What’s a Nigerian wedding without some urbane ankara fashion? Incomplete! Whether traditional or church nuptials, ankara wedding styles are popular among guests. They’re often worn as asoebi (the uniform fabric guests wear to show solidarity) or simply the chosen outfit for those who didn’t get the couple’s uniform.
If you have a wedding to attend and are contemplating rocking native wear, you’ll find the trendiest ankara styles for weddings in this post. But first, let’s see what’s needed to recreate them.
What You Need to Recreate Ankara Wedding Styles
Quality Ankara Fabric
Pick a beautiful, high-quality, and durable ankara fabric to get enough value for your investment in the wedding outfit. Also, a quality fabric ensures your dress lasts beyond the wedding and serves you for other occasions.
Chic Ankara Wedding Styles
Remember, you’re headed for a wedding. You want to look your best, meet new people, and enjoy your day. So, choose a style that flatters your body, accentuates your physical assets, and helps you make a fashion statement. Most importantly, the style should be comfortable enough to let you eat, dance, or walk freely without experiencing a wardrobe malfunction.
Additionally, ensure the style is multifunctional. Just because you’re wearing the dress to a wedding doesn’t mean you shouldn’t wear it elsewhere. So, pick a style with details befitting church, work, or other outings requiring native wear.
An Expert Tailor
It’s one thing to pick a gorgeous style and another to find a skilled tailor to bring it to life. To avoid cases of ‘what I ordered vs what I got,’ check out the tailor’s past works to be sure they can handle the intricacies of your chosen design. A tailor isn’t only needed to transform your fabric into a masterpiece. They’ll also offer consultation on styles appropriate for your body type and colors that best complement your fabric.
A Good Photographer
If you can’t meet a professional photographer to get great photos for the gram, attend the wedding with that friend who knows the right angles to take and ask them to take you stunning pictures. No friend around? Still fine. Walk up to a stranger and ask them to help you out. But if you’d rather play it safe, do it like celebrities: collaborate with a photographer to get clean photos for the gram before heading to the venue.
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Accessorizing Ankara Wedding Styles
Elevate your ankara styles for weddings by complementing your look with stunning:
- Makeup
- Jewelry
- Handbag
- A beautiful hairstyle or wig
- Headwear, which can be a matching ankara scarf, gele, turban or fascinator
- Comfy heels
- Perfume
If you’re confused about which colors to wear, pick from the color palette of your fabric. For example, say your textile has green, blue, yellow, black, and white. Wear black or white shoes, carry a blue handbag, and rock gold jewelry. It all depends on your desired look, whether bold or subtle.
Dashing Ankara Wedding Styles
Ankara styles continue to evolve. Thanks to the talented designers we have today, many simple, avant-garde, and functional styles suitable for various events keep emerging.
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Over to you, wedding guest. Choose from any of the ankara wedding styles you’ve seen above—and the ones you’re about to see—and go slay at that nuptial party. Feel free to add your spin to the styles by embellishing them with beads, other fabrics, feather, fringe, and other trimmings.
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