Zesty Wedding Look-book!
- Anushka S
- Feb 6, 2017
- 4 min read
Hello everyone, I hope this new year is treating you really well in all the ways. Well, my start to this year was way hectic than expected but I somehow lured myself with lots of extravagant and charismatic events. I was truly loaded with my new-house-move-in procedure, led by my only big-brother's wedding. I will be talking a lot about my new home in my next posts as I am still under super pressure and confusion to compile the best of it for you all.
So this post is entirely dedicated to my lovely Bhai's wedding, what all I wore, what was the motive behind, what one should keep in mind for an extremely close wedding.
Indian weddings are a treat because the wedding offers you plenty of opportunities to dress up and flaunt your style. So there are many ways where you can deck up yourself for all the events and make the heads turn but given the plenty number of ceremonies, there are chances where you end up wearing the outfits that creates some mishaps and gives you a sore thumb.
Before I discuss what outfits I wore for the wedding, I would like to spill some light over the things and tips that one should keep in mind while choosing the outfits for an Indian wedding. As a thumb rule, all sort of skimpy and too revealing outfits should not be in your clothing list and also some of the styles should be well avoided because of their casual nature.
Indian culture is also sensitive about certain colors which are not preferred to be seen and worn during the ceremonies as they have certain inauspicious impression on the deeds, BLACK and WHITE rules this list.
But this color theory is not uniform across the country, as WHITE is a sign for mourning in Northern India whereas it is being treated as a holy color for brides in Kerala and other southern states.
There is no fixed style that one should carry in Indian weddings, I personally feel one should neither be under-dressed nor over-dressed, a good balance makes it perfect.
My brother's wedding was a big time craved and longed event. I have never been so happy to finally immerse myself in a typical "Brahmin-Hindu" marriage. My mom made sure that I live up to every single ceremony that took place. So, I wore this eternal "Bandhni" sari for the precious Mata Pujan which tops the list of "Must-Haves" in every Indian wardrobe's collection.
This was a fun filled day which had "Mehendi" followed by "Mata Ki Chowki". I wore this buoyant lehenga with a crop top that completely complemented the gorgeous atmosphere.
At first, I had mixed thoughts, when I saw this lehenga at a glance. The reason was obvious, the set of hues applied on it. But later, that unusual combination of colors became the sole attraction of this piece. I had this top customized to have set layer of beautiful shades of yellow and orange over my body. And of course, the waist hangings are the cherry on the top.
Indian weddings carries a very long legacy, by this I mean, it stretches for real long days. This is both a pro and a con. Pro in a way that you get to show off your entire Indian wardrobe and Con in a way, that it leads to a big struggle with the choices. I tried to maintain a balance among the choices, so picked this off-white suit with this gorgeous crushed bandhni dupatta for a very peaceful musical night.
This was my favorite and the most comfortable outfit, as it had nothing to be taken care of. Designed from the boutique named "GRACE", Indore, this dress took the most attention of all.
This Brocade-Jama outfit could have been a pretty usual combination but that beautiful Gota-Patti patch connecting the top and the skirt made it magical. I could really run across here and there for work and could look beautifully dressed at the same time.
My lehenga for the sangeet ceremony was being picked at the very last moment, like two days before. Since it was a last minute call, I decided to go for a thing which needed no second thoughts. A lehenga made of complete raw silk with a very trending color combination of Pink and Orange entered to my collection.
The beautiful Jaipuri work laid over this lehenga added a very much charm to the entire ceremony where I could twirl it all around.
When deciding for the wedding, the first color that comes to the mind is Red. This silk self printed lehnega topped my list in this entire wedding look book.
Red and Beige never fails to impress so one can blindly go and hop on this style and pattern, like forever.
Well, this image is particularly because of the deets of the accessories that I flaunted and would recommend all the beautiful women to try all of these on for once. The nose pin was long craved by me and so was this selfie.
So lehengas do become the first choices for the barat and wedding parades and never fails doing the justification.
Receptions are the most beautifully formally dressed events to me and I went literal with this. So this was my mom who pushed me so far to get into this gorgeous handcrafted Kanjivaram sari.
I had some other motive to accessorize this particular sari, some gold embellished jhumkis and neck-pieces, but kept it all aside. This sari needed no jewelry to complete the look, but bare neck and ears is big NO for me when it comes to Indian outfits. This neck piece was indeed customized by my mom. I was asked to get some beautiful pearls (got these from Kathmandu) for this former choker set, to give a royal look.
Since one do not want to grab all the attention at the wedding (when one is not the bride), I recommend that the look you go for should be understated but elegant. This does not mean you look washed out. What I mean is, it is always better to wear one necklace less, pick a dress with minimal embellishment or tone down the make up a little, so that you make a statement while also letting the couple and their family shine through.
I hope my tour Indian picks makes you more sorted towards the coming wedding season.
XOXO..