Weddings for less than £5000

scarybigtoe

Has anyone gotten married or planning a wedding uk or abroad for less?
If so where and how much is it costing?
OH wants a cyprus wedding and is looking like 10k! I want a small cheap wedding but still classy....starting to wish we were not getting married!!!

pretzelnut

Yes we are.

We are getting married here.

We are getting married at 4.30pm in a civil ceremony, followed by a few drinks and canapes. Then the specches and cake cutting. Followed by our 1st dance and straight into the party.

We are getting married on a thursday.

The venue do an evening only reception package for £20 a head which includes a buffet and DJ and accomodation for B&G plus linens etc.

The evening do is costing £1400,
Ceremony room fee £200,
registrar fee £250.
decoration of venue £300 (chair covers and centerpieces)

My dress will be £99 (bekertex £99 sale),
suits 2 @ £70,
rings are FREE we have converted our tesco vouchers into goldsmith rewards.

We arent having a photographer as we have so many people in the faily that take great practically profesional photo's, my um is making our cake, im making invites, flowers are being done local for 2 bouquets and button holes £100. 1 bridesmaid £50 for dress and shoes. y friend is doing y hair and make up.

I have allowed £500 for all the little extras. Like wedding favours, materials for me making invites, cake topper, shoes, tiara etc etc.

We dont need cars, as we are getting married and eating all in the same place.

Then we are going on honeymoon for a week, havent quite decided yet, we might go back to ibiza (not very honeymoony i know but we love ibiza) were still young which will cost about £800 half board.

So a weding for under £5k is very doable.

We are hoping to haggle the price down a little, or at least try, but they are also pricing up a hog roast for us so it could go up or down depending on what we finally choose.


ETA: our plans changed and we are now getting married somewhere different and the budget has gone out of the window.

SparkleWitch

Yes! I am getting married in Sorrento, Italy in May and the total cost is around £2500. That includes flights, hotel, venue, wedding package, dress, rings, flowers, transport, drinks and canapes afterwards and also our party back in the UK. Depends on how big and grand you want it and how many guests....

shellymoo

hi Sparkle Witch, my new fiance :rotfl::rotfl:have decided to get married abroad and sorrento was one of our options. Would you be able to send me more details on how you managed to do yours for that price!!

many thanks

Shelly!

Skint_Catt

Aw enjoy! I got engaged in Sorrento last June It's such a magical place!

stef240377

Uk wedding, registry ceremony, hotel reception with wedding breakfast all for under £3k. Sit down meal for 30, evening disco with buffet for 80. Bought my dress, MOH and BM, H2B, BM + my 2 sons hired highland wear.

frannyann

Uk wedding, hotel wedding reg fees, three course meal and wine for 30 and evening disco for 80 plus buffet, flowers, photograher and magician for £3750. Only thing not in our budget is clothes (we are sorting those out from personal savings) But even then dress was £300 haggled down from sale price of £500, and daughters BM dress £25 including P&P from Ebay!

flower24

The registrar, ceremony, reception, evening do including DJ and a night in the bridal suite is costing around £2k. I'm trying to get everything else cheap as poss and hoping to have spent £3k altogether. I'm getting married in a lovely village hotel/pub https://www.calfshead.co.uk

rene2b

princesswoo wrote: »

Yes we are.

We are getting married here.

We are getting married at 4.30pm in a civil ceremony, followed by a few drinks and canapes. Then the specches and cake cutting. Followed by our 1st dance and straight into the party.

We are getting married on a thursday.

The venue do an evening only reception package for £20 a head which includes a buffet and DJ and accomodation for B&G plus linens etc.

The evening do is costing £1400,
Ceremony room fee £200,
registrar fee £250.
decoration of venue £300 (chair covers and centerpieces)

My dress will be £99 (bekertex £99 sale),
suits 2 @ £70,
rings are FREE we have converted our tesco vouchers into goldsmith rewards.

We arent having a photographer as we have so many people in the faily that take great practically profesional photo's, my um is making our cake, im making invites, flowers are being done local for 2 bouquets and button holes £100. 1 bridesmaid £50 for dress and shoes. y friend is doing y hair and make up.

I have allowed £500 for all the little extras. Like wedding favours, materials for me making invites, cake topper, shoes, tiara etc etc.

We dont need cars, as we are getting married and eating all in the same place.

Then we are going on honeymoon for a week, havent quite decided yet, we might go back to ibiza (not very honeymoony i know but we love ibiza) were still young which will cost about £800 half board.

So a weding for under £5k is very doable.

We are hoping to haggle the price down a little, or at least try, but they are also pricing up a hog roast for us so it could go up or down depending on what we finally choose.


ETA: our plans changed and we are now getting married somewhere different and the budget has gone out of the window.

bloody hell you must have alot of reward vouchers :eek:
we went into goldsmiths today put it this way i wasnt going to try anything on ha

floss2

rene2b wrote: »

bloody hell you must have alot of reward vouchers :eek:
we went into goldsmiths today put it this way i wasnt going to try anything on ha

Depends how long you have been saving, or how much you use the reward card.....we are planning to do that, we've priced our rings to cost us the equivalent of £254 in Tesco vouchers. This is achievable for us, as OH uses the Tesco c/c for his work expenses (travelling so fuel & hotels) and the monthly shop & any fuel for my car also come from there, so we can get between £40 & £70 of vouchers every quarter between the 2 of us.

Don't forget, you get 4 x the value in Rewards...

pretzelnut

rene2b wrote: »

bloody hell you must have alot of reward vouchers :eek:
we went into goldsmiths today put it this way i wasnt going to try anything on ha

No we went last week and we walked straight back out again, the ring i had my eye on had miraculously disapeared.
Nothing was less than £1500, but then i twigged that it was valentines soon, so all the cheaper stock had been put away to make room for the more expensive stuff.

floss2 wrote: »

Depends how long you have been saving, or how much you use the reward card.....we are planning to do that, we've priced our rings to cost us the equivalent of £254 in Tesco vouchers. This is achievable for us, as OH uses the Tesco c/c for his work expenses (travelling so fuel & hotels) and the monthly shop & any fuel for my car also come from there, so we can get between £40 & £70 of vouchers every quarter between the 2 of us.

Don't forget, you get 4 x the value in Rewards...

I saved £200 worth of points in 1 quarter totalling £800 in goldsmith vouchers. The ring i wanted was £599.

Then after looking i decided i didnt like any of them so sold the vouchers on and now have the cash saved waiting for me to find something else.