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Unless you are Hugh Hefner or Elizabeth Taylor, a wedding is generally a lifetime event. Hence, the wedding day is paramount for people, and everyone tries to appear at their best on this day. As appearance is imperative on this day, wedding costumes should be astounding – to match the significance for the day. In case you are fascinated by wedding costumes, then – of course, you would love this article. It would give you a glimpse of mesmerizing wedding costumes across the globe.
Indian Wedding Costumes
With one of the most colorful, vibrant, fun, musical, and crowdy gatherings, no wonder Indian wedding costumes top the chart. Being perhaps the most ancient of civilizations, India produces the most picturesque and noisy weddings around the planet. In these weddings, generally the entire kith and kin of both bride and groom gather in vivid attires. However, they generally don’t even come close in comparison to the couple of the day — the bride and the groom.
The grooms generally gear up in Sherwanis, a traditional wedding dress for men. These are ornate and intricately designed clothes that make him look apart from all other men during the ceremony. No matter how good the groom looks, it is always hard for him to match his beautiful bride who adorns either a lehenga or a saree. Lehengas are ornate colorful gowns with intricate designs. Sarees are the sexiest attire possible for women. Though it wraps the bride entirely, it accentuates her curves and glamour. The brides generally wear pink or red for the occasion courtesy of their association with good fortune and felicity. Apart from being These wedding dresses are coupled with jewelry increases the bride’s charm manifold.
Ghanaian Wedding Costumes
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Ghanaian traditional weddings are full of hype, color, music, banter, dance, and in terms of vogue, it is the best that Africa could offer. Ghanian couples tend to sync in their wedding costumes. With each family boasting pertaining to their personal cloth designs (per their specific customs), the designs here are rich with a plethora of colors and patterns. pattern.
In accordance with the Ghanian culture, brides are bound to be the center of attraction. Primed with fashion featuring psychedelic prints and appealing embroidery, they surely know how to turn heads.
Indonesian Wedding Costumes
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With some 8,000 inhabited islands, six major religions, and 300 ethnic groups, Indonesia is a melting pot of cultures and civilizations. Fashion in Indonesia thus varies by region. The bride’s dress here contains heavy jewel-toned embroidery and vibrant colors (mostly red among Balinese brides). The brides also have henna prints of flowers and birds painted on their nails, hands, and feet.
Sri Lankan Wedding Costumes
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The traditional Sri Lankan (Sinhalese) wedding ceremony is called Poruwa. This ceremony is called Poruwa as it takes place on an adorned and traditional wooden platform. Generally, a ton of rituals is performed by both bride and groom’s family’s sides during nuptial ceremonies.
The Sri Lankan bride, irrespective of their Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, or Malay race, carries an attire that is a beautiful blend of both eastern and western traditions. From western traditions, they have veils in tandem with their gorgeous silk sarees originated in eastern traditions, the Sri Lankan bride appears unique, classy, and eye-catching. To further augment their luxe look, these beautiful brides also wear ornaments aplenty.
Brides are without a shadow of a doubt, the center of attention. However, the attire of grooms are also quite eye catching. Known as Nilame, the groom’s outfit consists of four parts: hat, jacket, mul anduma (draping cloth made up of plush velvet), and shoes. Its origin lies in the royal attire of the Kandyan royalty during the nineteenth century.
Nigerian Wedding Costumes
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With more than 300 tribes in the country, there are variations aplenty on prominent wedding traditions, but the most well-known tribes are Yoruba, Hausa. In Nigeria, weddings are more than just the celebration of joining the lives of a couple. It is, in fact, the joining of two entire families join together, and a Nigerian wedding is an all-out affair, following ancient traditions and full of bright colors and toe-tapping music.
Nigerian traditional wedding costumes for the brides are called ‘aso oke’. These wedding attires are made of thick fabric with long sleeves. These costumes widen at the wrists. Brides tie a kaftan-like skirt around her waist. These wedding dresses are also adorned with beads and laces. To complement them grooms dress up in their traditional wedding costume known as ‘Buba’. It is essentially a top with matching pants. It is characterized by an oversized robe with open sleeves known as an ‘agbada’. The attire is finally completed by adding a ‘fila’, a hat worn generally worn by men from the Yoruba tribe.
Chinese Wedding Costumes
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Akin to Chinese culture displays, wedding attires also display a strong connection with animals’ symbolism and certain colors. As an example, red is often related to happiness and good fortune. Therefore, brides often don red-colored traditional attires. Animal figurines such as dragons and phoenixes are embroidered into wedding attires. According to Chinese folklore, dragons showcase luck and power, and akin to that phoenixes represent femininity, grace, and virtue. These colors and animate figurines bring good luck and prosperity and hence are indispensable in the Chinese culture and thus wedding ceremonies. No wonder Chinese wedding costumes are brighter, vibrant, and colorful than their western counterparts.
Now that you have checked out the best traditional dresses from all around the globe, let us know your thoughts on the ones mentioned here. Also, please feel free to mention the wedding costumes that we may have missed. Your thoughts would be insightful for other readers, so pour it in the comments section. We would love to hear your thoughts.
