i thought it would be nice to share those traditions that have carried on in your family for generations, and that you, as a bride/bride-to-be experienced/are looking forward to.
in my family, the concept of heirloom jewellery is big. the pieces my nani gave my mom will come to me, as the only daughter, but the pieces my dadi gave my mom stay within the family and will be passed on to my brothers’ wives (which i’m a* bit *miffed about cos theres some GORGEOUS jewellery in there haha :p)
so, what is unique to you and yours? and are there any newer traditions that you would like to/or did start with your own wedding and pass down to future generations?
We dont really have any traditions per say. But my mom gave me her karas she wore on the wedding day. I got both of them and i am thinking of giving one to sis and then we can pass them on to our daughters if we have any. From my dadi, we only have one ring, we got after she passed away. I have that one too since mom didnt wear it, too big for her but i think i will give htat to my bhabi so that it stays in teh family.
My nani wore a zari ki sari on her wedding which was handed down to her by her mom. My mom wore the same sari on her wedding and kept it at my nani's place in Lucknow for me. However, we lived abroad and when my nani passed away, by the time my mom got back to Lucknow, a few days had passed, other relatives had arrived there before her. Later when mom was sorting out her stuff, she found the sari missing. A few years later we found out that some relative had taken it and had it burned to separate the gold. I don't know how that is done by I was told you can extract real gold from zari cloth.
I was really disappointed because it was an end to a beatiful tradition. I would have given it to my daughter perhaps.
My nani has one daughter, she gave her kangan, jhumka and jugnoo(necklace) to my mom. Kangan are very small in size so nobody can wear them so she sold it and made a set for me. My mom has two kids me and my brother she gave jhumka and necklace to me when my daughter came and definitely I will give these jewelery to my daughter. She has some other jewelery for my brother's wife.
My dadi distributed her jewelery among 4 kids 2 daughters and 2 sons when she was alived in India her daughter married in her life. But my father came to Pakistan so his gold share is diminished by someone htere in India, so we didn't got anything from dadi.
From susraal my saas has earings and other jewelery but due to robbery at home she losed all of her gold, so she gave me kara' made in pakistan, no ancestors's gold.
My mother inherited some jewellery too from my granma who got it from her mother. But by the time it is my turn to inherit it the jewellery is so old it's falling apart. A lot of the jewellery are quiet thinned out due to the design. I got slightly sad seeing this as I would've loved to wear those.
One thing on my mom's side is that all my mumanis wore nani's jhoomar when they were married. I didn't have a jhoomar made for my wedding either, so I very happily wore it as well. I'm the eldest grandchild, so now all my little cousins want to make it a new tradition, so they can wear it too!
My nani wore a zari ki sari on her wedding which was handed down to her by her mom. My mom wore the same sari on her wedding and kept it at my nani's place in Lucknow for me. However, we lived abroad and when my nani passed away, by the time my mom got back to Lucknow, a few days had passed, other relatives had arrived there before her. Later when mom was sorting out her stuff, she found the sari missing. A few years later we found out that some relative had taken it and had it burned to separate the gold. I don't know how that is done by I was told you can extract real gold from zari cloth.
I was really disappointed because it was an end to a beatiful tradition. I would have given it to my daughter perhaps.