Does a wedding have to be expensive to be classy?
Planning your big day involves a lot of stress and careful preparation. Part of the preparations also includes thinking about how much money needs to go into making everyone comfortable and satisfied. At times, other factors also influence your preparations such as advice from friends and relatives. But what they are telling you may not […]
Planning your big day involves a lot of stress and careful preparation. Part of the preparations also includes thinking about how much money needs to go into making everyone comfortable and satisfied. At times, other factors also influence your preparations such as advice from friends and relatives. But what they are telling you may not be what you have in mind.
Perhaps you might want a low-key celebration but they may want to invite their friends, colleagues and even their closest buddies. You are aware that doing all these would involve a lot of money.
But they, on the other hand, believe that putting in a lot of resources, especially finance, during preparation, would make your wedding classy. The question now is “Does a wedding have to be expensive to be classy?”
Ogbogu Victoria, a graduate of English and a make-up artist, defines a classy wedding as one with style and great taste, great organisation and uniqueness.
She said “It doesn’t have to be expensive to achieve it. Most times, it can be achieved when you get involved with the right people – people with great ideas, great minds.”
She concluded “Creativity is of the essence here. Yes, money may be involved but one doesn’t necessarily need to be extravagant to achieve a classy wedding.”
When Lifextra caught up with Abdurrazak Salihu Maiwada, the 21-year-old Pharmacy student had two answers. Giving his own definition of a classy wedding, he said “First of all, a classy wedding is the type that even though one is a billionaire or rather very rich, you may still choose to spend less but the important thing is for the wedding to be unique. Secondly, I don’t think any wedding has to be expensive to be classy. This is because people will still talk about it.”
In Marvin Seckley’s opinion, the married engineer who is his mid-30s believes that “Expensive is not class and cheap things can be sold at ridiculous prices too. Therefore a wedding does not have to be expensive to be classy.”
An article titled “My Less Expensive but Classy Nigerian Wedding” on wivestownhallconnection.com stated that “In the past, Nigerian weddings were less stressful and cheaper. Then people wedded according to what obtained in their tribes; the trend has really shifted and shifted even more in our twenty first century Nigeria.”
“Every couple is performing three types of Wedding. A Nigerian, who is planning a wedding, does not just plan a one day wedding. Here, it is not a one day affair. It has to be planned to take two or even three days before the ceremonies are completed,” the article added.
The last paragraph of the article reads, “Organizing and spending on these three can be very expensive and stressful. In other cultures outside this country, Couples do just one thing and they are married. They perform just what is obtained there.”