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3 Reasons Your Wedding Budget is Running High (and How to Cut Costs)
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There are many ways to have a fabulous wedding that costs way less and yet doesn’t look cheap. In fact, I have seen many multimillion naira weddings where guests complained about nearly everything. They complained about the ‘onyibo’ food they didn’t like, about the cake that tasted too sugary, about the blingbling lighting in the hall that made their eyes feel sleepy, about the buffet service that made guests stand almost an hour in the queue as if they were in a refugee camp, and about many other things.
is always good to keep it simple and classic and you’ll wow your guests. They can h a rd l y re m e m b e r h ow many Swarovski crystals on your gown but they will never forget if your food was too onyibo-ish to taste great in their mouth. Everyone wants a talk-ofthe-town, ‘dream wedding’, but to achieve this, you really have to keep it real. Here are 3 mistakes you could be making that could make your wedding cost shoot up and what to do to save money.
Senior Girls’ Cake You want a really big cake What’s a good wedding if with 7 tiers, 8 flavours and your guests don’t feel ‘it’? It heavy icing?
The fact is many guests don’t like over-flavoured and over-iced cakes. Besides, the more extras you ask for, the more the cake baker would charge you. Cost-saving Tip The more complex a cake gets the more money it would cost. Cakes with lots of design and decoration extras cost more than plain cakes. Consider making two cakes: acute smaller cake to display at the reception and a big plain cake to serve your guests (keep this one in the kitchen, cut and serve at the right time). No one will know. You’ll save money and your guests will be happy!
Designer Wedding Gown Many want a high-end designer wedding gown, no matter what it costs. Your thought could be economize in other areas with whatever money is left, hear this: there was a bride who wanted a certain designer wedding gown by all means, and she ordered one from a Chinese online store which advertised her
“dream wedding gown” at one-fifth of the price. When it arrived, she discovered it was a Chinese knock-off version – different from the picture she saw, and not even her size (too small). She ended up buying a different gown at the last minute. Talk about penny wise, pound foolish.