Traditional Indian Wedding Jewellery
It is only natural for a girl to dream of a fairytale wedding, perhaps the most memorable and the happiest moment in her life. The wedding day, especially in India, marks the beginning of a new life for the girl.
And so she expects that moment to be perfect and grand. In India when a girl child is born her father works hard to earn enough to afford the very best for her wedding and her mother gathers jewelry, vessels and other household articles one by one to gift their daughter. Thus the parents start planning for the auspicious occasion of the girl’s marriage well in advance.
Traditional Jewelry has a very significant place in an Indian girl’s wedding. Wealthy people give very rich attractive ornaments to their daughters as gift while ordinary people give what they can afford to. Moreover the bride will be, from head to toe, adorned with various types of traditional beautiful jewelry. Jewelers, realizing the Indian family’s requirements, employ the most efficient and skilled craftsmen to produce wedding jewelry pieces and sets.
Traditional Indian wedding jewelry is made of first class quality metals. People are mostly inclined to go for gold jewelry since it has a rich and opulent appearance though very costly. However, according to latest trends, silver wedding jewelry as well as copper and white gold ornaments are becoming more and more popular among Indians due to their comparatively lower prices, especially gold-plated silver jewelry, cheaper but having the same looks and attraction of pure gold jewelry, is preferred by a lot of families. Wedding jewelry is often selected only after deciding the wedding dress, so that the jewelry can match and compliment the outfit.
Wedding jewelry embellished with Kundan work is one of the most popular traditional decorative jewelry styles. Ornaments, embedded with beautiful and radiant gemstones, are also loved deeply. Silver as well as gold and copper gemstone wedding jewelry, studded with semi-precious and precious stones are available in various colors and so they are purchased to match and highlight the colors in the wedding outfit. Ornaments, adorned with pearls and jewels having exquisite polki, meenakari work, are some other well-preferred options in wedding jewelry. The diversity in Indian jewelry is well-reflected in India’s wedding jewelry sets and individual ornaments as well.
Wedding jewelry like necklaces, pendants, earrings, bangles, bracelets, anklets, amulets, various rings for finger, nose and toe, hairpins, forehead tikka, girdles and other ornaments are often light weight and not flamboyant. Thin, delicate, light jewelry, in simpler designs and subdued colors are favored by a large section of Indians.