In the evening, all married women, dressed in gorgeous wedding garments and jewelry, undertake worship. As the moon rises, they offer milk, water, uncooked rice and fruits to the moon. They see the moon through a sieve, and then they see their husband’s face through the sieve. They do the aarthi of the moon then their husbands and they bow down at the feet of their husbands and give the decorated plate with fruit and other material to their mother in law. This festival deepens the relation between the wife, the husband and the mother in law. It is customary for the husband to give a gift to his wife on this day. The husband after the aarthi gives the wife water and then mitaai to break the daylong fast.

In Uttar Pradesh, on Karva Chauth, the married women make idols of elephant (Indra's Iravat) and worship, after seeing the moon.