Rajasthani wedding customs and celebrations reveals incredible rituals and imaginations of earlier
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Havelis, Private Beaches & Heritage Homes of India for celebrating Lifestyle Events. A royal wedding in Rajasthan recreates the regal ambience of the era gone by. It is a way to take you to that era and make you feel like maharajas and maharanis.
A Rajasthan wedding tour helps you discover the wondrous social customs that have enchanted outsiders for centuries. A Rajasthan wedding is a colorful affair that showcases the social status of the families involved. Glitz, glamour and motley of traditional practices enchant you into a delightful time warp as you visit a Rajasthan Wedding.
The people of Rajasthan are famous for their love for color and liveliness and like to celebrate their weddings in a royal way. The settings and decorations of the marriage venue are done in such a way to create a medieval grandeur and regal charm. There one can
witness colorful and exciting wedding ceremonies such as haldi, mehendi and
pheras. Generally Groom
wears brilliant and expensive sherwani and a colorful turban, and carrying the traditional
sword and Bride wears beautifully embroidered lehenga, ethnic jewelry and hennaed palms and
feet.
Along
with the large marriage procession known as Barat, Rajput groom rides to bride's house on a white
mare where the radiant bride awaits the arrival of the groom under a brilliantly decorated veil.
On arrival at the venue, the marriage procession is greeted with garland and sprinkling of rose petals and rose water followed by Nagada (traditional drums used for all the auspicious occasions).
To welcome the barat folk dancers perform the Bhavai.
The bride's family makes royal arrangements for feast and entertainment of guests.
The most important ceremony of rajasthani wedding is solemnized in a beautifully decorated mandap, where bride and groom exchange garlands and perform seven circles
known as Pheras around the holy fire. After all the
ceremonies, the bride leaves her parents house and starts for groom's house. It's a tearful occasion for bride's family. On bride's arrival at groom's house,
again some ceremonies are performed to welcome bride as from
here she starts her new life.
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