When you think of the Indian Bridegroom, the first thing that you picture is the traditional Indian attire on the groom. The Indian men wear traditional attire to their wedding. The traditional India garment is the Kurta–Pajama though men now wear western styled coat, trousers and shirts to office. However, in their wedding, men still prefer to don the Indian traditional wedding attire.
India is a land of numerous religions, castes and communities. Each caste and community has their own matrimonial rituals and customs. Even their wedding attire is different. Visit from north to south and east to west, you will find difference in the wedding costumes of the Indian Bridegroom. The southern part of India has wedding mostly during the daytime while the communities belonging to the northern part of India has main wedding function in the night. The hilly regions of the country have wedding attire of the bridegroom quite distinctive from the plains.
The bridegroom from the communities in the southern and eastern part of the country wears traditional Indian clothes-the dhoti and kurta during the wedding rituals. Bridegrooms from the southern states of India wear a Mundu or a Lungi. On top the lungi, they wear a shirt of similar color. The lungi-mundu is usually white and of silk. They also put the Angavastram to complete the look.
The bridegroom from Bengal, the eastern state of India, wears silk dhoti and kurta. During the time of wedding rituals, they remove their kurta and cover themselves with a silk shawl.
In the Northern states of India, like Punjab, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, the bridegroom wears a sherwani or jodhpuri suit. The sherwani are heavily embroidered kurtas with crystals and silk threads. Another common bridegroom item is the headgear. The headgear is known as the ‘sehra’ and has flowers covering the face.
Author: Shipra Sinha
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