Band, baaja, bachat: Five hacks to reduce your wedding budget

The Big Fat Indian Wedding is celebrated with great pomp and show. Yet, peel the layers, and you'd see a lot of our budget is determined by societal pressures and people's expectations. To match up to those standards, we often dip into our life savings to fund an extravagant wedding. If KPMG is to be believed, an Indian shockingly spends one-fifth of their lifetime earnings on weddings!

If true, this is absolutely avoidable. While marriage is an important milestone, we don't want its after-effects to crush your daily life. Which is why we forward you a few hacks and tweaks that can reduce your wedding budget by 20 to 30 per cent. Yes, we're serious!

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This article was originally published on February 23, 2023.