Trousseau Shopping for an Iyengar Bride
When a woman gets married in India, she leaves her parental home and is supposed to stay with her husband at her in-laws’ house. This has been the tradition in India since ancient times. It is quiet an emotional moment for the bride since she leaves her peaceful parental abode where she has spent her years since birth. To settle down at her new home, which is going to be her home for a life-time – she needs to stock up her suitcase with necessary bridal apparels and accessories which are required for a newlywed bride just days after the wedding.
This is more of a requirement than a custom for every Indian bride. And hence trousseau shopping is a very important affair for every Indian bride-to-be and it shall be done well in advance, quite a few months prior to the wedding since trousseau shopping much of selection and thought-process.
Whether she is a Punjabi bride or a Marathi bride or a Tamil Brahmin bride or a Tamil Iyengar bride – Trousseau shopping is an essential pre-wedding job that needs to be carried out efficiently, in order not to land up in trouble post-wedding.
Iyengar matrimony and weddings in southern part of India are an elaborate affair given the traditional rituals they observe right from pre-wedding days. Even post-wedding, there are several events when the bride requires putting on new and beautiful sarees, jewelry and accessories. So Iyengar brides need to make sure that they have stocked up their trousseau closet well in advance.
When Iyengar bride goes for trousseau shopping, she needs to keep in mind that she needs to get apparels and accessories which shall be in suite with any kind of post-wedding occasion and even any other kind of events after wedding.
For example for the kattu saadam and the samandhi virundhu ceremonies, post wedding, the bride can pile up her closet with light Kanjeevaram silk and cotton sarees. For the occasion, she must get light yet traditional jewelry which should be well-matched with the color and design of the saree she wears. Since both the events are post-wedding events, immediately within three days of the wedding, the bride must ensure that she has ample of brighter and shiny accessories and custom jewelry too.
Custom jewelry must be a part of every Iyengar bride’s trousseau since not always she can put on heavily designed traditional gold jewelry for occasions and events after the wedding. Since not every bride is comfortable with heavy embroidered silk sarees, newlywed brides must contain half-sarees, light cotton and jute designer sarees which can be worn on special occasions and also carried around with ease. Also keeping well in trend with cosmopolitan times, newlywed brides must also possess stylish and trendy lehengas which can be worn for the wedding reception of office colleagues.
Also keep apparels and accessories well in stock for your honeymoon period, since post-wedding, girls generally suffer from exhaustion and do not find enough time for shopping for the honeymoon trip ahead.
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