If you had a £50,000 would you do anything differently?

Hollie84

I would have another car so one for my BM's and mum instead of the one we are having making two trips.id have more people for the wedding breakfast and increase the food for the evening buffet so there was loads more choice.Apart from that there is nothing else id change.Funnily enough OH asked me this a month or so ago as to whether id change the wedding totally if we won the lotto.told him the same thing,to have a £50,000 wedding for me would be a total waste of money,to have a 10k wedding would be a waste also.its not about the money for me.I would go all out on a honeymoon though

RainbowDrops

johannalf88 wrote: »

Me & OH were talking about that last night... (not 50 gran tho, money no object). We decided:

We would change our theme to science
Hire the London science museum as the venue
Serve drinks in test tubes & beakers
Use periodic tables as table plan
Periodic table of cupcakes!
Flowers which follow the fibonacci sequence in test tubes as centre pieces
We would still have a reading which wa written by Charles Darwin, and we would still have a Douglas Adams themed exit song.
We would get the "spoken nerds" to perform (a but like magicians, make stuff happen, but they explain it with science so it's even better!)

Yeah, we were dreaming.... :rotfl: n that would be much more than £50,000.

Love you're style - a fellow science geek here

myconosray

We'd have the most amazing honeymoon with that money!

continualdiamond

I would never ever spend that amount on a wedding.

But that is coming from someone who spent just under £3,000.

I wouldn't change a thing about our actual day, but I would have a honeymoon.

We couldn't afford one.

Other than that I'd use the rest for a house.

BabyBoots

With all that extra money I'd:
-buy my dress from new in my size - probably £500 more!
-spend £1,000 on a videographer to capture the day on film
-have just a few more flower decorations, say £150 more
-spend an extra £1,000 on the honeymoon

Mind you, that's only about £2,650 more. Maybe I'd get everyone a bit more to drink. Ooh, I might get someone else to drive me there! Nope, I really couldn't splash £50k.

I wouldn't invite more people either. I think it'll be lovely having our nearest and dearest there. I wouldn't want all that good feeling to be diluted by having people there who don't really care about us!

daisiegg

continualdiamond wrote: »

Other than that I'd use the rest for a house.

What if in this hypothetical scenario you already had a great house and the £50,000 was spare money just for the wedding?! or someone had given it to you with the proviso it had to be used for the wedding?

Come on people, get into the spirit

stir_crazy

Wow, some good ideas! (Loving the periodic table cupcakes!)

Em88

I wouldn't change anything about the wedding itself. I would have paid for our guests travel to Edinburgh and the food for the whole weekend and provided a free bar. But in terms of numbers of guests and the actual content of our wedding, it was exactly as we wanted

oohh and I would have paid for all the guests to see the pandas.

lazer

I would have drinks and canapes for the guests on arrival as well as an acoustic guitarist playing for the reception drinks, and to be honest i think that is the only extra indulgence I would want except maybe the horse and carriage (But the reason we are not doing that is becasue its not actually a horse and carriage I want, its a traditional pony and trap, and its not easy to get, and also it could be raining and bumpy and can't wreck the hair)

I would upgrade the honeymoon, and could easily spend a lot more on it.We are already having a wedding with all the trimmings and don't feel as if we're missing out on anything by scrimping, I've have haggled over price constantly, but haven't substituted quality for cheapness.

Although thinking now, I would also have better invitations (With no need for us to put them together!), and better favours, and would be more generous and include hair and make up trials for the bridesmaids too.

ladymarmalade

I would love two things.

1.Michael roux junior to cook our meal

2.david guetta and or calvin Harris to dj the reception