Our 3k budget wedding planning

strawberry_assassin

Ordered some "mini" ones so will se if that helps:)

johanna70

Hi Everyone,
This is such a great thread

I'm currently arranging my post-wedding party in November 2013. The costs for the wedding and honeymoon are taken care of - we had already booked a holiday to Las Vegas for later this year, but when we started talking about weddings we decided to take advantage of the timing of our holiday and get married while we are out there.

We will be having a big party for family and friends a couple of weeks after returning to the UK. But as we're saving for a mortgage deposit, we aren't able to spend too much money on the party - so this thread really is invaluable! Thanks to everyone who has shared great ideas.

One tip I have already (idea pinched from a friend's wedding) is to set up an account on an app like WeddingParty and give the details to all your guests. They can upload the photos they take on their phones to the app so they can be shared with other wedding guests. My friend put cards on every table with the details of how to download the app and at least one person from every table used it - it was like the modern equivalent of having disposable cameras on the tables.

EmmaJP

My friends got married on a budget of £2.5k and it's the best wedding I've ever been to. Anythings possible - good luck! x

74jax

Invites.........................................Free (as emailing)
Website........................................Free

Ceremony Total.............................1045.50
Giving notice..................................67
Registrar fees............................... .350.00
certificate.....................................3.50
Ceremony Room Hire...................... 200.00
Drinks..........................................160.00
Canapes.......................................250.00
Table pieces..................................15.00

Night Time Total............................1760.00
Hire of venue (DJ, Buffet & decs)......1500.00
Sangria Fountain............................160.00
Toast...........................................100.00

TOTAL SO FAR...............................2805.5

bits to go on chairs at ceremony Total.............2.00
Order of day..................................1.00 (25 off vistaprint)
You have been listening to...............1.00 (25 off vistaprint) I'm going to list all the music during the ceremony as they are all very special songs and quite quirky to us, the guests know the song and why we've chosen it.

Clothing Total...............................311.00
My wedding dress..........................150 (paid as a gift)
My shoes......................................A present
My jewelery..................................A present
OH.............................................125.00
MOH............................................48.00
BM.............................................48. 00
Hair & Make up..............................90.00 (i'll be doing mine, MOH and BM)

Photobooth/tree/frame TOTAL...........23.50
Photobooth....................................10.00
Top Tip Tree...................................1.00 (banner, pen and cards from vistaprint) making tree with twigs
Signing Frame.................................2.50 (Already have a suitable frame and mount, personalised pens from vistaprint for signing with)

Items for tables Totals.....................43.00
Driftwood.......................................Free
Various pebbles/shells etc ................Free
Bowls............................................6 .00 (plastic clear ones, ordered off ebay to see how they compare with glass ones.
Mr & Mrs Cards for guests/pen..........1.00 Vistaprint
Mini Buckets..................................5.00 (for 12)
Rock sweets..................................11.00
Wine coasters................................1.00 (100 postcards off vistaprint to cut out)
Evening leaflet................................1.00 (25 of vistapring, showing what is on and where and the menu)
Table names...................................FREE (doing ourselves)
Mirror Plates x 12.............................18.00

Gifts Total......................................90.99
Wine glass charms...........................7.99 (items for me to make them)
MOH..............................................5 .00
BM................................................ 5.00
Person doing reading........................2.00 (bag with a token mug, saying thanks for the reading and sharing our day with us)
Godson..........................................2. 00 (bag with a token mug, saying thanks for not losing the rings and sharing our day with us)
Other............................................3 0.00
3 x satin wraps................................24.00
3 x gem messages (on wraps).............15.00

Photography...................................200. 00
Album (did own off vistparint)..............20.00

GRAND TOTAL................................... 3495.99

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Sorry it's taken me so long to get the final figures up here.

So we were £495.99 over budget. You might remember OH and I set 3k as a budget not knowing what we wanted etc, he then wanted to increase it, but me being me bet him that I could do it without sacrificing anything we wanted. I guess it was easier for us as we could have gone over if we wanted but I really tried not too.

Things which increased the total cost were OH's suit (he decided against a wetsuit) and photographs as his friend gave us a really good deal of almost 10 hours of photos for £200.00.


OH decided the week before we should have some centrepieces at the venue we got married (we were only there 2 hours), I really didn't want them but we paid £15.00 for them and I wish we hadn't. They were tall martini glasses full of beads and flowers and had nothing to do with us whatsoever. Yes the venue looked nice, but we'd spent a year making the wedding 'ours' and then a week before plonked these glasses on the table........ The one things I'd change.......

Anyway I hope you've found this thread interesting, i'll update the first post giving links to the photos and things as I think that helps people with ideas etc.

But happy planning/budgeting everyone :beer:

endoftherainbow

Well done, the thread has been an inspiration with some great ideas. Thank you.

scmp

Hi everybody!

We are getting married 9 months tomorrow and definately want to spend £3k or less!
We are ducking out on fancy transport, fancy hotel reception and fancy food opting for a more laid back BBQ / folk festival idea so if it rains i will be devistated!

We are working on an excevl sheet which has everything costed out and will post it when it is done!

SCMP

74jax

Aw we really wanted a BBQ too, only our venue didn't allow for it. Jealous!

lilypad_rider

We have just booked our venue for Oct 14 and this has inspired me to think before I hand over any money!!

scmp

Our hopes of doing this have been dashed as the venue and the date were unsuitable.
Food £ 1000
Drink £500
Venue £1200
The clothes is going to be the big un i expect

pinkie_pie

Emma what made that wedding so good?