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7. Making mementos of everything:Customized gifts and sourvenirs
Wedding service providers hardsell the idea that weddings need to be treasured.They try to sell you monogrammed pens, picture frames, toasting glasses, preserved wedding flowers and vases to distribute to your guests. While mementos are certainly important and necessary, you don’t need to spend anything on them.You can get your friends and relations to help with these.Spend money on something really worthwhile.

6. Personalized wedding outfits
Personalized wedding outfits are big business these days. Wedding retailers offer custom-printed clothing for all involved, with formal wedding titles printed on. Everyone from the best men to the bridesmaids get monogrammed outfits to wear around while they help. Since these touches are a luxury, they come at a heavy premium. Moreover, you are not going to wear such clothes permanently, even though it’s fun to have something personalized at first. Thus, it’s not good spending money on such short-life pieces of clothing. Instead, you can order a pair of pajamas with “bride” and “groom” across your buttocks. You are going to wear this type of clothes at home and only two of you will admire the titles!

5. The wedding attire
According to a recently published survey, half of all brides are uncomfortable spending more than N80,000 on their wedding dress. It’s very easy to buy into the glamour-filled messages that the wedding industry sends out and to spend far more than you are comfortable with. But I think that wedding attire is an expense item you have plenty of opportunities to save some money on! Nothing will happen if you will buy your out-off-rack wedding dress in a budget-friendly department store or an outlet. If you feel good about once-worn or vintage dresses you can ask your mom for her gown. This way you will get free attire and you honor your mom as well. Other cost-conscious variants include a rented gown or a dress bought at the online auction.

4. Acquiring a sizable set of groomsmen and bridesmaids
At some weddings, the bride and groom show up with a small army of attendants. While it may feel good to have of large posse watching your back, they can cost money. Even if you don’t shell out for the dress, you have to think of paying for invitations, gifts, bouquets and places at tables. You can end up paying hundreds more.

While formal wedding require up to 10 bridesmaids and 10 groomsmen, you can easily reduce the number of them to just one groomsman and one bridesmaid. Weddings on a budget usually have no ring bearer or flower girl either. If you are afraid to offend your friends, vest them with certain roles. Some may help you with preparation, while others can perform some important roles during the wedding ceremony.

3. Inviting everyone
It can seem like the right thing to do to invite every relative and everyone that you’ve ever been friends with. But each additional guest can cost an extra Naira at the average venue. You can quickly inflate your final bill when you don’t have the heart to keep your guest list to a reasonable length. If you cannot decide on the number of guest use the rule of thumb: if you can spend more than two minutes with that person, invite them.

What’s the reason to invite 150 guests if you physically won’t be able to speak to everybody? Make a rough copy of the guest list and divide all the names into several major categories such as family members, relatives, best friends and coworkers. When you know the approximate number of people you can invite, it may be much easier to cut down on the last category. Don’t mark the invitation with “plus guest.” This way you will avoid extra people you don’t want to see at all.

2. Indulgent entertainment
DJs, a string quartet and even a five-piece wedding band can liven up your wedding beautifully without costing much. It’s important to keep your wedding entertainment expectations under control.

Wedding band, however, is not the only way to entertain your guests without huge expenses. A local band is also a good option to consider. Young musicians and upcoming artistes will eagerly jump at a chance to get experience and such bands usually cost less than professionals. However, DJ’s performance is usually less expensive than a band’s one.

It can feel good playing the big spender at your wedding and letting everyone know that you can afford lavish arrangements. The feeling can be quickly replaced by despair, once you pick up the pieces and see how little you have left. If you need to bring a little sanity to your wedding plans, you need to stay away from these huge wedding money wasters.
Remeber ''Wedding is only a ceremony while marriage is a life-long relationship and commitment to your spouse''.

The biggest money wasters are:
1. An expensive wedding venue
Wedding venue costs can be exorbitant enough to easily take over your wedding budget all by themselves. Sometimes, you can get in over your head even when you aren’t looking for an expensive place. Many venues try to reel people in by advertising low prices but building them up with expensive add-ons — china, furnishings, lighting options etc. It’s important to make sure that your venue doesn’t use up more than 20% of your budget.

Choosing an outdoor venue is the right way to save on decorations, thus you should consider some low-cost locations like your backyard, parks or forests. Another way to save you money is by choosing an all-inclusive package, which usually include reception, wedding and honeymoon. Bear in mind that having your wedding during an off-season will cut the expenses almost twice. On Saturdays wedding venues are more expensive as well.

It can feel good playing the big spender at your wedding and letting everyone know that you can afford lavish arrangements. The feeling can be quickly replaced by despair, once you pick up the pieces and see how little you have left. If you need to bring a little sanity to your wedding plans, you need to stay away from these huge wedding money wasters.
Remeber ''Wedding is only a ceremony while marriage is a life-long relationship and commitment to your spouse''.

The biggest money wasters are:
1. An expensive wedding venue

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9. UFO Car

8. The Phone Car by Howard Davis

7. Shoe Car

6. Cat Car

5. Bigfoot: World’s Biggest Monster Truck

4.Ferari Race Car

3.The Pyramid Electric Car

2.The Duck Car

Most of us have seen many unusual wonders on wheels.
However, I won’t let you to get lost in the ocean of similar cars. So, be ready to see something really crazy, cool and absolutely unique.
1. The Double Car

The wind of change has started from Burkina Faso.It will sweep through Zimbabwe,Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon

Baba Iyabo wont cease to amaze us

Naija i hail o

InyinyaAgbaOku:
These are just avenues to get the FG to make donations for the northerners while the northern elites siphon the funds.
no be today .
The elites keep impoverishing them, in turn they use those statistics to coax the FG into making more allocations that will end up in few pockets.
victim mentality

I agree with you without reservations.
Nairalanders,Please help me ask Mr COJAGATE,our Presidential hopeful how many notherners can afford his ABTI-AMERICAN University of Nigerian(AUN)

Osoba and Amosun were never in the same camp.
That is to show that many of our politicians are playing "Belle" politics

What is smh?

godwinony:
very soon you'll see a thread. captioned..Universities with best dresssd students..

I see it coming too
In another news.This is from Kwara State University's last convocation.
On the convocation, Professor Na’Allah said a total of 349 students were awarded Bachelor’s degrees in five Colleges and 25 Departments of the Institution.The graduands comprised 10 students from the College of Agriculture, 36 students from the College of Education, 184 from the College of Humanities, Management and Social Sciences, 67 from the College of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and 52 students from the College of Pure and Applied Sciences. Of the graduands, he said two students came out with First-Class Honours, 86 with 2nd Class honours Upper division, 193 with 2nd Class Lower division, while 68 had Third Class degrees.

briantext:
Thanks for the info.
That's why ah like my state... Akwa ibom

where are the 'alalok' boys

omicron:
The toughest universities are not necessarily the best.

Most of them are tough because most candidates apply to study there becos they pay far cheaper tuition fees, since they are mainly federal schools subsidised considerably by Fed Govt.

Many of them also come with prestige and glory that u may not get elsewhr in Nigeria. For eg, if i studied at University of Nigeria, dat alone would make me seem better than one who came from one State university of Science, or one Awolowo Ojukwu Balewa University.

So no need to fight over this, or take glory in these superflous comparisons.

It's simple logic, federal unis esp the 1st and 2nd genration schools are harder to get admission into. UNN, UNILAG, UNIBEN, ABU, ILORIN, OAU, UI etc

You talk brain!
The OP didn't tell us what criteria his opinion was based on.

The hallmark of education is having an informed view about issues.
Many nigerian youths make comments that paints their ignorance with a capital 'I'
the point is:before you condemn a course as being hard ,funny or easy just take time and go through the rudiments of that course.
A professor of physical education,sports science and kinetics (jumpology) is a professor anywhere.
No course is a curse!

nabsprada:
Okay house,I'm sorry to bring this up at a time like this,but if we wait until we are ready,I guess we'll never be ready


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EDUCATION might not be lucrative or marketable in Nigerian context yet everybody relies on teachers to shapen the Nigerian child.
The last time i checked all these so called 'marketable courses' fall back to teaching to earn stipends when they can't get employment.
I represent Education. Am a BIG TEACHER.