Sari is women’s national wedding gown of India. Sari is the most popular bridal dress that is worn by most of the Indian Hindu brides. Sari or Saree is several yards of light textile that is draped around the body. Expensive sarees are worn as bridal dresses by most of the south Indian brides and the North Indian Hindu brides. Mostly Silk sarees or other richly embroidered opulent and expensive sarees are preferred as bridal dresses. Usually, maroon, magenta, pink, and red are popular traditional colors in Saree bridal dresses. The South Indian brides also wear their traditional headdresses or headgears.

“Ghagra Choli” is also worn as bridal dress in some parts of the North India. Ghagra Choli consists of a long skirt and short blouse with a long scarf known as a “dupatta” draped around the bride. It’s known as “Lehenga Choli” in Punjab and Haryana.

Indian Punjabi brides usually wear “Lehnga Choli” or “Ghagra Choli” and “dupatta”. The traditional colors of maroon, burgundy, pink, red or wine shades are generally the popular choices in “Ghagra Choli”. The Punjabi brides also wear “salwar kamiz” that are popular called “Punjabi Suit”. Red shades usually dominate the Punjabi bridal dresses. The Punjabi brides usually wear “Punjabi Juttis.” Punjabi style shoes in their feet. Usually silk or some other very superior quality textile is used for bridal dresses.

“Lehnga Cholis” or “Ghagra Cholis” are popularly worn by the Pakistani brides. Punjabi suits (salwar kamiz) are also worn by many Pakistani Punjabi brides; however some of the traditional Pakistani Punjabi Muslim brides do wear “burkahs” or pardah in place of “dupatta”. Kurti is also worn by some of the traditional Pakistani brides. Kurti is male kurta like traditional piece of clothing worn by women in northern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Indian as well as Pakistani Christian brides usually wear expensive wedding gowns or western style wedding dress. Traditional color of the western wedding dresses in white. ‘White’ or ‘wedding white’ includes creamy shades such as eggshell, ecru and ivory. The Christian brides in both the countries wear stylish western high heel sandals

Traditionally, Indian and Pakistani Brides are required to keep their faces hidden in veil. In most of the liberal societies in India, just covering head with dupatta or an end of saree is sufficient, but the traditional Pakistani societies just required the brides to keep their faces hidden. Indian and Pakistani Bridal dresses have excellent embroidery works at necklines and front hems. Some expensive bridal dresses carry rich embroidery of gold or silver fibers. Indian and Pakistani Bridal dresses are sometimes nicely embroidered using beads and sparklers. Indian and Pakistani Bridal dresses also include rich expensive jewelry.

You can get Indian and Pakistani wedding dresses tailored from some expert tailors, or you can buy “Ready To Wear” Indian and Pakistani wedding dresses from some fine Indian wedding dress stores and Pakistani wedding dress stores. You can also buy Indian and Pakistani wedding dresses online. There are numerous online wedding dress stores selling fine Indian wedding dresses and Pakistani wedding dresses online. Doing some research on Internet, you can also find cheap wedding dresses, discount wedding dresses, beach wedding dresses, plus size wedding dresses, informal wedding dresses, casual wedding dresses, vintage wedding dresses, and designer wedding dresses.

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