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By-R.A.N Nadeeshani ll these phrases become true when someone fall in love. Imagine, if any person want to celebrate their love with unforgettable novel experience with familiar & strange blessings. Someone may say yes, & others say No, because they expect rather conventional mile post for life, no matter how it feels. What about your opinion? Weddings celebrated in foreign styles. Like Grand wedding ceremony in Hawaii, Singapore, Japan, India or Sri Lanka. Travel & Tourism can do that. As perform multi-cultural ceremonial beauty & bliss through variety of wedding tourism destinations. Wedding Tourism change lives of people with many different experiences. Sri Lanka as a destination has been promoted new theme at the world travel market, one of the largest global travel and tourism events at the London ExCel Exhibition Centre. Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) launched key promotional theme at the WTM as 'Sri Lanka -Ideal Wedding Destination'. Accordingly, during the first two days of the exhibition, a traditional wedding ceremony, enriched with customs was featured at the stall, providing an ideal opportunity for visitors to witness the culturally-
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rich traditions of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has the potential opportunity to be developed as a Wedding Tourism Destination using diverse culture, natural beauty & hospitality. Set for a traditional Sri Lankan wedding or for a simple ceremony on the beach. Diverse locations are available as the preference of foreign couples, Hill country locations amidst the Tea Plantation, Beach, Jungle and many more..... Wedding ceremony held in a unique location with art of love in Sri Lanka. Vows about eternal love, standing on a temporary platform (made from all natural materials and decorated with beautiful flowers, or any other way that couple preferred) suspended over the Galle fort, with the Bakers falls waterfall serving as a back drop. Or why not have an evening Wedding ceremony next to a reservoir, with the famous Sigiriya rock in the background. How is a waterfall as a backdrop? Candles and oil lamps can illuminate the area and a mouthwatering buffet can be served under the shelter of the nearby forest. Traditional touches of Sri Lanka such as the inclusion of local dancers, drummers, costumes and cuisine as well as the practice of local customs like cutting a 'kiri bath' in a 'kulla' (a milk rice alternative to the traditional wedding cake) will make the occasion a truly