Jessica's Mehndi Party

June 4, 2011

The Indian version of a bridal shower is a Mehndi party. The bride gets henna tattoo's up her hands, arms, feet and legs. Everyone at the party is suppose to give the bride advice about how to keep her husband happy. This party was very fun, but also a very long process.

Jessica being worked on...

It really looked amazing!

It is crazy how steady the artists hand was...

My turn...

Jessica's friend Tierra did mine,
she did just as good a job as the actual Indian henna artist!

Jess and Tierra

Becky

This is Mine and Elora's hands

The mother of the bride finally had had enough after a wedding the night before, and a 6 hour Mehndi party. We had to leave our henna on for 4 - 5 hours :/. Jessica about died. She needed to go to the bathroom so bad. When she finally did, the henna rubbed off a bit on her garments, and it looked like duck poop. We were all sooo tired we were laughing so hard! Then when we finally started peeling off the henna, it looked like mouse poop. All I can say, is henna is very interesting stuff. When it came off it looked light orange, and we all thought it looked like we had drawn on ourselves with wide tipped Crayola markers :). Yet again we were laughing our heads off! When we woke up the next morning it had gotten very dark.

Jessica was very upset, because her new husband left her at her moms house all day the first day after they were married. He was very busy helping his family prepare for the Hindu ceremony which was the next morning. We tried to cheer her up by taking her to Taco Time (she was craving a bean burrito), and then took her to Family Dollar :). No we are not a white trash family, but I had to pick up a toy gun that Dawson was freaking out about having. Poor Jess, what a way to spend your first day after you get married!
Jess thought she would pick up a little something for Raghu while we were at Family Dollar :). Once again we were all laughing so hard! We all looked like white trash especially since most of us didn't even have shoes on when we went in the store.

While the girls had the Mehndi party, all the boys went shooting. See our family isn't white trash :). Family Dollar and shooting is normal activities for any family wedding celebrations!!

Jack, Corey, Brian, Austin, Brayden, Dawson, Dax and Dave

"Would you look at that..."
What a good lookin boy I have!

Remember the earlier photo of the mother of the bride loosing it? Now the father of the bride is loosing it! We are in trouble we still have another ceremony!!

Well, the groom finally showed up at about 10 pm, so we decided to have them open their presents since alot of us were there. We were out of our minds since we had to be to the Hindu ceremony at 9 am the next morning:/.

These two were such good sports,
they definitely did not have a typical wedding!

Look how tired every one is...

Such a good maid of honor keeping track of all the gifts!

Lizzy, Jada, Grandma Hamilton, Laura and Taylor B.

Elora and Taylors gift to the happy couple was a puppy! Elora hurried and wrapped Henna up in some tissue paper and bow and handed her to Jess and Raghu... just to make it official!

Wow... another crazy long day!! I am so glad that we could be there with Jess and Raghu through all this craziness :). Luv ya guys!!