Gauri Puja begins on the third day after Ganesh Chaturthi.
Goddess Gauri is invited home and worshipped for three days.
Married women pray to her for marital bliss and the long life of their husbands. And Unmarried girls worship her in order to get virtuous husbands. Goddess Gauri is considered to be one of the many forms of Shakti, the Mother of the universe, with lots of power, symbolic of fertility and motherhood and of the victory of good over evil.