List Of Bridal Jewellery Styles Worn By Bengali Brides

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The unique style of draping their saree gives them as idiosyncratic look over the globe. The Bengalis have a very pleasant way of pampering their brides to be. The Bengalis are very attractive and decorated with lovely ornaments and showered with gifts and sarees. Scroll down to have a look at the different exquisite jewelry of Bengali Brides.

Headgear
The Bengali jewellery style is compulsory for wedding rituals. Mukut is for the bride and topor is for the groom. It is designed to match the wedding outfit. It is known to bring good luck to the couple. It is made up of sholapith, also known as Indian cork, which is a white spongy plant matter. It is very fragile and should be handled with care.

The Mukut adorned by the bride is usually white in color and sometimes with red as red is also auspicious color in the Bengali tradition. Most Bengali sarees are red in color with intricate designs in the borders. The Bengali mukut has serpentine designs and usually in white color with silver sequined embellishments. Nowadays, the bride wore a small gold mukuts with this traditional white mukut so as to modern and ...
... indigenous look simultaneously.

Shakha Pola

Another gorgeous style of Bengali jewellery!

Women wear certain symbols of marriage like loha, sindoor and shakha pola is one of them. Shakha pola is presented to the bride by her mother. Shakha are white bangles of conch-shell and Pola are red bangles are made from red corals. Shakha pola are worn in both the hands with an iron bangla loha in the middle. These bangles should not be broken before one year of marriage. Then the bride’s mother in law gift her gold bangles as a aashirvad. Shakha pola symbolizes good health and prosperity. It implies the strength and unity of marriage. There should be no abrasion between the positive and negative energies.

Necklaces
There are different types of traditional jewellery of Bengal for the neck wore by Bengali bride. The Panch Noli Har is a necklace made up of five gold chains attached to central design. Similarly the Sat Noli Har has seven gold chains attached to the central designs or decorative piece. The most popular necklace is Choker or Chick., which is famous since time immemorial. This intricately designed choker is worn lower on the neck and just above the collarbone. Bengali women wear several necklaces together to look glamorous on the wedding day. ‘

Hand Harness Wedding Jewelry
Ratnchoor or Hathphool is worn by brides on the hand over the fingers. The hands, obviously need to be dolled up for the wedding and most Bengali brides choose a ratanchoor to ensure that their hand looks gorgeous. They are available is various designs and can be crafted in any metals. Crafting them in gold can be too expensive, so any other metal, preferably silver can be used. It consists of a gold bangle worn on the wrist, which connects five chains to the fingers and fits in them with the help of a ring. Often a spherical ball like is attached in the middle.

Nose Ring
Bengali bride wears a nose ornament, called the nath which is made of a thick metal wire 2-3cm in diameter. To lessen the pressure of the nath on the nose, the ornament is often tied to the hair behind the ear with chain or thread. It gives an irresistible look with the wedding saree of Bengali bride. In Bengali culture, it is believed that nath makes bride and married women complete. Nath makes the bride looks pretty.

Kamarband
This heavy girdle worn around the waist by almost all communities. The kamarband is worn in various designs, with intertwining filigree or chains. It adds four moons in beauty, when worn by the Bengali bride. Several types of key chains are hooked to the waist or kamarband, which is both functional and decorative.

When the bride comes to the wedding hall or mandap being carried by her brother and her face is covered by two pan leaves gives an irresistible look. It is one of the most beautiful traditions of Bengali culture.