Spicy Wardrobe

     Marriages are celebrated in India as a sacrament (Sanskara), a rite enabling two individuals to start their journey in life together which lays on the three essential values: happiness, harmony and growth. In a Hindu wedding, the multiplicity of creation becomes possible when spirit (Purush) unites with matter (Prakritti).

     

     They have many different wedding ceremony rituals according to their caste class. Colors!! Red! Pink! Green! Yellow! Can you imagine a wedding ceremony that all these magnificent harmony among these colors?  Their customs are very colorful mesmerize the whole world by their delightful outerwear.

     Sari is a long dress which it should drape over the bride’s hair. Traditionally, the bride wears a red, yellow or peach sari. Beside their colorful sari, the gold jewelry is their prefer as accessorize. Jura pins (hair accessorizes), toe rings, gold bracelets and colored Jhumka bangles are little details to wear them to show their bravery celebrating style.

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     Another feature of the bride’s wardrobe which become popular abroad now on days is the use of henna to decorate their hands and feet. The designs applied have different significance like protection, spiritual, fertility, wisdom and happiness. 

     Also another indispensable point is to put on brilliant traditional Indian accessorizes. The bride’s jewelries can be the toe rings, bangles, jura pins, earrings, rings and brooches.

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     When it comes to the groom, he wears a kafni (long shirt extending to the knees) with leggings or short of an overgrown loincloth (dhoti). Similarly, the groom might also wear a turban which compatible to his special cloth. 

Why Spicy India?

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     "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage." said Martin Luther. But before living a happy life with your husband or wife there is a magnificent and unique dream to live- wedding! Over the world, people celebrate their wedding ceremonies according to their cultures long history of meaning. I would like to put aside the Western European and North America cliches and get into the traditions in Turkey, India and Japan.

     You may ask why particularly those 3 countries I decided on blogging. Good question. Let me explain why spicy India was my choice. Let's go to 1700 BC, India was one of the civilization at those times around Anatolia. India has been ordered by the system which is called Caste. According to that system about marriages, it is impossible to marry to someone in different classes. Aristocrats must marry to someone also in leisured class. When it comes to the lowest class, villagers do marry to someone in the same class either. I really impressed this system, because I was grown used to the fairytales have caharacters as a poor boy and a princess or one of the American movies "The Prince and Me". Also, in India Budism, Hinduism, Muslim are common religions. I wonder how a Hindu wedding rituals.
    


    
    

    

Fresh Start for the Happy Ending

     Hello!

     Who does not love a fresh start? I do love it.  This is third experience on blogging. The first one was like column that I shared my inner thoughts about people and events. When I start writing, I had thought that it would be easy, because what I want to write was tip on my tongue so my fingers can type the letters quickly. Yet, it did not go like as I wished. As Mary Pickford said, we may have a fresh start any moment we choose, for this thing we call 'failure' not the falling down. With the power of this saying and the assignment which was given by my English teacher, Ms.Johnson, I made a fresh start about blogging, again. 


     In the cloud of Internet, there are lots of blogs, mine will be one of them, from now on. In the process of creating a blog, I cannot deny that 'making a research' part was 'hard & enjoyable'. I cannot decide on my blogging topic among my different interests, then I decided to create a blog about 'different wedding traditions in Turkey, India and Japan', because I was amazed by wedding photos which are taken by famous photographers and I started to imagine how my wedding ceremony will be like.  There are lots of blogs which are written by the brides or the photographers. I must highlight, all those blogs contained high quality and original wedding photos and unique experiences were different from mine; I haven't have my own wedding, so I cannot depict my emotions and experiences. I am just going to tell traditions. I haven't attended in so many wedding ceremonies like the girl in the movie '27 Dresses', but with the help of this blog, you and I will be witnesses for their warm smile on their valuable day.