Cheap wedding

lou0207

masonsmum wrote: »

Hi Lou, Im also from Ayrshire and Im getting married next year at Enterkine House Hotel, if you really want to do it cheap and soon I would seriously consider having a registery office then having the reception in a town hall/community center with a private caterer, where in Ayrshire are you? If you really want a hotel they dont come cheap unless you book midweek and even at that its still quite a cost. My bill for my venue is coming in at £37 per head for dinner and thats before wine/ceremony/evening buffet etc all added on in total I think we approx £4k for dinner for 60 and an evening reception for 200, we originally tried to stick to a £5K budget but its way over £8K now x

Its so hard really should have started planning this years ago! Think a hotel would be nice its sort of mid way from the church to registery office. Always thought i wanted a big fairytail wedding but now realise its not about all the stuff its about us . . . it all just adds up dont want i cheap and nasty day . . . 5k sounds a good budget but as you say your now well over that . . . we are in Kilmarnock p.s. congrats and hope yous have a fab day which i am sure you will x

lou0207

Mojisola wrote: »

With that attitude, I'm sure you'll have a great time!

I see you've found the Weddings board. Do read through some of the other threads on there - there's lots of advice about how to do things well but cheaply.

Im very strong headed ha!

themull1

I got married at Comlongon castle near gretna green, there was 19 people altogether and it was about 3000 all in, but i bought all the outfits, wedding dress etc second hand off ebay. There are quite a few Youth Hostels that you can hire to do wedding receptions in for something a bit different.!

Northern_Princess

themull1 wrote: »

I got married at Comlongon castle near gretna green, there was 19 people altogether and it was about 3000 all in, but i bought all the outfits, wedding dress etc second hand off ebay. There are quite a few Youth Hostels that you can hire to do wedding receptions in for something a bit different.!

This is where we got married We had an amazing day!

We also looked at Hamilton Racecourse. They do an an inclusive package and are extremely good at tailoring packages to your needs. For instance:-

Your wedding Ceremony at our weighing room gardens
* 1 glass of sparkling wine per person on arrival
* Three course meal for 80 guests
* 1 glass wine per person with dinner
* Our Dukes Suite for your wedding meal and reception
* White linen table covers and linen napkins
* White chair covers and ties (choice of tie colour)
* Fishbowl centre pieces and top table decoration
* Cake table and knife
* Table plan, menus and table names
* Evening buffet for 80 guests

This is £4500. Before we decided on Comlongon due to the location of most of our guests we were going to have Hamilton Park.

Lots of hotels also do winter deals or mid week packages. Hotels local to us also do fab deals for short notice weddings ie less than 3 months from booking to the wedding date which is worth asking about.

GobbledyGook

Is there any nice community halls near you?

Bear in mind that in Scotland Humanist weddings are legal anywhere so if you wanted to get married in a nice hall somewhere you can.

I went to a wedding near Glasgow recently. Ceremony was in the downstairs part of the community centre, reception upstairs with catering a big hot buffet done by a local caterer (she still had a table plan and the likes - it was like a wedding meal, but just choosing how much you wanted). The bride is an old friend of mine and people were raving about her day (especially the ceremony, it was so, so personal) and she spent less than 4k (inc outfits) and she had 60 guests all day!

vesper

It all depends on your budget, you need to work that out first. As a wedding can be done from £100 to thousands.

Our wedding cost just under £2000, the actual ceremony was at a local hotel and then we had our reception at a Sports Club, chosen not just because I work there, but because there was plenty of space outside.
We didn't have a sit down meal as we wanted a relaxed wedding instead we did our own buffet (with friends' help) but it was a fancy buffet, and then later on we had a hogroast, which everyone loved.
That was for 100 people.

kelfen

Me and Mr K have decided that it doesnt matter if we dont have a big wedding, its only one day.

Registry office near my mum and dads with my parents and his parents as witnesses. Some form of meal with most of our close families, then off on our fun honeymoon and probably a party when we get back

I_wanna_live_for_free

Brighton_belle wrote: »

I'm of the opposite opinion, why put off something as brilliant as getting married just so you create some perfect party?
The utter happiness of saying our vows in front of the ones we loved made the day perfect. You really really don't needs wads of cash to create some faux dream and you really don't need to put load and loads of thought into it. Just a bit of thought in to the day and a lot in to your vows and what you both hope and expect from your marriage.
(Which doesn't mean it is wrong in any way to spend wads if you have it and that is what you want, I just think it good to do things now and not put something so significant off)

You could spend a year or two planning, putting your life on hold and then a parent dies or something before your wedding. Live now. Go with your passion to get married:D

I think some poeple get confused about the nature of this site: yes, this is a money saving site, which means getting the best price for the things you want and can afford, so you can have a £30,000 wedding but just get the best price you can for all the bits you want. The site is not about living simply and frugally IYSWIM, although it does encompass that if that is what you want.

you mis-understood me. I meant either save up for your big day if that's what you want (this was before OP explained what she meant by big day - she did mention a hotel which is not going to be cheap) or if its the actual marriage that's important and not the party, then just find a register office and get wed!

Same result at the end of the day whether you spend £30k or the bare minimum.

fly_dragon_fly

have you looked at some of the hostels you could hire for the same price as a hotel but people could stay over instead and offer them the rooms at a reduced rate so then you'd get some money back and they would never know

continualdiamond

I got married last August and it cost £2,700 for everything. By that I mean any small detail that had anything to do with the wedding.

Our venue was a village pub at which we had the ceremony and then the room was changed round for our buffet meal. The venue was £300 from 11am - 11pm.

My dress was £90 from Monsoon wedding section, was actually £180 but when I came to buy it it was in the sale.

FREE things: Wedding car, cake (only cost me £50 for cupcake cases, beads, lace and stand) then my friend actually made it, photographer (went with company that offered 1.5hrs who would then use our photos to advertise the business)

I loved everything about ours, I had the invites printed off ebay and then addedd beads and butterflies to them.

We got married when we did as I am from Australia and my parents and sister visited for all of last summer. We decided to end the visit with our wedding, it was more important for me to have my immediate family at my wedding than save up for what others would consider a more traditional wedding.