so true!! any event(s) besides the actual wedding are extra expenditure....and weigh heavily on the parents' pockets.... the whole meaning behind mehndi/mayun/dholki events was to make the "household" get in the wedding mode...pre-wedding festivities were strictly confined to the closest family members..and involved FEMALES! plus they were done at HOME. now...mehndis are nothing but a huge bollywood multi-starrer filam with MEN dancing around on perfectly choreographed dances..(which btw is very very embarrassing) totally different from on-the-spur-of the moment...kinda freelance bhangra guys would do to show their genuine happiness...everything on the mehndis nowdays looks so forced....and bleh... i am sorry..but the whole guys and girls dancing around together in front of EVERYONE and their mother...is absolutely unnecessary!
Omg choreographaed bollywood dances ARE embarrassing.....especially when guys do it.......whenever i see guys dance to some tacky bollywood song at a mehndi, i can't help burst out laughing. Yeah freelance dancing is so much better.