Get Yourself Ready for a Big Fat Punjabi Wedding
Hearing a baraat passing by the lane with dhol and patakas in full swing, you can say that a Punjabi groom is moving forward to get his bride. Punjabi weddings are a fun filled event that usually is five to six days long with friends and relatives giggling and having a gala time.
An arranged marriage in Punjabi community begins with Roka ceremony that confirms the upcoming marriage. Punjabi’s have a number of small and big rituals that are a part of Wedding, but there are some important rituals that commence just days before Wedding day
Important Wedding Rituals
You can define a Punjabi wedding with colours, dance, music, decked up ladies and a number of designer dresses. Every function has its own set of values and reason to celebrate. Important wedding functions include:
• Sagan: A way to welcome groom into bride’s family, bride’s family offers him and his family gifts. Sagan ceremony is usually followed by Chunni ceremony where groom’s family offers bride a beautiful and heavy Chunni with jewellery and other gifts. Engagement can take place on the same day or can be celebrated separately.
• Chuda: An important function for bride where her maternal uncle puts chuda (a set of traditional bangles for Punjabi bride) along with sweets and gifts and blesses her for a new life forward. Once the chuda ceremony takes place, friends and sisters of bride put kaleere on Wedding bangles.
• Haldi: Chuda ceremony is followed by the haldi ceremony where bride is made to sit and married women apply haldi on the face and feet to give her the blessings. Haldi ceremony also takes place at groom’s place.
• Ghara Ghardoli: A ceremony where sisters and sister-in-law of both bride and groom respectively gets auspicious water filled in a Ghara for bride and groom to take bath with same water. After this bride starts getting ready.
• Sehra Bandi: In the evening, groom gets ready for the Sehra Bandi ceremony. Relatives of groom decorate him with money garlands and sehra, a pink coloured turban with a head gear and strings falling on the face.
• Baraat: It is a ceremony where friends and family of groom dance away to wedding venue where bride and her family welcome them. At the entry, two families exchange garlands as a sign of adding each other to the family. This ceremony is called as milni.
• Jai Maala: Bride and groom exchange the jai mala on a stage that is surrounded by friends and family of both bride and groom. After certain rounds of photography and dinner, bride and groom proceed towards phere.
• Phere: Main part of wedding where both bride and groom take vows around the fire and promise to remain together till eternity. Phere are followed by sindur and mangal sutra that marks the completion of wedding.
• Vidaai: A ceremony where family of bride bids goodbye to the bride and blesses the couple for a new beginning.
• Paani Varna: This ceremony takes place when newly married couple reaches groom’s lace. Mother of the groom performs an aarti with a water pitcher. With every aarti circle, the mother tries to drink water from the pitcher and her son protects her to do the same. At the seventh round of aarti, he allows his mother to drink from the pitcher.
Bride is welcomed at her new house by pushing a rice pot with her right foot.
An arranged marriage in Punjabi community begins with Roka ceremony that confirms the upcoming marriage. Punjabi’s have a number of small and big rituals that are a part of Wedding, but there are some important rituals that commence just days before Wedding day
Important Wedding Rituals
You can define a Punjabi wedding with colours, dance, music, decked up ladies and a number of designer dresses. Every function has its own set of values and reason to celebrate. Important wedding functions include:
• Sagan: A way to welcome groom into bride’s family, bride’s family offers him and his family gifts. Sagan ceremony is usually followed by Chunni ceremony where groom’s family offers bride a beautiful and heavy Chunni with jewellery and other gifts. Engagement can take place on the same day or can be celebrated separately.
• Chuda: An important function for bride where her maternal uncle puts chuda (a set of traditional bangles for Punjabi bride) along with sweets and gifts and blesses her for a new life forward. Once the chuda ceremony takes place, friends and sisters of bride put kaleere on Wedding bangles.
• Haldi: Chuda ceremony is followed by the haldi ceremony where bride is made to sit and married women apply haldi on the face and feet to give her the blessings. Haldi ceremony also takes place at groom’s place.
• Ghara Ghardoli: A ceremony where sisters and sister-in-law of both bride and groom respectively gets auspicious water filled in a Ghara for bride and groom to take bath with same water. After this bride starts getting ready.
• Sehra Bandi: In the evening, groom gets ready for the Sehra Bandi ceremony. Relatives of groom decorate him with money garlands and sehra, a pink coloured turban with a head gear and strings falling on the face.
• Baraat: It is a ceremony where friends and family of groom dance away to wedding venue where bride and her family welcome them. At the entry, two families exchange garlands as a sign of adding each other to the family. This ceremony is called as milni.
• Jai Maala: Bride and groom exchange the jai mala on a stage that is surrounded by friends and family of both bride and groom. After certain rounds of photography and dinner, bride and groom proceed towards phere.
• Phere: Main part of wedding where both bride and groom take vows around the fire and promise to remain together till eternity. Phere are followed by sindur and mangal sutra that marks the completion of wedding.
• Vidaai: A ceremony where family of bride bids goodbye to the bride and blesses the couple for a new beginning.
• Paani Varna: This ceremony takes place when newly married couple reaches groom’s lace. Mother of the groom performs an aarti with a water pitcher. With every aarti circle, the mother tries to drink water from the pitcher and her son protects her to do the same. At the seventh round of aarti, he allows his mother to drink from the pitcher.
Bride is welcomed at her new house by pushing a rice pot with her right foot.
A Punjabi Wedding is an experience that one can never forget. The dance, the fun and the elaborate celebrations would let you relish the moments for a long time. This time is the best time for bride and groom as well as their families and friends. If you have a Punjabi wedding to attend, you should get ready for a gala time.
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