Aso-ebi is ₦80,000.

Your salary is ₦100,000.

Then you tell yourself, “It’s a wedding. I have to show up properly.”

Sis, properly for who? 😭

If you already have an outfit in the same colour, wear it and go. Nothing will happen.

Then there is the hair.

The style you want is ₦30,000, but you already have a perfectly good wig sitting at home.

Wear the wig.

Then makeup is another ₦10,000 because, of course, you have to look good.

Nobody is saying you shouldn't look good.

The question is: must looking good for one wedding cost you almost your entire salary?

Then there is transportation.

Bolt going and coming might cost you ₦20,000.

Public transport might cost you ₦6,000.

Yes, Bolt is more comfortable. But if taking public transport helps you save money you actually need, nothing will happen.

This is not about suffering or never enjoying yourself.

It is about knowing when you're spending because you genuinely want to and when you're spending because you feel pressured to look a certain way.

You don't have to buy the most expensive aso-ebi.

You don't have to make new hair every time.

You don't have to do everything just because everybody else is doing it.

One wedding should not collect money meant for your entire month.

Sis, it's not by force to look like the happening babe at the wedding. 😂

Look good. Show up. Enjoy yourself.

But please, go home with some money still left in your account.