Our July 2014 Wedding - For £1000!

jess07907

Yep, you read it right, I'm trying to plan a wedding for £1000!
me & OH have been together 3 and a half years, have a lovely 9 month old daughter & got engaged at Christmas.
We are never going to be rich, and I can't justify spending huge amounts of money on one day, so I'm going to try my very hardest to do it on £1000!
We're having it on a Friday, which has saved money already.

The register office is booked - £175
Wedding dress bought from eBay - £2 & free postage!
I'm going to do the catering & cake myself, a friend of mine is going to take the family photos etc, just everything else to plan now!
Any tips greatly appreciated

Mint1955

My niece saved little glass jars from yoghurt and put tea lights in them all across the front of the top table.
She made from coloured paper little magic folded boxes (see Internet craft sites) and put sweets in them for the children. Adults all had a lottery ticket.

Pinzy

My sister did hers for £1000, we had a meal after the wedding in a separate room of a local Two for One restaurant, so we all got to pre-order what food we wanted We all chilled at the bar after.
She got her dress for about £50 from TK Maxx. Found a bargain on little cardboard favour boxes on ebay and put a few chocolate heart sweets in all of them. Decorated the room herself with some balloons and ribbon. Bought the plain supermarket celebration cakes and put a bit of ribbon round each tier and a flower on the top. Think she put carnations in little jars for table flowers.
She made her own invites with a few bits from Hobbycraft.

It was a lovely intimate day.

yellowcrocus

Don't do favours...waste of money and no-one notices anyway. Foam flowers seem to be popular but I think you could make a lovely bouquet with a bunch of supermarket flowers. Ask for gifts towards the wedding (e.g. a cake, a car if needed) in lieu of presents. Good luck with everything and enjoy your planning

yabajaz

there is a great tutorial on Marks & Spencers about using little posts to stop one cake crushing another.
http://www.marksandspencer.com/MS-TV/b/311612031?intid=emtv_60965112001_61857728001_62125840001
I plan on buying 2 of the chocolate-iest cakes I can find in 2 sizes and stacking them with a touch of ribbon and a posy of sweetpeas.

(We plan a £1,000 do to......)

jess07907

Thank you, I love the cake idea! I was thinking of making my own, but I think a trip to Tesco may be in order!

Hudson1984

can always buy a cake stand? My cousin bought three iced sponge cakes from M+S and got a three tier cake stand from Ebay, bit of decorative icing and a few edible flowers and your away

continualdiamond

Our wedding came to just under £2,500, but we didn't pay for all of that ourselves, my parents and his put some towards it.

Our cake was free as it was made by my friend, I just had to buy the cake stand which was £25 off ebay.

Our wedding car was free, it was a gift for us as a relative has an old vintage car.

My dress was £80 from Monsoon wedding sale and my shoes were £25 from Next, just simple sparking summer shoes.

Invitations I got off ebay, 40 invites for £20 and then I bought little gems, card and a butterfly cutter and jazzed them up a bit.

Center pieces were 50p vases from ikea, filled with beads from a craft shop, a lot cheaper and no one can see the holes to know they're beads anyway. Then a single fake flower in each with a wire butterfly wrapped around.

Photographer was £30 (to cover petrol cost), got recommended to me by a professional as this person wanted wedding experience. She was amazing, she took shots of me in the morning getting ready and everything, we also had a friend of my mother in laws taking photos as he wanted wedding experience, he took photos for nothing and we got some lovely shots from him as well.

Flowers were off ebay, I wanted fake so I could keep mine. I just had my sister in the wedding party and then two button hole flowers for hubby and best man.

I did my own thank you cards after the wedding and also put together our own wedding album.

We had a fab day, wouldn't of changed anything, well maybe the weather as it was the only day in August that is rained allllll day, but never the less did get a lovely shot of me getting out of the wedding car with a big umbrella being held over me.