Will designers use your own gharara/dupatta?

Hello all!

My mom has a beautiful chatta patti gharara and heavy gold worked dupatta that she had handmade for me years ago in Lucknow. I’m looking at different designers now for my bridal, and I just realized that because prices are SO high, it might work out better to use the gharara and dupatta as a base.

Here’s a question - do bigger name designers ever take something existing? I’d want to add some color/kaam to the dupatta and get a heavy worked shirt, and I’d be will to pay like 300,000. But do you think designers are open to doing that? Or do they have to make your full jora

Re: Will designers use your own gharara/dupatta?

I have heard Bunto Kazmi and Ali Xeeshan do it I don't know about the rest.

Re: Will designers use your own gharara/dupatta?

Thank you! Bunto is going to be out of my range even though she is so classy it doesn't surprise me that she does it - I'd like to spend less than I mentioned if possible - but I was thinking maybe Sania Maskatiya, Farah Talib Aziz, etc. Just didn't know if some designers don't like it

Re: Will designers use your own gharara/dupatta?

Yes, they do! Deena Rahman recently did that. She's a designer based in Lahore.

Re: Will designers use your own gharara/dupatta?

OMG I love her!! Wish I knew her price range

Re: Will designers use your own gharara/dupatta?

Most of the designers, including myself, love to create bridals with classic pieces. Most of the girls love to use their mother's shadi jora nowadays. One can always incorporate it in a wedding jora and with little creativity turn it into a classic jora.

Re: Will designers use your own gharara/dupatta?

Rano's Hierlooms does it too i think