Was Bakhtawar Bhutto s wedding dress embroidered with gold and diamond?
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Designer Wardha Saleem explains the details about Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari s wedding dress.
There have been a lot of speculations about Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari s wedding dress ever since she got married to Mahmood Choudhry last month. Neither did we use a gold wire nor did we put in diamonds on this dress, said the designer Wardha Saleem, laughing as she spoke to BBC Urdu.
Saleem said that her brand uses the most decent designs for bridal dresses. She revealed that Bakhtawar s bridal dress contained the most high-quality and decent material from local markets in Pakistan.
Designer Haris Ahmed shares photos of the intricate handwoven couture produced by zardozi .
Designing bridal dresses is a long process, with painstaking attention to detail. And when it s a dress for a high-profile bride like Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari, the details can take weeks to perfect.
In case of Bakhtawar s reception dress, it took 800 hours.
The designer, Lahore-based Haris Ahmed, shared details on his social media about designing for the most elegant couple .
The newly weds were matching in royal green with the groom, Mahmood Choudhry, sporting winter s favourite velvet and Bakhtawar donning traditional gota on raw silk. We are privileged to design this traditional shalwar qameez for Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari, daughter of former President Mr Asif Ali zardari and late Benazir Bhutto, on her reception day at Bilawal House, wrote the design house.
Mar 22, 2015 at 11:21am PDT
It was an exciting indication that some of fashion’s younger set of designers are now gaining clout. It had been largely assumed that Bakhtawar would opt for one of Pakistan’s longstanding veteran ateliers to create the design for her big day. The fact that she put her faith in a younger albeit experienced designer was refreshing.
Wardha Saleem says that it was “an experience that she will always cherish”.
“The response has been overwhelming. Coming from a Sindhi background myself, it gave me great pride to be designing the outfit for the daughter of Sindh , the designer told
The happy couple at their mehndi.
KARACHI: For those not in the know although I can’t imagine who the whole of last week kept Karachi in the news for two very different reasons: the cricket match between Pakistan and South Africa, and Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari’s nuptials with Dubai-based businessman Mahmood Y. Choudhry. And both had happy endings.
Even the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing standard operating procedures (SOPs) could not damper the public interest in the toned-down mehndi, nikah/rukhsati and the valima reception that unfolded behind the fortified walls of Bilawal House amid a strictly monitored and limited guest list.