Our wedding kicked off with our Mehndi celebration, two days prior to the wedding.

A Mehndi celebration is a pre-wedding event where the bride and female guests have intricate henna designs applied to their hands and feet, symbolizing joy, beauty, and good luck. We also had delicious food and music for the gathering.

TJ’s mehndi was beautifully intricate and needed six hours of patience and dedication from the mehndi team to complete. It didn’t take nearly as much time for Oliver to find his name on TJ’s hands. Meanwhile, the search was very short for TJ, finding her initial on Oliver’s more humble mehndi.

Can you spot Oliver’s name?

We have more photos from our Mehndi here.