Dia Mirza style file: From traditional joda to modern lehenga

Actress Dia Mirza looked a million bucks as she tied the knot with long-time beau Sahil Sangha in Delhi on October 18, 2015.

Sticking true to her personality the former beauty queen, chose grand yet classy outfits. While she went completely traditional for the wedding with Ritu Kumar ensemble, she chose a mode Shantanu and Nikhil lehenga for reception.

Dia's wedding outfit was a traditional joda designed by Ritu Kumar. Kumar contemporized the Mughal era joda in style but kept the essence intact with old zardozi craftsmanship.

The ensemble, made up of a kurta, farshi paijama and a dupatta has upper half or paat of the pajama made of gold net and is lined with tanchoi silk brocade and the lower half or gote is made of green and turq stripes of patched silk sewn together diagonally.

Each stripe is designed with stylized floral designs. The elaborate borders placed on both the paat and the gote seams are finished in a style typical of the Hyderabadi court.

The dupatta has been embroidered by master craftsmen with a lineage from the Avadh court. The kurta is decorated with zardozi around the neckline. A similar design is embroidered on the ground of the second emerald green dupatta in alteate rows of curling vines and stylized floral motifs. The main dupatta has a special motif embroidered on the part that covers the hair.

For the grand reception, Dia wore a delicate looking peachy-pink and gold lehenga by designers Shantanu and Nikhil. She accessorised the beautiful lehenga with gorgeous diamond-emrald jewellery.

The designers tweeted: "Couldn't believe how a princess from a fairy take could be brought to life.

For her Sangeet ceremony, the former Miss Asia-Pacific wore a blue and gold traditional lehenga by Anita Dongre on her sangeet ceremony. She accessorised her look with traditional kundan jewellery.

Dia donned a yellow ethnic design for her mehndi function. Describing the intricacies of the regal looking outfit, Ritu Kumar said, "The kurta has a vintage cut used in the courts of Agra around the 15th century. The neck is deep and worked in embroidered gota patti on net like the technique used at the time. "The gold metallic taar used is of silver worked in gold thread and dori to give it a stylised plant inlay look. Each panel is highlighted with a flowering buta. The odhni is fuschia worked with small butis of the same beaten gold gota patti, a fuschia brocade deep sinjaf finishes the edges of the outfit."

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