Indian wedding clothes
Indian wedding clothes refer to the traditional attire worn by a wedding couple and wedding guests.
Clothing culture
The bride is usually dressed up in auspicious colors. Many of the guests attending the wedding wear gold jewelry including the bride and sometimes the groom. The women are additionally adorned with henna patterns on their palms, hands, forearms, legs, and feet.Indian weddings generally tend to continue for several days and new attire is worn each day. All these dresses and the colour symbolize the meaning of marriage and the period that follows it.
Hindu weddings
Indian Hindu weddings continue for several days. India is a country that defines diversity, and this is visible even in the wedding and its different styles. The ceremonies, the rituals, and the formalities are all different in each region and culture. In the North, starting with the tilak ceremony, each function has significance in the marriage. Tilak, sangeet, haldi, baraat & the shaadi; all necessitate the bride and the bridegroom to wear new attire on each occasion. All these above ceremonies are known by different names in the other parts, for eg, simant puja in the west, or mangalasnanam in the south and so on.Bridegroom's clothes
Many communities of southern, western & eastern India adhere to their ethnics wears such as dhoti, mundu & veshti. In South India, a shirt may be worn with dhoti or sometimes just an angavastra may be used to cover the chest, some grooms go topless or shirtless.On the other hand, in the northern parts, the bridegroom usually wears a sherwani or a jodhpuri. The groom's face is veiled with a curtain of flowers which is called sehra in the north, which is not the custom elsewhere. It is also customary to wear a taqiyah all through the ceremony in Muslim marriages.