Traditional Hindu Wedding Dresses

Want to look unique and truly different on your wedding day? Then get some truly charming yet traditional wedding dresses to suit the occasion yet look simply wonderful in your own way. The traditional Hindu wedding dresses embroidered in gold and red with heavy jewelry and intricate mehendi designs in hands and feet express the rich cultural heritage of the Hindus.

Variety of Hindu wedding dresses

Hindu wedding dresses for the bride usually includes sari embroidered in red and gold. This is the traditional sari color for red is considered as an auspicious color all throughout India. Often the brides of Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh wear white sari with golden borders or lehenga-choli with intricate embroidery stitched on them. While the red color symbolizes fertility, wealth and prosperity the white color denotes purity and virginity of the bride. Often the bride can wear other colors like blue, pink, green and copper colors to look beautiful and traditional.

The wedding dresses of Hindu bridegrooms also manifest vibrancy, color and a traditional aura. His dress often includes a kafni [long embroidered shirt made of rich cloth material extending to the knees], with pajama [leggings] or dhoti [long loin cloth covering full legs]. The dress can also include Nehru jacket and traditional trousers in white or ivory. The groom often wears a turban on his head and keeps his face covered with flower garlands.

Shoes are also an important part of traditional Hindu wedding dresses. While the bride wears decorated sandals and slip-on-shoes, the groom wears traditionally decorated sandals. But none of them can wear the sandals during the time of the marriage. Traditional and true Hindu wedding dresses always avoid black color.

Spectacular jewelries used in traditional Hindu wedding dresses

Jewelry is also a very important part of traditional Hindu wedding dresses. The jewelry includes heavy earrings and nose rings, an ornament worn on the middle parting of hair and jewelry to decorate the bun. The bride also wears innumerable bangles and bracelets on both the hands and arms. She also wears a great number of necklaces, a gold band on her waist and anklets on her feet to look beautiful and prosperous. The groom usually wears chains, bangle and watch as jewelry.

Other Hindu wedding dress accessories

Mehendi is another important part of Hindu wedding dresses that decorate the hands and feet of the bride. It’s a paste with which intricate designs are painted on the hands and feet of the bride and often that of the groom and it remains deep for at least seven to eight days. Flowers for your hands and hair are also interesting wedding dresses accessories.

The traditional Hindu wedding dresses symbolize wonderful creativity, unique festivity, solemnity and perfect rigidity of the entire marriage ceremony.

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