Henna and Weddings

The most popular Henna tradition is the wedding ceremony.  This tale starts with the bride to be having Henna applied to her body the night before the wedding, taking hours and hours by many attendants.  Tradition holds that the bride to be will not have to do housework for as long as the henna design appears on the skin.... so you can imagine the work involved in applying Henna and getting it to stain the darkest possible!  The darker the stain the better the marriage...

Hiding the husbands name in the Henna design is another tradition, on the wedding night the bride asks her husband to find his name hidden somewhere in Her Henna design.  In many middle eastern cultures the groom as well as the bride applies Henna to their body in preparation for the marriage ceremony.

Henna is considered a spiritual practice.  The prophet Mohammed is believed to have used Henna to color his beard and hair.  Mohammed also liked his wives to color their nails and hands with Henna.