Creative Ideas to Plan your Wedding Budget

The winter season is here and alluring Indian weddings are on their way. But wait! This delightful amusement carries a colossal liability of designing and arranging this occasion.

Before forethought, one should be intimate with the list of Elements required to contemplate while organizing wedding accounts. It’s not only about planning for a single affair, a wedding includes multitudinous mini-celebrations. Considering all this, it’s important to compose a list of concerns, as it makes one congenial to keep an account of the wedding expenses inventory.

• Strategizing about wedding budget

One of the constituents that ought to be pondered preparatory to this groundwork is lucidity regarding the hand-outs from twain sides comprising the Groom’s side and the Bride’s side. In a few families, both contribute equally, whereas most millennial families follow the tradition in which both take care of the ceremonies separately.

• What one should contemplate while planning the wedding budget

• Events and catering

  

There is an extensive list of occasions that are presumed to arise throughout a wedding depending on the tradition of the family.  The venue, tent house, chairs & linens, meals, tea & snacks, wedding cake, mithai(sweets) & other Deserts are little from them. A major fragment of your finances is invested in it. The suggestion to deal with it is to COMPARE & CHOOSE. If you collate different venues and catering houses, at last, you’ll get the most cost-effective and enchanting deal.

• Jewellery and other accessories

  

Bridal jewellery is computed as one of the massive expenses and apart from the ornaments, wedding rings do take a definite amount out of the budget. Besides this, the Grooms are also interested in getting jewellery for them matching either their sherwani or any indo-western outfit. Other accessories for both of their outfits for different events, footwear, hair adornments, watches, private clothes and a few such. A suggestion to reduce disbursement is to try to buy machine-made ornaments and save labour charges, and one can either opt for fixed-making charges. Avoid jewellery with studded stones as most of it involves intricate patterns, which leads to higher making charges.

• Wedding cards and floral decoration

  

A variety of shapes, sizes, ideas, and concepts are available in the market for wedding cards, Boxed wedding invitations and online invitations are the latest among them.  At present, online invitations are more reasonable in juxtaposition with other alternatives.

When it comes to decoration, wedding event decoration, lighting expenses, and car decoration are initial considerations and the rest depends on the requirement. Try to buy flowers in wholesale as it will cut the cost, and choose in-season flowers, as they’ll be comparatively cheaper. Choose as many fillers as possible, thus you don’t have to spend much on flowers.

• Photography, videography & entertainment

  

This turned out to be one of the most important expenses for wedding planning. Engagement shoots, photographers and videographers charges, photo booth installation, DJ, dance choreography, audio and video equipment, and dholis are a part of it. Go for a referral photographer or videographer instead of any unaccustomed one. As per entertainment is concerned, choose anyone from your family who is familiar with dance and make him/her play your dance instructor’s role, as any professional choreographer will cost more.

• Health and beauty

  

This basically includes the charges of the Nutritionist and Beauticians. A Nutritionist helps us maintain the health of our inner body and a Beautician helps us in maintaining the health of our outer body. In the present world of the internet, a lot many health advice is available on trustworthy sites. One can follow them and prepare their routine as per their instruction. A beautician is a must for a wedding, try to choose well reviewed and someone with whose working style you are comfortable.

• Transportation and guests

  

Around 2 % to 8 % of the total budget is taken up by this. wedding car, separate car for groom/bride’s epic entry, pickups and drops, baraat transportation, accommodation of guests, return gifts, and wedding favours are included in it. Try to hire one car for both purposes of getting entry into the venue and taking an exit with your bride. Try to swap gifts the ones you have taken from people, swap them and give them to some other guest. When accommodation is concerned, go for rented places instead of five-star hotels with different rooms for each guest.

• Bachelorette & other expenditures

  

Finally, the most trending tradition at present is a kind of get-together with close cousins and old/new friends. Other than this we have other expenses which include FIREWOOD, PRIEST PAYMENT, DONATIONS, CERTAIN FLOWERS and multifarious charges. Many have this dream of doing a destination bachelorette before their wedding day, but if you want to lessen the price keep it local. Try splitting the cost of the bachelorette party between the included members.

Indubitably, devising a budget is not a cakewalk, but I securely believe that all these recommendations will help you get a friendly budget in the end.