OPT FOR SHORT WEDDING CEREMONY

Philippine weddings nowadays are so expensive that it eats almost or all the money that the would-be couple should have saved.

Most weddings usually come with elaborate celebrations. Wedding expenses includes full entourage for the different parts of the ceremony: the ring, coin, Bible, veil, cord, and then principal sponsors. Not mentioned are expenses for bridal consultant or wedding planner (if any), bridal shower invitations, gifts from guests, honeymoon, car rental, photographer, and videographer.

I've attended both big weddings and small, fancy and frugal. While a big, lavish wedding is exciting to attend, an economical, no frills wedding can be equally intimate.

If you want to turn your wedding into an elaborate ceremony decorations and a lavish reception feast that’s fine. But what’s wrong with keeping it simple? Keeping the cost down? Why start your marriage in weighted debt?

Most people are not discipline enough to do this and will have a wedding that costs hundreds of thousands of pesos. Months later, the couple might be having a problem on how to deal with the debt resulting from the wedding.

You might consider this Eighteen Tips for a Frugal (NotCheap) Wedding

Instead of planning an expensive and luxurious wedding: plan for savings, family expenses, house, car, and even kids. This is called conscious spending but, honestly, it’s much easier to simply ignore these looming purchases and think about them later. The problem is, if you don’t plan ahead, it becomes much, much more expensive. Sit down and make a realistic budget of how much your big purchases will cost you in the next ten years. Prioritization is such an important concept.

Yes wedding is a once in a lifetime event but being married is an event of a lifetime. Marriage ceremony is just one piece of the cake. Why not keep it simple? Wedding celebrates you coming together as a couple. Anniversaries celebrate you as a couple. When you put 10 or 20 years under your belt, there’s a whole lot more to celebrate than just the fact you found each other.

Let me share this video. This might give you an idea. Just 30 seconds will do

video source: The Ad Show @ youtube.com / photo source: blog.kinaxis.com

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NEIL CHRISTIAN OCO

Neil Christian

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