Jaffna Tamil Matrimony flowers

It is no surprise that women have lot of love towards the flowers. So when it comes for Jaffna wedding, flowers take a big part in the decoration of the Tamil women. Selected kinds of flowers are used in the religious ceremonies and decoration of the halls. Mean while from the bride to visitors take much care to get the best long lasting bright colored flowers for to decorate themselves. All the married woman and unmarried girls take important care to get their flowers on that day from their relatives or from the flower shops. Roses comes in the first place when women are selecting flowers for the wedding while Jasmine flower comes in the second place there after the other flowers come depending to their matching dress color of the wearer.

In the Jaffna town, Weddings took place in the homes of the brides, in the foreground of the Homes they used to make a big makeshift temporary wedding hall "Kottakai Panthal", with dried woven coconut leaves and cover it with white clothes. Then the youngsters will start their own ideas to decorate the makeshift wedding hall with Crape papers, varnish papers and basket full of flowers which are specially brought from the Sri Lanka's up country. Sri Lanka's up country area is with cold climate and lot of floriculture and flower shops are available there. Sri Lanka use to export lot of flowers to many foreign countries from the up country region, which in turn brings lot of foreign exchange to the country through this flower export.

Mean while lot of flowers are used for the wedding hall decoration and thousands of rupees are spent on them, although people didn't care about it as the wedding is a big event of their family and want to spend on it lavishly to make it a success one. Decorating a wedding hall is a big event where all the young boys and young girls get together as every body is laughing, decorating, joking and so on. Finally in one night they may decorate the hall beautifully with the flowers, before the wedding ceremony. They would have hired only one that is the stage "Muththu manavarai"- where the wedding ceremony used to take place.

Now the "Manavarai" too are having different version along with the traditional one, "Poo manavarai". This is fully made with flowers with many designs and patterns that will give the ceremony a very good rich appearance and it will be a costly one to do. There are many companies and contractors who do this work. You have to make those flower work orders early and clearly. Also, for the Jaffna style wedding, you have to order enough garlands for the wedding ceremony. Normally bride will side need 4 pieces, and bridegroom needs 5 bride need flowers for her hairdo, which is very important in Tamil matrimonial ceremony. These days’ beauticians do a wonderful hairdo with the flower for the bride with a long thick hair. And flowers for pooja and reception table and for the marriage registration ceremony are necessary when you are arranging the wedding.

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