No Big Fat Indian Wedding, IAS Officer Will Spend Only Rs 36,000 On Son's Marriage

Big fat weddings are the highlight of Indian culture. Parents spend their entire savings in hiring the best caterers in town, the best floral company, hectares of land and a lot of money to be given as dowry (yes, that¡¯s still prevalent even in the most posh areas) only for a wedding ceremony.

Many families end up saving nothing at all after bidding goodbye to their daughter, not even for their late adulthood. Spending everything in savings only for the society to see isn¡¯t a feasible idea.

The younger generation though, has different priorities in life. They have decided to ditch the concept of luxurious weddings and have settled for a more fruitful life post-marriage. Setting an example for others to follow an IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh will be spending only Rs 36,000 on his son¡¯s wedding.

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Patnala Basanth Kumar, Commissioner, Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) plans to organise a very simple wedding ceremony for his son on February 10.

The best part is that both the families will split the wedding costs to incur an amount of Rs 18,000 each. These costs are inclusive of all expenditures including lunch for the guests. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governor ESL Narasimhan will bless the couple at the simple ceremony on Friday.

This is not the first time that Kumar has organized a humble ceremony for his children. In 2017, Basanth Kumar married off his daughter in a ceremony by spending only Rs 16,100. IANS reported that the IAS officer got promoted in 2012 and had earlier served as an Officer on special duty and Joint Secretary to Governor Narasimhan.