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I've seen green, orange, pink, and gold, but yellow is the most common still.
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So here it goes....what color have married guppies on GS worn for their mayoon? And for those who are not married, any thought over it?
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I had two plain cotton shalwar kameezes (one in yellow and one in lavender) for the couple days before the mehndi. For the mayoon-ish occasion I wore a plain yellow silk churidaar pajama.
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Ah, i see making 2 plain cotton shalwar kameezes is smart....my dadi was like u get into the mayoon joda ONCE n get out of it to change into the wedding dress! I wonder how it wud've been sitting for mayoon in the same dress for a good week or so!
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.
just like my mom side family
but this day called MAANJAA ....... is it all relatives give gifts, clothes, and mithai for groom or bride(one of them) and for his/her family and play with ubtan
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^ Aren't manja and mayoon the same thing?
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Yes, i think they are the same...
What is?????????
Salaam all,
What is Mayoon Mehndi??.. i dont understand...:-(
anybody care to enlighten me??
its the first day in pakistaniwedding.... Mehndi....
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Mayun/Manja -- That's the day that the bride's side gathers with the bride or the groom's side gathers with the groom. The traditional color is yellow. It's an opportunity for the "ghar wale" to gather and celebrate, feed sweets to the bride or groom, do all the rasams. It is traditionally WITHOUT the other side, and is often less formal. Also, traditionally, once the bride has had her manja/mayun she dresses in yellow until the wedding day and does not leave the house. Obviously things don't work quite like this any more.
Mehndi -- Usually occurs a day later or even the evening following the mayun/manja. This is when the other side brings mehndi and does rasams for the bride/groom. Traditionally the bride and groom wouldn't see each other before the wedding, so there used to be two mehndis, one where the groom's side (but not the groom) took the mehndi to the bride's side and fed her sweets and one where the bride's side (but definitely not the bride) took the mehndi to the groom's side and fed her sweets, etc. Traditional colors are yellow, orange, and green.
mehndi and the other thing....
hey ppl!!
i dnt no how to spell it but im talking bot the thing before the mehndi whre u get layered in haldi and wot not to get sum roop or to jst make u yellow! lol!
i wanted to no 1 wots its called??
and 2 wot did u ppl wear for it or are planning to wear
and also 3 wot happens on it???
cheereo!!!
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I think you are talking about the mayoon?
The bride wears yellow.
Its similar to what happens on the mehndi, dholki, dancing ect.
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It is called Mayoon or **Mayun **or Ubtan or Manja (aka. Haldi, Gaye Holud in Bangladesh, Pithi in AgaKhanis and Maya in the Sikh community). This is a pre-wedding custom where the bride enters into a state of seclusion seven to fifteen days before the wedding. She is made free of all the chores and errands during this time and is supposed to stay indoors, away from the public’s view esp. guys. The bride and groom are not allowed to see each other after the Mayun.
The main purpose of this occasion is that the bride stops doing any housework and start beautifying herself for the wedding. The groom’s mother brings ubtan for the bride which is applied to the bride’s skin each day leading up to the wedding to brighten the complexion. Along with other natural homemade beauty treatments regular oiling of the hair is also done. A milad is also held before the mayoon with special emphasis on the wedding. The actual party is for ladies only where they can sing and dance while the married females apply ubtan, do the oiling and tease the bride. 
Generally the bride’s family give bangles and sometimes clothes to her friends, depending on what the family can afford. The bride usually wears a simple yellow shalwar kameez or a pink one. Hyderabadi brides usually wear yellow khara dupattas and have elaborate ubtan trays brought up called suhaag puras.
Similar ceremony is held for the groom, where bride’s mother, sisters, cousins and friends bring “ubtan” for groom and rub it on his skin.
Yellow is traditional for mayoon because is shows the least staining as the dulhan was being pampered with ubtan and oils, etc. The idea is to glow in your bridal red after so many days in yellow and out of sunshine. Also, 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 save 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, both mehndi and mayoon can be merged in one occasion. I don’t think many girls stay in the Mayoon suit till their Mehndi.
Here are some videos and pics to give you some idea:
Mayoon Special
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wow thanks mahismart!! dats helped alot! yh my mum was saying about staying in the suit until the mehndi!!
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Orange and yellow exude warmth, sunshine, joy and happiness. A fun combination
of colours for a traditional mayoon/haldi ceremony.
what is a Mayoon?
hey every1 hope al is well, just wanted to clear up what a mayoon is?
i know its before the mehndi day and the boy is not supposed to come over, but what is it actually about and what do u exactly do?
i asked some1 n they said that after the mayoon the girl isn't supposed to change her clothes or go out lol... =)
also is the mayoon and mehndi the only traditional pre-wedding events that take place? i remember a few years ago some family friend got married she had a week of different types of mehndi's, can someone please clarify?
much appreciated guppies =)
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as i know previously it used 2 hapen tht girl wears yellow suit on mayoon n remains in those clothes till wedding day n also not go out n ubtan is applied to her to enhance her beauty but now a days all people gather n just apply ubtan to her n she can change her dress n go out as well......
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Mayoon-Mehndi??
Asalamu-alaikum!! my name is Zain, i know it’s a male name but i’m a girl!!!
My parents loved this name and they decided to call their baby with this name..also if it was a female…:(..and unfortunaly i born as a girl 
BTW after my “dukh bhari kahani” 
i want to ask u girls…which is the difference between Mayoon-Mehndi?? it’s more than 10 years that i haven’t attended personally a paki marriage…
so i don’t know what is this “mayoon” function..i asked it to my mom but she said that when we were in Pakistan there wasn’t all these parties, ppl weren’t soo rich b’cuz they had lots of sons ecc ecc..at least she didn’t know exactly which is the difference..so can u girls tell it to me??? 
I want to ask it b’cuz next year my sister is going to get marry 
so we want to know all latest trands!!
I’ll ask u more help in the future..be ready!!! 
Walai kum assalam!
Mayoun is a pre mehndi function. Dancing, singing songs & all that usual stuff goes on. Bride usually wears a plain yellow dress & no makeup or little makeup. Ladies apply uptan on the bride. Feed her sweet stuff & all. Its almost similar to a mehndi. Mehndi is just more loud I guess.
Usually its an all ladies event & in my family we don't invite the inlaws either. Most of the times Mayoun is for the bride but then there are families that do Mayoun for the groom too.
In my dad's side of the family its also customary that the "mamoos" throw the mayoun for the bride.