A red toyota brightly decorated with Joris, balls which are made from glittery and glossy paper, flowers green and blue in colour, sticking out like the head lights, and a placard at the rear end announcing Just Married'.

A typical bride groom carriage of the seventies and even eighties, is Uli today no less in demand than it was in the past. People still go for the lake flowers and flashy decoration, even now when flowers are available in abundance with the mushrooming of the flower shops in the city.

In the seventies or eighties such shops were rare. The only place where flowers were available was the High Court Mazar or PWD garden inside the Ramna Park. In those days such jobs of decorating cars and wedding beds or halood stages were voluntarily done by friends and relatives. Such decoration of the houses or drawing alponas was a part of the fun too.

Now in this readymade instant world such Jobs are taken care of by the florists. Just call and place an order. Without any problem or tension everything will look perfect and beautiful. At the cost of Tk 15,000. starting from car to bed, and of course the fun and pleasure of the decoration done are definitely worth it. Why take the cheap way out, since you get married only once, you do whatever is necessary to make ft memorable. (However there is no fixed rule that it cannot be done twice or even several times).

November to February is always considered ' as an ideal time for this solemn occasion, mainly because it's the season of flowers too. Starting from the excess make-up to eating to decorating to the honeymoon it is the best time for getting married.

Flowers are an integral part of many of our marriage rituals. Gaye halood (an occasion .prior to the main ceremony) and Pul Shahfha (wedding night) cannot be visualized without flowers. Halood a very colourful occasion, where even the bride is decorated with flowers, cannot have a stage decorated with balloons and paper flowers Thus again when the beautiful bride enters yobr room for the first time, offering her fake flowers or showing your inferior taste for decoration, ft will not be a very wise thing to do.

Ful Shah/ha or the wedding bed will lose its glamour and meaning if blue or pink or green paper (lowers hang around or a big sun flower is

placed at the top of the bed as if it is supposed to look like a crown.

Say. it with flowers and specially where low is concerned, flowers should be the only medium as conversation or communication.

The flower ornaments worn by the bride on her halood is available from Tk 150 to 300 depending on designs and flowers used. A tuberose sticks costs Tk 1 to Tk 3 and roses Tk 5 to 10. Marigolds found in lohor is Tk 10. One lohor 50 flowers and is 3 ft long.

A car heavily decorated with (lowers all red, white and golden yellow, will cost Tk 2,000 to Tk 6,000 and at the same time a car heavily decorated with Joris and fake flowers will cost Tk 100 to Tk 400. All depends on the money, the flowers and of course taste but marriage is no occasion for cost cutting.

The cost of a halood stage on the other hand ranges from Tk 4,000 to Tk 10,000. The shops have catalogs showing the work they can do and the customers have an array of designs to choose from. A bed, also depending on the flowers and design, may cost as high as Tk 5,000.

Flowers with their eternal appeal touch every heart. If Tk 2,000 is expensive Just buy a bunch of rose and place it at the front or Just make a shape of heart with roses on the glass. It would cost not more than Tk 100, and would surely look good and glamorous than any car thoroughly decorated with paper flowers. It's Just a matter of taste and cultural upbringing;

These flower shops or this business of flowers started only five years ago and Malancha beirfg the pioneer was followed by Alpona. The commercial cultivation of these flowers has been introduced in Bangladesh and no longer needs to be imported from India. Tuberoses, marigolds, roses, and many other flowers are cultivated in Jcssore, Konabari in Gazipur and other places too. This has now substantially lowered the price because previously a marigold lohor imported from India would cost Tk 200.

When a person sits back and tries to recall his or her wedding, definitely the bed or the car would gets the first priority. No one would find pleasure by remembering a bed with flowers that had no fragrance and was not soft to touch. These special moments always deserve the very best, shower it with flowers.