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Reception Drape: Attire for “Bou Bhat”
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Now, although I fully support the part about not being a
“bridezilla” and creating holes in pocket running after designer boutiques, but the very idea of having to wear blue banarasi (which
mostly came with silver zari) like EVERYONE else seemed like a nightmare to me!
Mostly because I knew I was going to wear traditional gold jewellery on
both wedding and reception evenings and that with silver zari on the saree
would clash like hell! I also knew that many Bengali families would just buy a
beautiful blue banarasi saree for the newly-wed bride without eve asking if she
WANTS to wear blue on her reception :-/
My fears proved to be completely wrong when my super-cool
mom-to-be asked me what color I would want to wear, what type of designs, what
kind of jewellery and all :D I promptly told “anything but blue. Preferably
dark pink with golden zari” And behold!!! My darling MIL bought THIS for me! It
was a love at first sight for me :D A magenta pink banarasi saree with intricate gold
embroidery all over the body and an emerald green aachal which also has all
over gold embroidery :D
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| Reception Drape: Attire for “Bou Bhat” |
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| Reception Drape: Attire for “Bou Bhat” |
I did not want to be too experimental with the blouse and made
a normal one with gold beaded neckline and sleeves.
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| Reception Drape: Attire for “Bou Bhat” |
The veil forms a very important part of the Bengali
bridal/reception esemble and I decided to customize one instead of buying a
readymade one. For the dupatta, I scanned my trusted site,
Jabong.com and got this perfectly matching plain magenta colored tissue
dupatta. Once I received it, it went to my tailor for the lace. She sourced this antique
gold lace with pearls from her wholeseller and gave my dupatta a regal look
:D I didn’t want to go overboard with the zari because I plan to use this even
after the reception with one of my salwar kameez :P And the cherry on the cake
was, the dupatta, zari and stitching charges took me less than 1k as opposed to
the readymade ones which were priced at 1500-2800 ;)
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| Reception Drape: Attire for “Bou Bhat” |
Regarding jewellery, I will be wearing the traditonal gold
sets given by my parents and my in-laws. Thankfully, all of those matches with
my wedding attire and reception one as well :D But I wanted a bit of color-pop in my
jewellery too, so this set came into my kit a few days back ;) Its a golden
necklace studded with dark pink and green stones and pearls. I have
bought this from “Pranati Jewels” (Read all about Online stores for gold costume jewellery here). This will go well
with the gold jewelleries as well (I hope!)
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| Reception Drape: Attire for “Bou Bhat” |
Thus, am sorted :D And for all the other brides-to-be who are
still hunting for the perfect reception saree and have a mother-in-law as
lovely as mine, tell them your choices because there is NOTHING wrong in that J It is your day and you should wear what makes you
feel beautiful!
Here are a few pointers
to remember if you do not want to wear red on your reception:
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Warm toned girls (with yellow tones in complexion) can opt for
fuchsias, magentas, rust, orange, yellow, emerald green etc. These colors would
bring out your glow even more :)
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Cool Toned girls can choose baby pinks, purples, mauves, powder
blue, royal blue etc. These colors would add more to your pearly complexion :D
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Don’t blindly go for kundan jewellery just because “everyone
wears them” or for gold jewellery because I am telling you to. Stand in front
of the mirror with your attire and think what would go with that particular
saree and on yourself. Choose jewellery wisely :)
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I personally love reception looks with roses (pinks, reds, dark
pinks) on hair. You might also give it a thought :)
That’s all for today girls! Will be back soon
Disclaimer: The first image of this post belongs to DnA Photographix. Permission has been taken from them to use their images as bridal post references. Visit their Facebook Page HERE :)
Disclaimer: The first image of this post belongs to DnA Photographix. Permission has been taken from them to use their images as bridal post references. Visit their Facebook Page HERE :)
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