Tips to Buy Matching Jewelery for Your Wedding Sarees

Tips to Buy Matching Jewelery for Your Wedding Sarees

Women of all ages have a deep-seated affection for their jewelry, and they consider these beautiful pieces as their prized possessions. Women can never have enough of it and what better reason to shop for jewelry that for the wedding, a lifetime event where the bride looks her best. Jewelry plays a determining role in Indian traditional wedding ceremony which is all about celebrations, colors, opulence, and sparkle. But it is important to purchase these expensive adornments with great care in order to ensure quality and value. 

7 Useful Tips to Buy a Matching Jewelry for your Wedding Sarees

Here are 7 essential checkpoints for would-be-brides that they need to keep in mind while buying wedding jewelry in accordance with their bridal outfits.

1. Keep The Wedding Outfit in Mind

The most important thing to keep in mind while choosing the wedding jewelry is the type of wedding lehenga or saree you are wearing on the D-day. You can carry the image of the saree or the lehenga in your phone when you visit the jewelry store. Don't go over the top with loads of heavy neckpieces and earrings. Keep it simple, elegant and intricate. Select jewel designs that complement the bridal lehenga or saree and do not overpower it. Because of the intricate zari, stone, and bead work of the wedding sarees and lehenga, it is best to stick to simple and minimalistic bridal jewelry sets in gold, platinum or semiprecious stones. 

Keep The Wedding Outfit in Mind

2. Choose the Right Metal 

In most cases, Indian traditional jewelry is made of gold and whether you love it or hate it, you have to wear it on your wedding day. But you can always add a modern and sophisticated touch to you gold wedding jewelry sets by opting for various shades of gold as per the shade of the lehenga. You can mix and match yellow gold and rose gold together for an elegant and vintage look. In case of silver zari work on the lehenga, you can choose platinum or diamond in order to complete the pristine look. You can also mix rose-colored with yellow-gold together for an ornate look that will compliment any wedding outfit!

Choose the Right Metal

3. Jewelry as per Face Shape and Complexion 

Selecting pieces of jewelry as per the particular face shape of the bride helps to balance the overall appearance of the bride and prevents the jewels from overpowering the face of the bride. Women with oval face shape can choose any type of jewelry whereas women with square face shape should opt for heavy jhumkas or earrings and chunky necklaces. Women with round face shape should choose medium length earrings and light necklaces to keep it simple and suave. Women with dark complexion should wear light gold jewelry in order to look beautiful and attractive. Women with fair complexion can opt for white gold and platinum jewelry along with gold.

Jewelry as per Face Shape and Complexion

4. Select Matching Bangles 

When it comes to Indian traditional weddings, bangles play an equally significant role as the Indian wedding sarees. The glass and gold bangles the bride wears with the saree and lehenga should match or contrast with the color of the saree, lehenga choli, and Anarkali. Solid gold bangles can be worn with wedding lehenga choli and heavy work sarees, and sleek glass bangles should be paired with salwar kameez, Anarkali, and Sharara. Thin bangles studded with diamonds and semiprecious stones also look good with these attires.

Select Matching Bangles

5. Mix and Match 

A traditional Indian Wedding is an elaborate affair that consists of a lot of rituals and ceremonies such as Mehendi, Sangeet, Engagement, Wedding and Reception and the would-be bride has to buy matching jewelry as per these events and ceremonies. But is it really necessary to buy separate jewelry sets for each event? Not at all, the only thing you need to do is let your imagination and creativity come into play and mix and match the pieces of jewelry from different sets in order to flaunt a new style statement every time.

6. Do Not Copy from Other Styles 

The jewelry that looks good on a bride may not work for you. So, it is best to keep it original and choose your own wedding jewelry as per your preference, wedding apparel, complexion and face shape. Your wedding jewelry should be unique in every way, and it should be your fashion statement that should reflect your own personality. It is best to select your own jewelry rather than leaving the task entirely on your parents or siblings. If you are not very confident about your choice, then you can easily opt for designer jewelry because you can never go wrong with it.

Mix and Match

7. Opt for Quality

Wedding jewelry is not just a woman's embellishments, it is a lifetime of security, and therefore, it is absolutely necessary to emphasize on quality rather than quantity. Always buy hallmark jewelry from reputed jewelry stores even if you have to pay a bit more for the hallmark. A superior quality ornament will stand the test of time, and you will be able to pass it to the next generation as heirloom. In addition, you will be able to wear your jewelry to various occasions, events and ceremonies throughout your life without any worries.

Most importantly, maintain a list of all the various precious jewelry pieces you will be wearing during the wedding functions so that you can keep a track of the jewels and keep them in an arranged manner after you remove and store them in the storage box.

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