Ingredient of Pithi Pithi is made out of some pure and natural herbs. Pithi made with chickpea flour, turmeric, rose water and few other important ingredients in a marriage Pithi paste.
Pithi ceremony is one of the few occasions that are celebrated in both bride’s and bridegroom’s houses. The near and dear ones of one who is being married are in search of their turn to apply Pithi paste. They rub pithi on face, legs and hands. The pithi paste is gooey, cold and refreshing in nature. It works as an antiseptic. Because it has medicinal properties it lightens and whitens the body. Even the rubbed body parts glove and separate the bride or the bridegroom from others.
In both bride and bridegrooms houses it is celebrated differently and separately. The bride is taken to have a bath. Then she is dressed up in traditional clothes. She is brought to a ladies’ gathering by her maternal uncle where she is to be applied the paste. All the women/girls apply the pre-made Pithi paste to bride/bridegroom. Family members or women singers sing auspicious per-wedding songs that are sometimes remixed with bride’s and bridegroom’s names. Once the bride had pithi paste on her body she cannot leave her father’s house. Even all married women can apply paste on one another’s face after the bride had pithi.
The groom also has a well-planned pithi ceremony. Relatives arrange and prepare pithi paste. Groom takes ceremonial bath and is dressed by his friend and relatives. Traditionally the groom is dressed in Dhoti and Kurta, Sisters in law or Bhabhi apply pithi on his legs, hands and face. After the Pithi session both the bride and the bridegroom are blessed by elders.
People also believe that if one who is being married rubs pithi on any unmarried youth it helps/increases possibility for the unmarried to be married in a very short time.
