Ram
Can someone please tell me why do everyone apply this yellow paste before marriage. My all 6 kiddish brothers and sisters will drench me in the shower of it.
I thought and made my way towards the garden where everyone are waiting for me. I was only in my dhoti and the sun locket dad gifted me making my upper body shine by the sun rays.
Pitamahi kunthi smiled at me and made me sit on a seat and made Abhi sit along with me. He's the groomsman for this wedding.
First Maharaj Dhritarashtr followed by maatha gandhari applied to me. Everyone followed them. Then came the turn of the kids. I gasped when Divya took a handful of it and was about to come towards me.
I got up and hid behind maatha draupadi who giggled at my state. I was still angry at them. I huffed in anger when Maatha draupadi ditched me and let Divya paint me with haldi. It even went in my mouth.
Dad came forward and started cleaning it from my eyes with his uttariya. I held his shoulder in support and let him clean my eyes. They are burning. Gosh! Still 5 more left. God save me.... 🥺
Subhadra : Arey kids. Leave some for the bride too. She will have to apply the remaining haldi that the groom had used. (She said making me sigh in releif.)
All the kids didn't even considered leaving haldi and painted my whole body with the yellow paste. Only mirchi powder is left. Then I'll look successfully like a marinated chicken. 🤣
On the other side the bride is being sat down in a yellow skirt like thing wrapped till her chest.
like this... Ignore the background and the old lady...She was whining and telling the ladies around her to stop washing her like clothes. Which they royally ignored. Her mother and especially Maatha draupadi was on a mode of teasing the bride about how she is looking like a yellow doll.
The mangala snanam was over.
(If you don't know about this mangala snanam thingy. Just know that this is the first ritual before the bride officially becomes one. It is simply a bath given by all the ladies of both bride and groom's family with water mixed with rose petals and flowers. The above picture is a glimpse of it. Ignore the face and the saree.)
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