- Vidaai Ceremony: Vidaai is part of a post wedding ceremony. This characterizes the final goodbye of the bride to her family members and also marks an end to all the wedding ceremonies. Therefore, this ritual signifies the new establishment of newly wed’s married life along with her husband’s family. As the bride takes her first step out, handful of rice grains are thrown, as a sign of gratitude shown towards her parents and other family members. This rice throwing ritual is for the prosperity and wealth for her parents as well as for her new life.
- Reception Ceremony: The following day of the wedding is reception day. During this day, lots of guests are invited to join in the happiness and joy of the newly weds and to share their moment of being united. Reception is the other name of feasting and partying with music all around and sometimes a special number by a special celebrity makes it even more memorable. All the guests are offered a number of delicacies and cuisines from all over India, representing different regions ad cultures and behind every winning event, be it a gathering of few persons or a big wedding, foodstuff plays an essential part to place the right ambience. Indian Wedding Feast will be in two different shades, either vegetarian or non-vegetarian or at times it can be a mixture of both keeping in mind about what majority of the guests would prefer.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Post Wedding Ceremonies: Reception Ceremony
Monday, February 22, 2010
Pre Wedding Ceremonies: Engagement Ceremony, Ring Ceremony
- Engagement Ceremony: Engagement Ceremony marks the beginning of the wedding ceremonies and is normally conducted months or days before the main wedding. Usually, the time between the engagement and the main wedding ceremony given to the bride and groom is to know and understand each other better. Precisely, it can be said that it’s the probation time given to the would be bride and groom. The most significant episode in this whole chapter is the moment when the bride and the groom exchange the ring with each other in the presence of their family members and near and dear ones, signifying that from this day forth they are on the path of becoming one.
- Mehndi Ceremony: This is one of the pre wedding ceremonies wherein the bride is applied turmeric to enhance her beauty, after which a colorful mehendi is applied on her feet and hands. It is an old belief that, deeper the colors of mehendi, the more love and care she gets from her husband.
- Sangeet Ceremony: The origination of this ceremony goes back to north-India however, in the present day scenario, sangeet has become a common ceremony for every culture. Sangeet is a ceremony where the families of both the bride and groom share a common platform, singing and dancing in glory.
- Shagun Ceremony: Earlier both Shagun and chunni ceremony were two different ceremonies, performed at two different dates. However, for convenience, these days both are combined as one ceremony. First, both the family members are formally introduced to each other then “tikka” is put on the forehead of the groom by all the family members of the bride with gifts. Right after this, the chunni ceremony takes place wherein the bride is presented with a red chunni by the groom’s family with some jewelry, gifts or dresses.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Wedding Ceremonies: Indian Wedding Ceremonies
The Indian wedding ceremonies and rituals may differ a little bit depending from where the bride and groom originates but the basic ceremonies remain the same and can be categorized into three: pre wedding ceremony, main wedding ceremony and post wedding ceremony.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Bridal Mehndi Designs: Latest Mehndi Designs for Brides
For putting mehndi on bride’s hands a special day is fixed one or two days before of wedding. This is the day when bride and all the other relatives enjoy a lot. Some special mehndi songs and other songs are played on this day. And on the same time bride gets mehndi on her hands.
Have a look on some of the very special Bridal Mehndi Designs:
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