What To Wear To A Winter Wedding: The Complete Guide
By Urban Company
4 min read
Jan 30, 2019
This is the third post in our series – What to Wear to Winter Weddings. You have to be warm to survive an Indian winter wedding, but how do you ...
You have to be warm to survive an Indian winter wedding, but how do you still look fabulous?
The basic rules for staying warm at winter weddings are:
1.
The Obvious:
Full-sleeves, warm fabrics, juttis and shawls.
2.
Some lesser known “secrets”:
hidden thermals, the way you style your dupatta, heavily embroidered shawls that double us as dupattas.
We saw what hundreds of wedding guests have worn over the years, and picked out the best ideas on how to style it right – so that you stay warm, while staying stylish!
Idea 1: _Full-Sleeve Anarkalis
1. Sabyasachi has created the perfect winter anarkali
Image courtesy: Sabyasachi
2. You don’t need to stick to a dark winter palette, pastels work well too!
Image courtesy: Sabyasachi
3. Whites look gorgeous when paired with a heavy kundan necklace
Image courtesy: Rohit Bal
4. Straight cut pants underneath an embroidered open anarkali
Image courtesy: Karisma Kapoor
5. A cape over the anarkali for an extra layer of warmth
Image courtesy: Joe Maldea
TIP:
Embroidered cuffs on the full-sleeved anarkali finish the look well
6. A dark hued long-sleeve anarkali that’s embroidered all over
Image courtesy: Priyal Prakash
TIP:
Add an extra layer of warmth by teaming your net dupatta with a plain shawl in the same colour beneath it.
7. Raw silk long anarkali
Image courtesy: Karisma Kapoor
Idea 2: _Long-Sleeve Kurtas
1. Kurta with sharara – easy to add thermal leggings underneath
Image courtesy: Shereen (Love & Other Bugs blog)
2. Super short, almost blouse-length kurta with sharara, in pastel shades
Image courtesy: Raveena Tandon
3. Matching benarsi silk brocade kurta & sharara (no need for a dupatta!)
Image courtesy: Raw Mango
4. Flared benarsi silk brocade kurta with sharara
Image courtesy: Aditi Rao Hydari in Raw Mango
5. Plain matka silk kurta with sharara
Image courtesy: Sabyasachi
6. Peplum style kurta with lehenga
Image courtesy: Jayanti Reddy
7. Benarsi silk brocade kurta with matching straight cut pants!
Image courtesy: Raw Mango
8. Silk satin kurta with brocade pants (if you want to tone it down)
Image courtesy: Raw Mango
9. Short kurta with a cowled skirt
Image courtesy: Jayanti Reddy
10. Meenakari silk benarasi dupatta with tanchoi kurta
Image courtesy: The Stylewali
Add a literal blazer jacket to your lehenga like Rhea Kapoor did
Image courtesy: Rhea Kapoor
Or use it as a shrug over your blouse, bomber jacket instead of a blouse, pair a silk trench coat with a sari – read more about
how to style your jacket with your winter wedding outfit.
Idea 4: _Style a Shirt
Image courtesy: Tarun Tahiliani
TIP:
If you’re pairing a lehenga with your shirt, keep them in the same colour palette to make the look work
Image courtesy: Rashi Kapoor
3. Plain raw silk shirt with brocade silk lehenga
Image courtesy: Payal Khandwala
4. Balloon sleeve shirt in a complementary colour with a printed sari
Image courtesy: Sonam Kapoor
Peplum full-sleeve blouse with lehenga
Idea 6: _Stylish Shawls & Dupattas
The trick lies in how you style it!
1. When it comes to shawls, choose a wedding-worthy embellished one (like this brand Janavi has!)
Image courtesy: Janavi x Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla collection
2. Add a plain shawl under embroidered net dupatta of same shade!
3. Tuck the dupatta into a belt when you’re in a full-sleeve blouse
4. Drape a dupatta over both shoulders and let it drop open on both sides to keep snug
Image courtesy: Sabyasachi
5. Wrap the dupatta over both shoulders
Image courtesy: Raw Mango
6. A slightly different way to drape a benarsi silk dupatta
Image courtesy: Raw Mango
7. Another unique way to drape a dupatta all around
Image courtesy: Raw Mango
8. This dupatta draping style looks perfect with a sharara
Image courtesy: Raw Mango
9. Drape a pretty shawl with a sari like this
Image courtesy: Sagarika Ghatge
10. Another dupatta draping style that works well for older women
Image Courtesy: Neha Jaggi
Idea 7: _Layer Pretty & Warm Fabrics
1. Velvet Kurtas
Image courtesy: Karisma Kapoor
Image courtesy: Anita Dongre
2. Head to toe velvet done right with an ensemble like this
Image courtesy: Sureena Chowdhri
3. Raw silk lehenga & blouse with velvet dupatta
Image courtesy: Sureena Chowdhri
Image courtesy: Bageecha
5. Benarsi silk dupatta with raw silk embroidered lehenga & blouse
Image courtesy: Benzer, Mumbai
6. Benarsi silk lehenga with silk satin dupatta
Image courtesy: Raw Mango
7. Velvet full-sleeve blouse with fur dupatta!
Image courtesy: Shehla Fatoor
We hope that you stay super warm yet super stylish this wedding season with the help of these styling tips.
Next post:
_Outfit Ideas for Brides to Wear to their Winter Weddings!
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