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  2. Gaye holud - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Bengali Hindu wedding - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Bengali Muslim wedding - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Culture of Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Gauna - Wikipedia

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    Gauna is a northern Indian hindu custom and the ceremony associated with the consummation of marriage prevalent in the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. It is associated with the custom of child marriage. [1] The ceremony takes place several years after marriage. [2] [3] Before the ceremony, the bride stays at her natal home. [4]

  7. Haldi Kumkum - Wikipedia

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    The ceremony is particularly popular in the Deccan Indian states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra pradesh, Goa. In Tamil Nadu , it is celebrated as Aadi perukku aka Aadi monsoon festival is a Hindu Tamil festival celebrated on the 18th day of the Tamil month of Adi (mid-July to mid-August).

  8. Culture of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.

  9. File:Gaye Holud ceremony, Dhaka.jpg - Wikipedia

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