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An Indian girl holding an umbrella for a Hindu wedding ceremony. In North Indian weddings, the bride and the groom say the following words after completing the seven steps: We have taken the Seven Steps. You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become partners. I have become yours. Hereafter, I cannot live without you. Do not live without me.
Choora. For other uses, see Chura (disambiguation). Esha Deol wearing chuda at her wedding. Choora (in Hindi-Urdu) or Chuda or Chudlo [1] (in Gujarati) is a set of bangles traditionally worn by a bride on her wedding day and for a period after, especially in Indian weddings .
Indian wedding clothes. Bride in Lehenga and Groom in Sherwani (which became customary as a result of Mughal culture) in a North Indian Hindu wedding. Indian wedding clothes are elaborate set of clothes worn by the bride, bridegroom, and other relatives attending the wedding .
A mangala sutra (Sanskrit: मङ्गलसूत्रम्, romanized: maṅgalasūtram), or tali (ISO: tāḷi), is a necklace that the groom ties around the bride's neck in the Indian subcontinent, in a ceremony called the Mangalya Dharanam (Sanskrit for 'wearing the auspicious') during a Hindu wedding.
India celebrates about 10 million weddings per year, [2] of which about 80% are Hindu weddings . Hindu marriage ceremony. A fancy Indian wedding taking place in Puducherry. Bengali Hindu wedding in Kolkata.
In India, when a Hindu and a non-Hindu marry under the Hindu Marriage Act and for the Hindu marriage to be valid, both partners must be Hindu amongst other conditions that also need to be fulfilled, and the non-Hindu partner must convert to Hinduism.
In Hinduism, it's part of the Suhāg or lucky trousseau at marriages and is affixed to the girl's forehead on her wedding and thereafter always worn. Unmarried girls optionally wore small ornamental spangles on their foreheads. A widow was not allowed to wear bindi or any ornamentation associated with married women.
A ghoonghat (ghunghat, ghunghta, ghomta, orhni, odani, laaj, chunari, jhund, kundh) is a headcovering or headscarf, worn primarily in the Indian subcontinent, by some married Hindu, Jain, and Sikh women to cover their heads, and often their faces.
'Wedding pavilion'), also referred to as Kalyana Mandapa (Sanskrit: कल्याण मण्डप, romanized: Kalyāṇa Maṇḍapa) or simply Wedding mandapa is a mandapa (pavilion) temporarily erected for the purpose of a Hindu or Jain wedding. It is the term used for the wedding canopy in Dharmic religions.
A varamala ( Sanskrit: वरमाला, romanized : Varamālā, lit. 'boon garland') [1] or a jayamala ( Sanskrit: जयमाला, romanized : Jayamālā, lit. 'victory garland') [2] [3] is a South Asian garland that is most commonly associated with its eponymous ritual during a Hindu wedding ceremony. [4]