aww hehe thanks..actually my cousin told him…aap jaake meri behen ka haath pakkrrenge please? and my husband came to grab my hand and lead me to the stage lol
and yes you can bother me for ideas anytime …the valeema dress was a huge vision i wanted to do everything with that dress since i was pretty limited with what i could do on my baraat dress you know since it was my mother’s gharaara so the only way i could make the barat dress my own was with extra kaam and a totally new shirt and dupatta,
so for that one my vision was that the coul of the shirt should be different than the gharaara and the dupatta and the colour of the dupatta should be different than the shirt and the gharaara and all these three pieces should be brought together by the kaam --so all of them were to have the same motifs and colour of kaam
i had worn a gharaara on my nikkah as well and i was going to wear a gharaara for my baraat as well…so for the valeema i knew i definitely wanted a a lehnga… i also knew i wanted a train, i knew i wanted the whole look to be two colours, i also knew i wanted a train and i knew i wanted it to be a double lehnga (i will explain what this means soon). double lehnga means it has two layers…it has a layer of light blue jamawar silk with kaam only on the bottom border…this kaam goes around to the back as well…then over this layer of jamawar is a layer of light blue net which has a jaal kaam on it…the shirt as you can see is dull light pink. now we come to the dupatta i wanted it to be made up of light blue jamawar, light blue net, and two pieces of pink jamawar each having different motif of kaam but same colour of kaam (see picture)
so with these things in mind i just had to design how i wanted the light blue net to go over the light blue jamwar on the lehnga and what kind of kaam i wanted on each layer and i just had to design how the pieces woulod go together on the dupatta and what motifs of kaam will go on it (the motifs were chosen at the boutique itself from the kaam they had available i chose my motifs from there)…the only tough part was finding a boutique who would be willing to do kaam on net…most boutiques i went to refused to take a lehnga that contained net since it requires double the labour to work on net…and guess what i had my makeup done at sabs and i would say a majority of the brides the makeup artists and hairdressers commented on how i was a unique bride that they had not seen a bride use the material i used on my lehnga…that made me sooo happy and confident hehe plus the jewellery i wore on my valeema was from my parents so that was also something i had designed myself…to this day the jeweller i had it made from is asking me to send him pics of the set so he can make more…
picture of dupatta
SABS for valeema
madeehas for baraat