What to wear: Wedding
Dress up properly: rich fabrics, full-length kurtas or sherwanis, and polished shoes. Day weddings suit lighter silks and pastels; evening weddings take jewel tones, velvet and brocade.
Wear
Sherwanis for the groom, bandhgalas, Nehru jackets over silk kurtas, angrakhas, sharp suits for the reception.
Avoid
Outshining the groom (no safa or heavy sherwani as a guest), all-black or all-white at many Hindu weddings (check with the hosts), sneakers and denim.
Colours that work
Ivory, gold, maroon, emerald, navy, rose.
11 looks for wedding
Ethnic
Ivory & Gold Groom SherwaniWedding
Ethnic
Navy Bandhgala SuitWedding · Cocktail & Reception · Formal & Black Tie
Ethnic
Brocade Nehru Jacket & KurtaSangeet · Festivals · Wedding
Ethnic
Kasavu Mundu & White ShirtFestivals · Pooja & Temple · Wedding
Ethnic
Rose Gold Silk Kurta SetFestivals · Wedding · Sangeet
Ethnic
White Angrakha & ChuridarWedding · Festivals · Sangeet
Ethnic
Emerald Velvet BandhgalaWedding · Cocktail & Reception · Formal & Black Tie
Fusion
Indo-western Long JacketSangeet · Cocktail & Reception · Wedding
Fusion
Kurta with a BlazerCocktail & Reception · Formal & Black Tie · Wedding
Western
Navy Two-piece SuitInterview · Office · Formal & Black Tie
Western
Black TuxedoFormal & Black Tie · Cocktail & Reception · WeddingMore occasions
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