we want the guests to show up, and then we head off back to my Aunt's house to change, while the family starts cooking all the yummy grilled beach food. I change into something very simple but pretty.

At about this time in the day (picture above) we arrive at the balloon markers, sign the Canadian marriage documents, bid adieu to the civil officer whatever dude, and sit at our tables to eat, huddled under warm beach blankets while my daddy lights a beach fire for us all to sit around and just enjoy the night. Blanket=$50.00. (unless we can get people to bring their own). Food= rest of budget. If we have money left over rest of budget, my Uncle can light off some fireworks.

I'd totally prefer it to sitting on some big old stage while the dance floor is turned into a hunting ground for spouses, and someone waves a Qu'ran over my head (what weirdo biddah is that one?!). The Muslims, we can all pray our salat on the beach, and it will just be a lovely night. This is walima (mixed and majority non-muslim guests) option number one for me. It is public enough no drinking is allowed so I don't have to deal with forcing my relatives to be sober, and it is pretty, and fun, and cheap. So what do you think? Is it a good option?

White skirt from http://www.dorothyperkins.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=true&catalogId=20552&storeId=12552&categoryId=168591&parent_category_rn=88651&productId=1195422&langId=-1

White hijab from http://www.hijabs-r-us.com/index1.html

It's the weding season

Assalamualaikum dear friends.

I was kind of busy with my current schedule at work and also the assignments that I have to submit by tomorrow. At the same time, I'm oblige to attend a few walimah invitations whether it's from family of friends.

Picture: My younger sister and her groom on their wedding day 6 years ago.

In Malaysia, weddings are usually held during school holidays and that's what it is now. Starting from last Friday I've been to a few weddings. You can expect nine months from now, many babies will be born, insya-Allah. LOL.

It's a bit uncomfortable though to attend a wedding when it rains almost daily and I'm kind of lacking a suitable attire. I have a new abaya but it needs a little work on it to make it wearable. You know, I'm kind of size SS so cutting a few inches below would be needed.

Actually, I am not really in good spirit during this season, what we the financial crisis and now I have to prepare some wedding presents. I'm in quite a difficult situation now - my house is no where near completion (needs RM20K more to complete) and my debt with my book suppliers also quite high. Hmmm... it's really stressful sometimes. And on top of that, exam is looming but I'm not quite ready yet. That's why I'm not thinking about my wardrobe much.

Anyway, with Polyvore it's like magic. You can create your assemble in a few seconds and walla it's ready. So... here are some example of my suppose attire for attending weddings.


Sample No. 1


Going Out for Dinner - by hanniaziz on Polyvore.com


Sample No. 2

My Daily Wear - by hanniaziz on Polyvore.com

Sample No. 3

Abaya for Work - by hanniaziz on Polyvore.com

Do you think they'll be okay for the occasions?

It's Maulidur Rasul & Our 7th Anniversary

Assalamualaikum everyone.

Salam Maulidur Rasul to all of you my Muslim friends wherever you are. Today, as all of us know is the date of the birthday of our beloved Prophet, Muhammad s.a.w (peace be upon him). It would be good to always remember him with salawat and salam.

Apart from that, today is my 7th wedding anniversary. Alhamdulillah... my husband and I are really thankful that we've been this far together. Insya-Allah we hope to be together as far as we can in this life and the hereafter. May Allah guide us through this life so that our life journey will always be on His path.

We chose 12 Rabiul Awwal as our wedding date 7 years ago was because we would like to celebrate it along with Maulidur Rasul. Insya-Allah we will always celebrate this memorable day with good deeds and memories. Half of the day already spent with my beloved husband doing whatever something special and this afternoon both of us are blogging for a while, later we'll go out for a date.

Hope for the best.