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Gaye Holud in Dhaka, Bangladesh Gaye Holud ceremony in West Bengal, India The bride is seated on a dais and the turmeric paste is applied by the guests to her face and body. Turmeric is known to have antimicrobial and soothing effects when applied to the skin, giving the bride a distinctive yellow hue that gives its name to this ceremony.
Gaye Holud (Bengali: গায়ে হলুদ), meaning "applying turmeric to the body," is a traditional Bengali pre-wedding ritual where the groom's family, without the groom, visits the bride’s house on the morning of the ceremony to celebrate and perform the turmeric function.
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Relatives decorating the bride with traditional wedding turmeric in a Bangladeshi Gaye Holud ceremony in Dhaka. Bengali weddings are traditionally in five parts: first, it is the bride and groom's Mehendi Shondha (also called Pan Chini), the bride's Gaye Holud, the groom's Gaye Holud, the Biye, and the Bou Bhaat. These often take place on ...
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Among Goan Christians and South Canarese Christians the Roce ceremony is held, in which coconut paste is applied on the bride-to-be and groom-to-be. Among the Bombay East Indian Christians, the Umbracho Pani ceremony is held, a day before the wedding, in which water drawn from a well is used to bathe by the bride-to-be and groom-to-be. [12]
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