i know that its more of a tradional thing for brides to wear red/maroon- ish shades on their wedding day… and that there are no islamic restrictions on the colour
but i was wondering if any of you guppies had wore any other colour lengahs on the baraat day?
i’m not anti-red!..just dont want to be restricted to one kinda colour.
i’ve seen a few brides wearing a cream/white with red which looked nice.
but wondered if anyone had pics / ideas of what else would look good?!
xx
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You dont HAVE to wear anything you dont want! These days girls are really wearing every colour in the world, so dont worry if you dont want to wear red. Look at the bridal pics thread, you will see girls on their nikkah wearing white, pink, green, blue, orange...just about everything. I know a girl who wore a brown lengha, it was beautiful! On my nikkah reception I wore an ivory white and on walima red. Just go for the colours you love, that look great on you and compliment you
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you absolutely don't have to wear red/maroon/pink on your wedding day! i wore champagne and it looked every bit as bridal as the next girl in red/maroon/pink.
what matters is that you're happy with what you've got on :)
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Hey i wore champagne too on my wedding day! And i wore an off white-ish gown at the ‘valima’.
People probably thought ‘oh she wore boring wishy washy colours at the most important day of her life’ but TBH i don’t have the skintone to carry off bright colours, they just looks stupid on my ghosty skin :hinna:
Talking about colours i know a desi girl who wore black to her wedding… you heard me right… BLACK!!! She looked amazing though… a lot of gossiping aunties were 
… :CareBear: but the important thing was it was her choice, she felt comfortable and confident in it. It is your wedding day, which hopefully, only happens once. You want to be able to look back and think ‘damn i looked great and totally carried it off’ ! 
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I know someone who wore baby blue lengha with grgeous silver kaam and fake diamond jewellery, it looked soooo good. I think you have a world of colours to choose, but try not to go too wild otherwise you might regret it in years to come when you look at your wedding photo's. my friend got married in Blue & Shocking pink, at the time it was different but looking back at those photo's it was a bad choice!
I'd say avoid purple, yellow, dark blue and bright orange (light orange is lovely)...
If it is bad luck, then why is the groom/other men allowed to wear black suits??
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I am wearing a light green shirt and maroom lehnga and maroon dupatta on the wedding day. Originally, I wanted to do pink or champagne also but fell in love with the green and red combo. :)
You're not restricted at all...do what you want.
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its not bad luck to wear black! come on, people, its 2009! its time we let go of these superstitions!
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especially for you sgc
ive decided to wear a typical red colour on my wedding and white on the walima(which i will also wear again on my sisters wedding) i think u can only wear a red lengha on ur own wedding without being called a wannabe bride, other lengha colours u can wear on any other occasions, but if not red, it should be bright coloured lengha that stands out from the crowd 
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im planning to wear red on barat day and on walima diff colour,
but u dont need to wear red my sis wore magenta
my bhabi wore goldish and orange colour looked really nice
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i think black would look really gorgeous and hot on a wedding day!
Wow: is this chocolate brown?
This is nice - so different. I would have liked more kaam on the plain bits of the dupatta but the bride must’ve looked so good!! Loving it.
Thank you for posting…
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I had a very red gharara, but the top and dupatta were green -- very easy to wear at other times.
I think jewel tones look particularly nice on brides, rich and deep colors. So if you're not going to do red, think plum, garnet, purple, emerald -- or some combo of the more typically bridal colors with soemthing unusual. The other option is to go with something that looks luxurious, like a gold, ivory, or champagne.
i've seen a ton of shocking pink brides, and blue brides so no you don't have to wear red. i think you should wear your fav color or whatever color you want who cares what others think you know?
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nope. the wife wore a off white on the wedding day, made her look very radiant.
...of course i would say that. :D
i would love to wear black....its my favorite colour.
even tho i'm not superstious in the sense that i think its bad luck i dont think my family would let me! :(
plus all the aunty jees would have a field day!
my inlaws have got me a gold outfit for walima....otherwise i'd of gone for something simular.....maybe a mixture of gold/off white and a hint of red/marron!!
i'm so undecided!! lol
do you girls know if the shops in liberty etc have lengahs that you can try on? or are they all pieces?
x