Most trousseaux are assembled in panic. The better ones are assembled around a single anchor piece — usually a choker or a long haar — that every other purchase then answers to.
Our advice to brides is unfashionable: buy fewer, heavier, and plainer. The lightweight set bought for the sangeet will be forgotten. The polki haar will be re-strung for a daughter.
Allow the atelier eight to twelve weeks. Handwork does not accelerate, and asking it to is the only way to spoil it.
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