need a credit card to save my wedding!!

eschaton

£000's for a one day event?

Crazy if you don't have money to waste / already in place.

I would prefer to put £10k towards a new car, the money may depreciate away over time but at least you would have got some enjoyment from it

SnowTiger

eschaton wrote: »

£000's for a one day event?

Crazy if you don't have money to waste / already in place.

And very telling that the registrar's fee is at the bottom of the shopping list.

eschaton

SnowTiger wrote: »

And very telling that the registrar's fee is at the bottom of the shopping list.

I think the list was written back to front. If you are going to blow £000's on a wedding, at least save up the £000's first.

meer53

Did you all not read the OP's post ? When they booked the wedding they had an extra £1500 per month coming in.

neas

I went to a wedding where the guests paid for their own restaurant meal (appprox 40 quid a head) instead of giving a present.

It was pretty nice, and a cheap way for bride/groom to get married (around 1k was total cost).

It sounds like a 'big' wedding.. from costs so one would assume many guests.

Coming clean and asking all guests to say chip in £20 each, assuming 100 guests fgives you your total... with the condition this is in place of a gift.

Rupert_Bear

meer53 wrote: »

Did you all not read the OP's post ? When they booked the wedding they had an extra £1500 per month coming in.

Yes but they dont now!

meer53

Rupert_Bear wrote: »

Yes but they dont now!

We all know this, but Eschaton seems to think they should should have saved up, and still spend 10k, but on a car !

eschaton

meer53 wrote: »

We all know this, but Eschaton seems to think they should should have saved up, and still spend 10k, but on a car !

So they could have saved up and paid for the wedding in 7 months going by your sums.

meer53

eschaton wrote: »

So they could have saved up and paid for the wedding in 7 months going by your sums.

I'm not doing any sums, the OP hasn't said how much everything was so we don't have any idea how much they were originally planning to spend.

BUT, to lose £1500 per month income is a huge blow to anyone, even if they're not planning a wedding.

saterkey

this is mad, why spend so much on a day, registrar would have been first on my list. I personally would be embarassed to ask guests at my wedding to cough up unless it was close family, so would understand if the op didnt want to go down this route. The only thing you can do is really really sit down and work out more ways of cutting down, even here and there things add up. Things like favours can be made, really sit down with the venue and see if there is anything else you can do to cut down on costs, maybe there is something you havent thought of, its just such a shame that having spent so much that you have to cut back at the last minute on your preparations and cant afford even a weekend away to celebrate your togetherness. good luck i hope it works out for you.