Nirali NayakMehndi is associated with positive spirits and good luck. Indian Wedding tradition calls for a Mehndi ceremony to be held the night before the wedding as a way of wishing the bride good health and prosperity as she makes her journey on to marriage. The core significance of applying Mehndi is to utilize its natural medicinal herbal remedies, cooling the body and relieving the Bride of any stress before her big day. Mehndi holds a special place in our tradition as well as in a wedding ceremony. For this reason, we Indians have dedicated an entire event to applying mehndi so that everyone can get their personalized mehndi design on their hand. Thus bridal mehndi designs are in great demand nowadays.
Now, there are a number of bridal mehndi design than before and is more authentic. Brides are more skeptical about their bridal mehndi design and therefore they scan through a lot of designs before selecting the final design. These brides now have a more artistic mind and they not only want their husband’s name in their mehndi but they also want their picture on it. Some brides like bohemian style mehndi designs and some want their childhood picture. Most of the time Brides get confused between a lot of designs and therefore we have sorted some bridal mehndi designs to give you more clarity about what you want in your design.
1. Wedding Bells Bridal Mehndi Design
The wedding bells are incorporated into wedding ceremonies as a symbol of abundance and prosperity and the ringing of bells is often believed to ward off evil spirits. This makes it a perfect reason to include this in your bridal mehndi design. This type of design decorates the palm while keeping some unused space so that it doesn’t look congested.
2. Lotus Motif Mehndi Design
The lotus motif symbolizes the power of life and the union of earth, water, and sky. The open and closed petals indicate the ups and downs of life and the multiplicity of the universe. These kinds of bridal mehndi designs are done with heavily detailed work. Besides the lotus flowers adorning your hands, in these types of designs, each of the fingers ends with a different pattern, making it look even more beautiful.
3. Childhood Picture Mehndi Design
It’s your wedding day, when you, your siblings, parents, and relatives actually understand how big you have grown up. That day when you get reminded of your childhood the most. So why not get it painted on your hands? You can choose to have your and your husband-to-be’s childhood picture in both hands. But make sure to appoint an experienced mehndi artist.
4. Proposal Design
The proposal, when you knew that he is the one when you knew that you are going to spend the rest of your life with him, is one of the most special days in your life. So brides what’s holding you back from getting this exquisite design on your hand?
5. Flower and Jewellery Mehndi Design
It is believed that the design on the back of the palm acts as a shield and serves as protection and the one on the palm invokes offering. For the brides who wish to keep their mehndi designs minimal, you can for this design. It will cover a large area of your hand making it look beautiful at the same time.
6. Jhumka Designs
The go-to design of all the brides is the jhumka design. For everyone who loves the huge circles enclosing floral or mandala work inside them while checks and dots take up most of the outer space. You can shade the rest part so that it doesn’t look empty.
7. Radha Krishna Mehndi Design
Radha and Krishna are the epitomai of eternal love and sacrifice, transcending eras and emotions. Radha’s love for Lord Krishna knows no bounds. Their eternal love has stood out in all the tests of time. The greatest ever love story of all time. What more reasons do you need to have it as your design?
8. Peacock Bridal Mehndi Designs
The peacock carries omens of nobility, guidance, holiness, watchfulness, and protection. The peacock represents immortality, resurrection, and the spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ. The feathers of Argus were a mark of the beauty of heaven and the eyes representing the stars in the sky. This symbolic meaning of peacock makes it the perfect choice for your mehndi design.
9. Couple Henna Design
To have a unique design you can also choose to have the couple picture or the couple name designed on your hand. While very few people choose to have it, it will make you stand out.
10. Elephant Henna Design
Elephants are revered as a symbol of good luck, prosperity, destroyer of evil, remover of obstacles, as well as strength, power, wisdom, memory, and vitality. With these good vibes that the elephant represents, many brides go for this bridal mehndi design.
11. Theme Dance
Marrying a Punjabi or Gujrati? Then what can be a better way to impress your in-laws than having a Punjabi/Gujrati Dance mehndi designed? While it may take a while to get done, due to its intricate work, but it will be worth the wait. These are the theme-based mehndi designs which brides rarely opt for.
12. Gurudwara and Church Design
Inter-religious marriage? Show them that you respect both religions. Dedicate your one hand to get a Gurudwara done while the other for Church. The nicest way to show them harmony exists where love exists.
13. Disneyland Design
For a childish bride, you can pick a Disney-based design. This will look cute on your hand. You can add other detailing as per your choice.
14. Leg Mehndi Design
Henna is applied to both the hands and the feet as a means of cooling the nerve-endings of the body, preventing the nerves from tensing up. Besides, it is believed that no stoned must be left untouched while decorating the bride. Thus the henna makes your barefoot look beautiful. You can decorate it with dots or roses lining your feet, as you like it.
15. Games of Thrones Design
For all the Game of Thrones fans out there, you surely don’t want to miss out on this. Make Game of Thrones a part of your big day.
16. Shiv Parvati Mehndi Design
Ardhanarishvara represents the synthesis of masculine and feminine. It shows the balance between the male and female gender and that both are halves of each other. It shows that in order to maintain balance in nature both are equally important. So are you still thinking about this mehndi design?
17. Save the Date Design
Have a little different mehndi than the traditional type. You can paint the big day of your wedding on your hand. You can also plan it in a way to hide it in the design and ask your husband to find it. But don’t forget to ‘save the date’.
18. Aladin Jasmin Design
The frictional characters of Aladin and Jasmin taught us a lot about love, make a space for them on your mehndi design.
19. She Said Yes Design
Want to add a modern look with the traditional mehndi design? Well, here’s, your solution. By not going the conventional mehndi patterns, try something new. It consists of your D-day date, buildings, flights, ‘she said yes’ text added with the checks and shadings of your mehndi. Be a modern bride, and stand out.
20. White Marble Design
The trendy and unique mehndi designs. This mehndi design is a combination of checks, dots, curves, florals, leaves with some shading done to them.
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21. Free Bird Design
The brides who don’t like heavy mehndi designs, this mehndi design is for you. The free bird can symbolize your last few days before your wedding (just kidding). You can have some floral bridal mehndi designs and can shade the rest part so that you don’t have to paint many detailed works.
22. Bolt the Dog Design
A huge fan of bolt the dog? No problem, we got you a way to get your favorite TV character in a personalized mehndi design. This design is exclusively for the fans of bolt the dogs. It has its main focus on the bolt symbol and the dog image. In order to make sure that your hand doesn’t look empty, you can add other designs and patterns to it.
23. Bridal Faces Design
Mehendi represents the bond of matrimony. The darkness of the mehndi color on a bride’s hand represents the deep love between the would-be-couple. So what can be a more special mehndi design for the bride herself, rather than getting her own face made at her hand? Leaving the space for the face you can decorate the rest space as per your choice.
24. Rose Dreamcatcher Design
Rose and dreamcatcher are a great combination together. Rose, the messenger of love and dreamcatcher, is believed to filter out the bad dreams and only let the good ones pass. They are the perfect combination to start your wedding celebrations with. You don’t have to add any minute detailing, because they stand out already.
25. Rose on Shoulder Design
Give the interpretation of love a literal essence by using motifs of rose. Roses have always been associated with love. And a wedding is the celebration of love, so why not have a rose mehndi. Opting for the shoulder as the spot is a really unique spot and very few brides go for this. If your blouse has an off-shoulder design, then that can be the perfect reason for choosing this spot.
26. Necklace Design
The necklace mehndi design has evolved into an elegant artistic decoration for the body. It shows deeper symbolic meaning for the person wearing it, reflecting her ideas. This is now trending. Brides apart from getting mehndi done in their hands and feet are also opting for this necklace design. If you like experimenting, you must go for it.
27. The Classic Floral Design
Flowers are common designs, as they represent beauty and new beginnings. You can place them either on your palms or your hand. They just make the whole place beautiful no matter where they are. You can add dots or checks with them. You can also shade the remaining areas if you wish to.
28. Varmala Design
Varmala, the most important part of the wedding ceremony. Then why not have it painted on your hands? You can have the groom on hand and the bride on the other, holding garlands and facing towards each other. You can decorate the rest part as you wish. You can keep it light or have detailed work as shown in the image below.
These are the designs that will look beautiful on every bride and will make their d-day more special.
All the best for your married life.
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