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Rajput Wedding: Colorful And Traditional

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Rajput Wedding Rituals

A Rajput wedding is all about traditional rituals, lavish and beautiful arrangements and expensive traditional dresses. Their wedding is full of colors and life. The rituals and different ceremonies last for almost a week. The rituals are performed in families, Rajput bride and groom. In a Rajput wedding, you find all the ladies in traditional dress and heavy authentic jewelry. Let’s take a close look at the traditional rituals of Rajput marriage, where the new couple is about to begin their new journey.

Tilak Ceremony: The marriage ceremonies begin with Tilak ceremony. This is generally the official announcement of the engagement or the new alliance. The male members of the would-be bride’s family visit the house of would-be groom. The girl’s brother applies the tilak on the groom’s forehead. The bride’s family member also present gifts such as a sword, clothes, gold jewelry, sweets, fruits and other gift items.

Ganpati sthapana and grah shanti pooja: This ceremony is held a few days before the marriage. This ritual is performed to get the blessing of God Ganpati. To seek his blessings for the most auspicious ritual both the families perform this puja at their homes respectively. In this ceremony, a havan is performed and Ganesha idol is installed in the home.

Pithi Dastoor: This ceremony also takes place in both the families. The females of the family and close relatives of the family apply turmeric and sandalwood paste on the Rajput girl and boy. In this function the ladies of the family sing traditional wedding songs and dance on these songs in group.

Mahira ritual: This ritual takes place in the would-be bride’s and groom’s houses respectively. The uncles donate clothes, jewelry and sweet delicious to the entire family. It is a kind of symbolic gesture to emphassing the fact that the maternal uncle has to lend the financial help to his sister’s family.

Janev ceremony:  The groom is supposed to wear a saffron robe and take part in auspicious yagna with priest on the eve of him taking over the duties of a householder.

Palla ceremony: In this ceremony, the family members of groom visit bride’s family to offer some gifts like clothes, jewelry, makeup-kit, fruits, sweets and some other stuff.

Barat procession & marriage rituals: The groom’s barat procession includes males only. All the males are dressed in traditional outfits. The groom generally wears an achakan in golden color or similar shared with orange or red turban. All the male members of the bride’s family receive the barat. The groom is then escorted to ladies section. Bride’s mother performs aarti and other rituals and later on the proceeds for wedding mandap. The bride keeps her face in long veil during the whole rituals like kandyadan, pheras, etc. Another thing which you find different from others is here in all these ceremonies only the females of the bride’s family participate, no males from both the sides take part in these rituals.

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Baniya Wedding Rituals: Full of Glitters & Long Celebration

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Baniya Wedding, Marriage Rituals

The Baniya community is considered one of the most money minded people after Gujarati’s. These people don’t like spending money and relate everything with ROI of each rupee spent. Generally, we assume that they would practice the similar things in their marriage as well and would not spend much on marriage and marriage rituals. But, reality is far away from the truth. These people love to spend too much money on their Baniya wedding. In fact, Baniya marriage is generally conducted very lavishly and high on expenditure.

Generally, during baniya marriage week the rituals and celebrations last for whole week at both the families at Baniya bride & Groom family. The search of parent’s ends once they find a perfect match within their community. Once both the families accept this new relation, they make the formal declaration of this new relation and fix the dates for different ceremonies. Let’s take a look at Baniya marriage rituals and know them closely.

Fixing the marriage date: The wedding date of Baniya marriage is fixed by matching the astrological charts of Baniya girl & boy for marriage. They fixed a date, which is considered to astrologically auspicious, so that it will bring good fortune and happiness in their married life.

Ganpati puja: The wedding ceremonies start with Ganpati puja. It is also known as the first ceremony or beginning of marriage rituals. The puja is performed in both the families. The ceremony is popularly known as the mandav ceremony and is performed to seek the divine blessing of God Ganpati for successful completion of all wedding functions without any interruption and mishappening and seeking blessing for the new couple who are about to start a new life.

Visiting the porter: This ceremony is conducted by the ladies of both the houses, they take a procession, where they sing and dance their ways to a porter’s place. During the ritual they sprinkle water, sandalwood and flowers on the porter’s wheel. They purchased the pots from the porter and bring it to home to perform further rituals. These pots are then used for various purposes during the different wedding ceremonies.

Exchanging gifts for weddings:  A day or two before the actual wedding day, the families of bride and groom exchange the gifts. The would-be couple is not allowed to participate in these rituals.

Mehendi ceremony: This ceremony is conducted in both families. The ladies of both the families smear mehendi on their hands. The bride and even the groom apply mehendi on their hands. The mehendi has its own significance in Indian wedding and bridal make-up and look is incomplete without mehendi ceremony.

Haldi ceremony: On the day of marriage this ceremony is performed. Firstly, there is another ceremony, which is known as thaapa and haldi ceremony at both homes. After this the next ceremony is Goddess Gauri puja, where the girl is treated as Goddess Gauri. She receives gifts and jewelry from maternal side.

Feet washing ceremony of groom: Once the groom entered the house of the bride on wedding day, her mother washes his feet with honey, curd, milk, ghee and sugar.

Actual wedding rituals: After feet washing ceremony, all other actual wedding day ceremonies take place. The bride and groom exchange the garlands. After that they proceed further for saat phera, but before that the bride’s father performs kanyadan ceremony, where all the responsibilities of the bride like happiness, financial, physical, and emotional and others given to the groom.

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Khatri Wedding Rituals: Enjoy The Colors Of Celebration & Excitement!

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Kharti community basically belongs to Punjab state. Their wedding rituals are more or less similar to Punjabi wedding rituals. The people of this community like to marry their son or daughter within the community. They are Khatri brides and groom within their community. Their wedding rituals are full of life, excitement and enthusiasm. Let’s take a look at some of the wedding rituals of Khatri community.

Sagaai: Once the alliance is accepted between the families of Khatri boy and girl for marriage, the family members and close relatives of the bride go to groom’s house with fruits, gift, sweets and other things to confirm this new relationship. The elder members of the bride’s family apply tilak on groom’s forehead and offer him gifts, clothes and sweets. This whole ceremony is known as Sagaai in khatri community.

Godh Bharai: This ritual is generally conducted two or three days prior to the wedding. The groom’s family and relatives visit the bride’s house with gifts, dry fruits, sweets, jewelry, clothes and other things. The mother and other elder ladies of the family offer all these things to would-be-bride. The groom’s mother places silver platters containing all these gifts in the lap of the bride. They also apply tilak on her forehead.

Kangna: This ritual is conducted in both bride’s and groom’s family. The pujari performs all the rituals related to this important ceremony. He ties a sacred red thread on the hand of bride/groom which contains betel nuts, tamarind and tiny shells. This is generally done to protect the bride/groom from the ill/negative powers and all the rituals of the marriage end peacefully. They are supposed to keep it on their hands till the end of all wedding rituals.

Mehendi: This ceremony is performed in both the houses. The heena is applied on the hands and feet of bride by the mehendi artist. All the females of the family also apply heena on their hands. This is really important ceremony. Heena is important and has its relevance too. As per a common belief, if the color of the bride’s mehendi is really dark, then her husband/mother-in-law will love her more.

Sedhe hath tanni kadhai: This ceremony is also conducted in both the families wherein the relatives and family members of both the family apply paste of besan paste made by mustard oil, fresh milk, curd and turmeric. The paste is applied on face, shoulders, hands and feet of the couple. After this ceremony they take the bath.

Chuda ceremony: In this ceremony, the bride’s maternal uncle and aunt slip a set of red chuda bangles on bride’s wrist after a puja is done by the priest. She receives blessing by all the family members after this ceremony.

Sehrabandi and Ghodi chadhna: An elderly male of the groom’s family tie the veil on the forehead of the groom. This ceremony is known as sehrabandi. The next ritual is Ghodi chadhna, after which the groom’s  family proceeds with baraat towards the wedding venue.

Varmala: After reaching the venue the bride and groom exchange the garland as ritual, it is known as varmala ceremony. After this, rest of the ceremonies takes place.

Kanyadan: After the vermala ceremony, the bride and groom is taken to the mandap, where father of the bride performs kandyadan ceremony. This is followed by the mangalsutra ceremony in front of the sacred fire.

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Rituals Of Arora Wedding: Traditional Yet Fun Filled!

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Arora wedding rituals are more or less similar to Punjabi wedding rituals. Arora community has so many pre-wedding and post-wedding rituals. Arora wedding is full of interesting and lively ceremonies. Durng the whole wedding ceremonies Arora bride and groom perform various rituals for their happy married life. Arora people are fun loving and their wedding is believed to be grand affair full of dance, fun and excitement. Their wedding is always considered as big wedding bash. Let’s take a look at some of the wedding rituals of Arora community.

Pre-wedding ceremony:

Roka ceremony: This ceremony is generally conducted in presence of both the families. All the relatives and family members are present in the ceremony. It is a kind of formal announcement of this new relationship. As a ritual both the families exchange different gifts, fruits, dry fruits, clothes and other things.

Sagan: This is very important ceremony. It is generally conducted at groom’s home or a venue selected by his family only. Bride’s father applies tilak on groom’s forehead as ritual of this ceremony. Bride’s father and other males of the family offer sweets, gifts and other things to would-be-son-in-law.

Chunni chadhai and ring ceremony: In this ritual, the groom’s family visit would-be bride’s family to perform the rituals. The mother of the groom offers a chunni or saree to would-be-bride. She also offers some jewelry, small make-up kit and as shagun boiled rice and milk is served to the bride. Ring ceremony is conducted after this, both bride and groom exchange rings.

Sangeet ceremony: Sangeet is generally started two or three days before the marriage and most importantly on the pre-wedding night. All the family member, relatives and friends tap their feet on the beats of dhol and some good dance Bollywood songs. Nowadays, both the families conduct combined sangeet ceremony to increase the fun and excitement of this entertaining ceremony.

Mehendi ceremony: The bride’s sister-in-law or brother-in-law brings mehendi for her. She applies the same mehendi on her hands and feet.

Chuda ceremony: This is very important ceremony and performed by the family members of bride. All the elderly people of the family keep fast till the chuda is not shown to the girl. This ceremony starts with a pooja.

Haldi ceremony: The bride’s family and groom’s family applies paste of haldi and mustard oil on their face, hands and feet. After this ceremony they take bath in holy water and wear their wedding dresses.

Sehrabandi: One elderly man or boy’s father ties the sehra on groom’s forehead. Then the boy leaves for the wedding venue for further ceremonies.

Milni: In this ceremony, bride’s father and groom’s father introduces each-other’s relatives and close family members. Bride’s family members offer shagun to relatives and family members of the groom.

Jaimala: After milni, bride and groom exchange heavily garlands and proceed for the fera and other rituals.

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Know More About Pre-Wedding Rituals Of Gupta Community

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Wedding Rituals Of Gupta Community

Wedding is considered as one of the most auspicious occasion. Gupta community’s wedding rituals are more or less similar to baniya community. The parents start looking for a matrimonial match when their son or daughter enters into a marriageable age. However, there are still many people who search for matrimonial alliances through friends and relatives. But there are people who create profiles of their son or daughter in different Gupta matrimony sites. You can easily find Gupta bride and groom there by creating the profile. The wedding ceremonies of Gupta community last for 5-7 days. Let’s take a look at the pre-wedding rituals of Gupta community.

Tilak ceremony: One of the wedding rituals in Gupta marriage is Tilak ceremony. You can also say that this is the beginning of other wedding rituals. Gupta weddings are full of traditions and rituals. This ceremony is attended by males of both the families. The father of the bride along with other males of the family visits the house of the groom. There he applies Tilak on his forehead and offers him gifts, some shagun (money), sweets, clothes and fruits as ritual. After this, the family of the groom also sends some gifts for the bride.

Godh Bharai: This ritual is conducted at girl’s home. The women of the groom’s family performed the ceremony. The ladies of groom’s family offer gifts, clothes, sweets, toy and fruits in the lap of bride. They put tilak on her forehead.

Ring Ceremony: It is also known as engagement ceremony, which marks the beginning of the wedding ceremonies. All the family members of both the families attend this ceremony. The would-be-bride and groom exchange the rings. It is a kind of formal announcement of their new beginning and on the same day they announce the wedding date as well.

Sangeet & Mehendi ceremony: The sangeet ceremony took place just a day before the wedding. All family members, friends and relatives participate in this ceremony. It is conducted in both the families respectively. The ladies of the family sing traditional songs and dance on folk songs. As the trend is changing, nowadays, the males of the family also participate in this ceremony.  Now people also perform and dance on various Bollywood songs. Some families also arrange DJ as well for sangeet ceremony.

On that day, Mehendi ceremony is also conduced. This ceremony is also held in both the families. All the females of the family smear mehendi on their hands. The bride and groom also smear mehendi. The bridal mehendi has its own importance and relevance. It not only enhances the overall beauty of the bride, but it has many believes as well. Some people believe that the darker the color of the Mehndi, the more bride’s husband will love her.

Haldi Ceremony: This ceremony is the one in which a paste of haldi is applied on the bride and the groom’s face, hands, shoulders, feet and forehead. It is also conducted in both the families. Haldi ceremony is conducted on the wedding day. In this ceremony, the married females of the family apply haldi on the face, hands, shoulders and feet of the bride and groom. After this ceremony, all the other ceremonies of the wedding day begin.

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