A Maithili wedding card inside a bioscope
The Mithila Bioscope design is the painted tin peep-show box that came to every mela. It opens at dusk at the fair, with the bioscope-wala’s call painted at the top, आउ, देखू — मिथिलाक बियाह!, and a yellow ticket with your names. The guest taps, the stub tears off, the lotus lid over the eyepiece swings open and the view zooms in.
Then the guest turns the crank: one full turn is one picture. A swipe on the eyepiece or the arrow keys also move the strip, with a projector flicker while it runs. When it stops, that chapter’s details slide out on a painted signboard. A row of paper tickets under the box is the index: tap one to roll straight to it. On a laptop the whole box stands at the mela, with a giant wheel, bunting and a string of bulbs.
- Madhubani pictures drawn for this design: fish, parrots, lotuses, an elephant baraat, the kohbar, the sindoor box.
- Music: shehnai, nagada and harmonium in Raag Pilu.
- A live countdown to the Sindurdaan.
- Directions and add to calendar for each ritual, with its dress code (पहिरन) in colour swatches.
- Photos and a film, notes for guests, and RSVP on WhatsApp.
The Maithil wedding rituals, in order
The sample is Vaidehi Mishra of Rajnagar, Madhubani, and Anirudh Jha of Laheriasarai, Darbhanga. Their strip has these pictures:
- Sumangali: the married women of the tol bless the bride with sindoor and dhaan-doob and sing the first wedding songs.
- Matkor: at sunrise the women walk with drums to the pokhar and dig the first holy earth.
- Haldi (हरदि): turmeric, mustard oil and gram flour, and nobody stays clean.
- Kohbar: the women paint the kohbar ghar, and every guest paints one fish.
- Baraat & Parichhan: the groom arrives in a red Mithila paag, and the bride’s mother welcomes him with a lamp, doob, rice and curd.
- Kanyadan: in a mandap of bamboo and mango leaves, with lava offered to the fire.
- Sindurdaan: the groom fills the bride’s parting with sindoor from a carved Mithila sindoor box.
- Chaturthi: on the fourth day the couple come out of the kohbar, and everyone eats dahi-chura and makhana.
Bihari wedding card wording to copy
मङ्गलम् भगवान विष्णुः मङ्गलम् गरुडध्वजः। मङ्गलम् पुण्डरीकाक्षः मङ्गलाय तनो हरिः॥
॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः ॥ श्रीमती अनुराधा एवं श्री शिवशंकर मिश्र अपनी सुपुत्री वैदेही के शुभ विवाह में आपको सपरिवार सादर आमंत्रित करते हैं। विनीत: मिश्र एवं झा परिवार
With the blessings of Gauri and Ganesh and of our elders, the Mishra and Jha families invite you to the land of Sita for the wedding of Vaidehi and Anirudh.
More Hindi lines are in wedding card matter in Hindi, and a Hindi-first card for every region is on the Hindi wedding invitation card page.
Get it made with your names
The Mithila Bioscope design is not in the five-minute builder. Our studio makes it for you: your names, both families, every ritual with its venue and dress code, your photos, and the RSVP to the number you choose.
- Open the live Mithila Bioscope sample and turn the crank.
- Message us on WhatsApp with the design name and your wedding dates.
- We build it with your details and send you the link to share.
See the other made-to-order designs in More designs.