A look into the fashion at Mahnoor Safdar's nikkah
Lahore hosted another high-profile wedding this past Saturday as Mahnoor Safdar — daughter of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif and Captain Muhammad Safdar Awan — tied the knot with Azan Jabbar.
The nikkah was solemnised in an intimate event, with the bride’s grandfather — former premier Nawaz Sharif — and his brother, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, among a handful of guests.
Now that the pictures of the festivities are out, here’s a breakdown of some of the outfits from the night.
Starting with the bride, she wore the Mughal-e-Azam peshwas from Nida Azwer in metallic sage. The piece carried embellishments of different traditional styles: mirror work, hirmuch, gota and zardozi.
It came with a matching silk dupatta with a mirror work border and zardozi and gota embroidery. Mahnoor carried a bucket bag from Jimmy Choo’s Bon Bon collection.
The outfit was paired with the Le Soleil (The Sun) suite from Lebanese jewellery house Mouawad. The full set, described by Harper’s Bazaar Arabia as one of the brand’s most valuable when it was released in 2017, has a total of 211 carats of white and yellow diamonds.
Jabbar looked gentlemanly in his Faraz Manan prince coat. Perhaps he took a lead from his brother-in-law Junaid Safdar, who wore a Faraz Manan sherwani for his reception in January.
CM Maryam also went for a Pakistani designer, wearing a custom kurta from Parniyaan by Ayesha Jawad. It featured an heirloom Chantilly lace piece alongside Swarovski crystals, marori and jamdani embroidery and real gems, according to the designer.
The CM’s jewellery included a necklace with red gemstones and matching earrings, both of which appeared to be encrusted with diamonds.
The bride’s sister-in-law Shanzeh Ali Rohale — who married her brother Junaid — went a different route with a wine coloured georgette lehenga with gold taban sequins from Indian designer Manish Malhotra.
This was paired with a matching embroidered dupatta and what appeared to be a diamond necklace. The outfit follows her ornate look from her own mehendi, when she wore a heritage lehenga from India’s Sabyasachi.
While details of Saturday’s event are sparse and there isn’t any word of future functions, we can imagine the rest of Mahnoor’s wedding festivities — whenever they may be — will be just as much of a fashion fest as her nikkah.
Cover photo: Photo: Sara Idrees / Instagram
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