If you’ve ever attended an Indian wedding the highlights of the marriage will be plenty of color, lots of yummy food and the bride dressed in all her glorious splendor. Being a bride cannot be easy. If there is one thing that separates an Indian bride from the rest of the cultures it would probably be the jewelry and of course the beautiful bridal costume. Indians give a lot of importance to both.
An Indian bride is usually draped in shades of red or maroon. This signifies passion and love. Red is a color associated with the rising sun and is regarded as the sign of new life. A bride is about to embark on this journey of life; a whole new phase. As a sign of this, she is usually dressed in a deep red lehenga choli or a beautiful red sari. The bride and her family spend hours picking out the perfect bridal sari or bridal lehenga choli. These costumes are usually rich in work and embroidery. They highlight the beauty of the bride and her radiance shines through.
Being heavy costumes, both the bridal sari and the bridal lehenga cholis demands heavy jewelry. Gold is always considered auspicious and precious and the traditional brides were always draped in gold. This is slowly also making way for platinum and diamonds. An Indian wedding is a show of status and richness and hence the huge love of precious metal.
A great way to decide if you should opt for gold or sparkling jewelry is to pay careful attention to your outfit. Both kinds of jewelry look fantastic with the color maroon. You can decide which to pick on the basis of the work done on your outfit of choice. If most of the work is done in gold thread then gold would be a great idea and vice versa. Heavy jewelry is preferred more often than not. In fact, Indian brides are known to wear more than one chain at a time accompanied with heavy dangling earrings. Remember to pick out jewelry that you like and you think you would want to wear again
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