The tale of my Lengha (baju tradisional yang dipakai oleh pengantin perempuan berbangsa Punjabi) is a long and hard road traveled. Truth be said, I actually started looking for my dream Lengha way before I started looking for my Javanese dress. Where did I finally buy it? Longgg story..The hunt began at Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman. Ye la, mesti la kena beli kain kan? Korang boleh baca pasal outing tu kat sini. So dah ke Jalan TAR kali pertama, tak jumpa apa². Sebab untuk pengetahuan korang, kain Lengha ni lain skit berbanding dengan kain sari biasa. Material dia tebal skit and it's more silky compared ngan most kain sari yang ala² chiffon tu. So ok la, kat Jalan TAR tak berjaya, aku ngan laki aku try kat Klang plak. Kitorang pun jalan la from one end to the other end of Little India kat Klang tu but no nice Lengha materials in sight. Tapi kat satu kedai ni kitorg jumpa this really nice Kurta (baju tradisional yang dipakai oleh pengantin lelaki berbangsa Punjabi) in white with blue embroidery. Punyalah cantik! Winder pun dah macam jatuh hati dah. Harga?? Sangat berbaloi! Hanya RM450 ok? Tawar punya tawar, at last dapat la untuk RM380 kalau tak silap. At least satu dah dapat la kan? So next mission, cari kain sari berwarna biru yang matching.
Since kat Klang tak jumpa kain sari kaler biru, minggu depan dia kita pun try balik kat Jalan TAR. Bawa baju laki aku tu ke hulur ke hilir untuk cari baju yang matching tapi.. Takde kain sari yang matching. Masa tu dah tinggal brape bulan je lagi nak kahwin. Rasanya dalam 2-3 bulan lagi kot so aku dah memang rasa cam nak nangis. Takpelah, kuatkan hati. Pergi Little India kat Klang tu lagi (travel dah macam orang gila kan?), and... *drumroll* alhamdulillah kat satu kedai kitorang jumpa this very, very nice sari material yang agak grand dan yang matching ngan baju Winder tu. Apa lagi, grab trus bayar la! But.. Yes, there is a BUT! Bila sampai rumah and aku letakkan kain sari aku tu kat sebelah baju Winder, tak matching LANGSUNG ok!! Shit! Rupanya kat kedai tu pakai lampu kuning sebab tu dia nampak matching. Tapi bila tengok kat bawah cahaya lampu fluorescent or even in the daylight, the colours did not match. At ALL! Sigh.
Back to Klang. Pulangkan kain tu. Refund? Tak dapat, jangan harap! Tapi aku dapat tukar ngan dress Punjabi lain. Ye la, nanti Deepavali bleh pakai buat jalan² pi visit family laki aku hehe.. Lepas pulangkan kain tu dengan muka yang dah nak nangis aku ni, kita try pusing² kat sana sekali lagi but... Nothing. Bukannya aku ni mengada-ngada pun nak tailor-made sangat. Kalau ready-made pun aku takde hal. Masalahnya 99.99% of the Lengha's yang mereka jual kat Jalan TAR or Little India Klang gunakan fabric murah. Kononnya chiffon but you can easily tell that it's actually polyester. Gila ke nak pakai polyester tuk sanding? Confirm panas!
In our final effort to look for something, we decided to look for ready-made ones in City One Plaza yang kat sebelah Semua House tu. For those of you who don't know, City One Plaza is a heaven where you can find kain songket, kain pelekat, custom-made bridal shoes and even jewelery. And I highly recommend anyone whose planning a Bollywood-themed wedding to shop there because they have so many options of ready-made Bridal Sari's and Lengha's. And harga dia pun boleh tahan affordable. The only irritating part about looking for ready-made Lengha's is the fact that most (all) shops don't hang them. They're individually packed and stacked up on shelves so kalau nak tengok tu memang tokey kedai kena tarik kluar satu². Anyways, kat sana pun aku tak jumpa yang matching ngan Winder punya. Hai.. Apa la nasib. At last, aku dah nak nangis. Wedding lagi 2 bulan, Lengha takde. Tapi thank God I have Winder. Masa aku dah nak terduduk dan menangis kat tengah² jalan bila tetiba dia cakap, "Let's try this shop.." - salah satu daripada kedai kat deret Jalan Masjid India tu. Aku cuba gak nak argue, nak cakap "It's no use, we've been everywhere!" tapi nak cakap pun macam dah tak larat dah. So Winder pun tarik tangan aku and aku pun ikut laki aku masuk kedai tu (Sorry, nama tak ingat. Nanti aku try check receipt kat umah). We went straight to the 2nd floor (Kat kedai² Jalan Masjid India kalau nak cari ready-made, naik atas terus je cos kat bawah tu memang mostly jual kain sahaja.) and I started looking right away. And there it was, sitting on the top shelf. Apa lagi, aku yang pendek ni terpaksa minta Winder tolong amikkan. Aku try. It was perfect! Perfect, perfect, perfect! Perfectly too big too hehe.. Serious. I wear size XS and I think it was like a size M. Takpe. Boleh alter kan? Price? RM480. Oops. Over budget. Yes, because aku kan dah terbazir duit kat Klang masa beli kain yang tak matching tu. Dammit. How la? Cuba tawar, tak dapat. Cuba lagi, dapat la discount skit. At the end selepas kita berdua merayu-rayu, tokey kedai cakap baju tu sangat sesuai ngan aku. And since it's for my wedding, dia tak nak disappoint aku so he closed the price at RM400. Sold! Hehe..
Last step was to send it for alteration. Kita hantar kat kakak Winder punya tailor je. And guess how much I paid to alter both his Kurta suit and my Lengha? RM100? RM200? Wrong! We paid the tailor a mere RM20 for both because he was doing Winder's sister a favour.. =D
And that ladies and gentleman, sums up the last detail of our wedding. I only have one entry left. After that, I'm done. ♥
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