My wedding for less than £5000, can we do it?

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el_greeno wrote: »

What about wedding cake?

I suggested we buy a variety of plain white iced cake sizes from Tesco/Asda/Insert-Supermarket-Name-Here (shock horror!!!) and decorate them ourselves as she wants a 3 tier sponge stack (no columns) which I reckon we could easily do for £50.

She nearly exploded. Caterer it is. £300 on a bloody cake!

That's what we're planning. A supermarket wedding cake with some cupcakes to decorate. I hate cake so I don't want to be spending money on it, but OH wants one, and it's tradition so we're having one. Not at £300 though - it's ridiculous!

majormax

wow! Congrats...you are doing well My daughter gets married this year andtheir church service is £300 but then the "Government Fee"?????? of £325 (circa) is also added onto this!! Why on earth the Govt charge for getting married is beyond me - I thought the Licence cost was the "legit" part of a wedding No wonder kids today are opting for civil ceremonies - You are lucky to have gotten yours for half the price...well done you

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iwannabeonthebeach wrote: »

I love the £43 dresses - where are they from?

Ebay! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370260536035&var=640000266582&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

rinroo

Wow, your doing well, our budget is around the £5k mark and with just under 7 weeks to go we're around the £4,700 mark, with still £154 to pay on the balance of suit hire, £150 balance of DJ, and £64 to balloons plus thank you gifts we're pretty much on target(well nearly)!

Love the bm dresses and hair flowers. Will be watching this thread to see how your getting on!

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iwannabeonthebeach wrote: »

they are gorgeous, but unfortunately no blue for me!
is the material nice?

I'll let you know. I've not had them arrive yet. It's satin. I've 3 other dresses in the same white satin and the fabric is lovely.

Gleeful

I wasn't sure if I should post this but this is my vision for me and the bridesmaids on the day. Sketched it out this morning, the blue on the necklaces is a cameo.

Gleeful

I think I probably have too much free time, posting all this on here. But this is what I mean by cameo

rene2b

no i thinks its great so you can see how your doing and how things will look together
well done x

Bargain_queen_2

Hello,

we have been lucky and already had offers from two friends to make our wedding cake, but if we hadn't we would either have gone for Marks and Spencer plain cakes, or maybe a company called 'Shoestring cakes' in Kent (sorry, can't post link but it's shoestring cakes dot com).
I saw them in a local wedding magazine and thought they sounded good
They say they charge £155 for a basic three tier cake but they look nice.

Saoirse

Rings, these are nice and easy. I want a very slim white gold band, hubby to be wants a very plain white gold band so we expect to be paying £200-250 for those, maximum.



You seem to have loads of great ideas for doing things yourself and saving money. However, I want to warn you that the budget for your wedding bands will only buy you 9ct white gold. This will be plated when you buy it to make it look white but over time will go back to it's natural colour of pale yellow, and is quite soft. If you buy 18ct white gold for that price I can guarantee that will be low quality foreign white gold which is also yellow underneath. Jewellers can't even buy the gold in for that price otherwise.
This is the one part of your wedding you'll be keeping forever and using every day. It might be one place it's not worth trying to save money and invest a bit more to get british 18ct white gold (mixed with palladium so very white), but expect to pay £600-700 total. Your fiance could even go for palladium which is quite cheap, very white and very hard wearing.
Whatever you do, don't get advice from a high street jewellers, it's all foreign and low quality. Birmingham jewellery quarter is a great place to go for good advice and competitive prices.
I don't want to sound gloomy about the whole thing, but being a family jewellers I can't tell you many couples I meet who feel they've been had, and even lose their diamonds due to low quality and bad advice.