What the shop keeps
Bridal
ಮದುವೆ · दुल्हनSets for the family that comes months ahead.
ಮದುವೆಗೆ ಮುಂಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಬರುವ ಕುಟುಂಬಕ್ಕಾಗಿ.
A wedding is not one visit. Families come months ahead, look, go home, talk about it, and come back — sometimes four or five times before anything is decided. The shop is used to that and expects it.
Come with a budget rather than a design. It is easier to work from what a family can spend towards a set that suits the bride than the other way around, and nobody has to be told no at the end of it.
Before the first visit
- Roughly what the family wants to spend, in total
- Which pieces are must-haves and which are optional
- The wedding date, so making time can be worked backwards from it
- Any old gold that is going into the making
Thirty-five years in Malur means the shop has made sets for families whose daughters are now bringing their own daughters in.
ಚಿತ್ರ ಬರಲಿದೆphotograph pending