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Tips on Renting Outfits for Weddings and Special Occasions
Why is Rental Better Than Buying?
Weddings come with a whole plethora of expenses and investments, some of which may be worthy and much required, whilst others may be quite unnecessary. One such investment is the purchase of wedding wardrobe for a bride to be. Why spend a package on your bridal wear which is only going to be dry cleaned and then stuffed into a cupboard for times to come, when you can don the same outfit on rent and enjoy the limelight still! And for all the different occasions you make your presence felt and attend varied events, there’s always a risk/fear of repeating your outfits. Whether it’s a lehenga, sari, dress or other party wear, you can rent it all at a fraction of its market price with custom fitting services, at-home trials (free/for an additional charge), in perfect hygiene, and free shipping options.
Investment vs Extended Spends
With an ever-extending array of functions during a wedding, the onus of looking the prettiest and investing in the best wedding wear lies with the bride which is not only a daunting task but also restricts the opportunity to wear such outfits later in life, owing to their heavy make, loud décor, and over-accessorized look.
Depending on the trend and the detailing on the outfit, your lehenga can range anywhere between 30k and above but if you switch to renting it, then you can afford it for Rs.5,000 approximately! This will then allow you to part with the balance moolah you had kept aside for the bridal outfit for your real or semi-precious jewelry, that’s not only authentic but will also serve as a fantastic heirloom with financial worth. With a purchased outfit there’s no looking back, and you’ll always be on tenterhooks on its upkeep and storage. Renting an outfit also allows you to experiment with different styles for every occasion on a budget of your choice.
Trending Styles in Abundance
Whether it’s a Varun Bahl, Rohit Bal or Sabyasachi creation, renting outfits are available in plenty with the latest designs every season. Given that each designer outfit costs a bomb on retail, renting it is no less of a blessing in disguise! Different boutiques and brands offer renting options with an abundance of outfits in different styles and designs under one roof, helping you avoid exhausting store hops and chaotic bazaars!
With renting options, you don’t have any guilt trips later and it’s a win-win, whichever way you look at it. From traditional styles to experimental designs, luxury brands to the latest rents, you can choose from a large range of outfits without going crazy on their prices. Further, you can invest in a wardrobe that’s naturally sustainable by renting outfits for special occasions and just the bare essentials for your daily closet.
Rental Lehenga: Best Places to Consider
Stage 3
With changing trends in the blink of an eye in the fashion industry, designer wear comes at a steep cost and with challenging access, not to forget the upkeep and stress involved to keep it safe from damage. With outfits for all occasions, you can now afford to don design wear without burning a hole in your pocket and dress to impress for weddings, formal events, date nights, and more! Stage 3 team has an assortment of designer lehengas, capes, jackets, dresses, gowns, and other wedding ensemble inspired by global fashion.
Here’s a bright Indian outfit from Stage 3 that never goes out of style and is a perfect don for a sangeet night, accessorized with some classy earrings. A hot pink blouse adorned with small motifs and highlighted with sequins and beads on the neck and sleeves, this beautiful lehenga ensemble comes with a straight parrot green skirt with handcrafted embroidered borders and a contrasting chrome yellow dupatta that’s been decorated with hand-embroidered motifs in a scattered fashion. Available on rent for 3-6 days, its rental is priced at Rs.1,400 a day with a refundable security deposit of Rs. 2,000 in addition. The outfit will be custom fit to your body measurements. For more details, Stage 3 can be contacted at +91 9599444575.
Rent It Bae
One of India’s most luxurious rental stores, Rent It Bae has an exclusive online premium rental service with the latest trends on offer that include all kinds of western wear, ethnics, men's wear, and accessories. This vivid lehenga choli designed by Jkherwa is a hand-embroidered ensemble with a mirror worked zari blouse, and thread embroidered dupatta. Inspired by the ancient traditions of India and catering to a fascination for antiques, the set has been made in raw silk and net fabrics, and the lehenga is crafted on a beige colour base, measuring 45” in length, and weighs almost 3000gm.
With a retail price of Rs. 48,000, you can rent this multi-coloured lehenga choli set for Rs.4,999 for 4 days in addition to a refundable security deposit of Rs.2,000. For more details, you can contact them at +91-959-959-5513.
The Clothing Rental
Established in 2015, The Clothing Rental is a top favorite of most stylists, fashionistas, and celebrities in the country with some of the best-known names in India as their clients. This Indo-Western ensemble from the clothing rental comes with a crop top lehenga with a draped attached dupatta in grey. A sleeveless outfit, the blouse has been decorated with stonework and comes with a round neckline, while the lehenga is a flared skirt made in A-line style with zip closure. The dupatta in the same color has been draped and attached to both the skirt and the top. The lehenga set fits 38” to size and can be rented for Rs.3,500 a day with a refundable security deposit of Rs.3,500. For more information, The Clothing Rental can be contacted at +91 98201 41174/ +91 98673 44274.
Rent an Attire
Rent an Attire like its competitors offers luxury fashion on rent at pleasing prices for events ranging from brunches to pre-wedding shoots, weddings or themed fashion shows with an elegant assortment of designer wear from some of top-notch designers and brands in the country and has a wide range of Indian ethnic, Western and Indo-Western wear in its kitty.
Janhavi & Satya’s Powder Blue Bridal Lehenga has been beautifully made with work all over the outfit and paired with a pink net dupatta. There’s gorgeous zari work scattered throughout the length of the outfit. The blouse has small sleeves, a round neckline, while the skirt comes with a pale onion shade hem border with zari work on it and tassel closing on the side. The pretty pink dupatta adds color and class to the blue ensemble with beautiful zari work again throughout and finished with tassels on the side borders. This entire outfit can be rented for Rs.7,999 in sizes XS-Large for 3-10 days with a refundable security deposit of Rs.10,000. For more details Rent an Attire can be contacted at +91 7722009477.
Lionise
At Lionise you get to choose from some of the best-known brands and latest trends in the country and get curated fashion on rent. Emphasize your curves and look like a diva with this contemporary and beautifully layered skirt in waves of peach net fabric, a tube embroidered top and pleated dupatta. Adorned with rose gold floral embroidery with sequins, salli and poth work, a sheer back in an asymmetrical tube crop design with a plain layered lehenga makes the entire outfit gorgeous. The crop top is made in organza pleats with a soft raw silk lining in net fabric, while the lehenga is made of stiff material and raw silk lining. The dupatta is a soft net fabric with hem pleats. You can rent this peach ensemble for 4-8 days on rent at Rs.4,499 a day and a refundable security deposit of Rs.2,999.
The Style Ease
Browse through a vibrant collection of exclusive designer wear, paired with a specially curated assortment of accessories to complement your style and get your choice of outfits delivered at your doorstep on rent from The StyleEase. Come alive with the gleam and glamour of this gorgeously gold lehenga set that’s been embellished with embroidered work and mirrors, exuding a sense of class. Ideal for nightwear, this ensemble is best paired with a curio cottage maang tikka in an uncut white colour. The outfit comes with a sleeveless with a keyhole bareback, A-line skirt, and same coloured net dupatta. With a refundable security deposit of Rs.9,500, you can rent this gold mirror lehenga set for Rs.9,500 in size XS for 4-8 days. For more information, you can contact The StyleEase at +91 9930004660.
Rent at Tali
With a choice of renting beautiful lehengas crafted passionately by renowned designers in the country, Rent at Tali is ideal for a red carpet look on a rental basis. In comparison to their market prices, their rental offerings not only suit one’s pocket but also one to don a luxury ensemble on a very special occasion and cherish it for life. You can also subscribe to their monthly plans and cherry-pick outfits for your rotating wardrobe. While their subscriptions range from INR 1,500-4,200 a month with a borrowing of 4-12 outfits a month, their rentals allow you to make the most of your designer outfit per rental.
Apt for a sangeet night, wedding, or reception event, this beautiful Blue Lehenga Set from Anushka Khanna is a perfect sample of blending colors and contemporary silhouettes. A stunning ensemble, it has been gorgeously crafted with gold and sequins work and comes with a sleeveless crop top, a flared skirt, and beautifully decorated dupatta all in the same color. You can rent the blue lehenga set with sequin embellishments from Rent at Tali in sizes small/medium for a minimum of 3 days at Rs.8,900 with a security deposit of the same amount in addition. You can contact them at +91 830 848 6666.
Wrapd
With some really cool and stylish designs in their offerings, Wrapd gives out a custom fitting service on your choice of outfits and also offers drool-worthy discounts! All you need to do is choose the dress, rent it online, and have it delivered to your doorstep. Here’s an Orange and Red Bridal lehenga adorned with intricate zari work for a rental price of Rs.10,000. The renting period spans between 48 hours and 3 days, subject to availability. For more information, you can contact the Wrapd Team at Delhi (+91 9810433773/ 9953952967/ 8860656584), Hyderabad (+91 7093744257) and Jaipur (+91 7023506069).
Dress Like a Celebrity
With dresses on rent at pocket-friendly rentals, Dress Like a Celebrity is a luxury rental service with clothes for special occasions ranging from party wear, weddings to all extraordinary events, latest in fashion both in the realm of Indian ethnics and western wear in addition to fusion ensembles. Here’s a Peach Pink Lehenga Set made in silk fabric with beautiful and intricate zari detailing, dori work, and finished handwork throughout the blouse in the same color and a pastel grey colored dupatta. Available in a glittery sequins fabric and net jacket for a top, similar lehenga fabric, and a soft net dupatta, this bridal lehenga is available for rental from a starting price of Rs.5,000. For more details, please contact +91 9555350703.
The Renting House
Led by a Mumbai based fashion designer Pooja Kapoor, The Renting House brings a wide range of premium contemporary Indian ethnic wear with lovely color palettes, fabrics and work on rent, stylized on a custom basis. Here’s a bridal Velvet Lehenga Ensemble in the color maroon that has been beautifully designed with gold embroidery and comes with an intricately crafted choli blouse, flared lehenga skirt, and two sets of dupattas, one as an odhni and another draped around the outfit in the rental range of Rs.10,500. For details on booking this gorgeous outfit, you can contact The Renting House at +91 8356888786.
Bonus Tips: Renting Wedding Jewelry
For anyone, a wedding is one of the most treasured, long-awaited, and special days in life. But to enjoy this, most people end up investing their life’s savings! And living in misery for the rest of it. From spending on wedding clothes to wedding jewelry, the savings can suffer quite a setback. But now, apart from renting your wedding clothes, you can also rent out wedding accessories. From elaborate rani necklaces to color matching jewels, here’ a variety of rental options to explore.
- Rent Jewels is one of the first companies in the country to introduce the rental concept of online wedding jewelry and has on offer over a 100 designs in the rental range of Rs. 1,000-15,000 with each piece crafted by skilled jewelers. They provide everything from antique oxidized to gold plated to kundan jewelry with custom options on rent for a period of 3 days.
- Luxe Pick is renowned for statement choker necklaces, high end jewelry and designer accessories for as low as Rs.1,500 with a nominal security deposit of just 2k and rentals for 3 days.
- Eves 24 is known to give diamonds on rent! They have an assortment of diamond studs and gorgeous statement neck pieces.
- Dazzles has some beautiful polka, silver, semi-precious, kundan and American Diamond jewelry in varied sizes all in the range of Rs. 2,000-30,000 for 7 days and custom ordered.
Point to Note Before You Rent a Lehenga!
Now that you have your lehenga all sorted, keep these points in mind before you go ahead renting it. Keep yourself abreast of all the terms and conditions, including the delivery process and the duration. Also, make sure the lehenga fits you well. Most sites offer you customised fitting. Above all, the most important point is to check the hygiene and the condition of the lehenga before renting it. Worry not, most websites dry clean and iron the lehenga before every engagement.