Mehendi is something I have loved even as a kid. As a school kid my mom used to put mehendi for me on Friday nights and I always used to complain that the mehendi in the books and on my hand is not identical, I used to point out at small little details in patterns that she would miss since she possibly couldnt get everrything on my tiny little hand.
It took me and my mom quite some time to hunt for a bridal mehendi girl. We finally found a lady and it was decided she would be putting mehendi for me and my mom. We decided to have the mehendi ceremony on 5th August starting at 6. The dress code for the evening was green. We even had a green menu planned with harabhara kebab and green pulav.
My mehendi started at 4 and it took 4 hours to complete. My relatives, close friends, family started coming at around 6. It was fun atmosphere with all getting mehendi done on their hands. Deepashree, Deeksha, Aditi were putting mehendi for others. While I was getting mehendi done right uptil my arms, my aunt was teasing me reminding me of the time during her wedding when I was 7 and had pestered the mehendi lady that I too wanted same mehendi as the dulhan. Getting mehendi done for 4 hours was quite tiring. By the end my arms were aching a lot but still I was enjoying every bit of the royal treatment I received. Since I had mehendi on my hands and couldnt use my hands, I had Sandhya maavshi and Tanaya feed me food, someone else tying my hair if it fell loose, every single person there was always on the look out if I needed anything....hmmmmmm.....the advantages of being a bride :).
My mehendi was done and while others were getting theirs done, Julie (my neighbour) suddenly had a complain ki ghar kaafi shaant hain. Next minute we know, she asked Vaibhav to blast music and got us all on our feet to dance. It was great fun to watch all keep their hands safely out of hte way and dance around together. One by one every single person in the room was pulled in including my granny. Occasionally even my Dad and Vaibhav were turned into Kishan Kanhaiyas as they had to dance amongst all the mehendiwale haath.
That was the kick of ceremony for the wedding and I must say it was a blast, thanks to all present there.
You can see the photos for the mehendi ceremony if you click on this link and will try to upload few videos also soon
Mehendi ki raat
And if you think this was it for the day, well there was another excitement left at the end of the day on 5th August. My dulhe miya arrived in Mumbai too that same day for the wedding :).
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