0 the practice of making designs on someone's hands with henna (= a reddish-brown dye), especially for someone's wedding day in Indian and Pakistani weddings --
If they demand anything for the wedding expenses such as rice, wheat, ghi, gur, mehndi, etc., these are paid before the day for it is fixed.
Brides decorate themselves with gold and diamond jewellery, apply mehndi to colour hands and feet, and undergo various bridal rituals, including wearing bridal lehenga or saree.
The plate contains "mehndi" and "dori".
Her hands are covered with mehndi and an enigmatic symbol on one palm.
She suspects they are having an affair, and tells all the guests at the mehndi, leaving everyone shocked.
Heena is also a human name and means mehndi (the application of henna as a temporary form of skin decoration).
Married ladies dress up in new clothes, jewellery and apply mehndi onto their hands.
The workshops featured children drawing mehndi peace symbols, making origami paper cranes, drumming workshops and sharing books about peace.
