Bridal jewelry comes in a variety of designs and materials. However, the most favored and popular form of bridal jewelry happens to be the beaded ones. Handcrafted by traditional artisans, this beaded bridal jewelry is shaped from gold, silver, gems and other materials. Each culture and each ethnic group have their own distinctive style and pattern of making these beaded wedding jewelry. In India, beaded jewelry is not only important as an adornment, but has immense symbolic and ritualistic significance. Mangalsutra – a wedding necklace made of small, black beads – is an auspicious bridal jewelry, without which marriages are incomplete. It is believed that each of its multiple beads invites good fortune and bestows divine blessings. In other societies too, beaded bridal jewelry has significant aesthetic and symbolic connotations.
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