Monday, March 1, 2010

Wedding Choora- Fantasy of every girl !

Marriage is a dream of every girl; despite of a number of all the tantrums and taunts, somewhere deep in our heart, from the very beginning, we start dreaming about our marriage day and the functions and the preparations of marriage. The shopping for marriage is the most exciting thing one does, especially the girl gets the opportunity to purchase endless number of clothes and jewellery of her choice, the process is bit tiring but it’s the most exciting part of the whole marriage. One thing, among all the marriage rituals, about which a girl starts dreaming from the early days of her teenage, is the ‘wedding choora’.

Wearing a choora, after marriage, has become more like a fashion these days, irrespective of the prevalence of this custom in their religion or not. People have now-a-days started considering Choora bangles as a symbol of a married woman. Even with the changing times, where, women do not prefer wearing mangalsootra and sindur, after marriage, they take immense pride in showing off their choora. The wedding choora usually consists of a set of red and white bangles which can vary in number according to the choice of the bride.

Actually, the ritual of choora has its traditional roots in the Punjabi culture, where the maternal uncle of the bride, on the day of the marriage, performs this custom of making his niece wear the wedding choora. The choora or the wedding bangles is first washed in milk, and the bride cannot see her choora before wearing it. These days, the design of the choora is first selected by would- be bride, after which a different set of the same design is worn by her on the day of her wedding. The traditional period of wearing a choora is the starting one year of her married life, but these days, girls wear them as long as they wish, due to their liking towards it. There are different set and designs available in the market, which vary in their colour, maroon and white being the base, and the count can vary from 21, 31 to 51, bangles in a set, as per the choice of the bride.

Even a passer-by wearing choora catches our attention, and in fact me and my friend while travelling compares all the chooras and see which one is better, on the basis of which we decide, which design we will choose for our own marriage, which is quite exciting and at the same time very emotional in its own way!

9 comments:

  1. Hi there ,.....i know-- in Indian rituals ...a choora is the most valued materialist gift..given to a bride with loads and loads of love ..which every husband promises to supply for a lifetime.. !!

    Arjun Dayal Mathur

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  2. This is really true....every punjabi girl fantacises of wearing chura on D Day...& this is the thing she eagerly awaits for...That is been the reason why she is asked not to look at the choora...because it is beleived tht the bride catches an evil eye if she indulges in it.

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  3. yes very truly said that all of us have this curiosity in luking at the wedding chura of the bride,
    we see so many women who r newly weds or been married for few months all taking pride in showing their chura, n we bachlorates get too see n decide now only wat type of deisgn would we like to flaunt one day..

    every women thake pride in wearing the wedding chura.

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  4. can any1 say tht is it possible to wear a chura again if i hd to remove it for some reasons...

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    1. Traditionally once you have removed your choora after wearing it for a fixed time period you can’t wear it again. But, because of the growing liking for choora across the globe and as a fashion statement girls do wear the choora again.

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  5. is there any myth abt wearing the choora again..

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  6. pls ans ma question as m vry mch interestd in wearing it again.. sum people say its nt good for ur husband etc etc is it true...

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    1. Well, if talking religiously as i told you its not alowed as per the Punjabi culture. Choora signifies a newly wed woman. Rest, it depends to which community you belong to and if you have followed all the traditions while wearing as well as removing the choora then, you should not wear it again.

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  7. I am a teenager who loves weddings, I cant wait for my own the choora and my lengha are going to be decided by me and the choora and the kalira are which make every bride looke more beautiful that the rest. My wedding day is going to be the best, but every Sikh bride says that and tries to outshine the neighbours and their mates.

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