Saturday afternoon included a ceremony for the wedding.Someone played a drum, people clapped, and people danced. We all placed somehenna on the bride and grooms hands and then did a little dance after. Each person placed some money by the henna bowl to be donated to charity. TheIndian guests thought white people trying to do Indian dancing was hilarious.
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| Drum playing |
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| Placing henna on the groom's palms |
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| The henna bowl with donations for the poor |
After the ceremony, the women all got henna on their hands.N, being the bride, had henna put up to her elbows (we only got it up to ourwrists) and on her feet. We then waited a couple hours before scraping thestuff off. We then had to avoid washing our hands for several more hours.
Afterwards we had the actual Mehendi party. I think thatusually the henna portion and the party are done together, but this way wecould enjoy the party without waiting for our henna to dry. The party was muchlike a wedding reception. In fact, I couldn’t imagine how the wedding was goingto be any different (I was way wrong which you will see in a future post).There was deafening music, lots of food, and a sort of talent portion wherepeople performed choreographed dances.
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| Talent show portion |
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| The roommates plus our honorary member |
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