We see many weddings. Most of them are so lavish that we actually go to a wedding to enjoy the facilities arranged for guests and for the exotic and traditional food varieties they arrange. Wedding function is rated as great if the host spends so much money and arranges all facilities and gets the place decorated spending too much money. It turns out to be an eye feast if it is an Indian wedding, because most of the weddings in India are performed lavishly, irrespective of their economic level. All say that it is the only moment which we need to be able to recall and remember throughout our life, so it has to be lavish at any cost. So, many think that a wedding cannot be worth recollecting until it is performed very lavishly and until it costs people a fortune! Is this thinking right? I don't think so! I have many reasons why a low budget wedding should be preferred and how it can become a memorable event! Here are a few.
10) NO REGRETS LATER
If you organise your wedding lavishly and your guests enjoy the facilities, you feel blessed. But when you go to a simple wedding, you realize that the people over there have organised it in a decent, low budget manner without any extravagance, you will regret! Because, that wedding of yours must have costed you a fortune, you must have expected expensive gifts , but people may have attended your wedding just to enjoy the facilities. That is the first stage when you get hurt. The second one is, you might have thought that may be, these people will invite me to a wedding with this kind of extravagance and I can enjoy then, let it be as of now. But, they might disappoint you ! So, to avoid this kind of disappointments and regrets , keep your wedding simple and at a low budget, so that you wouldn't expect return in the form of costly gifts and an invitation for an extravagant wedding. A wedding in which you invite people to bless you and arrange good quality food at a respectable, decent place without expecting anything from them is the best!
9) CAN STAY TENSION FREE
If people organising wedding are worried of anything the most, it is the cost, the money they have to shell out. They might be in financial crisis, but they want to make that event a worth remembering throughout life one! So, it is common that people borrow money from some one else, or take loans from banks. So, this way they may enter into a worst situation in their financial position just for a wedding. Even though that wedding becomes worth remembering, people will also think of their debts and financial position until the debts get cleared. Isn't it better to make it a bit simple and yet beautiful and memorable one. People should use the resources available and perform a simple marriage ceremony instead of going for temporary extravagance and lavishness just to make it memorable. It sure will become memorable, but in a different sense. You will remember the struggle you did to get out of the debts. So, keep in mind your economical position and give importance to the essential things in wedding like reciting VEDA MANTRAS in India and something different in every part of the world. Also, you can't enjoy the wedding performing it by borrowing other people's money. It will pinch you somewhere or the other in your heart. So, always remember, a simple wedding without debts is far better than an extravagant wedding which makes your life difficult after wedding!
8) YOU WILL GET MORE MONEY TO SPEND FOR YOURSELF
Yes, it is obvious now! When your wedding is made a low- budget one, you will be left with a certain amount even after the entire expenditure. That is the best part of the entire low-budget plan! And that can be utilised for you, you can save it or spend it in any manner. So, I am sure, girls try spending their savings on their beauty sessions and may be guys on buying girls a gift for their first honeymoon.
7) CONCENTRATE ON IMPORTANT THINGS AND PEOPLE
Wedding is the time where we want all the facilities, arrangements to be fantastic and outstanding without any problem. We are so tensed that we may miss important people who may feel bad. So , it will always be better to organise a wedding in which important relatives and friends who are very close to us are invited. Then we may organise a bombastic reception or post wedding party like a get-together, where every person we know is invited. So this makes the wedding a simple and low-budget proposal and saves so much money and keeps us away from tension as to all have been invited or not?
6) CAN HAVE A GRAND RECEPTION
If wedding is a low budget plan, then the money saved can be spent on arranging a grand reception. Here in India we organise both wedding and reception with great extravagance. The wedding is literally celebrated for 5 days with excellent facilities and food. But we observe that most of the food gets wasted and many other resources are wasted. So, in order to avoid it, one can just call close relatives and friends for wedding, get it done simply and then give a perfect, highly facilitated reception yet the one in which resources are not wasted. This is a perfect example of a low-budget wedding.So, go for a low-budget wedding and throw a nice reception party.
5) CAN INVEST SOME MONEY INTO SOCIAL CAUSES:
The food served at an extravagant wedding will surely be delicious and each plate would be quite expensive. Truly speaking, when you take a look at how many people are actually eating what ever is served to them , you will get astonished that 90% people waste the food served to them. This will not be in a position worth eating and everything goes to the dump yard wasted! When there are so many people outside who want to eat at-least a dish which has been cooked 10 days back picking it from a dustbin and still feel happy that their stomach has filled, is it good that you waste this expensive delicious food which these people have never dreamt of eating? No! So, instead of wasting so many plates of food, you can try to serve food which people like and distribute the remaining to the people who are dying of hunger. This is a way to donate to social cause by being extravagant yet taking care that the food is not wasted. Another way would be to serve limited plates of food, that is.. only that number of plates equal to the number of people you have invited and save money and give it to the poor. This is a way to reduce the investment on the wedding and still enjoy a wedding by donating some part to social causes.
4) CAN SPEND FROM OUR POCKET :
Always, depending on parents for expenses feels so bad. We want to be independent and earn. Similarly, that feeling of organising our wedding entirely using the money from our bank account is something thrilling which people love to experience. So, if it is a low-budget wedding then it is a way to experience it! You can proudly spend from your savings and be happy. This experience is worth recollecting throughout our lives. Our parents also feel very proud of us ! So, here goes one more memorable thing which we can never forget and feel proud of.
3) CAN SUBSTITUTE ARTISTS WITH OUR FAMILY MEMBERS:
Generally in a wedding ceremony, we arrange an orchestra or a dance show or many such programs. This costs a lot and people who come to watch the wedding are just inactive. When people don't even interact and enjoy during weddings and tend to be techy there, then what is the point of attending a social gathering? So, in order to make people involve and enjoy the gathering, we should minimise the troupe for music, dance etc.. and instead arrange a program where all the audience will have to participate actively and enjoy the wedding. This way the cost decreases and fun increases. This will add to one of the sweet memories of everyone.
2) CAN SPEND MUCH ON HONEYMOON:
This is yet another economic reason which we all have to brood over. If for all the reasons stated above , we prefer a low-budget wedding, then, we will have another advantage. Saved money can be spent on honey moon. The more, the better trip we will have. So, if we try to be economic and do not waste money and other resources, we can have many advantages post wedding.
1) CAN BE INNOVATIVE
Yes, this is the best part of a low budget wedding. When people try to be economic, many innovations take place. Like, when we try to decorate a place, when we try arranging a wedding party at home , for all these activities family members work together and the time spent is worth remembering forever. If we arrange workers for everything then it would not be as heart-full as it is when a family unites to work . It is only during these occasions that people in the family should find time from their busy schedule and spend time together. This way, a lot of money gets saved and many memories remain with us forever. We get to know that some times saving money and spending time together is better than spending much money and being very busy. This is another advantage of a low-budget wedding, which creates new thoughts and makes people work together instead of assigning those works to workers.
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