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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YORUBA ENGAGEMENT PARTY SET UP

YAY! I think I’m conquering procrastination! I said I was going to upload photos the and talk about Yoruba engagement marriage based on my different planning since but I never got around to doing it. Today I have overcome! LOL. In case you missed the parry, the traditional wedding was on the 18th of March, 2017…..Instead of just showing you pictures I will explain a bit of how it went in case you’re not familiar with Yoruba weddings.

The event is usually flamboyant, Yoruba people like to party. If you've been to any yoruba wedding ceremony you know its the same process everywhere. There's usually two Alaga's who I will liken to MC's, 1 to represent each family. One is Alaga Iduro (grooms family), and the other is Alaga Ijoko (brides family). These Alaga's negotiate and make sure the evnt flows seamlessly. They can sing, and dance very well...the funnier and well experienced an alaga is, the better. You dont want a dry wedding. Another thing...these alaga's know how to collect money trust me. They will collect almost every 5 minutes.

THE GROOM's ARRIVAL
In a Yoruba traditional wedding, the groom is always the first person to arrive, the first part of the whole marriage ceremony is to meet the families and pay bride price. Payment varies based on the bills given to pay.

It is customary for the groom to arrive with his friends and prostrate before the father inlaw 3 times, receive acceptance and prayers from them, then go to his parents and prostrate to receive their own prayers. If you never exercise, don’t dare join the grooms parade because those alaga’s go take your eyes do ween! Some will ask the groom to raise hands, stand at attention and start marching. I love Yoruba weddings.…oh yes, he begged to marry this bride. No shakara.

THE PROPOSAL LETTER
The grooms family presents a proposal letter. This proposal letter is presented to the brides family.

The bride's mom will receive it then shows it to the rest of the family, and then she kneels in front of her husband to collect money from him. She then brings out an acceptance letter which you can see her carrying and dancing, people come out to spray money again and then she hands it over to the inlaws.

The proposal letter (which is in a frame) is hung on the wall in our house)…imagine if you have 8 daughters…you’ll just display a long line of proposal letters. LOL

THE BRIDE's ARRIVAL

Now that things have exchanged hands it’s time for the bride to come out. A white transparent veil will be used to cover the face while the bride dance in. I had to go first to my parents, they prayed for me, I sat on their laps and kissed them each then I was escourted to my inlaw’s seat. I knelt down there, they prayed for me, opened the veil, I sat with them and dash them kiss too. Then I proceeded to go behind them to greet my inlaws family as you can see.

ERU IYAWO SECTION
The bride was later asked to go to the Eru Iyawo section, which is a small place set aside and decoragted with our photos, the items brought to pay the bride price i. e yams, fruits, drinks, jewelry etc and I was asked to pick what I like there. Traditionally the only thing you should pick there is a bible which is what I did, I danced with the bible to where the groom was.
I had to place his cap properly on his head as part of the traditional wedding, I swing the cap on my finger to show everybody before placing it on him. I knelt down, he prayed for his new bride and I asked him for garri money…he had to bring money from his pocket to give to me.
And that was the end, the rest was reception.


I have to give credit to the company (perfect budget events) that planned the whole events and coordinated it also perfect budgets events that transformed the hall with the latest and creative engagement deco, The hall looked very contemporary traditional. The cake was made by D pawn cakes, I called him only a few days to the wedding and he managed to deliver, even though that weekend was his dad's birthday Thank you

GUIDE TO YORUBA ENGAGEMENT PARTY by PERFECT BUDGETS EVENTS {08083373302}
We love traditional weddings, with their vibrant colours, rich food, playful banter and more, what's not to like? Okay maybe the chaos that sometimes comes with the territory, but hey, something has to give. As residents of Lagos, we've certainly attended our fair share of Yoruba Engagements, they are beautiful symbolic occasions (albeit usually lengthy) that mark the 'official engagement' between a couple. The entire event usually plays out like a well rehearsed play with two narrators representing both families, the 'Alaga Ijoko' (the sitting MC) for the brides family and the 'Alaga Iduro' (the standing MC) for the grooms family. Prior to the engagement, both families meet in the 'introduction' where amongst other things, wedding dates are set and both families get to know each other. So what happens next?

Step 1: Welcome

The arrival of the grooms family signals the start of the ceremony, they are required to be on time (no 'african' time here) and can be sent back or fined for being late. Once inside, they are introduced by their Alaga and proceed to kneel and greet the brides family.

Step 2: The Proposal and Acceptance

This elaborate proposal 'letter' is presented by the grooms family and read out loud by the youngest member of the brides family. After which an acceptance letter is given by the brides family.

Step 3: Meet the Groom

The groom typically makes his appearance by dancing in with his friends then proceeds to prostrate two times with his friends and once alone to his new in-laws. During the third prostration, both families stretch out their arms and pray for the groom. He then prostrates once with his friends for his family before proceeding to his seat.

Step 4: Meet the Bride

The veiled bride makes her appearance escorted by her friends who dance her in. She kneels in front of her parents for their prayers and blessings, then does the same with her future husbands parents after which she is unveiled and joins her future husband. Though not compulsory, some brides put the grooms hat (fila) on his head, this demonstrates her acceptance of the proposal.

Step 5: Bling Please

On instruction from the Alaga Ijoko she picks the gift she wants from the usually dazzling selection brought by her in-laws (a list with the required items would have been given prior to the engagement). She is expected to pick the Bible or Qu'ran to which her engagement ring is attached. She gives her selection to her husband who puts the ring on her finger and watches happily as she shows off her ring to the world.

Step 6: Bride Price

Various envelopes containing everything from the bride price to money for the wives, children and elders in the her family are handed over to the brides family. It is very common practice for them to the envelope containing the bride price, the belief is that both families have become one and are giving their daughter away versus 'selling' her.

Step 7: Cut the Cake

The engagement cake also known as 'Akara Oyinbo' is a symbol of happiness due to its rich and sweet ingredients. The more recently introduced cake cutting ceremony is usually for photo opportunities.

Step 8: Party Party Party

Final prayers are said and the occasion is ended with lots of love, eating, music and dancing!

Yoruba Engagement List (varies slightly from family to family and Yoruba state to state)
42 Big Tubers of Yam
42 Big Cola Nuts
42 Big Bitter Cola (Orogbo)
42 Pieces of Dry Fish
42 [left]Pieces of Alligator Pepper (Ata're)
2 Bottles of Honey
2 Pairs of Shoes and Bags
2 Scarves
1 Wrist Watch
1 Bible or Qu'ran
1 Engagement Ring
1 Big Suitcase
1 Traditional Aso-Oke
1 Big Dish of 'Aadun'
1 Bag of salt
1 Bag of Sugar
1 Umbrella

WEDDING BUDGETS
Budgeting should be among the first smart things to do. If not the very first, should be somewhere between announcing to your folks, friends and picking a date. I've known a few who weren't solvent enough, that picked a date and then waited on a prayer, only to be disappointed in the end, and felt really embarrassed before their friends.

There are several options to creating a wedding budget that you can afford;
1. Folks can decide to contribute a specific amount, and then the couple decides on a wedding budget and makes up any difference themselves.

2. Folks can say that they want to pay for specific items such as the bride's attire, the catering or the wines. The couple then has to figure out how to pay for everything else.

3. The couple can set a budget and then ask to split it evenly. This way, the mothers and fathers of the bride and groom, can each contribute N500000, for a total of a N2,000,000 wedding budget. This is not a bad idea at all for fams, where the parents have split.

Then, depending on your area and taste/class (if you know what I mean), budgeting about N1,500 (for an average Naija wedding oo) per wedding guest will give you a good start. This allows for about N750 a head for catering, and the remaining N750 goes towards everything else – flowers, attire, etc. Of course, if you are only having 10 guests, you may have trouble paying for everything else with only N7500, but it is a good point to start. This starting point fits with the general rule of the more guests, the more formal and lavish the wedding.

So to figure out a basic wedding budget, you can start off by using a basic budget planning worksheet to figure out the basics. Don't get fuddled just yet. cheesy Here's what one should look like;

Your Total Budget ___________

Expenses;

Ceremony
Location fee, officiant fee, marriage licence, musician's fees, ring pillows____________
Reception
Reception Site, Food, Drinks, Rentals, Cake, Favors____________
Attire
Dress, Headpiece/veil, undergarments and hosiery, shoes, accessories, jewelry, hair and makeup, Groom's Tuxedo or Suit, shoes, bow tie, cuff links, studs, suspenders____________
Rings
Yours and Groom's rings, engraving____________
Flowers
Ceremony, bride's bouquet, maid-of-honor and bridesmaid bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres, centerpieces, flower-girl basket e.t.c.____________
Music
Ceremony Musicians, Band and/or DJ, cocktail hour musicians, sound system rental____________
Photography
Photographer and Videographer's fees, albums, additional prints, disposable cameras for candids____________
Transportation
Transportation for wedding party, guest shuttle and/or parking attendants____________
Stationery
Invitations, response cards, thank you notes, postage, calligraphy, guest book____________
Gifts
Bridesmaid and groomsmen, parents, welcome baskets for out-of-town guests.

Put the amounts you consider fit or that you already know (e.g cost of the hall rental), against these first (individually and then sum them up), even though their total sum might spill over your intended round figure. And then you make adjustments, so they can fit your plan. For instance, 150 chairs can be reduced to prolly 140, cos exactly 150 people might not attend, or you can trust children and even some adults, to not wanna be held down on a spot, by no force in this world. Lol. As well, you can ask other brides around you, what they spent on vendors to figure out if these numbers you fix are realistic, or need to be adjusted.

Again, adjustment of your budget numbers should only reflect your priorities. While it is likely that you may die to have a photographer from mars, you could be a hundred percent certain that you would die and kill to have that J-lo's kind of wedding dress.

Lastly, you still have to try saving on your wedding budget. You're going to have to do more than just reducing those things you need, by actually crossing off the excesses. I mean, while it may sound wonderful to serve Rice and Soup, it isn't exactly brilliant to serve Jollof, White Rice, Coconut Rice, Fried Rice, Rice Pudding, Puffed Rice and any other miraculous Rice alongside only Egusi soup with eba. You could even trim your wedding guest list, save money on the church decorations, ask recently married friends how much they used and paid for stuff, ask friends in the wedding industry to help you out; giving discounts where possible and even change the day of the week to maybe having the observance on a week night! cheesy


If these numbers still do not work out, ask or remind yourself of what's really important to you. Perhaps it's better to have a small wedding now, and then renew your wedding vows in two, five or ten years when you can or might have been able to save for the big party.

Once you've set a budget, stick to it. It's easier to say than do, I know. But an important thing it is, to do in

Bridal shower by Perfect Budget Events.


A bridal shower is one of those parties that are fun and practical at the same time. The obvious reason for a shower is to give things to the future married couple that will help them establish a home together. But the underlying reason for a bridal shower is that it's a nice occasion for the close family and friends of the bride to spend relaxed time with her before the big wedding day.

It's a time for sharing funny stories, for relatives to give advice to the bride, and for friends to show their support.

The bride is the princess of the day, so be sure that in your planning you don't do anything that will make her feel uncomfortable.

A bridal shower is commonly hosted by the maid-of-honor and bridesmaids. Although it was once considered poor etiquette for family members of the bride to host the shower, it is now acceptable. Here are some other considerations when getting set for the event:

1. The event is usually held within two months of the wedding, up to two weeks before the big day.

2. Don't invite guests to the shower who have not been invited to the wedding.

3. You will need to decide whether this will be a traditional 'girls only' event or a couples party, often referred to as a "Jack and Jill" shower.

4. Any time of day is acceptable, but most often showers are afternoon events.

5. Make your guests feel comfortable and have fun with bridal shower games. Planning a few of these games is a particularly good idea if a large number of the guests don't already know one another.

6. Encourage the bride to register for gifts. With so many couples living on their own before getting married, it's difficult for guests to guess which things they still need.

7. Decide whether the party will be held at a home, a hotel or in a restaurant. These days many shower planners now choose activities instead of the traditional finger food/gift opening shower. For example, many bridal parties take the bride out for a day at the spa instead of a shower. Or for an active Jack and Jill shower, the party could be a beach barbecue complete with volleyball, Frisbee, music, and dancing.

8. Don't forget to give party favors to all guests. These can be traditional favors such as small boxes of candy. Or they can be something that relates to the theme of the shower, e.g. drawer sachets at a lingerie shower.

9. Never toy with a good bridal shower decoration, d decoration brings out d beauty of the bridal shower during photo sessions.

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5 WAYS TO SAVE MONEY WHEN PLANNING YOUR WEDDING

Most of us dream of a beautiful wedding. What we don't dream of is paying off said wedding until retirement. Seriously, though, the wedding industry and its associated costs have gotten out of hand, and an extravagant affair is totally expected nowadays. It puts undue pressure on couples and their families but is spending a lot to get married really necessary?

In fact NO It's totally possible to have a memorable wedding without going broke. Here's some background on wedding costs and tips for how to cut yours.

The Average Wedding Budget in Nigeria
As the saying goes, it’s never wise to compare yourself with others but when it comes to how much you can expect to spend on a beautiful wedding, it helps to know what you’re getting into. The latest numbers from CNN pegged the average Nigerian Wedding Budget in 2017 at N5,000,000.00 (Five Million Naira)

But as you are picking your jaw up off the floor, remember this: An average is an average. There are probably a few fancy couples out there who have had extravagant weddings (that we could only hope to be invited to), bringing up the average for the rest of the engaged ladies trying to keep things modest.Yes, the Nigerian average for a wedding looks a little pricey at face value, most couples are going to spend less than N3 Million not including honeymoon expenses. That’s more like it. Getting married is a beautiful and exciting milestone in many women’s lives, but there’s no shame in your game if you want to keep costs to a minimum. If you need to trim the fat in your wedding budget, rethink these items that most wedding planners consider to be a total waste.



1. THE FLOWERS
Flowers in a wedding may be nonnegotiable, but there are several workarounds to ensure that your fresh flowers don’t break your wedding bank. “Wanting peonies, gardenias and garden roses might sound like a great idea until you realize that you can't afford them and instead your florist is suggesting Paper Flowers it's the theory of champagne taste on a beer budget. Know your budget and do some price shopping before you determine exactly what you want in the way of flowers,”
As a compromise, I advise repurposing any and all flowers used in a wedding to help a bride save money. Think of it, Can you take the flowers off your arbor and turn them into a centerpiece for your head table? Can you put your bridesmaid bouquets in vases on a cocktail table after the ceremony (what are they really going to do with them, anyway)? Can your aisle flowers be reused as centerpieces? Moving flowers from the ceremony into the reception is a great way to maximize their use and get your money's worth. Just make sure that if you're paying your florist or coordinator to make the transition for you, it makes sense financially rather than paying for more flowers-sometimes, it's better to enlist an organized friend/guest to help out with a few details.”







2. THE EXTRAS

One of the biggest money wasters Kimberly Morrill, owner of Your Perfect Bridesmaid has
seen in her six years helping couples plan their weddings is sweating the small stuff.
“Couples tend to waste a lot of money (and time and stress) on tiny details that no one else
notices,” Morrill says. “Couples see these details on the internet and they spend a ton of
money trying to recreate. Details like custom cocktail napkins, signs for everything, favors no one wants, additional pieces of stationary, etc. Guests notice the food, the bar, the
energy, the love between the couple. They truly don't notice, and don't care about, the
excesses wedding souvenirs.
Speaking of details, Anastasia Stevenson of How to DIY Wedding agrees that cutting down big budgets on Wedding favours otherwise known as souvenirs is a good deal. “More often
than not, we see at least two thirds of the favors left at reception tables after the wedding.
Guests are having a good time mingling and dancing and look at most favors as an unnecessary expenditure
The wise thing is to make sure they have a practical use or are something fun and theme
driven that everyone would want and are easily portable!”

Also, more often than not, friends and family members may support the wedding with their own souvenirs, so consider cutting down costs on souvenirs.

3. THE WEDDING GOWN

While you may have your heart set on the picture-perfect gown Katherine Oyer of Aisle Planner
recommends making a detour before you head straight to the neighborhood bridal
shop and hitting up a sample sale instead. “At the end of each season, bridal salons and
designers will typically sell their gowns ‘off the rack’ at a deeply discounted price. Brides
will need to give each gown some extra time and attention while shopping to ensure there
aren’t any unfixable tears or major stains, but typically, most loose beading or threading
issues can be taken care of during the alterations process. The money saved will be huge, and the best part you can take your dress home that day!”

You should also consider hiring your wedding gown after all, you may never use the gown again
except if you are going to alter the style for a future purpose.



4. WEDDING CAKE

A lot of couples don’t mind spending #700,000 on a 6 tiers wedding cake, I see it as a waste of money in an average wedding. Cakes are meant to be eaten for at most 2weeks while a lot of money will be needed to sustain the family after the wedding.

The idea of spending more on cake is to have a good picture memory of how tall your cake is, this can be cut down by reducing the number of tiers and get a friendly cake designer that will still do you a great job at a reduced rate.





5. THE WEDDING VENUE

Location, reviews, facilities determine the price of a venue. If you’ve already tried pricing your wedding venue, then you’ve probably had at least one mini heart attack leading up to your wedding day. “The biggest thing brides waste their money on is the venue. Venues can be extremely expensive, as high as N5,000,000.00
and up. To get a better deal on the venue, you should try to book it during off season or on a
weekday.



HOW TO SAVE MORE MONEY

If your wedding budget still isn’t budging after considering these helpful tips, there’s a workaround for that, too. You can try to combine services whenever possible to take advantage of wedding friendly discounts. “There are many companies out there that offer discounts if you hire more than one of their services. For example, if you book an event decorator and she also does wedding cakes. The company will offer you a discount if you book them both. There are a lot of businesses like that nowadays. And if you can’t find the two offer combo, this may be the perfect time to brush up on your negotiating skills. Most brides aren’t aware of how wedding planning actually works, leading them to agree to pay full price for services they could have haggled on. Negotiations with vendors can and should be done in circumstances where a package of services or items is presented. Let the vendor know that you do not need certain items and have them remove the cost from the package. Some venues will allow you to use your own vendors. If necessary, You can lower your guest count, which will allow you more room in your budget for expensive flowers and décor. The best way to achieve this is to hire the services of a wedding planner (PERFECT BUDGET EVENTS) as they already know all the tricks in wedding planning and most of them already have a list of vendors they work with and will favour you most times.


CONCLUSION
Perfect Budget Events planning can save you money, but it helps to remember that most weddings are expensive. “My biggest tip for clients is to have a clear budget and to stick with it. Yes, your wedding day is once in a lifetime (for 50 percent of the population, anyway) but it is still only six hours of one day. Don't put yourself into years of debt just to have a great six
hours. ”You want to speak with a wedding planner, you can reach us via:

Email: olumidehospitality@yahoo.com
Call: 07057571212
Watsapp: 08083373302
Adele Olumide
Creative Director/CEO
Perfect Budget Events

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TYPICAL EXPENSES IN NIGERIA WEDDING:

How do you make a wedding budget list to use in estimating the cost of your upcoming Nigerian wedding? One of the best ways to make up a wedding budget list is to ask newlyweds or a wedding planner for the typical things couples spend on during their Nigerian weddings. But what if you don’t have anyone around to ask, and you don’t want to forget a single thing last minute! In this post, I will show you an example budget list – typical things Nigerians budget for in their weddings. Feel free to copy, modify and use the list to arrive at your own wedding budget. So, read on to see the list.

What Should You Budget For in a Nigerian Wedding?

One of the first things to do when planning a white wedding is to set a budget, based on how much you (the couple) can afford to spend. But that’s just a figure, right? You don’t just take your entire wedding money to the market to start shopping (that’s dumb). You have to first sit down to make a wedding shopping list of things to buy, services to hire and how much to spend on each. A wedding budget list is simply a shopping list of every possible expense you are likely to spend for your wedding.

Nigerian Wedding Budget List for Shopping: Example of Typical Expenses

Below is an example of a wedding budget list – this is the list of expenses that will make up your wedding cost. So, you can also call this a wedding expense list, some people call it the wedding shopping list. Below is just an example, as some couples include more items in their wedding shopping list, while others choose to keep it basic – it all depends on whether you plan to have a low-key wedding or big wedding.

The Wedding Rings

Wedding rings (bride + groom) ___________
Wedding ring box or pillow ___________

Bride’s Attire

Borrow/ rent a used or pre-owned wedding gown ___________
Bride’s shoes ___________
Bridal Accessories: bouquet, veil, headpiece; earrings, necklace etc ___________
Bridal beauty: Hair/ Nails/ Makeup ___________

Groom’s Attire

Groom’s Shoes ___________
Groom’s wedding suit ___________
Groom’s Accessories (e.g cuff links, belt etc) ___________
Flower boutonniere/ pocket handkerchief) ___________
Groom’s Grooming (e.g haircut, beard shaving) ___________

Stationery & Souvenirs

(Printing of) Invitation cards & program ___________
Souvenirs/ Favors to gift guests ___________

Venue & Decoration (for Reception)

Venue hire (incl. necessary rentals such as canopy tents, chairs) ___________
Decoration: venue, bride n Groom’s cars, venue décor ___________

Reception Food & Drinks

Wedding Cake (assuming N150/ guest count) ___________
Food ___________
Drinks/ Juice/ Water ___________

Reception Entertainment & Visuals

Photography & Video Coverage ___________
Master of Ceremony (MC) ___________
DJ only (No Music Band) ___________

Transportation

Car and bus hire to transport bride, groom and wedding party (bridesmaids, groomsmen, parents), close relatives and VIP guests to/ from wedding venues ___________

Other Vendors (optional)

Wedding planner services ___________
Ushers ___________
Food servers ___________

Miscellaneous (reserved fund, in case of emergency) ___________

So, YOUR TOTAL WEDDING BUDGET is: __________________ (this is where to write the total of amounts you budgeted in the above items).

AM A PLANNER.

N1M NIGERIA WEDDING PACKAGE BREAKDOWN:

So you have One million Naira (N1m) budgeted for your wedding, and not sure how to break it down before you start spending it on wedding things? In this post. You will see how we helped a couple planned their wedding with their N1 million naira wedding budget.

Number of Guests invited: 150
Type of Venue: Indoor reception hall
Total amount spent: N920,400.00 (i.e. nearly N1 million Naira)


Bride and Groom – 194,500.00
Stationery and Souvenirs – 60,000.00
Venue and Decoration – 175,000.00
Food and Drinks – 202,500.00
Entertainment and Visuals – 135,000.00
Miscellaneous (other things) – 153,400.00



New wedding gown purchase 55,000.00
Bride’s shoes 7,500.00
Bridal Accessories: bouquet, veil, headpiece; earrings, necklace etc 10,000.00
Bridal beauty: Hair/ Nails/ Makeup 15,000.00
Wedding rings (bride + groom) -GL or Gold 50,000.00
Groom’s Shoes 25,000.00
Groom’s wedding suit 15,000.00
Groom’s Accessories (e.g cuff links, belt, flower boutonniere /pocket-handkerchief) 15,000.00
Groom’s Grooming (e.g haircut, beard shaving) 2,000.00

Stationery & Souvenirs

Invitation cards & program printing 15,000.00
Souvenirs to gift guests 45,000.00

Venue & Decoration (for Reception) – an indoor reception hall

Venue hire (incl. necessary rentals such as canopy tents, chairs) 150,000.00
Decoration: venue, bride n Groom’s cars, venue décor 25,000.00

Reception Food & Drinks

Wedding Cake (assuming N150/ guest count) 22,500.00
Food (Assuming (N1000/ head) 150,000.00
Drinks/ Juice/ Water (Assume: N200/ head) 30,000.00

Reception Entertainment & Visuals

Photography &/or Videography 100,000.00
Master of Ceremony (MC) 10,000.00
DJ only (No Music Band) 25,000.00

Miscellaneous Expenses – 153,400.00

According to one of our married readers (Toyin), an example of what to include in the miscellaneous section are expenses for family members (groom’s/bride’s parents and siblings’ outfits, transportation and more). This is where your parents and siblings cannot afford to take care of themselves.

9 SMART IDEAS TO SAVE COST WHEN PLANNING A NIGERIAN WEDDING ON A LOW BUDGET.

#1: Buy a Small Wedding Cake with a Few Tiers/ Step
Save costs on wedding cake and still delight your guests’ sweet tooth by making one small but cute wedding cake with a few tiers/ steps – to display in the reception. Then buy a big un-iced and un-decorated, normal cake from any good cake store to serve the guests (it’s cheaper than getting wedding cake for the entire guests) – no one will know the cake they ate is different from the one displayed, and you’ll score a big point by impressing guests who were happy to be served big cake portions and you also win by not paying an arm and leg for a big wedding cake to serve the entire guests. By the way, if you have or a talented friend or family member, you can ask them to help you bake the regular cake instead – so that you’ll further save money.

#2: Rent a Cheap Wedding Venue
Pay less on venue by renting a cheap town hall or an open field/ garden. Have your wedding in the morning or afternoon of a week day, and you’ll see less crowd that you can really afford to feed.

#3: DIY at Home Instead of Paying Wedding Vendors
Don’t buy everything, make some yourself. Ask your mom’s friends, aunties and close talented friends to help you with catering (food), baking the wedding cake, snacks (chin-chin, fried meat, moi-moi etc), souvenirs, MC etc – but please draw the boundary when it comes to photographers and makeup artistes – hire known experts on those ones because you won’t have a second wedding in case your makeup and photos didn’t come out right – and you want to be able to show people nice photos after the wedding.

#4: Put Together Your Own Personal Planning Team
If you can’t afford a wedding planner, assign one of your super-organized friend as your wedding coordinator. This person should be a hands-on and known to (delight in planning everyone’s birthday parties) with the task of your wedding day coordination as well as your pre-wedding planning buddy. You gotta give that role to somebody if you don’t want to see your wedding going the way you didn’t anticipate. Be sure to give her the wedding planning itinerary checklist/timelines and phone number of all your vendors to work with, – and you can be the wedding project manager, following up with everyone who’s helping you, while using our wedding day itinerary as a guide to when every task must be done by.

#5: Save Cost on Wedding Venue Decoration
Find an open field/ garden with a natural scene. Or a hall with neutral walls and floors – no dramatic wall and floor colours but with a great ambiance – so that your venue still looks amazing without needing any or an extensive decoration – and you’ll not have spent any money on venue decoration. Then have tables and chairs covered in a simple colour cover cloths. Did you know that the wedding cake is also part of a wedding decoration, so that when you set a wedding cake with simple-design in your reception venue, it adds to set the room. By all means avoid colour-riot, rainbow-coloured reception venue decor. The secret to appealing design and decoration is “less is more”.

#6: Hire a Good DJ instead of hiring a Live Music Band
Music bands are more expensive than a DJ – any day. So, don’t hire a live band, instead get a good DJ – you’ll save money and your guests will have so much great time that you’ll have to beg them to stop dancing (long after the wedding party has come to an end). Please don’t choose a semi-pro DJ over a professional one, just because it’s cheaper – be ready to pay a little extra on getting a DJ that will get your guests up and dancing. An unprofessional DJ always dulls a wedding. Instead of hiring an amateur music band that your guests do not enjoy listening to, hire a good DJ that will make your guests never want to stop dancing.

#7: Don’t Pay for a Master of Ceremony
Ask a slick talking friend to MC your special day.

#8: Rent a Wedding Gown Instead of Buying a New One
Rent a pre-owned but trendy wedding gown – not all rented wedding gowns look frumpy and old school – ask some shops that sell wedding dresses instead of hiring from a wedding caterer or cake baker.

#9: Your Groom Could Wear a Pre-Owned Worn Suit
Instead of buying a new wedding suit, your groom can wear an old, unworn suit that’s fit for the wedding occasion. There’s always that suit that hasn’t yet be worn, lying in your groom’s suitcase – because he had reserved it for a special occasion. After a while, he forgot about it. Ask him to check his suitcase.

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9 Cost Saving Ideas for Cutting Down the Budget of Your Wedding in Nigeria

#1: Pre-agree on a Specific Number of Guests

Save money on wedding catering and venue by setting a limit to the number of people to invite to your wedding, and stick to it. Even one single additional guest could make a big increase to your wedding budget beyond what you can afford. So, think twice before giving out invitation cards to everyone in your street or office.

#2: Use SMS to Send Out Wedding Invites

Save money on invitation cards by using cheap bulk sms text messages, emails and Facebook messaging to invite your age-mate friends and colleagues. Only print invitation cards for older guests, including your parents’ friends. This should cut cost of invitation cards by about 50% or more – be sure to let people know in the messages that they should consider the text messages as their formal invitation to the wedding. For the paper invitation cards, you may want to buy some packs of pre-printed wedding invitation cards for the folks that will require paper invites.

#3: Use One Venue for Both Ceremony and Reception

Another way to save cost on wedding venue is to hold your church/ religious joining ceremony and reception at one venue to save on duplicate venue hire.

#4: Have White and Trad Wedding on Same Day

To save cost on feeding guests twice, choose to have both your white and trad wedding on the same day. And, if for any reason, the two weddings can’t hold on same day and you still want to save cost, invite only a handful of your close friends and family to the traditional wedding, so that the white wedding can be for a bigger audience.

#5: Avoid Setting Your Wedding Date On a Busy Month/ Week

As you know, every single additional guest increases the wedding budget, so you have to find a way to reduce crowd and unwanted guests. Minimize incidence of uninvited too many guests by choosing a non-peak and less traditional time to get married: avoiding popular Nigerian wedding months like December, Easter holidays, major public holidays, valentine’s day weekend; choose a weekday instead of a Saturday.

#6: Use one of your ready have Jewellery

Use one of your old, hardly worn or not-yet-worn pieces of jewellery for the traditional and/ or white wedding or borrow an occasion-jewelry from your mom or sisters (no one will notice it was not a new jewelry – they’ll only notice that you looked elegant walking down the aisle)

#7: Buy a Non-Diamond Wedding Ring

Save cost on wedding rings by buying a ring with cheaper precious stones instead of an expensive diamond wedding ring – those are cheaper and still gorgeous. Even celebrities are wearing non-diamond engagement and wedding rings – royal bride, Kate Middleton’s engagement ring stone was sapphire; Facebook founder, Matt Zuckerberg’s bride had ruby stone. So, explore other elegant non-diamond wedding ring stone options – they are a lot cheaper than diamond.

#8: Wear a Really Long Wedding Gown

Save money on wedding shoes by wearing one of your old, unworn or nearly new shoes or a cheap one, and then buy a really long wedding gown style that will hide your shoes. No one will even notice your foot-wear and you’ll win by saving yourself from buying expensive wedding shoes .

#9: Go to the Hair Salon for the Bridal Hair

A day before your wedding or about four hours before, take yourself to the hair salon to do your wedding day hair, instead of bringing the hairdresser to your bridal suite – this should cut down your hair styling cost as you’ll not be paying extra ‘home-service’ fee for taking the hairstylist out of his/ her shop.

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IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A FLOOR/SITTING PLAN FOR YOUR WEDDING.

Every so often a couple will tell us that they’re not going to have a seating plan. After all, it’s just a lot of extra hassle and won’t guests be happier choosing their own place to sit? For others, arranging the guests at their reception is something that they’ve always assumed they’ll do without knowing why. Don’t fall foul of thinking that skipping this part of your planning will save you headaches or expense. It may actually cause the very opposite.

The pressure is on

When the average guest arrives at a wedding they are eager to find out as soon as possible where they are sitting. Discovering there is no plan can be stressful. When it’s time to get seated there’s potential for an undignified stampede to bag the best seats with the right people. Most guests would far rather have been thoughtfully placed with others they like ahead of time.

Divided couples

Anyone late to the party might not be able to find seats together with their partner or other guests they’d naturally sit with given the choice. This means they’ll either face the evening on separate tables or have to instigate an awkward, frantic reshuffling at the last moment before the bride and groom’s big entrance. Neither situation is ideal.

Pride of place

Free for all seating might mean that your pushy work colleague (who only just made it on to the guest list) takes centre stage on a table right alongside the main table. To add insult to injury, your grandmother or another super important person may be relegated to a spot at the back as a result. As a bride or groom, you’ll be happiest when your guests are happy so make sure your priority guests have front row seats.

Politics

While you may think that any of you guests who do not get along will automatically avoid each other, imagine the horror if they’re forced to sit together due to availability of unplanned seating. You don’t want to spend your wedding reception regretting your decision not to ensure this couldn’t happen.

Unwanted guests

No bride wants invitees that did not RSVP to show up on the big day but it happens sometimes. The last thing you want is these guests to get seated and take up spaces that should have been allocated to your nearest and dearest, leaving them without a seat. Although the arrival of unexpected guests will never be a good prospect, at least with planned seating the only people left embarrassed and displaced are those that failed to let you know they were coming.

How to do it right

Happily, planning your wedding reception seating in advance and displaying a seating chart for your guests will avoid all of the aforementioned unpleasant outcomes. We strongly recommend allocating your guests per table. However it’s not necessary to determine their individual seats at each table. This invariably ends up being a problem with drop-outs and plus ones causing havoc with your carefully individually printed place names. Group together your guests per table and then let them choose where exactly at their table they sit.

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