Indian wedding: Color function

In the morning the bride’s family got together at a spacious terrace on the roof.



Neelima’s family has got a tradition similar to that Indian people carry out on Holy. The bride’s family welcomes the bride. So Neelima is seating on a low bench accompanied by two smaller cousins. Her grandmother puts marigold garlands on all the three girls by turn.






Then there is a tray with some small bowls filled with turmeric (the spice that we, stupid foreigners, call curry and that is not carry at all – it just gives this distinctive orange color to food), kumkum (dark-cherry colored powder, women use it to make bindies or put stripes on parting for the health and long-life of the husband), color cereals, rice, vegetable oil – all these substances are considered auspicious and used to carry out a vast number of Hindu rituals.



So, each guest would take his/her turn to come up to the bride and put a bit of everything on her face, hair, arms etc. thereby blessing her. But those coming up should be careful themselves. As soon as the greetings are over people paint their hands with special colors and touch each other, smash eggs against each other’s heads, throw meshed bananas with the skin on each other. Mostly the people gathered appeared very playful and enjoyed the game with all their hearts.









Major bath after came as an essential.