10 SIMPLE WAYS YOU CAN SAVE COST ON YOUR WEDDING

couple weddingWeddings are expensive. No, weddings are extremely expensive, and a lot of people run into huge debts just to have a wedding, while many suffer financially after their wedding.

While the wedding day is one of the most important days of our lives (the woman especially), it’s just the beginning of a new phase of life; so the expenses that come with weddings shouldn’t ruin the marriage.

You can plan your wedding, save cost and live happily ever after with these tips:

1. HAVE A BUDGET

Like everything that involves spending, money and finance, weddings should also have planning and budgeting. While it’s not easy to judiciously execute a wedding according to a budget, it’s a step in the right direction. Before you start planning for your wedding, you should have a budget detailing how much you are willing and able to spend on the wedding. With this, you would save money more rather than just spending as the bills come.

2. PLAN AHEAD OF TIME

As with every other thing, planning ahead of time would definitely make your wedding successful and more importantly save you cost. When you wait till its close, you do too many things at the same time; you make even more mistakes and worse still, you spend more.

3. PRIORITISE      

Prioritising is an important part of planning. Prioritise your wedding plan from the most important to the least important; with this, it would be easier to employ the Economic principle of ‘opportunity cost’ in your wedding.

4. INVITE FEWER PEOPLE

I know it would be fun to have lots of friends and family coming over for your wedding, but it would also cost lots of funds, and spending more money isn’t exactly fun. So prioritise your wedding invite list to those that are most relevant, it would definitely save cost on everything from food and drinks to size of hall which comes very expensive. It’s better to have a successful wedding with just 50 people and save lots of money to start off your life than invite 500 people, have an unsuccessful wedding and run into debts thereafter.

Start your marriage on the right note financially.

5. WATCH OUT FOR CLEARANCE SALES AND DISCOUNTS

This is another benefit of planning ahead of time. Clearance sales and discount offers happen a lot, but when you plan your wedding just within two months interval, you would likely miss out on those offers. You can definitely save a lot from discount and sales offers on your wedding.

6. NEGOTIATE

The ability to negotiate would definitely make you save cost. Salesmen are not really your friend, they aim to make profits and lots of profits; being able to negotiate would save you more. Though you shouldn’t be an annoying negotiator.

7. ASK TALENTED FRIENDS FOR HELP

It’s a good thing to have talented friends and they come in very handy during special occasions like weddings. Having a photographer, DJ, singer or member of a band etc. can save you from certain costs; they can agree to charge less or better still help you for free.

8. HAVE A SMALLER CAKE

You can save cost on your wedding cake by having a smaller but well-designed cake. You can have a beautifully designed cake on display and another for serving.

9. CONSIDER RENTING YOUR WEDDING GOWNS

Wedding gowns take a large chunk of money, upon the fact it would be used once. To save cost, consider renting a gown rather than buying, and better still watch out for attractive offers, they happen quite a lot.

10. SAVE MONEY ON HALLS

Wedding halls also come at an alarming cost; but the good news is that you can spice up your wedding, make it different and save cost at the same time. You can achieve this by going for the non-traditional but less expensive venues like zoos and gardens. The best part of it is, you would have an awesome and yet different concept for a wedding reception, and save money too.

 

Weddings are important, but definitely not more important than your marriage. Why have a beautiful wedding and run into debts that would cost your marriage?

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