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Turkish Henna Party

Traditionally, a henna night is held the night before a Turkish wedding where the bride's female friends and family gather. They sing, dance, and apply henna to their hands which leaves stains for weeks to signify being a new bride. For the bride, it can be a melancholy evening as she leaves her father's house the next day to live with her new husband. A sad folk song called "Yüksek Yüksek Tepelere" is commonly sung to make the bride cry as she leaves her family and home. The henna night involves applying the henna in an ceremonial process while singing.

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Turkish Henna Party

Traditionally, a henna night is held the night before a Turkish wedding where the bride's female friends and family gather. They sing, dance, and apply henna to their hands which leaves stains for weeks to signify being a new bride. For the bride, it can be a melancholy evening as she leaves her father's house the next day to live with her new husband. A sad folk song called "Yüksek Yüksek Tepelere" is commonly sung to make the bride cry as she leaves her family and home. The henna night involves applying the henna in an ceremonial process while singing.

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Turkish Henna Night

Istanbul University
What is henna night?

Traditionally (in Turkey, at least), henna


night, or kina gecesi (kuh-NAH GE-je-see) is a
women's party that usually takes place the
night before the wedding. The bride's closest
friends and female family members gather to
eat, dance, and sing. They put henna on their
hands. The stains it leaves on their hands for
weeks afterwards tell everyone that they are a
new bride, or have been to a close friend or
family-member's wedding.
What is henna night?
Traditionally, and still for many brides, it
is a melancholic evening. The following
day, the bride will leave her father's house,
where she has lived all her life, to live in
her new husband's house. It can be both
sad and scary for the brides, and at the
very least is the end of an era.
The Song «Yüksek Yüksek
Tepelere»

There is a song that is sung


especially at henna nights which
demonstrates the melancholy. It is
called "Yuksek Tepelere".
You can listen it on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=m9VQ5ldweKM&feature=related
The Song «Yüksek Yüksek
Tepelere» [Translated into
Yüksek yüksek tepelere ev kurmasınlar [They shouldn't build homes high up on the mountain tops ]

English]
Aşrı aşrı memlekete kız vermesinler
[They shouldn't give girls to faraway lands]
Annesinin bir tanesini hor görmesinler
[They shouldn't neglect the mother's one and only ]
Uçan da kuşlara malum olsun
[May the birds carry the message ]
Ben annemi özledim [ I miss my mother]
Hem annemi hem babamı [Both my mother and father ]
Ben köyümü özledim [ I miss my village ]
Babamın bir atı olsa binse de gelse
[If my father had a horse, he could jump on it and come ]
Annemin yelkeni olsa açsa da gelse
[ If my mother had a sail, she could open it and come ]
Kardeşlerim yollarımı bilse de gelse
[ If my siblings knew the way, they could come ]
Uçan da kuşlara malum olsun
[May the birds carry the message]
Ben annemi özledim [I miss my mother ]
Hem annemi hem babamı [Both my mother and father]
Ben köyümü özledim [I miss my village]
Shortly what is henna night?

Traditionally Kina Gecesi starts at girl’s house one or two days


before the wedding. Usually friends and relatives are invited. A
flag is hanged and this shows that the wedding has started. The
guests are offered dried fruit and juices and they sing and dance
altogether. The bride dressed in a nice evening gown wears a
bindallı (a long velvet gown) and her head is covered with a red
cloth before they henna her hands. The henna is mixed on a
tray with candles. A young lady with the henna tray, the bride
and the girls holding candels walk around the chair in the
middle of the room by singing and dancing. Then the bride sits
on the chair and other women sing sad songs to make the bride
cry because she is leaving home. They put henna into bride’s
palm and then the henna is offered to the guests. After the
henna they keep singing and dancing.
For further videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHqysW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKJkN_N
And this is from a series on TVs [Aşk-ı
Memnu]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IivE-wsq
Photos from Henna Night
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The Bride waits for the The Henna


henna… comes…
Photos from Henna Night

The Bride gets her hands The Henna is being


ready for the henna… applied on the bride’s
hand and the song is
sung here…
Turkish Wedding
Ceremonies – Henna
Night

Thank you and hope you like it


Hediye Aydoğan, Istanbul


University

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