Rajputi

Rajputi (or Rajwadi) is the wedding-era jewellery of the Rajput courts of Rajasthan — Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner. The signature is the layout: heavy gold-plated bases, broad chokers that fill the collarbone, long ranihaars that fall to the navel, and the motif vocabulary of the desert kingdoms — peacock, elephant, lotus, sun, parrot.

These pieces are designed to be photographed. The Rajput wedding is a seven-day event with multiple looks; the bride is the centre of every frame; the jewellery must sing across the entire visual register from haldi (yellow) through mehendi (green) to vidaai (red). Rajputi layouts are scaled accordingly — the choker is bigger, the maang tikka is heavier, the haar is longer. Calibrated for the seven-day wedding, not the dinner-party silhouette.

Our Rajputi pieces are hand-set on a gold-plated German-silver base (the alloy of choice for Indian bridal because it takes plating evenly and holds the weight without bending). Motifs are hand-engraved, then meena-detailed on the reverse — every piece carries the full Jaipuri vocabulary.

What to wear it with. Lehenga or saree in the deep traditional palette — Rajputi reads as costume against modern minimalism. The right complement is a maharani-tone outfit (red, wine, deep blue, emerald) with traditional embroidery. Pair the choker with matching maang tikka and naath (nose ring) for full bridal effect.