Mandatory Bridal Jewellery:

A wedding is the special day for any lady in her lifetime. A lady always wants to make her W day very special. And so giving special attention to the dressing and jewellery is a common thing among the brides. Apart from that, being in the best dress in wedding is the tradition/custom prevailing worldwide, irrespective of caste, community, society, nationality, religion.etc. The wedding dress whether it is a western wedding gown with pearl earrings, or an Indian traditional red coloured Sari with gold tiaras, or a Vietnamese Ao Dai in colour red or a Japanese wedding Kimono; it  should be the best dress that someone possesses in a lifetime. So, worldwide an acclamation of a very good, once in a lifetime type of wedding dress is always there among the brides. There is one more thing that comes into the scene of a bridal wear and it is the bridal jewellery. Like the wedding dress, bridal jewellery also plays a vital traditional role in the wedding ceremony. Whether you attend a western wedding or an eastern wedding, you always would notice the bride with beautiful pearl earrings or gold earrings along with a pearl or gold necklace. The range of bridal jewellery covers items like necklaces, tiaras and headpieces, earrings, bracelets and rings. There are few more things available in a range of wedding jewellery. These are the hairclips, hairpins, headbands, etc. So, altogether the total combination of a wedding jewellery set comprises a long list of items. Among them necklace is on the top of the list.

Traditionally in western countries, wedding jewellery is preferred to be pearl items. Pearl earrings, pearl necklace, pearl tiara and even a pearl bracelet would commonly be there in a western bridal dress code of wedding. Traditionally the pearl earrings, pearl necklace or say the set of pearl jewellery is presented by the father of the bride or the groom. This tradition of gifting pearl jewellery in wedding represents love for the daughter. It is believed that the most followed tradition in western countries of gifting pearl jewellery started in India many years back, when a father dived into the sea bed of Gulf of Mannar and collected pearls for his daughter. Though this tradition started from India, yet the use of pearl in wedding jewellery is very much less in India in comparison to western countries. Instead of pearl, gold jewelleries are most widely preferred in India and other Asian countries. But there are some deep forest and hill tribes in India who traditionally make their wedding jewelleries from animal skins and bones along with gold made jewelleries. If you ask about pearl earrings as wedding jewellery to those tribes you may be astonished to see that they even don’t know about the fact that pearls can be used as jewelleries. It is because in most of the Asian countries there were monarchy and the collection of pearl and pearl jewellery whether it is a pearl earring or a pearl necklace was strictly limited to the royal family only.

But irrespective of all these facts, whether someone uses the pearl earrings as wedding jewellery or not; the use of jewellery would always be there in any wedding.