Anyone having a 2014 wedding?

fkgs

We're looking for Somerset venue. It's about 80 day and 140 evening guests.

cats2012

fkgs wrote: »

We're looking for Somerset venue. It's about 80 day and 140 evening guests.

Hello, I was lurking (sorry) so thought I'd offer a bit of advice!

£10k is not a low budget (same as mine) but it's also not huge so you have to basically decide what your priority is for a venue.

e.g. do you want all 80 in the day? do you want a 3 course meal, wine, canapes etc?

So for me personally, we actually decided we really wanted beautiful food etc (OH is a total foody) so we cut our guest list to 50 daytime to be able to afford it (wasn't hard for us though). We simply could not have got the quality we wanted for 80 people on our budget. However if you really want all 80 there, are you happy to go for a simpler style meal, e.g. still 3 course but not such a fancy place? or even just a buffet, DIY style set up?

We also went for March to get a much better "per person" price. In August our reception would have cost actually double. No joke.

Hope it helps

mummy2megan_2

We've set a date for April 2014 , but cant afford anything expensive so doing plenty of research....amazing what bargains there are.

Jodie
x

Bluegreen143

Hello everyone!

My lovely OH proposed on Friday and I've been such a whirlwind of giddiness and excited ness every since we were on holiday and only got back late last night so not done much research yet but dying to get stuck in.

We need to work out finances/how much we can save up by when, but we'd love to get married late Jan/early Feb 2014. If we can't realistically save enough by then it might be early summer 2014.

SO excited to be joining you all in wedding planning, going to go back and read older posts now for hints & tips

Jessycat

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Hello everyone!

My lovely OH proposed on Friday and I've been such a whirlwind of giddiness and excited ness every since we were on holiday and only got back late last night so not done much research yet but dying to get stuck in.

We need to work out finances/how much we can save up by when, but we'd love to get married late Jan/early Feb 2014. If we can't realistically save enough by then it might be early summer 2014.

SO excited to be joining you all in wedding planning, going to go back and read older posts now for hints & tips

Congratulations

Justengaged

Hi guys, new to this thread as I've been on the 2013 threads instead, but we've put our wedding back a year due to losing our choice of venue for this year. Not too big a deal waiting another year though, and having been to a wedding fayre at the weekend, still feeling excited

Bluegreen143

Justengaged wrote: »

Hi guys, new to this thread as I've been on the 2013 threads instead, but we've put our wedding back a year due to losing our choice of venue for this year. Not too big a deal waiting another year though, and having been to a wedding fayre at the weekend, still feeling excited

Ooh, sorry to hear that you had to put your wedding back, but fingers crossed you find something ten times better for 2014

Jessycat - Thanks!

Stephb1986_2

Congratulations Bluegreen

I've pretty much got everything done so if any of you need a hand just let me know.

Steph xx

new2saving

Hi Everyone,

I have been engaged for 5 months now. Wedding due on 1st August 2014 although I am hoping to do it on a 2K budget:eek:, so that we can have an amazing honeymooon. I have found a gorgeous little church for the wedding and so I'm hoping prices on this aren't too horrific. My bargain so far is wedding reception room £130 from 12 in afternoon til 12 at night includes staffed bar has seperate toilet facilities a stage everything and we are completely free to decorate as we want.

Trying to be as mse as possible but still make the day special, I want the marraige not the wedding.

Good luck everyone x

Jessycat

new2saving wrote: »

Hi Everyone,

I have been engaged for 5 months now. Wedding due on 1st August 2014 although I am hoping to do it on a 2K budget:eek:, so that we can have an amazing honeymooon. I have found a gorgeous little church for the wedding and so I'm hoping prices on this aren't too horrific. My bargain so far is wedding reception room £130 from 12 in afternoon til 12 at night includes staffed bar has seperate toilet facilities a stage everything and we are completely free to decorate as we want.

Trying to be as mse as possible but still make the day special, I want the marraige not the wedding.

Good luck everyone x

Wow, sounds like you've got a really good deal there.

Have fun planning