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March 22, 2015, 12:01am
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Re: People invited to the Mehndi but not Baraat
What the plan right now is, is to give the ppl coming to the mehndi the invitation and if I don’t want the father/brother/husband to come I’m just going to write “ladies only” on the invite – those people just happen not to be hijabi so the “ladies only” won’t change their dress.
For the mehndi, since we’re having the nikkah, there’s a lot of men from both families that are going to be very offended if we keep it strictly women’s only. So we’ll do it so that my SO walks in, I make my entrance. We both sit on stage and do the nikkah. Break for maghrib. After maghrib, do rasams. After rasams, have dinner at which point all the men that aren’t my father and close close guys leave. Then we do the boy’s dances. After boy’s dances the men go sit in that area with couches and girls dance. Then everyone can just come and the dance floor will be open so whoever wants to dance can dance and everyone else can hang out.
…of course this is MY plan so who knows how it’ll actually turn out when I’m sitting on stage unable to actually regulate anything lol
What are the timings for this? Are there several hours between the nikkah and the beginning of the “mehndi”? How are you going to communicate this schedule to your guests? Is there a clear/distinct end to the nikkah function before the mehndi begins?