Proud Pakistani, Mashallah se you are very lucky! Even if I wanted to, I don't think our budget would allow for me to make that many clothes. 100 suits?? Wow! Lucky girl! :)
I guess it also really depends on your life style as well. I am also living in the states and I know those 100 suits would probablly lasts for me 5 years haha...maybe even more lol. I would never have the oppurtunity to wear them as much.
For jewllery I am also going simple and having some made by my family and then the jewllery that is coming from my fiances family.
My outfits have cost me $4300 and I picked them out from a Boutique in Toronto. My mother is making me about 20-30 suits, formal and semi formal and then the rest will come with my Bari. Those suits are costing me about $2000-3000.
All in all, our wedding budget is about $20,000 - $25, 000 CDA. We do not want to go over that. There have been so many weddings in my family in the past couple years, that my family is realizing more and more the extra money is not worth spending for just the one day. So far, everything is falling under budget, but ofcourse with weddings last minute expenses come up. But to answer you question Mclovin, I think that is a fair budget for a elegant event of about 200-300 people. But ofcourse, the bigger the guest list, the bigger the expense! I'm not sure if that would be the same for a wedding to take in Pakistan. I'm just going on North American prices.
Haan yaar i feel lucky too... actually my mom has been getting cloths for me from the past 5 years so that when my date is set, she doesnt have too much stress for the dresses...
Its not like she gets everything from US.. most of my kaprays are from pakistan. Ammi used to go to places like jomaar whenever there is a huge sale and use to get plain georget, shiffon, plain silk and printed silk dresses. And everytime someone goes to pakistan, ammi used to ask me to print out designs from website and send it along with the pieces... and then khala use to find really good and affordable dress maker who does really good kaam on kapray and sew them.. and thats how i started to get designer style kaam on american georget and silk which has a better quality too...
My mom has some really nice and generous friends here.. Everytime they come to our house, instead of getting something for my mom, they bring a real nice outfit for me. If its my birthday, eid, exams, everyone present me a 3 piece suit. You have no idea i get soooo many awesome kapray from aunties....and my mom has been saving them all for my wedding.... Whenever i have a party to go to and i dont have new dress available, i take out one that i like and get it stitched and wear it.. thats how the counts reached 100.... and they are all brand new...Plus i dont wear anything other than shalwar qameez at home or even outside.. thats why i always need more.. and i also think that i will use these dresses for over 5 years for sure...cuz they are made by my dad's hard earned money and my mom n khalas effort. And i do believe that just how social i am right now, i will be same after marriage as well.. So i will get the opportunity to wear them all.. :)
wow i would love to see your bridal outfits.. i am sure it must be very pretty because they cost you a lot.. I am sooo not sure how my wedding outfit will be. I do not want to spend a lot of money to wear the lehenga for only one day....But i want a beatiful lehenga as well.. I have checked out the prices here and it is gonna be very expensive... like 1200 USD for shadi jora and same for valima.... :(its tooo much
