hiya
i am getting married soon inshallah..its going to be all simple wedding…
but my mum in law wants to do my mayoun rasam its going to be at my house
and not many people coming so its juts going to be a home thing…
I just wanted to know wot happens in mayyaun rasam i know the girl wear
yellow clothes which i am going to wear too but can i put a bit of makeup on or wear abit of jewellery..?
Would be nice if u reply soon
Thanks
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I'm not sure what you're really meant to do on a mayyoun, but on my sister's mayyoun her In-laws bought over her mehndi suit and so she had to get changed into it, her sister-in-law then put the churiya and payal on her. My sister was meant to keep the mehndi suit on until the mehndi day which was about 4 days later. (but you don't have to keep it on, it's just a rasam) Anyway on the night we just played dholki and had singing competitions with the girls from the boys side and did lots of dancing...just a bit of fun.
Hope that helps and gives you a few ideas.
All the best for your wedding, Inshallah hope it all goes well. x :)
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i had ubtan done on my mayoun in addition to what mentioned above
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Mayoon marks the beginning of the festivities.
You can do anything you want at yours.
But traditionally its where they have a few rasams and put mayoon on the girl and mithai and all that
In my dads family the mayoon rasam is then followed by the guests which are all family members playing ubtan with each other
Its fun to watch dadis and chachas with ubtan in their hand running after each other trying to pain each other with ubtan.
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we have the ubtan fight in our family too during mayoun. its the best part of the wedding rasams. and NO ONE is safe!
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Shweet where is your family from??
It is the best part of the wedding.
And its not the young ones that play, its the oldies and its fun watching aunties and unkils playing ubtan.
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well my family is from kashmir/baltistan but generally speaking they're from karachi most recently....
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mayoon..um..i guess the bride just wears yellow clothes and jewelery and makeup r upto her..
the ones i've attended they had late nite musical kinda shows and they served snacks and drinks late nite!
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i think its generally all of the above and mainly to get the family into the spirit of the wedding... kind of like a laidback, chilled out, welcome to the festivites party. and its usually hosted by grandmothers, sisters, cousins, aunts etc. and not by the parents.
in our fam, the mehendi and mayoun are two separate events but im opting out of having a mayoun. i don't want ubtan!
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^-- what is the difference between mayoun and mehndi??
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on mayyoun girls put yellow clothes on and put ubtan and on mehindi they wear green clothes and put mehindi on their hands
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ok first sum1 explain to e...wuts an UBTAN??
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its a cream kinda thing which u can make urself which if put on skin so tht ur skin glow more on wedding day:)
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Hi Mahnoor,
A mayun is a small rasam that happens before the mehndi and is usually attended by close family (both sides). It is usually not appropriate to wear any make up but lately whichever mayuns i have attended, the bride has been wearing very light make up (such as light gloss, eye pencil or kajal). WIth regards to the jewlery, the groom's family usually brings real flowers in the form of earings, gajra's etc for the girl to wear.
Hope this helps.
Nooree
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ohhhhh...like mixin haldi n all n applyin it on ur body...i see
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well in our fam, a mayoun is the whole ubtan thing, its all women from the girls side only, and the bride wears yellow. and theres usually no makeup or rasam.
the mehendi is green and yellow and other colours (im having green, yellow, turquoise and red), its guys and girls from both sides of the family, and theres a whole lot of music, dancing and food. its a big party and theres definitely makeup on the bride. the rasam i think is just giving money to the bride and groom as they sit together to bless them, and then that money is donated to charity at the end of the night in their name, and also feeding mithai. the actual mehendi is applied the day after since we usually keep a day's break between mehendi and wedding. i actually think its more like an indian "sangeet" event.
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Hi everyone.
Mayoon is actually a rasam adopted from India. In early times it was believed that once the girl’s wedding date gets fixed some kind of spirit / Jin, or whatever they believed in, wants to stop this wedding and kidnaps that “Quwari larki”. Since that Jin is afraid of the colour yellow the elders of the family apply Ubtan (which is yellow) on the bride and the Larkey Waley get her a yellow suit and bangles to safe the girl from the Jin. From the day the girl is in that Mayoon phase, which we call “Mayoon mei bethna” she is not allowed to leave the house till her Mehndi/Baraat and she shouldnt clean that Ubtan or change her Mayoon clothes till then.
Nowadays all that is just a rasam to have fun on. Mainly family members apply Ubtan on the cheeks of the girl and Oil in her hairs and give a bit money to give it later to the poor. The groom’s family gift her the yellow suit and some bangels. I dont think many girls stay in that Mayoon suit till their Mehndi, its ok to change after the rasam. The rest is just like a Mehndi function. Lots of Dholki and dances.
Mostly girls dont wear any makeup or jewellery on that day, same as it is with the Mehndi function. But some lipgloss or Mascara is surley ok 
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well i had a mayyoun function sorta..my friends threw me a bridal shower party type thing…deco the stage, put a lal duputta on me and then each girl got her turn putting ubtan and oil and stuffing my mouth wiht mithai 
I still went out and showere dand changed clothes, i dun believe in that stuff.. however, i did wear my mehndi ka jora from the mehndi til the wedding day..but that was only 20 hours so no big deal 
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sara, did you just get married? your sig says jan 7 '07- that what its referring to?
cos congratulations!
was it all a blur or do you remember everything? did you have a good time? was it fun?
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you bet! that is the most fun-filled part of the shadi..infact, i think mayun is the only fun-filled function, isn’t it guys? because on other days, eveyrbody is so much busy and worried about little details…while mayun is the worryfree sort of a function where you just make merry and enjoy around!