Head Jewelry for South India Brides: Nethichuti

South Indian weddings are all about long dark tresses, jasmine flowers and lovely traditional jewelry. The hairdo for the wedding day is set using heavy temple jewelry head sets and pieces like rakodi, jada billai and kunjalam (decorative addition for the hair).

In this blog, we will take a look at the latest trends available in nethichutti for the brides this year.

This is a traditional temple jewelry set complete with surya and chandra bimbam. 

Now let us look at a few modern variations of the same set. For those affluent ones, here is a beautiful set of nethichutti set in diamonds and gem stones.

Note how the width of the nethichuti has paved way for a more elegant design with intricate patterns studded with sparkling diamonds. If you intend to sparkle, then a single nethichuti designed with elegant swirls and stars (like the one above) is just enough.

This bride has avoided the normal chandra and surya bimbams quite wisely as it would have been a definite overkill with that heavy choker on her neck.

Coordinating the nethichutti with the rest of the jewelry would look great especially if you are wearing gem studded ones.

If you wish to keep things simple, a single strand of pearl headpiece would look elegant, classic and beautiful. And if your face is oval in shape, loosely hanging head piece would give it more character.

Yet I wouldn't give up on these, as retro and vintage are back in town again...