The vidhi is a day of traditional religious rituals held on the day before the actual wedding during which the bride and groom are prepared for the wedding ceremony and the family pray to ward off evil spirits from the wedding and to protect the couple in their married life together.

One of the preparations, called the peethi, had the women in the family covering Mickey, the groom, in a thick yellow turmeric paste intended not only to keep the evil spirits away but to enhance his skin colour for the wedding ceremony.