We spent $600 to get married at home

After spending on our house and reno, it was safe to say we didn’t have a lot of money left for a fancy solemnisation BUT we also had to get married cos #resale problems LOL. So we staged a budget (kinda) solemnisation at our new place!

Here’s a breakdown of what it cost:

1. Marriage registration fee: $42

You can’t avoid this unless you want to have an illegal marriage 😂

2. Solemniser Angpow: $88

3. Random decorations: <$10 from shopee

We did our solemnisation not too long from Chinese New Year so we just left our festive CNY deco up and bought a big XI word 😂

4. Meal for our party of 10 at a nearby Chinese restaurant : $300+

We thought of catering food but didn’t want to deal with the cleanup so we just treated everyone to a meal at our nearest mall

Other items that we spent on but are most definitely not compulsory:

1. Our money bouquet: $48

Just because I wanted something cute to hold and more permanent (and everyone likes money right 😂)

the bouquet has since become a cute display item and talking point in our home so it was a good investment 😎

2. A donation to our solemniser’s charity of choice: $50

He mentioned that he’s supporting some causes so we made a donation as well to support and share our joy (through a legit site and all, we definitely checked and made sure it was not a scam 🙃)

3. Drinks and snacks for guests: $10

We just randomly got drinks from our nearest Sheng Shiong 😂

What we didn’t spend on:

1. Complicated backdrops and decorations/flowers etc.

We were too tired after Reno to be putting up and tearing down more things. Besides we had a newly renovated home and that was the most beautiful thing for us 😂

2. Clothes and shoes and makeup

We just wore existing clothes we had and would be wearing for other occasions - nothing fancy here. Also no shoes cos we were at home so everyone was barefoot

I did my own makeup too! It was not the most fancy or beautiful (definitely pales in comparison to professional makeup 🥶) but I wasn’t too comfy splurging a few hundreds of dollars on this ceremony that took like 20 mins 😂

3. Photography/Videography

Our photographer friend was visiting SG and we offered him free accommodations at our house in return for being our photographer 😂 Another nice friend came to help out too! #friendship

4. Expensive pens and stationery

We printed our physical certificate at home and signed with a random pen (got it for $1 from the Monami store in Korea!) We have friends that believe in using a good pen/fountain pen/etc for this important day but we aren’t really big on that 😂

We also wrote our vows on random paper so we didn’t have fancy vow cards 🙂

5. Venue

Used our home as a venue so it was completely ~FOC~

That said, we’re also fortunate to have family who are not particular about the details of our #rom - they were just happy to turn up, do the witnessing and then have a good meal LOL.

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