Dubai Diaries: The Souk's

What is that you say? It's been four months since my last post. Eeeekkkkk!! Well I have no elaborate reason for my absence. It has been a complete contradiction of being busy at work and just procrastinating when I get home. That is not say the things haven't been happening in my life (if you follow my instagram you will have seen). There has been another holiday (to Morocco), my birthday, the new year, making and eating lost of food and just life stuff. But before we get into all that I realised that I haven't finished my 'Dubai Diaries' so here goes.

When you think of Dubai you think of the tallest buildings, the biggest malls, the seven start hotels and all of that which is all well and good but I really wanted to see and older part of Dubai with the souk's and the markets. We could have spent the whole day just exploring all the narrow alleyways, but the day we went it was probably one of the hottest day of the trip which was clear by the amount of water that was consumed that day. That didn't stop us from being totally in awe of all the touristy trinkets, spices, colours and aromas.

Traditional shoes

Camels 

Colourful umbrellas 

Love the design on this lamp 

Garlands 

Oooooohhhh the lights

All the spice mountains ( I don't even know what half of them are)

Another narrow alleyway of the markets 

Some more spices that I don't know 

 So here is to getting back into blogging and not having another four months off.  `

  

The Wedding

A couple of the days after the mehndi is the wedding which took place a Tatton Park in Cheshire. There was a beautiful garden and mansion and the weather stayed well so the whole day was a delight. There was a sweet station, a dessert table and of course wedding cake. Also a message board where people could write their well wishes for the happy couple which was sweet. I was running around taking loads of pictures and video footage so here is a selection.

Wedding favours from the grooms side 

Car ribbon

Wedding favour form the brides side 

Drinks

Stage

Sweet station (Thank you to my sister for letting me use her hand )

Wedding cake 

The happy couple 

Message board

Dessert table

Me 

The dress that I was wearing was from Debenhams but it was sleeveless so I had sleeves put on to make more hijab friendly. The scarf was also from Debenhams, the necklace that I on top of my scarf was from Accessorize and I am also wearing a hand chain from River Island.

Here is the video:

Mehndi

So as you know I have been fully involved in a family wedding which is now over and now its picture time. Starting with the Mehndi occasion which is a bigger and more extravagant than a mayoon. Again the candles,  corsages and the bangles sets were made up by ourselves. The mehndi took place at Eastern Pearl in Manchester and all of the pictures were taken but me.

Corsages

Henna and candles

Bangle sets

Decorated tea lights

A lovely golden scarf

The stage

The Bride and Groom to be

Me 

Candles from the brides side