Well, despite a few early April rain showers, Tricia and Joe have done it. They tied their knot on Saturday, surrounded by parents, as many siblings as most of us have fingers, and enough whirling nieces, nephews, and friends to fill the dance floor with love from corner to corner. At the moment, Tricia and Joe may well have hot island sand between their toes, but for the rest of us, click on the link below to see some of the best images of the day.
Weddings in India are considered to be a sacred and sanctified ritual. A typical Indian wedding is 3 days long. Pre-celebrations and post celebrations, talk about a party!The Mehndi is one of the most important and fun pre-wedding rituals. Celebrated by the bride, family and her friends. Different regions of the country celebrate the ritual in a different way according to their own marriage customs, rituals, and culture.
Mehndi or Henna itself is eco-friendly. It is a natural tattoo paste, made from the roots of the Henna plant. Green Mehndi is ground to a fine paste. Mehndi is symbolically an important part of the Indian wedding. As Mehndi changes its colour from green to orange-red after application, so does a bride flower into her womanhood after marriage.
Here's a great article from I Love Indian on the Mehndi ceremony.
The ceremony is mostly held at bride's place or sometimes in a banquet hall on the eve of the marriage ceremony or few days before the marriage. On this occasion a professional henna designer or some relative applies mehendi to the bride's hands and feet. There are few places in India where it is a ritual that the first motif of henna or mehendi is applied by the bride's sister-in-law whereas there are some places where the first mehendi motif is said to be auspicious if applied by bride's mother.
The Mehendi or henna motif is not only the adoration of the bride rather it epitomizes her transformation from a virgin girl to a temptress for her husband. As per Kama Sutra, henna is one of the sixty four arts of women. Popular motifs of the bridal mehendi are conchshell, flowers, Kalash, peacock, doli and baraat patterns. The intricate motifs of the bridal henna also hide the husband's name. It is said that the husband's name in the intricate henna motifs is made for the groom who has to find out his name in his bride's mehendi as an evidence of his sharp eyes and active brain to impress his girl.
Mehendi function is usually organized with the sangeet function. So, it has a festive feel to it with the women dancing and singing traditional songs on the mehendi ritual. The bride is dressed in light color clothes with light jewelry. According to the custom the bride must not step out of the house after the mehendi ritual until the wedding day. It is believed that the darker and deeper the henna stains the more the husband and the in-laws will love her bride. The ritual of mehendi signifies the strength and power of love in a marriage so it is regarded good omen for the would-be bride. It is said that the long the bride retains the mehendi, the more auspicious would be her future.
A wedding song from Ramanand Sagar's epic television series Shri Krishna. The composition and lyrics are by Ravindra Jain, it is sung by Hemlata, and it describes the bridal "shingaar" (makeover) of Lord Krishna's mother Devaki. The song is a good example of the vibrant folk music and wedding traditions of India.
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Well, despite a few early April rain showers, Tricia and Joe have done it. They tied their knot on Saturday, surrounded by parents, as many siblings as most of us have fingers, and enough whirling nieces, nephews, and friends to fill the dance floor with love from corner to corner. At the moment, Tricia and Joe may well have hot island sand between their toes, but for the rest of us, click on the link below to see some of the best images of the day.
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