Meetha Raghunath Instagram – Sarees of my Wedding. Part 1. The engagement. Though I believe not more than ten percent of my personality allows for wearing sarees, my mom’s and sister’s undying love for them (read borderline obsession) makes up for it. But hey, no one can complain about sarees now, can they? They truly do make you feel wonderful. I never had a wedding “shopping shopping” thing where you’d go out and buy everything you need, all at once. When I fell in love with Monish and we decided to get married, I just began collecting sarees. So this series is about the sarees I collected for my wedding over the span of about a year. 1. The black silk saree – It is my mom’s saree. It’s 25 years old and she bought it with her first ever salary as a teacher. (It was 4500 rupees and she got it in instalments that she paid over a year) She laughs about it today because it was blasphemous to buy a black silk saree back then let alone spend so much on it. I wore it the day before the engagement because we lucked out and had the whole place to ourselves, so we decided to play dress up. I love this saree because it has my mom written all over it. 2. The peach silk saree with a bronze zari – I wanted a modern looking pastel saree for wearing before the engagement rituals took place and this was that. I got it in Kalaniketan in Coimbatore. 3. The yellow silk saree with maroon border – When Monish and I saw this saree we knew it was perfect to get engaged in. Traditional sarees for the win, always! We got this at our favourite boutique called Anya in Coimbatore. It’s one of my favourite sarees. It was raining cats and dogs the day before and on day of the engagement and I was terribly sick though it doesn’t look like it in the photographs. But I woke up, dressed myself and chose to have fun through it all. The sky cleared up at the right times and we had fun! This series is not an ad for anyone. I just wanted to share the sarees I wore for my wedding because they’re very special to me. And if I saw a saree I liked online, I would always want to know where someone got them from, so this is just that! Okay bye! …(read to be continued :p) @weddingsbyvasanth