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Becles

I'm getting married next weekend!

The ceremony, a meal and hotel rooms for the bridal party in Gretna has worked out at under £2000. That includes a 3 course meal for 17 people, plus wine with the meal. I've made a lot of things myself like the invitations and cake, and I've scoured ebay and internet sites for bargains for other bits and pieces.

Rachie_B

we got married on July 30th 2004 (was a friday and one of the hottest days of the year!)

we didnt really have a budget but ended up spending about 9k (not inc honeymoon etc),we were lucky that both sets of parents contributed or we wouldnt have been able to afford as big / expensive wedding as we did (the idea of starting married life in debt wasnt appealing ! lol)

i shopped about as we set the date 2 yrs in advance and so was able to get some bargains getting married on a friday was one of them

we had everything we wanted (apart from a band but marquee venue didnt allow it ) yet didnt spend anywhere near what the "average" is

Rachie_B

Becles wrote:

I'm getting married next weekend!

The ceremony, a meal and hotel rooms for the bridal party in Gretna has worked out at under £2000. That includes a 3 course meal for 17 people, plus wine with the meal. I've made a lot of things myself like the invitations and cake, and I've scoured ebay and internet sites for bargains for other bits and pieces.

ooh how exciting ,are you nervous / excited ?

fiobee

Becles wrote:

I'm getting married next weekend!

Congratulations, Becles - I hope you'll have a wonderful day!

VickyA_2

Rachie_B wrote:

we got married on July 30th 2004 (was a friday and one of the hottest days of the year!)

I remember that day! I was at a wedding elsewhere, and I was so hot! The wedding that we went to on the following day wasn't nearly as warm......... but it was still warm.............

Rachie_B

VickyA wrote:

I remember that day! I was at a wedding elsewhere, and I was so hot! The wedding that we went to on the following day wasn't nearly as warm......... but it was still warm.............

we had a wedding the next day too !! not in the day though lol just the evening
it was my hubbys cousins wedding ( now split up actually !! )

we were quite lucky as though it was mega hot we had a marquee wedding by the sea so was a steady breeze blowing

<sigh> id love to do it all again ,to the same man of course :rotfl:

andycarmi

Got married 30th July 2005. Spent 14,000. (£18 pound a minute!!!) :eek:
Not including Honeymoon. Paid in full so no paying off when we go back :j

Best day ever worth every penny.

Rachie_B

andycarmi wrote:

Got married 30th July 2005. Spent 14,000. (£18 pound a minute!!!) :eek:
Not including Honeymoon. Paid in full so no paying off when we go back :j

Best day ever worth every penny.

awww we share the same anniversary :beer:

lmao @ you working out per hour :eek: :rotfl:

andycarmi

We had favours at our wedding! Most of them were left on the tables. I would say about 30% of people took them. I had the traditional 5 sugar almonds!

gixxerchick_2

I'm getting married 15th July and we've worked to a budget of £1000, OH's parents are paying for the cake and a friend of my sister is doing the photo's for us, using future fil's car as my wedding car ( very nice BMW ), hired a room for £75 at a local club and doing our own catering so that's saved us a load of money.