Wedding Traditions around the World

Wedding Traditions around the World

Strange, but true.
by Michellan Alagao | May 15, 2019

via Photo by Marcus Lewis on Unsplash

Hindu weddings are known for being grand and colorful. A night or two before the wedding, the bride and female guests have not a hen party, but a henna party. Henna is used to paint intricate designs on the hands and feet of the women, especially the bride (sometimes the henna even goes halfway up to her knees!). The designs symbolize things like beauty and joy, and the application of henna is believed to help in preventing stress as it cools the body.

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Michellan Alagao

Michellan Alagao has been a freelance writer and editor for the past seven years, and has written articles on art, culture and lifestyle for a variety of magazines and websites in her free time. She graduated London Metropolitan University with a BSc in Psychology and Criminology, and went on to complete her MFA in Creative Writing from De La Salle University, Manila. She currently works for a global organization that protects the poor from violence, focusing specifically against the sexual exploitation of women and children.