Friends , my babe is from Oron in Akwa Ibom state. can any one give me info on how their list & traditional marriage looks like. Can I manage 400k?

Y not ask her? Am from akwaibom state but not Oron,so can't help out

K am from Oron nation. It depends on the followin factors:
1. Is it a fresh marriage? Or has she had a child for you already. If your case is the second, then it will cost more, cos you will pay for "insult" to the family.
2. It also depends on her family too and the class they belong. In my case my hubby is from etinan, n my I from oron. My marriage list itself was not bogous cos everything was around 550k bt for the feeding of guests, my family always prefers to contract out to caterers, they don't like the family members being distracted during any event cos of food. So we had to cater for ppl at 1K per plate, for 200 people, dats for trad alone. So 550k plus 200k You can do the math.

3. It depends on ur wife to be too. She would be the one to plead with her people to cut down if its too much. In my case my mum was my advocate, cos almst evrytin on d list was for extended family, my parents are above comfortable so they didn't require anything in excess jst to fulfil trad requirements. Twas some uncles n aunties dat wia tryin to over-increase d list. You know village people tins.