An Indian Bride’s Pride

A pair of eyes looking down…feeling shy and nervous, a quivering hand in the hand of her beloved, a vermillion bindi or a white veil making her face look even more beautiful, the tinkling sound of her anklets resonating in her presence and racing in her heart…all this and more are very few of the very many emotions that a beautiful bride Indian goes through! With hopes and dreams, with love and joy, with excitement and nervousness, an Indian bride on the brink of her marriage goes through many emotions that make her glow and shine with beauty and grace.

A bride-to-be in India has so much more happening with her than just her wedding! In India, the bride gets to do a lot of ethnic shopping for clothes and beautiful jewellery, gets a lot of gifts from her friends and family, is closer to them and everyone else special to her, the breath-taking fragrance of henna on her palms along with flowers adorning her hair and much more. And with all the attention she gets, she gets even more elated and excited about her wedding.

Not only all this, there are also a series of things that she gets to do with her husband-to-be’s family. She gets to go shopping with them for gifts from their side like bridal clothes and more jewellery. More importantly, she also gets to bond with her husband-to-be’s family give and receive a lot of love from them and also get the valuable chance of getting to know them and their ways, their likes and dislikes even before her marriage takes place!

A bride-to-be as well as a newly wed bride feels a lot of pride in the fact that she has found her companion for life and is going to spend long and happy years with him! She looks forward to her honeymoon, her newly wed life, her children, her family, her grand children with the man she loves! She also feels pride in the fact that now she has a home that she can call her own, as with her parent’s there is always the question mark of who and where will her life partner and family be!

The bride steps into a whole new world when she gets married and it is almost that she gets a whole new life! Yes…it is as if she is born again and her emotions have new wings to fly! At every step of her divine wedding with her soul mate…the bride goes through many-a-feeling and with every feeling she feels the pride of being a woman…the feeling of being the most lucky person in the world of new people and new friends! Historical are these moments in her life…moments of A Bride’s Pride!