My niece has attained puberty and my sister is looking out for a nice ,2 or 3 liners for the invitation.... could any of u suggest some lines...
Invitation can say "She's got the power" On a more personal opinion note - I personally dislike such 'celebration' (Sorry! Did not mean to offend - pls. dont take it that way - I know some celebrate it, just a personal opinion)
Yes even I hate people celebrating this function. It is such an embarassing for the little girl. I am extremely sorry if I have hurt your feeling. In the olden days people had to celebrate this function so that they could tell the community that a girl is ready to get married. By celebrating this function they could convey this message to the public. But now a days you don't need it.
Sorry op no offense but I just remembered how my sil informed about her dd 's puberty In north India especially Punjab we don't have any such functions and it is treated just a normal milestone in life. When my sil called us to invite for the function I was shocked!!! I could not understand the motive to telling the whole world about it! Adding to it she called my mom to inform about the function my mom could not understand :hide: . when I called my mom she asked when is m 's birthday:rotfl, she thought the whole celebration was for my sil's dd's birthday:thumbsup As for you op, you can try the line , our precious little flower has blossemed!! This is what my sil used
Simley, you can say something like, "You are cordially invited for the saree ceremony of our daughter".
Ragini, Aruna, Cutemonster, out of curiosity, why exactly do you all think it’s embarrassing for a girl? I mean, it’s such a big milestone and if a family is celebrating it in the presence of friends and family, what’s there to be embarrassed about? Puberty is celebrated to signify that the girl is now a woman and is ready for her spiritual and matured women role. It signifies that she is no longer a child and is to be treated with respect and as an adult. Another thing is, this has been being celebrated all over the world for 100's of years now and in some cases, its celebrated as big as a wedding itself. Some of them are age specific and some of them are time specific but all of them signify the coming-of-age/puberty. Some of them are below, which are extremely popular and is celebrated almost like mini-wedding. In North America: we call it Sweet 16 Jewish: Mitzvah Latin America: Quinceanera India: Puberty England: Coming of Age France: Debutante Al the girls I know, they actually LOVE this. Only, they don't want elders behaving like its something to be embarrassed about.
"Coming of Age" is a standard term used in Indian invitations as well. We used for one of our nieces function. It sounded apt, as we have an equivalent term in tamil as well. Cheers, JM
Rakhi, In fact my dh's niece was not at embarrassed about the whole thing she totally enjoyed the thing and all the attention she was getting with all those garlands around her neck and quite curious to know what all gifts she got I was more uncomfortable as all this was totally new for me. We in north don't do such things and no body celebrates that their girl child has attained puberty. may be is very common function in south so people don't find it strange.
Ya, probably since you are not used to this, you felt a little awkward. Here in North America, sweet 16 is a big deal. As a matter of fact, they make it as big as a wedding My neighbor was showing her DD's pictures and I was thinking, "and I thought mine was grand"...lol