Why revamp your mother’s bridal outfit? Because heirlooms deserve more than a trunk.
You might have come across the saying, “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” While we don’t follow this in Indian weddings, wearing “something old” from your mother’s or grandmother’s closets is not uncommon at all. In fact, wearing generational and vintage bridal jewellery is the cultural norm in our weddings. But the latest trend brings something new in revamping heritage—wearing your mother’s bridal outfit.
Blending beautifully with the emotions of Indian weddings, the bride’s mother’s wedding outfit wraps her daughter in nostalgia and a love deeper than anyone else in the world. While you can always wear the attire as it is, you can take it up a notch and rewear your mother’s bridal outfit in such a way that it becomes a part of your own unique story.
Here’s Team Wedding Affair telling you gorgeous and meaningful ways to repurpose your mother’s bridal outfit for your wedding day.
Wear It As Is—with a Fresh Twist
Sometimes, vintage needs no fixing. Your mother’s vintage banarasi saree might just be what you need for your wedding day, or the gota patti lehenga is what you need for your haldi ceremony. While you don’t need to mess with the masterpiece, you can add your own light, modern twist.
Does the blouse feel outdated? Replace it with a more contemporary cut—it can be a corset, or a high-neck cape-style blouse. Take notes from Sonakshi Sinha’s wedding look. The actress wore her mother’s ivory chikankai saree with a striped scoop neck high-back blouse. Amp it up with modern jewelleries for the old-meets-new bridal glow.
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Mix and Match into a Masterpiece
You might not like every element of your mother’s bridal outfit, and that is understandable. But you like something from here, something from her other ensemble, or something from your mother-in-law’s closet? Well, the best part about revamping your mother’s wedding outfit is that there is no specific code to do it.
Like how actress Yami Gautam did. Her whole bridal attire was an ode to sustainability and repurposing. During the simple wedding ceremony, she wore the red traditional silk saree from her mother’s trousseau and paired it with her grandmother’s dupatta.
Use the Saree as Your Dupatta
Sometimes you want to incorporate your mother’s bridal outfit into yours, but not as a whole. You may find the fabric, the colour or a pattern intriguing, but the silhouette is outdated for your style. In this case, you can truly revamp your mother’s wedding outfit.
Think a saree turned into a dupatta, like Isha Ambani did with her mother, Nita Ambani’s saree into a dupatta to go with her lehenga. You can also turn a dupatta into a veil, or a lehenga into a blouse. The choice is yours.
Create a Reception or Mehendi Outfit
Don’t limit your revamping creativity to your wedding day. Thanks to our extravagant celebration, there are multiple colourful occasions you can repurpose your mother’s bridal lehenga or saree for. The best part? Wearing for a different occasion automatically gives you a whole lot of scope to add your own touch to the styling.
Think using her bridal outfit tailored into a stylish co-ord set for your mehendi, or wearing her bridal kurta set for your haldi. Or you can simply restyle her saree for your traditional reception like Sonam Kapoor did.
Use It as a Lining or Border
What to do if you want to keep the heirloom low-key without being the centre of attention? Instead of using the entire piece of clothing, have a part of the bridal fabric stitched into yours through the border or lining of your new lehenga. It carries the secret blessing, the emotions, without making a show about it.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas sets a prime example of how to do this revamping in style. With her custom Ralph Lauren wedding dress, she wore an iconic 75-foot-long veil that had a part of Nick Jonas’s mother’s wedding dress stitched.
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Reworking your mother’s bridal outfit is not just a fashion choice, it’s a love letter to your mother on one of your most special days. It is the most gorgeous thing you can wear, so wear it with pride, wear it with love.
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