Anyone considered this? Victoria Beckham or Liz Hurley style…
Can’t remember what colour Posh made people wear but Liz Hurley told everyone they had to wear pink to her wedding in India. Personally I wouldn’t dare, people would prob boycott it lol but it would make gorgeous photos. I’d like the main family to be all in similar colours/style but that’s prob as far as I’d go but is that still a step too far?
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You can do that it's look good.
In one of my families marriage. They told every one on Mayon day that they all have to wear the dress in old style like ppl use to wear in Mayon so all did and it looked very good. Every one was happy.
You have to tell them long time before marriage that they can prepare or arange.
hi...u could ask all the girls close to u to wear ghararas on your shaadi day...if u, the bride, will be accompanied by ur cousins etc when u enter the hall that day, it will look extremely graceful....
on mehndi day u could ask all the guys to wear the same colored shalwar kurtas eg black, and then give them all the same colored dupatta / cloth to wear around their necks...eg orange / rust . ... it looks cute...
Aah my cousins dewerani had this day between mehndi n baraat I think.. It was juz an evening full music n masti n stuff for ladies only.. n there was a dresscode.. I think it was sumfin red/pink.. n the girl herself was wearin green..! I saw sum picz.. n it looked awesome..!! :) N it was nice 2 c the galz n aunty's actually took it serious.. I mean.. there wasnt a single person who tried 2 spoil it by wearin sumfin else than the dresscode..
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I went to a beautiful wedding in Karachi last year. It was so well organised and they annouced the dress codes on the wedding cards.
On the Mendhi day the female guests were told to try to wear red - and almost everyone did. I thought it looked so amazing. On the shaadi, the female guests were told to wear cream or white colour and again most people did. The bride looked so incredible on the stage as she was wearing red and all the girls around her in white - so she stood out! We all looked like her bridesmaids. On her walima, the female guests wore saree's.
I think it works only when people are truly happy for you and willing to make your day complete.
:)
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very very very very hard to do .. especially if ure the bride and already stressed out... i wanted all men to wear black and women to wear red on the barat.. and oh my god just talking bout it and the why why that i got.. i gave up long before the wedding
on mehndi we did manage to get the women to all wear yellow and girls to wear the same outfits (cuz we had them all made for them).. so that worked out... but like iggy said.. only works out with the most disciplined of families...
(im talking bout weddings in pakistan cuz wedding planning is still a very upper class thing.... unheard of in most family circles so these things dont matter... now if ure wedding is abroad.. way more easier to acheive)
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For mehndis/mayun, it's kind of given that you should wear yellow/green/orange. Alot of people tend to stick with those colors so you don't even have to tell people about it. As for the men, generally I see them wearing shalwar kurta so at my mehndi, we gave them yellow dupattas to wear. However, I don't like it much when girls wear the SAME exact oufits, it begins to look like a uniform.
Weddings are the hardest to coordinate with your guests because living here, not everyone has a VARIETY of clothes or can just head out to get a new outfit like you can in Pakistan. Alot of people wear what's accessible to them. However, it's definitely do-able within the family and relatives. For some reason, I think it's much easier for men to coordinate with each other than women.
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bad idea.
i once was invited to a bridal shower where the theme was polka dot...u had to wear it, i spent so much time looking for a shirt with polka dot...n when i got to the shower the bride her self didn't have anything with polka dots...i was SO mad.
i would never put anybody through what i had to go through.
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I know this one girl had a bollywood themed party, bollywood and hte 1970s..and judging by the pix EVERYONE had some sorta costume...that was just wow.
It's easier to have a dress code enforced for a smallish occasion like a mayyoun/dholki. You can eXpect sisters./close fmaily members to wear a certain color or an outfit (as long as u get them made while doing ur own wedding shopping) but not every single guest...
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i think its ok to tell people what to wear to ur events... because some will, and some wont. so it doesn't matter.
sisters, cousins, and aunts should be in on coordinating with one again because as someone mentioned above it will look very graceful.
i've seen matching at almost all the weddings i go to and it looks great!
pictures always look nice
well at my friend’s mendhi they asked us to wear blue, any shade of blue
and i was noticing through facebook a few of my friends were not bridesmaids technically but the bride said to them hey on my wedding day please all wear white, not off white but white, or at another girls wedding the girlfriends all wore blue. (with the blue bride she made some cute mendhi outfits for her girls but the other stuff wasn’t custom made)
I saw one bridal picture and the bride was a red and blue bride and the boys had blues to match their sister or cousin whomever and the mom and sisters and girl cousins (i assume) wore red outfits or red and blue custom outfits to match the dulhan’s lengha.
i also went to a graduation party and the dress code was red, black and white. it worked out nicely for pics and all. however i wouldn’t tell all my guests to wear a color just close friends bc it does look cute in pictures.
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you can probably request politely that people wear a certain color or dress according to a theme to your event, but you can't expect it of them. most likely all your close friends and family will be happy to but the other 300 guests might not be, so what're you gonna do, throw a **** fit on your wedding day?
there's already so much planning to do, apart from myself, my parents, his parents, and our bridesmaids and groomsmen, i really didn't give a moment's thought to what others might wear. the bottom line is, a wedding is a formal event, so at the very least you know people will be dressed nicely!
i remember one girl (here in germany) gave her friends kapra, all the same, to make suits for her mehndi... that looked really cute...
but i think this is really hard to realize...
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Ive never been to a wedding where allll the guests have been asked to wear a certain or certain style outfit, but I have seen ones where the brides will ask her closest sisters/cousins/friends to wear a certain colour, it looks cute. But personally I wouldnt want for every single person in the audience to be wearing the same colour. Nor would I like to tell all my guests what colour to wear (or to be told...unless its a mehndi or unless I am a sister/cousin/close friend)