The Budget fat Indian Wedding

Since the wedding season is just around the corner, there are thousands of families involve heavily spending their budgets out on planning weddings to please their kids, relatives, society and precisely everyone around.

Ever wondered about the total cost of amount spent over an average over to a luxurious and expansive Indian wedding! We offer a few tips to maintain your budget, while enjoying the celebrations with a full zeal and eagerness, without bearing its crux on your finances.

We completely understand, since it is a tradition, a custom or a dream rather in our country, to have a high profile, well organized and amazing wedding. Every individual has such a dream of making this day as special as they can for themselves, for the family, friends, guests, precisely everyone around.

But lost in the middle of thinking about the wardrobe, jewellery, guests list, gifts, catering and many more crucial elements, we tend to go beyond our budget that later on pressurizes our minds, and of course hampers the celebrations too at times.

We recommend you to follow a few times to ease out that pressure off you, so that you and your family can enjoy these once in a lifetime rituals:

Maintain Wedding Fund : Irrespective of you being the bride or the groom, the moment you start working, create an account dedicated to be spend for your wedding. Save a certain amount out of your salary cheque so that by the end of the time of say 2-5 years down the line you would have a decent amount to spend on your wedding, the way you want to. Surely this amount would not be enough to meet the entire expense, but at least you would be able to do the add ons, or help your parents with this little bit of yours.

Decide for a budget: Once the wedding gets confirmed, decide to keep a budget, jotting down all the required and necessary elements, keeping a margin of some amount going high or lower than the deciding amount. But at least some platform would be decided and the preparation would revolve around it from the very beginning.This would also cut off the unnecessary nick-knacks and make you focus on the necessary aspects, while going hand in hand with your budget.

Go for an Off-season date: Pick on a date that is not that evident, seeking this nearly half of your budget would definitely get affected. As everything starting from clothes, mehendi, catering, venue gets highly priced during the peak wedding season.Additionally during the off season you can expect to get discount on the various things that you would indulge into for your marriage.

Hire a Professional Wedding Planner: These days there are numerous of wedding planner in the market that thrive hard enough to make their mark in the market. They would go and arrange the best of the things, maintaining all within the budget confined to them. All you’d require is to make them understand your expectations and the budget; they would try their best to bridge the gap offering the best they can.

Re-work on your Guest List: Gone are the days when the most distant relatives were invited, who used to reach 10 days prior with their fleet. Re work on taking out the names of people whom who have never met in life, but they belong to someone from your mom or dad’s family. Invite people you are connected to you and would be happily attending your D-day and not merely judging the quality around.

Save Paper, money and energy: C mon it’s a digitalized era, no one has the time to hop through house distributing cards, wasting on the paper expenses, travelling costs and most importantly the energy of your parents, brothers etc. Instead, draft a beautiful and catchy email, designed thoughtfully to invite all your near and dear ones. Electronically generated invites look smart, classy and modern while it saves costs.

Avoid buying expensive and useless heavy wedding attire: Yes you read it right, I know so many of us have been thinking all our lives about that wedding attire, but trust me it’s all waste just after a single day, and you end up investing at least INR 50,000-2,00000 on it.

There are so many websites that offer designer wear on a rental basis, opt for that and you won’t regret your decision.

Keep the design simple: There is a huge cost involved in creating the set for your wedding. Yes there are a lot of designs, color combinations, themes floating round shelling out money from the pockets. But rather go for a neutral theme, simple design and see your money being saved for better things in life!

Keep the Food proportion in control: Keep a tab on the various menu options. Weddings the ideal places where food gets dumped and wasted like anything, it’s gross and filthy. We highly recommend you to get food done strictly according to the number of guests, keep an eye on wastage and keep the menu simple by offering good quality, hygienic and tasty food rather than adding on numbers on the stalls.

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