The mother of the bride often gets left out of getting henna
done because she is so busy with the guests, entertaining, and taking care of
her daughter’s needs. It was important
for Shazana to make sure her mother-in-law, who has taken the role of her
mother, got the best henna treatment.
Although Shazana was having a completely Canadian ceremony, she decided
to incorporate some of the traditions from her Malaysian background.
One of those traditions, of course was the
henna ceremony. Our team had the
opportunity to do Shazana’s bridal henna and wedding party. With a few too many drinks in some of the guests,
we had a hoot trying to do henna on tipsy women who were getting henna done for
the first time.
While one artist was busy doing henna for giddy, henna
virgin women, another artist was busy doing henna for supportive women. Diane invited her friends for an evening of
snacks and henna. This small celebration
was in part a thanks from Diane to her family and friends for the tremendous
amount of support they provided her while she was overcoming cancer and going
through chemotherapy.
Since chemotherapy kills many cells in the body, it also
makes a person lose hair. In support of
her bald head, Diane’s husband shaved his head off and became Diane’s
twin. When it came time for the henna
party, Diane’s husband supported her by sporting an abstract tribal dragon
henna design on his head, while Diane endulged in a beautiful henna crown. Since no one else had bald heads, our artist
adorned the guests with traditional and contemporary henna designs on the
body.
We said two weddings and a bald head. That’s right!
Our power team did a second wedding the same day as Shazana’s henna
party (and a birthday party as well).
This wedding was luckily just wedding henna for the groom’s family. They decided at the very last minute to book
our services for henna, and boy were they lucky that there was an artist
available at 9:00pm.
