Let your hands tell magical stories with these amusing bridal mehendi designs. Make your special day as unique and magical as you!
Have you heard of this saying, “The depth in the colour of your mehendi will determine how much your husband loves you.” During mehendi rasams, we see many women sitting and making beautiful peacocks along with jaal and numerous types of designs on our hands. Have you ever wondered about the origin of these designs? Mehendi, made with henna leaves’ paste, is an intricate design made on hands, feet, arms, and also as tattoos by many people. Bridal mehendi designs are a fusion of various styles interpreted from other parts of the world like the Persian, Rajput, Mughal, and Arabian styles.
The contemporary mehendi designs have impressions of different designs, like Arabic and Persian, making them authentic. Mehendi designs are also personalised as per people’s choices, as in the context of the Indian marriages where the name of a groom is meticulously written in the form designs in the hands of a bride, which is a sign of togetherness and love. Team Wedding Affair brings you some of the best traditional and contemporary mehendi designs that you can try out this wedding season and flaunt every wave with its beauty.
Indo-Arabic Mehendi Design
Indo-Arabic mehendi design has become a sensation for many brides this wedding season, making it a go-to option for a fusion with our traditional mehendi design along with Arabic henna art styles, which are bold, free-flowing patterns with ravelled detailing, with the main focus on the palm and wrist area. This bridal mehendi design is the perfect to try out this wedding season. For an outstanding appearance of your mehendi, you can also include some white mehendi designs also, it’ll make your mehendi look more beautiful and appealing.
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Tattoo Style Mehendi
Why not try out a cool vibe for this wedding season? Along with mehendi on your hands, try out tattoo style mehendi to have a more modern and controversial look. This can be styled out on any occasion, even birthday parties. It is basically a temporary version of a tattoo design but in mehendi form, consisting of dream catchers, celestial motifs (moon & stars), feathers, or boho-style elements. It is an Indo-Western fusion, which is very trendy for weddings. This can be included in your bridal mehendi design for a different look.
South Indian Mehendi
An exquisite and traditional bridal mehendi design is the South Indian mehendi design. This bridal mehendi design has its origin from the Tamil, Telugu and Malayali brides. It mainly includes the Mandala mehendi designs and temple-style motifs like a bell, diya, and banana leaves. It is a minimal yet graceful pattern to be tried out this wedding season, and would look the best adorned with gold jewellery.
Mughlai Mehendi
This bridal mehendi design is highly detailed, sophisticated, and symmetrical mehendi style for brides who want a royal and lavish mehendi design for their hands. This bridal mehendi design is inspired by mughal art, which contains royal motifs like hathphool, domes and paisley motifs. What makes this design stand out more, is the borders and central floral patterns. It is a graceful design for a sophisticated look this wedding season.
Jewellery Style Mehendi
Jewellery Style Mehendi is the perfect bridal mehendi design for brides who want an illusion effect of jewelleries on their hands and feet, rather than the usual mehendi design that we make. This mehendi style consists of designs like hathphool, bracelets, rings, and bangles on the hand, which look as if you are wearing jewelleries. This design also consists of jaali or jaal (net) designs, and delicate florals that give a very graceful touch to your hands and nails also. You can give this mehendi design an illuminating effect by adding a touch of the temporary and metallic mehendi, it can be peeled off easily and is a good option to be added to this mehendi design.
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This wedding season, try out bold and unique mehendi designs to give your hands a graceful yet classy look. Team Wedding Affair will be back with more tips and tricks for brides, stay updated.
