Pakistani Wedding Fashion

Usually when you talk about Pakistani Wedding Fashion the first thing comes in mind is "ladies". There are many different types of fashion in these days. When it comes to Pakistani Weddings Fashion, that is when the real fashion shows up, for instance special clothes, jewelry, and other accessories such as henna. Even though modern Pakistanis are following the American or western culture, they still have a lot of values for their own culture as well.

Pakistani Wedding Fashion - Bride
The Pakistani bride, no matter which cultural background she comes from, is famous for her elaborate and exquisite Pakistani bridal dress and jewellery. The long flowing dupatta or veil is heavily worked with painstaking patterns in sequins, beads, and gold or silver thread. The long skirt is made of traditional silk or brocade. The jewellery consists of the traditional nath (nose ring) and the forehead is adorned with a tika along with all the other adornments. The traditional colour is red, but any other colour is also acceptable. A Pakistani bride may also wear a sari or shalwar kurta according to the family tradition.

There's a reason why the first thing a Pakistani and Indian bride does after the proposal is look for the perfect Wedding Wear. The Wedding Dress is the formal attire she'll be wearing during the wedding album shoot and it's something to be commemorated for the rest of her life. She wants to look gorgeous and radiant.

On the first day, which is Mehndi, she wears very casual dress. The reason she wears casual dress because she has all of her family and all of her friends there and during that time they joke with her and have a little food fight sometimes if permitted by bride's parents. So by the end of that night all the clothes are very messy.

On the second day that is Nikkah, the bride wears either pink or red dress with gold touch. That dress is very expensive, this dress in provided by bride's mother to her daughter as a goodbye gift.

On the third day that is also called Waleema, the bride wears a very nice heavy dress. Groom’s family or his mother as a welcome gift provides this dress. Bride wears that dress on the last day of the wedding ceremony when she is in her husband's house.

Jewellery has one of the most important roles in Pakistani Wedding Fashion. There are different types of jewelry, which brides wear during the wedding. That is usually very heavy jewelry. For example bride usually wear TAJ crown on their heads. The Taj is made out of heavy 24 karate gold and also has diamonds in there.

The second thing is Bindiya on forehead which is usually attached with either her hair or with her scarf. The third thing is called Jhumkay it the bigger version of the earrings. This is usually the biggest piece of jewelry which bride wears on her wedding. It is mostly very long sometimes as long as her dress. This carries diamonds and ruby and is also made out of gold.

Bride also wears a nice ring which is also either white gold or regular gold and has a very big diamond in it. This is the smallest piece of the jewelry on the bride. The last part is anklets. That is the most fragile piece of the jewelry bride wears. All the stuff mention above is what usually brides wear during their marriage

We could not conclude Pakistani wedding fashion is henna; One of the things except jewellery that adds more beauty to the bride is called Henna; it originally started from the Arabia and moved on to different part of the world. It is also deeply involve in Islamic culture.

On the day of Mehndi, bride's friends or sometimes professional girls in Henna come to bride's home and put all the design on her hands. It has a lot of different designs now day people use computers to make different types of designs. These designs usually stay on for about a week.

Pakistani Wedding Fashion - Men
One of the big sections in the Pakistani weddings Fashion is male fashion. For that groom must go to the designer who is specialized in wedding fashion for men. He usually chose what kind dress, watch, shoes, and bracelet, and kind of ring he should wear during what day of the wedding. It usually is expensive to go there to get all this important stuff done.

First day of the wedding, which is called Mehndi, the groom usually wears any kind of casual clothes. During the Mehndi his clothes usually gets ruined because all of his family and friends put all kind of stuff on him as a joke in pre-celebration.

On the second day during Nikkah the groom usually wears traditional dress called Shalwar Kameez and matching vest (sherwani) with the traditional shoes called Khussa. On this day the groom goes to girl's house for the first time.

Sherwani is long coat, buttoned up in front with ban collars. The sherwani falls well below the knees, and looks elegant especially if the groom is tall. The sherwanis are available in many colors. Mostly off-white, beige, cream shades are more popular in men.

The third dress is usually black color pant suite and black shoes on the day of Waleema the day when the groom side does there after celebration of the wedding at groom's house. In some cases some people still would wear the traditional dress to keep the tradition.

Male jewellery is also an important part in Pakistan wedding fashion. Grooms usually do not have to wear as much jewellery as brides do, but at the same time it is part of the custom to wear gold ring, which is always provided by the bride side. The other major thing they must wear is nice nickels and a bracelet. This brings more personality to the groom's looks.