A bridal gold necklace set is drawn as one idea: a choker or necklace, earrings and a maang tikka in the same stones and the same kundan meena work — up to the full Rajputi set with aad, rani haar and borla. Begin with the wedding date.
New designs are being photographed.
Every piece here is made to order. Message us and we will send the current designs.
Ask for designsPlanning
How to plan a bridal gold necklace set
Work back from the wedding date. Each piece takes our karigars 15 to 20 days, and a set is several pieces, so the date is the first thing to tell us.
Give us the date first
The earlier the date is fixed, the more room there is to change your mind about a stone or a colour on the way.
Choose the piece the set is built on
Usually the choker or aad at the throat. Its stones, its meena colours and its gold decide how every other piece is drawn.
Add the face pieces
Earrings and a maang tikka or borla in the same work. They sit nearest the face, so in photographs they matter more than the long necklace.
Decide on the long necklace
A rani haar under the choker completes the Rajputi look. For a lighter bride, the choker and earrings can carry the day alone.
Agree the weight before the drawing is final
Set a target net gold weight for each piece with us at the start. Changing it later means redrawing the set.
With the outfit
Matching a bridal set to the lehenga
The question brides ask most once the lehenga is chosen: will the jewellery clash with it? Four things decide it.
The colour of the zari
Bright gold zari suits yellow gold and kundan. Silver or antique-gold embroidery suits an antique finish, or polki, whose uncut diamonds read whiter than coloured kundan stones.
How busy the blouse is
Heavy embroidery at the neck wants a cleaner necklace — plain gold or a single row of stones — so the two don't compete in photographs.
The neckline
A high or boat neck takes a choker; a deep or sweetheart neck takes a long necklace, or a choker with a rani haar under it.
The dupatta
A dupatta pinned over the head covers the tikka's sides and the top of the earrings. Decide how it will sit before choosing a matha patti or a heavy jhoomar.
Two kinds of bridal set
A full set, or a lighter one?
The full Rajputi set
Choker or aad, rani haar, earrings and borla — and for many brides the ponchi and bajuband as well.
Made for the wedding day and for the heirloom it becomes. See The Complete Rajputi Set.
The lighter set
A choker or necklace with earrings and a tikka, drawn to be worn again — at a cousin's wedding, at Teej, at Diwali.
The same handwork with less gold, and often the set brought out most in the years after.
How much gold does a bridal set need?
There is no fixed amount: it is the sum of the pieces you choose, and kundan work is weighed as net gold without its lac. List the pieces first — choker, earrings and tikka at least; rani haar, ponchi and borla if you want the full Rajputi set — then agree a target net weight for each. That turns 'how much gold' into a number we can design to.
What should a bride buy first on a fixed budget?
The pieces nearest the face — the choker and the earrings — because they are in every photograph and are the ones worn again. A tikka in the same work comes next. A rani haar, ponchi and borla can be added in later years and drawn to match, since we keep the drawing of the set.
Does a bridal necklace set come with earrings?
We draw the earrings with the necklace, so the stones and colours match, and a maang tikka in the same work can be added to them.
Can I see a bridal set before it is made?
You see its drawing first, with the stones and colours marked, and pieces we have already made in the same work — at the shop in Johari Bazar, in the walled city of Jaipur, or on a WhatsApp video call in daylight. The finished pieces carry the BIS hallmark.