The Wedding Planner...

Tips..hmmm...STRATEGIES for saree shopping!!

One's Wedding, I agree is a once-in-one's-lifetime event- hopefully.So as they say, one must be as lavish as possible - spending to an extent wherein it takes another six months of your life to clean up the mess that you made while being lavish - repaying those expensive loans and credits..
However, like every other important-thing-in-life-gone-wrong,the realization of having committed such excesses happens only after committing it. Other's experiences as usual dont teach much..And why not??All the saints of the world are known to have learned from their own singular individual experiences...And who are We - just such negligible mortals!!
But then, I too like all those saints would like to preach, teach and spread my knowledge to my not-so-fortunate brethren, as i continue gaining experience and knowledge slowly treading towards that altar of wisdom and dhoom(letter 'h' here can be replaced as per your point of view and experiences after marriage)...hmm...to the day of my wedding!!
My teachings are solely based on my logical inductions and inferences of own experiences..so I recommend the student to use his own discretion while accepting(rejecting) them..
The experience hot and ready for serving today is "Tips for Saree shopping?"The step-by-step guidelines are as under:
1) Decide on the minimum and maximum budget value for each saree you plan to buy based on the intended individual for whom its to be bought.
2) Announce that the complete shopping has to be necessarily completed on the same day as you may be busy on other days..
2) Make sure of the number of relatives who are goin to accompany youfor the shopping..You need to plan fairly high budgets for them accordingly..
3)The priorty and time spent on making choices should be proportional to the importance of the individual to you.for eg: Start the day with choosing the bride's wear and spend more time on it rather than on for some cousin from kodhamangalam..These come later on..
4) Now,you can consider visiting a number of shops..I would classify them into two types based on my experience:

Type no.1 : Seemingly large multi-storeyed shop, huge collection, lots of space to move around,shop and choose especially while relaxing on tempting soft mattresses sprawled on floor..

Type no.2 : Deceivingly small looking shop, multi-storeyed again!, decent collection,crowded with great service.
Now the best strategy would be to take the gang to visit the type 1 shop in the first half of the day and to the type 2 shop in the second half.The logic is quite simple, during the first half they being quite fresh and restless..are usually not happy with the collection, choose quite a little few and are eager to move on to the next shop.By the time the decision to move on to a different shop is made..its lunch time. You take them out for a grand lunch..feed them as if its your wedding party they are attending and then proceed them to shop of type 2. By the time you reach shop type 2 they are already heavy and relaxed.Also, remember this is not a shop with mattresses to rest one's tired ass andheavy tummy..So you know what happens next...exponential improvement in productivity..given the fact that there s a target to be finished in the allotted time i.e by the end of the day...And remember this is a smaller shop and hence comparatively inexpensive too..and so you are managing your bottomline too!!!Hai na patey ki baat??
P.S: Pl. note that the above strategy has been devised purely from the perspective of a desperate groom whose sole aim at the point of time is tosave his fast diminishing resources to the best possible extent....
For your info, those from Mumbai, type1 shop i took my folk to,was "Bharat kshetra" and type 2 "Silk Museum", both located at Dadar...