Santander and the Wedding

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Scratch the favours. Total and utter waste of money that guests couldn't care less about. Go somewhere cheap for your honeymoon and save up for a holiday in one of those ridiculously expensive luxury resorts to celebrate an anniversary.

steve1980

shellsuit wrote: »

This December, but nothing is booked yet?

Were you being sarcastic about the spreadsheet, because I don't understand what you mean?

We've been using a spreadsheet which has been really useful.

Everything is booked just finishing off the the clothing sets for everyone.

shellsuit

leenukes wrote: »

A spreadsheet would be good. I've been creating one in Google Docs from the templates and working with their percentages.

Here is the rundown, but its really rough, we've not sat down and worked out numbers yet, only got engaged last Monday

Clothing           720.00    6.00%
Flowers            480.00    4.00%
Photography     810.00    6.75%
Stationary        180.00    1.50%
Rings               240.00    2.00%
Misc                480.00    4.00%
Ceremony         360.00    3.00%
Rehearsal dinner    0.00    0.00%
Honeymoon       3,000.00    25.00%
Reception         3,240.00    27.00%
Favors & Gifts    210.00    1.75%
 
Sum                  £9,720    81%

Ouch at some of those prices!

£480 on flowers, was that a quote from a florist?

Could you not have artificial flowers which would be cheaper and you'd either be able to keep them, or sell them on to get some money back?

Is the amount for clothing including the brides dress?

Stationery, maybe you could make your own which would be much cheaper?

Maybe you could ask guests for donations for a honeymoon then you won't have the outlay for that?

Some people book their wedding and venue 2 years+ in advance. Would you not think of doing that so you could save the money instead of getting into debt?

shellsuit

steve1980 wrote: »

I am getting married in December, I can give you a spreadsheet for the wedding if you would like it.

steve1980 wrote: »

We've been using a spreadsheet which has been really useful.

Everything is booked just finishing off the the clothing sets for everyone.

Oh I'm sorry Steve, I thought you were the OP, no wonder I was getting confused! :rotfl:

missile

Life is about choices and it seems you have chosen to spend now and pay later.

Good luck with the wedding.

Fiddlestick

leenukes wrote: »

Well, we haven't priced it all up yet but the venues we've looked at appear to be about £4k to £5k. Looking at about 60-80 people for the breakfast and about 100-120 for the evening reception.

What?

Breakfast?

Is this normal?

Why can't people cook their own bloody breakfast before they go?

shellsuit

Fiddlestick wrote: »

What?

Breakfast?

Is this normal?

Why can't people cook their own bloody breakfast before they go?

Traditionally, a wedding breakfast is the first meal after the bride and groom are married.

It was to 'break' the 'fast'ing, they did before the wedding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_breakfast

leenukes

Here is my Google Doc, paste into address bar (will be nice when I'm not a new user):

spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiJwNLiF9UVwdFViT0t6dXpBaWFOZ1JQZ09kdklDWVE&hl=en_GB&authkey=CIvSr68D#gid=0

It appears to be an American Doc as it was all in Dollars. Haven't gotten quotes for most of that yet, just working with rough numbers and assumptions.

Flowers hasn't been changed from the original default percentage I think as you can see in the above spreadsheet (check out the Estimator sheet)

With regards to leaving it 2 years, the Fiance doesn't want to leave it 18 months let alone 2 years, so believe me I understand what you're saying, just don't have much choice.

We've been going out for getting on 4 years now though, and she really has been very patient with me

Fiddlestick

shellsuit wrote: »

Traditionally, a wedding breakfast is the first meal after the bride and groom are married.

It was to 'break' the 'fast'ing, they did before the wedding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_breakfast

Thanks, that was an interesting read

gunmaker

Elope and spend the £10K, which you don't have, on something more useful.