Cheapest way to get married

Idiophreak

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

£18k?!! People must be stark raving bonkers. That's a house deposit.

We spent more than 18k. We'd already bought a house. I suppose we could have overpaid the mortgage, or topped up our pensions, or dabbled in stocks and shares....instead, we threw a massive party for all of our family and friends, declared our love for each other and spent a month in the States celebrating.

If it means a couple of miserable scrooges on the internet call me bonkers...well, I can live with that.

Stephb1986_2

You can't get away with not giving notice in case there are any objections before the wedding. So it has to be done I'm afraid

seven-day-weekend

Idiophreak wrote: »

We spent more than 18k. We'd already bought a house. I suppose we could have overpaid the mortgage, or topped up our pensions, or dabbled in stocks and shares....instead, we threw a massive party for all of our family and friends, declared our love for each other and spent a month in the States celebrating.

If it means a couple of miserable scrooges on the internet call me bonkers...well, I can live with that.

Fine, if that's what you want. ( I don't count the honeymoon as part of the wedding) . All I'm saying is I would prefer to declare my love by spending a whole lot less.

tillyenna

Don't forget you'll also need to pay for a copy of your certificate - £4 a copy for us (and having more than one is useful). Yes you HAVE to give notice, it's a legal requirement.

musafir05

Planning a wedding myself due it being a Asian wedding we in total are looking at spending £21k therefore £125 seem reasonable. I wish I was a different race sometimes.

trailingspouse

Got married myself just 4 years ago, and I remember (when the costs kept going up and I decided we just had to have a string quartet...) wondering what would be the absolute cheapest we could do it.

Is it legally necessary to have a ring? 'With this ring I thee wed' and all that. I guess you could use a ring you already own.

TonyMMM

There is no legal requirement to have a ring.

Legally - you have to give the required notice, and then go through the basic marriage vows with the registrar.

No need to pay for a certificate either, if you don't want one (currently £4).

sax11

All in, mine cost the registry paperwork, a new shirt and a tie - about £200

bryanb

Annisele wrote: »

Don't put it quite like that when you speak to the registrar! It makes it sound as though you're trying to marry some random person off the street because you need a British spouse for immigration purposes or something.
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Or perhaps it's more mundane - Inheritance rights, pension, etc.

picklekin

Yeah, you have to give notice, I never got a copy of my cert though and I've never really needed it!

Spending money on the marriage > fancy wedding IMO but horses for courses and all that. My friends recently got married, because they needed the VISA, they were in love all right so nothing dodgy, but if they hadn't got married they'd have had to separate for months..

I hope you have a lovely day!