Dr. Drasoa said: "Before the wedding, the 'laylat al henna' ceremony (henna night) is performed in the bride's house, which is the Bedouin version of a bridal shower. To the Sudanese, henna is ...

Everyone pitches in at a Sudanese wedding. Dozens of family and friends ... her hands and feet are painted in intricate designs of henna. When she emerges on the first day of the wedding, her ...

Sudanese couple Wedding ceremonies in Sudan last for days ... care of and she will be doused in perfumes and incense. A ‘henna party’ involving sweets and singing while the bride gets ...

(Bloomberg) -- At a wedding on the outskirts of Port Sudan, women in radiant dresses, adorned in jewelry and henna, danced into the night, trying to forget the conflict that’s ravaged their country.

on which the bride - dressed in traditional red Sudanese garb- sits while the henna is being applied. In front of the bride lies a large plate of red roses, as red is the theme during the entire henna ...

Those who agreed to move to New Halfa in Eastern Sudan or those ... never gets out until the wedding day. Her hands and feet are covered with careful drawings of henna. The bride's henna is ...

A day or two before the wedding a bride will have a henna night where close friend ... The main types of designs are the Indian, Sudanese and the Arabic. The Sudanese designs usually have large ...

Many Sudanese brides have collapsed and died on their wedding days after using this blackened henna because henna artists use a highly poisonous crushed-rock powder that they mix with natural ...

Everyone pitches in at a Sudanese wedding. Dozens of family and friends ... her hands and feet are painted in intricate designs of henna. When she emerges on the first day of the wedding, her ...