Well-planned budget helps in directing a smoother wedding. Setting a good budget will help in organizing a seamless and successful wedding event.
Wedding is considered as the most joyful event of a family and all efforts are put in to make this event a memorable one. The celebration of a wedding starts much earlier than the wedding ceremony. These celebrations last for many days starting from pre-wedding rituals and ending up with post-wedding ceremonies.
The whole wedding episode brings families and friends together celebrating the wedding’s day and night events. It requires special attention from the hosts to make all events perfect and memorable.
As weddings are getting costlier, setting a wedding budget is very important to avoid last-minute critical situations where budgets are exhausted much before the end of all wedding rituals.
A well-planned wedding budget helps in accomplishing the whole wedding ceremony in a smoother manner. Setting budget limits prior to the expenditure will help in organizing a seamless and successful wedding event.
The most important step in avoiding overspending is sticking firmly to the preset wedding budget. Identifying one’s spending affordability is the key step in defining and allocating essentially required funds for various expenditures.
Here are a few tips that can help in avoiding overspending at weddings.
Be realistic in identifying your needs. It is obvious that you may start dreaming of a lavish affair out of the wedding excitement, but you need to be more practical rather than falling to the excitement and ending up in overspending which may bring an extra financial burden on yourself which may leave you in a cash crunch for a longer term.
Be careful in selecting your vendors. Try to get through various vendors and carefully evaluate their offerings without compromising on service quality. Select the best vendor based on pricing and quality. You may ask for reference of vendors within your family and friends. A vendor who provided a satisfactory service earlier in the past may be your best choice.
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| Major Considerations in Your Budget |
| Wedding Dresses |
| Home Renovation and Decoration |
| Wedding Food |
| Wedding Reception Menu |
| Food Plan for Home Guests |
| Wedding Halls |
Wedding Dresses
For a Bride or Groom, it is his or her day to appear “The Best” on the wedding day. Don’t fall into the trap of a very expensive designer’s wardrobe. A careful lookout within the market will surely get you similar dresses but in an affordable price range. Another important aspect that may affect your wedding dress budget is your timing. Usually, vendors are very busy during the wedding season and may demand higher prices for your choice of attire. If you have enough time before your wedding, try to place your orders much earlier than the season’s rush hours. This may save a lot on your dressing expenses.
Home Renovation and Decoration
Be it the Boy’s side or the Girl’s side, Homes are required to be renovated and decorated well enough to provide a perfect wedding home ambiance. It is possible that you may end up spending more without a proper plan in place. Plan well for what is essentially required to be renovated and how do you want to decorate your wedding home. You can save a lot on decorations if you have good enough friends and cousins who can take up the decoration task for your wedding home, A kind of DIY that may save a lot when compared to the expenses when a decorator is hired instead.
Wedding Food
The most challenging part of hosting a wedding is the food. The culinary you provide must be nothing but the best in its taste and quality. Your hosts will always remember the quality and taste of food, it is your challenge to be in their good memories.
You are required to plan for two different levels of food arrangements. One exclusively on the wedding reception and the other plan to arrange a variety of delicious food at the wedding home continuously for many days till the last guest leaves your home.
Wedding Reception Menu
Oh, yes you might say “Oh” when it comes to you as a responsibility to arrange the best menu at the wedding reception. It is always a host’s wish to offer the best menu at a wedding reception. While this is one of the most expensive parts of a wedding, your careful selection of menu and the catering service may keep you within budget. You are required to prepare the food for the no. of guests attending the wedding while your estimated head count comes directly from your guest list. One of the intelligent ideas is to prepare your guest list carefully and do not include people with less chance of attending the wedding in your guest list. You can categorize your guests in your list with appropriate priority and their possibility of attending. This way you can filter out the least possibles while you prepare your estimation for the food.
Food Plan For Home Guests
Your good food plan will save both your time and money. You know it better how many guests will stay at your home and for how long. Make a daily food plan in advance, acquire your essentials in advance much prior to the ceremonies. Try to hire few cooks and helpers for few days to manage this department in the right way. Alternatively, you can lookout for outsourcing your requirement to any appropriate caterer. Compare your pros and cons before you proceed to decide between making your food at home or going for catering provider for best quality and reasonable budget.
Wedding Halls
Try to book a decent and affordable wedding hall in advance. Avoid choosing a hall which is oversized for your requirement. Wedding hall owners usually lure their customers with very expensive setups, decorations, stage, and lightings. Don’t get trapped and be firm with them in getting the best combination of setup within your budget.
Conclusion
You are the Manager of your “Project Wedding”. You know your budget, Be good and fair enough in allocating the budget for each of the events in the ceremony. It is your challenge to be within your budget. You can simplify your challenge by making good plans ahead of time.
To be on safer side, maintain some reserve amount for emergencies.