…did you wear on your mayoun, mehndi, baraat and valima?
Like garland/flower on mayoun/mehndi, heirloom on baraat and a simple set on valima. List things like bangels/rings/bracelets/anklets/necklaces/earrings as well. I’m really curious as to how people went about it.
I’m not married but either way I plan on going subtle on the jewellery bit. On my:
• Mayoun= I’d wear white flowered jewellery
• Mehndi= a bindiya and a pearly/jeweled-up piranda
• Baraat= moms jhoomar and bindya (as you can tell, I LOVE anything heirloom), my nani’s ring, a nice polki statement necklace/earrings. Maybe another ring and my mom will give bangles and whatnot.
• valima= a simple set, bindi (no jhoomar, although I LOVE them) and some bracelets and rings.
Mehndi - metal churiyan on both hands and a (fake) set that my inlaws got. it had a tikka but i didn’t wear it. I think i also wore the ring I got on my engagement…i remember wanting to waer my own jewelery that would’ve looked nicer but my mom was ready to throw daggers at me.
baraat-- double-necklace set (i.e., a smaller choker and a bigger wider necklace), jhumkay earrings… nath…tikka..jhumar..pajangla + gold karra on one hand, kaanch ki churiyan + 4 rings (artificial + gold) on the other hand.
valima-- two gold necklaces, a rani haar, earrings and jhumar that matched the rani haar…gold tikka…6 gold churiyan + 2 karay + a pajangla on one hand, rings and colored churiyan on the other hand…oh and a little sticker in lieu of a nosepin
Ok i know that sounds wayyyyy OTT but at hte time I loved wearnig lots of jewelery…now I’m much more minimalist (well by those standards). but it looked nice
I’m curious as to how people go about it aaj kal. Do people do the stacks of gold bangles? They’re really popular in my family. And heirloom jewelerry is NOT. -_- but you guys gave good ideas of somewhat common trends and whatnot.
Please keep adding, what about the ladies who are going to be married soon?
God, y do ppl ask such questions which have longggggggggggg answers
okies, on my mayoun my in laws brought flower bangles, and gala haar’s and the ladies put a bulk lot of chooriyaan on my hands covering the whole arm, then one lady put flowers on my head too
i was looking like a sitting stall of daisy
then baraat there was nothing, the usual wedding jewelery i was wearing
walima was the same… usual wedding stuff
on mehendi i was a to z simple… no jewelery no flowers
I wore the usual jewelry…tried to wear more of my mum’s and dadi’s jewelry than my own… I love heritage pieces as well … makes it so much more special.
I remember that on my mehndi I wore motia tikka, earrings, and chooris … only to see my SIL highly disappointed because they had gotten yellow flower jewelry made especially for me. So very quickly and discreetly I took off my earrings and chooris and put them to a side so that my in-laws could pehnao me their jewelry …
now that i think of it…i did the whole somethign new, old, borrowed and blue on my mehndi..lol.
i wore:
-new: my khalu gifted me a necklace on behalf of my khala who passed away the year before.
-old: my mom gave me her earrings to keep (i’ve always loved them and wanted them for the longest time..lol)
borrowed: my nani’s plain black paranda (i had stuck flowers along the braid)
blue: well my mehndi suit was somewhat blue..like a sea green/bluish colour.
as for floral jewellery…i got earrings, the haar/necklace, the bracelets and a tikka/matta pathi type thing that my bengali SIL had no idea how to put it on and it ended up looking like a crown on my head..ha ha..i. wanted to take it off because it looked odd, but my phuppo said to just leave it - my inlaws might get offended. lol. so i kept it on, and when they had left and it was only family, i took it off.
