After arunshanbhag posted (his!) mehendi pictures, I couldn’t resist putting up mine… Here goes!
Cost me a cool 2300 bucks which included the feet too. Unfortunately, they can’t be seen here..
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After arunshanbhag posted (his!) mehendi pictures, I couldn’t resist putting up mine… Here goes!
Cost me a cool 2300 bucks which included the feet too. Unfortunately, they can’t be seen here..
Lakshmi says:
More like ‘shaadi-ka-din’, DD… This was taken during the reception.
July 30, 2004 — 10:24 am
rileen says:
Pretty.
Even though you guys seem to be bringing back memories i could do without :-p
July 30, 2004 — 10:24 am
madhav says:
You had mehndi done too?
July 30, 2004 — 10:29 am
Lakshmi says:
:-)))
July 30, 2004 — 11:15 am
jayasankarvs says:
Hahahahaha.
July 30, 2004 — 11:46 pm
arunshanbhag says:
Simply Awesome!
July 30, 2004 — 11:31 am
Lakshmi says:
Not really, Arun… this is fairly usual and in fact, the colour isn’t that great either. A really good mehendi has a deep reddish hue… Mine turned into a dark brown..:-(
July 30, 2004 — 12:00 pm
arunshanbhag says:
L: from what I remember the women talking, the darker the better. Also, it probably turns lighter with time. The artwork is so fine and detailed! How long did it take the person to do just the hands?
btw, it that a ganesh or something at the base of your right index finger?
July 30, 2004 — 1:11 pm
Lakshmi says:
That’s a Ganesha at the base. The lady took a lot of time; don’t recall how much. Her work was very skilful and beautiful but I didn’t like the colour so much. Darker and redder is better….Applying oil regularly during the first two days after you get the mehendi done, exposing your hands to clove fumes.. all this helps in getting a better colour.
July 30, 2004 — 7:04 pm
dannykk says:
Out of sheer curiosity, is there any symbolic reason for doing the Mehndi thing?. My sister had hers done for her wedding, and it was considered unusual in Thrissur.
July 30, 2004 — 12:06 pm
Lakshmi says:
My husband is a Gujarati and it’s fairly common among them. Besides, I love it!
July 30, 2004 — 7:05 pm
dannykk says:
I follow your posts quite often, so the fact that your husband is a Gujarati is not a revelation. At the risk of sounding repetitive, let me rephrase my question, any idea where the tradition of applying mehndi came from, and significance if any.?
July 31, 2004 — 9:41 am
arunshanbhag says:
Saw this with a quick google search here.
“A bride whose family has little money wears her mehndi in place of ornate gold jewellery. A bride is not expected to perform any housework until her wedding mehndi has faded.”
July 31, 2004 — 8:41 pm
hariputtar says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehndi
July 31, 2004 — 8:53 pm
Lakshmi says:
Thanks for being a regular reader of my posts; nice to know!
I am sorry I have no idea about the origin of the mehendi tradition. Looks like you’ve been helped by the others on this list, though…:-) Hope your question has been answered.
August 2, 2004 — 5:09 am
arunshanbhag says:
… can I get the 1 min synopsis of your life? I thought you were from Kerala. … Ok, maybe you lived in mumbai and your parents arranged your marraige to a guju? am I on the same train so far? so what did you do in mumbai before the mehndi-ki-raat?
just curious.
😉
July 31, 2004 — 8:34 pm
Lakshmi says:
🙂 Simple, Arun. My parents hail from Kerala. They settled in B’bay where I was born and brought up. My husband is a Bombayite too whose parents are originally from Gujarat. I met my hubby in college and we got married 4 years after I graduated from college. That’s the story so far….:-)
August 2, 2004 — 5:11 am
arunshanbhag says:
ashtaputra sowbhagyawati ho bhava!
(or putri or any combination thereof!)
August 2, 2004 — 5:47 pm
Lakshmi says:
:-))
Thanks, Arun..
August 3, 2004 — 5:41 am
kookygoblin says:
Wow!! Absolutely gorgeous!If I’d come earlier I’d have seen it firsthand.*regret*
July 30, 2004 — 7:45 pm
hariputtar says:
this is so wonderful. [ tenor: and the *sky blueooo*, … dress too. ]
[ i remember throwing tantrums to get some mehndi done when i was a child; of course i was mostly laughed away – being a male child. and, if u are going to suggest that i could always indulge myself *now* … thanks. huh. its too late in life to indugle in such androgynous behaviour, innocently. ]
July 31, 2004 — 9:39 pm
Lakshmi says:
:-)))
August 2, 2004 — 5:12 am
Lakshmi says:
It’s a saree, not a dress, actually…
August 2, 2004 — 6:35 am
shri says:
OMG, Locks! That is so beautiful! 😀
BTW, are you tall? Your fingers are so slender and long. Beautiful hands. 🙂
August 1, 2004 — 5:56 am
hariputtar says:
haan. bada dam hai in haathon mein …
August 1, 2004 — 9:22 am
Lakshmi says:
🙂 Not too much by way of dam, Sonal.. I can’t even open a can of orange juice!
August 2, 2004 — 5:13 am
Lakshmi says:
Not as tall as I’d have liked, Shri.. I am 5’6″ tall. Or short, as I might put it!
August 2, 2004 — 5:12 am
deelight says:
You have lovely long fingers Locks. You’re 5’6″ and you’re complaining??? Babe, I am the short one here at 5’2″…i should feel like a dwarf!
August 3, 2004 — 5:23 am
Lakshmi says:
Thanks, Dee… and you’re right. It’s silly to complain about it…*sheepish*
August 3, 2004 — 5:42 am
deelight says:
It’s silly to complain about it…*sheepish*
…..especially may I add…in the presence of short people who are easily hurt by their inadequacies!
😉
August 3, 2004 — 11:51 pm
Lakshmi says:
Sorry, Dee….*hanging my head in shame*
August 4, 2004 — 5:16 am
shri says:
Hee. Am 5’3″ inches. So, Locks stands tall among the 3 of us. 😉
August 3, 2004 — 8:58 pm
ipositive says:
Wow! This is beautiful.
August 3, 2004 — 7:04 am
Lakshmi says:
Thanks..:-) Can’t take the credit for it, though..
August 3, 2004 — 10:04 am