The popular heritage in the Jazan region showcases diverse customs and traditions, forming a legacy and culture that extend across ancient generations. These customs bestow joy and happiness at weddings and revive ancestors’ cultural heritage.
Weddings in Jazan feature the most famous of these customs and traditions: the “henna night” (bachelorette party), in which the bride’s female relatives and neighbours gather in her house days before the wedding ceremony to share the practice of tattooing unique artistic patterns with henna paste.
Henna art is a popular women’s craft and a distinctive artistic skill that expresses aesthetic taste and significance. It portrays meanings of joy and happiness and revives inherited customs that women always treasure and remember as part of their wedding celebrations.
The henna drawing on a bride’s hands has different aesthetic forms and can be applied on their shoulders and from their toes to the middle of their legs. The bride’s sisters and relatives can also have he
nna drawings to celebrate the bride’s marriage in a cheerful atmosphere of old folk songs and chants.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
