Easter Gifts Ideas

Easter is the one of the most significant event among the Christians.
There are many Easter gifts that are full of significance and importance and that make the celebration more memorable for everyone. So gear up for the auspicious occasion.

Easter Bunnies / Bears

Easter Bunny and bears are considered to be very important symbols of this festival. Easter Bunny has its roots in the Anglo-Saxon Goddess
called Eostre, who always carried her bunny along with her. It is said that this Easter Bunny was the first to lay colored eggs.

Easter Eggs
Easter Eggs represent the symbol of Jesus Christ's resurrection, the
rebirth of mankind. Christians embraced the Easter Egg and consider it to the tomb from which Christ resurrected. Easter Eggs are used as gifts to be given to friends and relatives for the celebration of Easter.

Easter Gift Baskets
Celebrate Easter by sending Easter gift baskets to your loved ones. The Easter gift basket includes various gifts like chocolate, dry fruits, bunnies, bunny, cookie gifts, which are of special significance to the occasion.

Easter Flowers
Easter flowers like roses, tulips, and daisies are like the potent symbols of life made anew. The traditional Easter Flower is the white lily, a symbol of purity. The single flower stem appearing from a bulb symbolizes Christ coming back to life 3 days after his crucifixion.

Easter Candies / Chocolates
Easter is a sweet occasion and chocolates add further sweetness to it. They are the best gift for your near and dear ones. Chocolates or candies are most preferred by people on such occasions. They are the best to convey your feelings to your beloved ones, on the auspicious occasion of Easter.

Easter Day Celebrations

Easter is on 12th April 2009, Sunday.

Easter festival is derived from two ancient traditions: one Judeo-
Christian and the other Pagan. Both Christians and Pagans have celebrated death and resurrection themes following the Spring Equinox for millennia. Most religious historians believe that many elements of the Christian observance of Easter were derived from earlier Pagan celebrations.

Easter was variously celebrated on different days of the week, including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In that year, the Council of Nicaea was convened by emperor Constantine. It issued the Easter Rule which states that Easter shall be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox.

The Easter Bunny is not a modern invention. The symbol originated with the pagan festival of Eastre. The goddess, Eastre, was worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons through her earthly symbol, the rabbit.

As with the Easter Bunny and the holiday itself, the Easter Egg predates the Christian holiday of Easter. The exchange of eggs in the springtime is a custom that was centuries old when Easter was first celebrated by Christians.

Gudi Padwa / Ugadi Gifts Ideas

Make this Gudi Padwa special for your loved ones by sending them gifts of love. Check out the Gudi Padwa / Ugadi Gift ideas.

Fresh Flowers
Mesmerizing beauty and fragrance of Fresh Flowers makes the festival memorable & enjoyable.

Pooja Items
Bestow almighty wishes on lives of dear ones by presenting splendidly pooja items and fill their lives with divinity blessings.

Apparels
Add a sparkling brilliance on this occasion by gifting your dear ones with a beautiful and ethnic range of Apparels.

Jewelry
Surprise your friends and relatives on this day with the dazzling beauty of vivacious jewelry and bewitch the world with its irresistible beauty.

Sweets & Mithais

Celebrate this festival by pampering your loved ones with a specially packed box of their favorite sweets & mithais.

Maharashtrians New Year : Gudi Padwa / Ugadi

Gudi Padwa / Ugadi festival is on 27th March 2009

Gudi Padwa is celebrated on the first day of the Chaitra month. It is
celebrated as the New Year day by Maharashtrians, Andhra Pradesh and parts of Karnataka. This festival is also known as Ugadi in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. On this very day Lord Brahma created the Universe. Lord Vishnu too is said to have incarnated as Matsya, the fish, on this day.

It is celebrated with an auspicious bath, followed by decorating the doorway with a ‘toran’, performing ritualistic worship and hoisting the Dhwaja or Gudhi. People celebrate this festival with great spirit and joy. It has become a custom to hold Kavi Sammelans (Poetry recitals) this day. People prepare for the New Year by cleaning and washing their houses and buying new clothes.

On the festival day they decorate their houses with mango leaves and 'rangoli' designs, and pray for a prosperous new year. Gudis are hung outside the houses or in the localities. A 'gudi' is a pole on the top of which an upturned brass or silver pot called a kalash is placed. Then boys and young men of the locality form a pyramid and the person on top of the pyramid breaks the coconut which is in the kalash.

The prasad of Ugadi/Gudi Padwa is the bitter leaves of the neem tree with jaggery. There are special foods prepared for this festival Puligore-a sour tamarind rice dish, bobbatlu, holige- sweet stuffed bread, Ugadi Pachadi and Shrikhand. This is one of the 3 and a half days in the Hindu Lunar calendar, whose every moment is considered auspicious.