Indian wedding celebrations are quintessentially colourful and vivacious. While the brides set the tone with vermillion reds, maroons, jewel tones, pastels and refreshing sorbet colours, they’re also game to experiment with an unconventional colour palette.
The defining colour of all things celebratory universally, gold has struck the right chord with bridal aesthetics. The metallic hue is being highlighted in both minimalist and maximalist tones to reckon with every bride’s style sensibility. Golden lehengas rendered in traditional Indian craftsmanship look inherently bridal and glamorous, both at once. Here are our top picks of high-shine wedding-worthy lehengas.
Rahul Mishra 
Tarun Tahiliani
The shades of metallic gold like matte accent rose gold and antique gold are warming for every skin tone, enriching the appeal of precious stone jewellery pieces. Think a layered Satlada haar or Raani haar bejewelled with emeralds, rubies and quartz.
Samant Chauhan created the golden counterpart of the quintessential red lehenga, enhancing the luminous colour with delicate thread embroidery and pattern. Itrh matches the grandeur of a quintessential Indian bride with a rose gold lampi textured lehenga, complemented with a plum red dupatta. Matsya too reprised the glory of a traditional lehenga in a unique antique gold finish and contrasting embroideries.
Matsya 
Samant Chauhan 
Itrh
Seema Gujral has a penchant for gilded lehengas with a maximalist impact on wedding celebrations. The designer’s creations can polarise any ostentatious ensemble with the bling factor that she aces with a mix of gold and silver, champagne gold, vintage finish, dripping in sequins and a cluster of stones. The stop-and-stare worthy ensembles are best reserved to dazzle at Sangeet, a reception party and cocktail soirees.
Designers are indulging in other high-shine metallics along with the molten sunshine shade for a whimsical iridescent impact. Pankaj & Nidhi encrusted a neutral base with psychedelic embellishments to venture to an offbeat route. Similarly, the designer duo made a case with the soothing glint of grey gold shine elements on the lehenga. The avant-garde blouse makes the ensemble perfect for a cocktail-cum-sangeet night. Amit Aggarwal, too, created a masterpiece for gold standard glamour, going beyond the norm with the silhouette and his idea of top-to-toe gold.
Pankaj & Nidhi 
Pankaj & Nidhi
While the metallic hue is typically offset with tonal embellishments, designers are using it as the primary colour of the ensemble. While Swati Ubroi chose a matte oyster gold for her understated lehenga, both Vvani by Vani Vats and Ranian have favoured liquid gold glow with silk zari tissue fabric. Indian weaves like jamdani, banarasi, woven with golden threads promise the perfect golden glow with an earthy essence.
Swati Ubroi 
Ranian 
Vvani by Vani Vats
The use of metallic gold embroidery has been an integral part of Indian couture. The indigenous craftsmanship of our country like the aari work, zardozi embroidery, gota patti, etc. Defining what couture dreams are made of, the lehenga ensemble by Adaara Couture is rendered in a soft gold palette with tonal embellishments to beam you up sartorially for the big day. Siddartha Tytler speckled his kalidar lehenga with high-shine applique and crystal embellishments defining the golden charm for a modern bride.
Siddartha Tytler 
Adaara Couture
Every season, Indian designers turn to molten yellow experimenting with textures, fabrics and even embroidery, offering couture for the daring bride. Discover handpicked of-the-moment lehengas at Pernia’s Pop-Up Shop.
