Wedding sari

A wedding sari is a traditional South Asian wedding dress, especially popular in South Indian states. The sari often consists of a combination of red and green, with golden brocade.

Wedding saris are predominantly red, a colour associated with married women, although colours and colour combinations vary by region, caste, and religion; non-Brahmin women in Tamil Nadu wear a red-and-white checked sari as traditional wedding attire. The Padmasali wedding sari is a white sari, dyed with turmeric.

Sari fabric is also traditionally silk. Over time, colour options and fabric choices for Indian brides have expanded. Today fabrics like crêpe, Georgette, tissue, and satin are used, and colours have been expanded to include gold, pink, orange, maroon, brown, and yellow as well. Indian brides in Western countries often wear a sari at the wedding ceremony and change into other traditional Indian wear afterwards such as lehenga, or cholis etc.

Types of wedding saris include Kanchipuram silk sari, Banarasi wedding sari, Sambalpuri sari, Assam silk, Gota sari, Resham sari, Zardosi sari, paithani sari, Bandhani sari, Neriyathum sari, as well as Jamdani, Dhakai, Katan and Rajshahi usually in red.