wedding henna
Ceremonial hand designs
Wedding henna is the decorative body art applied to a bride's hands and feet before her wedding, traditional in South Asian, Middle Eastern, and North African cultures.
The intricate patterns, made with paste from the henna plant, are believed to bring good luck and symbolize joy and beauty.
The application often involves a celebratory gathering of women: The bride's wedding henna took six hours to complete.
- mehndiOrnamental paste skin designs
- bridalOf wedding ceremonies
- bridal showerPre-marriage gift gathering
- intricateElaborately detailed, many parts
- patternsRecurring arrangements or designs
hands · feet · ceremony · paste · stain · dark stain · temporary · traditions · Indian · Arabic · Morocco · bride · celebration · adornment · designs · mandala · peacock · floral
- celebrationsgraduation, festival, party, fireworks, birthday
- temporary tattoosmehndi, face tattoos
- Gulf cultureBedouin, camel racing, dates, dhow, pearl diving
- Mehndimehndi, paisley, paisley designs, paisley patterns, floral designs
- body paintface paint, body paint, body glitter, glitter paint, war paint
ceremonial context
wedding hennamourning dress
Clothing for bereavement
funeral shroud · death rites · widow's weeds · divorce proceedings