Big Day on a Shoestring Budget

It is no longer uncommon to experience those bollywood-like weddings with gigantic venues, pop performances, chic decorations and gourmet buffets. In fact it is an age old practice, in which families spend a considerable proportion of their lifelong savings to celebrate the couples big day. Today as India grows, the average wedding expenditure of families grows with it, giving the wedding planning industry the required capital to execute all available ideas and to experiment with some new ones too.

Truth be told, wedding planners often get so accustomed to huge budgets and endless credit card swipes, that they struggle to efficiently execute weddings with budget constraints. Soon enough, we got our chance to test our ability to pull off a tight budget wedding. Our consultants, being foreseeing enough, advised us to bring on planners who carried a niche in managing such economic events. While we have served many clients with really tight budgets, the most memorable project is our first budget wedding, in which we had to execute the whole event within a strict budget of [20 lacks].

While we had very limited financial resources, we were rich in terms of the time we had. Our client was wise enough to contact us a good 3 months before the wedding date. Having the luxury of time, we were able to develop around 10 costing models for different combinations of venues, catering, decoration and various other expenses. So, our team with its negotiator-caps on, got into the field, with the single motive to crack the sweetest deals possible from our vendors. We successfully booked a lesser known yet extremely elegant venue on a prime location in Delhi. Keeping an constant eye on cost, we took a bold step to send out as many einvitations as possible, savings of which were well utilised in our catering services. After a arduous negotiations with the caterer we were able to settle at a deal that was easy on our pockets yet really exquisite for our client and guests. Our other innovative cost savings methods included hiring extremely talented photography students instead of professional photographers, having a famous college band to play at the function, simple and economic designing of gifts.

The initiatives taken by our team members on this project are worth noting. Through all the efforts that were put in planing this wedding, we were able to outperform our clients expectation. The wide spectrum of skill sets and high level of creativity of our planners, were factors that aided us in in-house execution of many tasks and limited our subcontracting needs, opening various cost saving prospects. Working on many such projects with limited resources has made our team not only more experienced and efficient but also more confident and bold in executing ideas to satisfy clients needs. With every challenge our commitment to serve our clients only grows stronger.