

Photo // Pharris Photos & Philms ALTERATIONS This guide will help you keep your budget on track by planning for those hidden wedding costs - so the only surprising thing on your wedding day will be how well your great aunt can dance. Keep in mind that budgeting is about knowing what you have to spend and putting the greatest amount of resources into what is most important.

We’re here to make sure that doesn’t happen to you with our comprehensive guide to hidden wedding costs you might have overlooked. It’s important to know what costs to expect and you don’t want to be surprised by a lot of little extra charges - or worse a couple of big ones. There are so many moving pieces to the wedding planning process. We would recommend you to keep spare to overcome such unexpected wedding costs.The first step of the wedding planning process should be to settle on a wedding budget - even if it’s a slightly flexible number. You are left with no choice to buy a new pair. Wedding jewellery is delicate and generally, brides opt for artificial jewellery and sometimes a big stone comes off or some earrings break which is indeed a heart-breaking thing. Therefore, always keep extra stock as you can’t have too much alcohol for weddings! Therefore, you may have to arrange it which may cost you extra. There are fair chances that you may fall short on alcohol especially when you decide to have an after-party. Making last-minute arrangements for extra food or beveragesĪ major chunk of your wedding budget must have been kept for the booze for your pre and well as post-wedding celebrations. Making these unexpected last-minute arrangements has the ability to burn a hole in your pocket! We would advise you to keep a backup even if you are hiring some of the best vendors. Sometimes, you may have to spend more than the actual amount you paid initially for that service. It is very disappointing as well as the unexpected situation that makes us spend spending a lot more that we kept for that particular service. We all divide the budget as per the fees of our wedding vendors and sometimes due to some unforeseen circumstances our vendors cancel on us. One smart way to handle these expenses is to use any of your own new sarees or dress material for the uninvited guests! Just gift wrap them beautifully and you are good to go!Ĭancellation by one of the wedding vendor You should always keep some amount aside for buying these favours. Trust us, these expenses are unavoidable but are really necessary to make. Therefore, you have to spend some extra money to buy that return gift. This is kind of common in Indian Weddings when sometimes your When your cousin’s mother-in-law turns up on your wedding as one of the unexpected guests, and you can’t greet them without a return gift. You can even take help from professionals or your grammar Nazi family members or friends! Therefore triple-check your card contents before sending them for printing. This could be a shock and now nothing can be done as you will need to re-order fresh ones. There are certain unfortunate times when you receive your final wedding invites with some typos or grammatical errors printed on all of them.

Wedding invites are one of the most important things at weddings and they take a lot of time as well as a bit of the wedding budget too. Now you must be curious about these costs… Here are some of them with some tips to handle them smartly. There are fair chances that you may not be prepared for such unexpected expenses. Trust us, even after months of planning and giving attention to all the details there will be certain unexpected wedding costs that can pop up at the last moment which can be an unpleasant surprise for you as well as your family. There are endless tasks that need to be done for your D-day! The whole process of wedding planning includesĬurating the wedding budget, then categorising the tasks and giving all the attention to every little aspect. After getting the wedding date fixed, you need to pen down a long list of tasks that will help you curate the wedding of your dreams. It’s a huge project that requires months of planning. Planning a wedding is one of the biggest tasks in someone’s life.
