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Wedding traditions of Patna

A Bihari wedding city with lively folk songs, a custom of kohbar paintings and the old practice of the groom's kidnapping in jest.

Patna draws weddings from across Bihar. The local wedding is full of women's songs, mock quarrels between the two sides and bright wall paintings in the kohbar room.

Patna
Photo: Chandan Singh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A wedding here

Families hold the tilak and sagai, then the haldi, matrikapuja and the vivah. The bride and groom sit in the kohbar room, decorated with painted symbols of fertility. In some districts the sindoordaan, the groom's applying of vermilion, is performed in the open.

Where weddings happen

Banquet halls, party lawns and temples in the city. Families from the villages travel in.

The season and the calendar

Wedding dates cluster in the months of Aghan, Falgun and Vaishakh. The Bihari custom of "pakadwa vivah", the forced marriage of a groom, was a practice in parts of Bihar; it is illegal and a concern, and is not a tradition to follow.

Wedding customs of Patna

SindoorThe vermilion applied by the groom.Dowry system in IndiaA contested practice that is illegal under the 1961 Act.

Also part of it, and being written: Kohbar (The painted bridal room.), Madhubani painting (A folk art often used on wedding cards and in the kohbar.), Bhojpuri music (Folk wedding songs.).

A wedding trail idea for Patna

  1. Patna Market A big textile and fancy goods bazaar.
  2. Maurya Lok A shopping complex for clothes and gifts.
  3. Takht Sri Patna Sahib A Sikh shrine where Anand Karaj weddings are held.
  4. Gandhi Maidan The open ground at the centre of the city.
About this page

Written by the EveryShaadi desk with AI assistance. Opening hours, venues and wedding-season dates change; check locally before travelling. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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