Navarathri Day 3

This day marks the day of Lord Shiva’s and Parvati’s wedding. After agreeing to marry Parvati, Lord Shiva arrived at Himavan’s palace (the king of the mountains) with a procession that consisted of ghosts, ghouls, dancing skeletons and other ghastly beings. This made the bride’s family faint in terror. In order to save her family from humiliation, Parvati assumed the form of Chandraghanta (meaning the one wearing a tilak of a moon and a bell). We wear red clothes to symbolize power, strength, prosperity and to mark new beginnings. Brides usually wear a sari in a colour of their choice. Parvati chose to wear red on this day to mark the beginning of her married life with Lord Shiva.