Whenever we hear someone say the words ‘bachelorette trip’, we immediately start imagining a gang of girls chilling at an exotic location, sipping on martinis, exchanging cutesy gifts and sharing lots of excited giggles. Well, everything we just described happened at this bachelorette trip too. Only that, a wedding was not the focal point of the celebration. Intrigued? Well, Prasheila from Going Bananas Photography planned a bachelorette party for herself and her girls even BEFORE her wedding was fixed.
Before we give away too many details, let us read what Prasheila had to say about this super awesome trip…
“As wedding photographers, we are often asked how we would plan our own wedding, or the more dreaded, “But who will shoot your wedding?”
While the second often leads to palpitations, the first is easier to answer!
The first thing to do is to get your priorities straight. Work will keep happening, but what you need to do first is plan (and go!) on your bachelorette. Yes, forget actually setting a date for the wedding. I mean, priorities! And no, I am not kidding. That is exactly what I did! So, when the stars aligned, and my girls were going to be free to travel, I did what any sane not-to-be-a-bride-anytime-soon would do. BACHELORETTE! WOOHOO!
Neither my friends nor I wanted any serious party scene, we just wanted to go somewhere and chill. We looked at options like Coorg, Phuket, Bali, Maldives, Las Vegas was mentioned once, and then we turned to the mountains! We were planning this for May, so the setting was perfect.
After several late-night calls and extensive research, we found a gorgeous property in the hills called Jilling Terraces, and planned to do what none of us had done in a long, long time, which was – nothing, absolutely nothing. We ate, slept, stared at the mountains endlessly, took in a solid dose of vitamin D – had breakfast watching the sunrise, lunch under a tree, and dinner under a clear starry sky. (On a separate note, the food at Jilling is nothing short of amazing! The most delicious non-veg we have had!)
I know what you are thinking, well isn’t that just a girls’ trip then? Well see, it’s not. Firstly, the most irrefutable evidence: our WhatsApp group is called ‘Bacherlorette w/o Wedding’. Secondly, I really did plan it as my bachelorette.
I wrote individual letters for my friends, put together a gift tote full of awesome stuff, and got custom silk robes made for all of us, which will later be used when we are getting ready on the big day.
Each canvas tote reflected the personality/traits of the person it was for, and was filled with goodies that I went on to collect from different shops and portals – Korean sheet masks, hand cream, lip balm, body scrubs, sunscreen, and what not.
I also put in my personal favourites: books from Roger Hargreaves’ Little Miss series specific to each person. So we had Little Miss Whoops (for my very accident-prone first friend ever), Little Miss Bossy (if you know her, you would know why!), Little Miss Scatterbrain (who, by the way, couldn’t make it to the trip last minute) and a ‘Little Miss Busy’ t-shirt for myself. I may have had more fun putting all this together than my friends had when they received it.
You can buy these anti-pollution sheet masks for Rs 100 each on Nykaa, The Body Shop Born Lippy for Rs 275 and the Aroma Magic Aloe Vera sunscreen gel for Rs 285.
My friends, of course, had no idea what I had planned. I made them carry dresses under the pretext of taking nice photographs, and asked them to wear them the on first morning we were there. I requested the staff at Jilling (who by the way, are the nicest people!) to set up our breakfast table outdoors, under a beautiful kafal tree, with a gorgeous view of the mountains. Of course, my friends thought that the totes were props for photos and they only figured that they each had a specific one when I not-so-gently pointed them in the right direction.
All in all, the bachelorette was exactly what I wanted: quality time with my girls, chilling, and a whole lot of laughter! I couldn’t have asked more from my bachelorette.”
Who could have ever thought of going on a bachelorette even before their wedding got fixed! But, we agree this is an awesome idea. So girls, got any plans yet?
The tote bags were from Lemon Trunk and you can buy similar ones for Rs 299. The robes were from SilkAndRobes.
