Myths & Traditions About Henna/Mehndi

 "Why is henna/mehndi accomplished for weddings?" is an inquiry I get posed to consistently. For a lady to prepare for her wedding, she needs to experience 16 beautification, purging, and strict ceremonies called "solah singar". Henna/mehndi is one of the sixteen customs which is utilized to enhance the lady of the hour. 

Frequently when I do marriage henna, I get asked "Does your henna shading come out dim? I truly need my mother by marriage to cherish me". While individuals think about the connection of henna tone to relative love, numerous individuals don't have the foggiest idea where this legend started. This legend goes back to the times past when ladies were educated to be docile and not voice their conclusions. At the point when a love bird lady got hitched, her henna tone was a pointer of how the mother by marriage was treating her. She could either be invited as a love bird and permitted time to change in accordance with her new home work or set to work immediately by her mother by marriage. Following a couple of days when the young lady got back to her folks' home for standard post wedding ceremonies, the lady's mom knew by seeing her little girl's henna if her little girl was being dealt with well at her new home. On the off chance that the henna was still on, it implied that her relative was adoring and giving her the admiration of a love bird lady of the hour; in the event that her henna had blurred, at that point her mother by marriage had given her something to do immediately. 

Another inquiry ladies frequently pose to me is "The reason is the men of the hour name written in the lady's henna?" Back in the days when relationships were masterminded, the lady and the lucky man didn't have a chance to see each other before the wedding. Typically, the wedding night was the first occasion when that the lady and lucky man really met one another. The lucky man's name used to be written in the lady's henna as an ice-breaker to start discussion when the man of the hour would request to discover his name in her grasp. These days, things are diverse as the lady of the hour and lucky man will in general know each other well overall, yet I like to proceed with this custom and dissipate the husband to be's name in the lady's henna. I tell the lady of the hour on the off chance that he can't discover his name in the henna, she should get a present from him, a thought which energizes each lady. 

In certain societies, the lady of the hour's henna comes from the lucky man's home, or they have a function where they will apply some henna to the lady to-be and dress her up with garments and adornments. There is a truism in hindi, "Humare rang mein rang jaana" which means we need you to get shaded in our shadings. Applying their henna on the lady is a method of implying that they are inviting the lady to-be into their family and tolerating her as their own.