How to manage your wedding expenses
MUMBAI: From invitation cards to wedding wear, with technology, wedding expenses can reduce if yo plan well.
Take for instance, Mumbaibased Ankit Agarwal, 29, softwar engineer and Ekta Hande, 27, a management information system executive, who created an e-invit worth ₹3,000 for their wedding an saved money. Another Bengalur based couple, Shantanu Biswas, a credit portfolio consultant and Mousumi Choudhury, 27, a software engineer, printed their wedding cards, which cost them around ₹7,500. Generally, a simp printed wedding card can cost between ₹30 and ₹150 per card, depending on the design.
Some also use their expertise to create innovative invites. For instance, Roshni Balaji, 24, who has taken a break from work right now, and Ashwin Shroff, 26, user experience designer at Bengaluru-based Mojro Technologies Pvt. Ltd, created a website, www.roshw.in, for their wedding. “The domain cost was ₹800 for a year and the platform and design around ₹3,500,” said Shroff. The idea of the website was to break away from the traditional ways of announcingthe ddi h sourced it, the cost wou have gone up to ₹20,000.
Coming to photograp pre-wedding shoots hav become a part of weddin expenses. However, wit planning, you can reduc cost. “We had a pre-wed shoot in Goa in public sp so we saved on venue cost said Balaji. The couple p around ₹60,000 for a twocandid photography and ography session. shoots de ctors, sai 4, general managerservicing of New based Glamourous and Events. a Jain, 25, Jamshed-
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The basic pre-wedding shoots that come without a teaser and can be covered in a day would cost ₹60,000. “The cost shoots up if things like teaser, HD quality are demanded by the customer,” Jain added.
There is also a huge market for cheap designer wears in Indian weddings.
Parth Patel, 27, software engineer, who planned his sister’s wedding, said he paid ₹70,000 for a second copy of one of Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s designs, a premium fashion designer in India.