Wedding Budget - Budget Plan for Wedding

Budgeting for Wedding

Indian wedding ceremonies are an elaborate and expensive affair. A budget plan is an important requirement for any wedding so that only that money is spent, which you can afford to. Even if your wedding ceremony is a small affair it is important to plan your wedding. Nowadays you can hire wedding planner to plan everything for you. They will plan your wedding according to your budget. If you want to cut down on your cost than you have to cut down on your gust list. You have to invite only selected few of your friend, relatives, neighbors and colleagues. The ways you can plan your wedding are as follows:

Make a separate gust list for close relatives, distant relatives, close friends, friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Prioritize on the basis of your closeness. Depending on the size of the wedding you have to prepare your guest list. For small wedding, keep your family invites restricted to close relatives and friends only. The distant relatives can be avoided. In these cases the parents only decides the gust list. In the gust list include only close colleagues of yours. The other ways you can budget plan are as follows:

For wedding decoration select flowers, which are less expensive and use the wisely.

While deciding on the date of the wedding try to choose the winter dates like November, January or February. Winter weddings can be beautiful.

Friends who are good at painting and art and craft you can take the help of them in decorating your house or in mehndi function as a mehndi artist. They will contribute in your wedding function and help you to save some money.

Have a friend take the photos and video shoots of the wedding function instead of hiring professionals who will charge a lot. But if you really want a professional, than you can hire them only for the main day evening function.

If you are planning a cocktail party than go for wine instead of champagne. This will reduce your cost.

For invitation card print your own invitations, instead of going for costly papers use simple papers and simple, classic fonts, and colors and add a decorative touch like a bow or stamp or a zari border.

While selecting your menu choose carefully. Go for simple items that require less ingredients and time are less costly, but should be delicious and tasty.

So these are some of the ways you can reduce your costs. Other than this there are areas like wedding decorations, venue fee, bridal and groom attire, cosmetics and jewelry to be looked after.