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Significance of Henna on weddings
Henna (mehndi) plays significant role in East Asian weddings. There is a special night dedicated for mehndi rituals called 'Mehandi Rashm' meaning 'Henna Rituals'.
Traditionally, in this night friends, relatives and family get together in a specially decorated room where fresh henna powder is mixed together to prepare henna paste. One who has more talent in henna designs is chosen to do the henna on Bride's hand but usually it goes to influential person in the family.  Now a days readymade henna cones are brought in from the market and henna artists are hired.
 

Traditional mehndi songs sung by old ladies are very important in such events. They have intrinsic meanings (which most of new generation do not understand). Now this henna song sung by old ladies are also being replaced by modern pop music like one song above in this page called 'mehndi ki raat aayi' (this is the henna night..) sung by famous singer group "Models' in India.