Sikh Wedding Planner
Tips, advice and resources to help make your Sikh wedding amazing. Helping you to plan Asian weddings and Indian weddings.
Tips, advice and resources to help make your Sikh wedding amazing. Helping you to plan Asian weddings and Indian weddings.
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Sikh marriages are more often than not performed in Gurudwaras in presence of their lord Shri Guru Granth Sahib. Sikh marriage is an amazing permutation of emotions, delectation, style and rituals. After the pheras around The Holy Book, there are still some ceremonies left. These rituals are not in any way inspired by the religion, rather by the culture.They are meant to pull somebody’s leg , but with the aim of entertaining.
Rituals at the wedding site
JUTA CHHUPAI – After Anand Karaj, a sense of consummation prevails. Girls from the bride’s side take over. They hide Groom’s shoes and ask for a generous amount as a condition to return them.Groom’s cousins and friends bargain and settle down for a slimmer sum. All this is conducted in a very pleasant atmosphere.
SAUHRIAN DI ROTI-Groom’s mother sends food for her daughter –in –law after Lavan.
VIDAI- After refreshments, bride dons the suit provided by her in-laws and gets ready to depart from her parent’s house. It is the time full of emotions, a feeling of sorrow and joy at the same time. She throws phullian or rice over her head while her brother/s stand behind to collect them. It symbolizes her wishes for well being and prosperity of her parents. Her brother goes with the bride to groom’s house and stays there for a day.
Rituals at Groom’s house
PANI VARNA – When couple reaches the house, groom’s mother stands at the entrance with a small pitcher of water. She rolls it over the heads of the couple seven times and tries to drink it. Groom has to stop her and allow her to drink only at her seventh attempt.
TEL CHAUNA – Mother–in–law puts mustard oil at both the corners of the entrance door to symbolize welcome to her daughter-in-law who in return touches her feet.
CHAUKHAT PAKDAI- The bride holds the frame of the door and ask for a promise to fulfill one of her wishes. When groom’s father promises, then she enters the house.
MUH DIKHAI- Relatives and friends at groom’s house uncover the veil from her face and give their blessings and shagun to the bride.
GANA KHOLNA-Gana, a decorative thread was tied to hands of bride and the groom before wedding. A game is played to untie one another’s with one hand.
GOD BHARAI-A small kid from groom’s family is made to sit in bride’s lap. It reflects wishes of the family for a grandchild son.
PHERA DALNA- Next day couple goes to girl’s house in the morning. In the evening, boy’s parents go there to bring them back.
Whichever the ritual may be, there is a vital ingredient present all the time, heavy dose of hilarity and laughter.
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