Thanks for all the advice ladies 
How much jewelry do you think I would have to wear to “look like a dulhan” if I wore a saree with my hair uncovered (and possibly with a sleeveless blouse depending on whether my mum lets me)? What do you ladies think of something like this…is it just too OTT:
Your aunt looks stunning in that saree. They just don’t make banarsi sarees like that anymore…
Princess Niloufer was Turkish…she was the great-granddaughter of the Ottoman Sultan Murad V. After the fall of the Ottoman empire she went into exile with her family, and was ultimately married off to one of the sons of the Nizam of Hyderabad (thus the sarees).