Cheapest way to get married

sax11

surely it's your day so why can't you do it as you want.

Stephb1986_2

We got married just over three weeks ago, In total we spent around £8,000 but we had an absolutely fantastic day and don't regret spending a penny

Steph x

AnnieO1234

£119 for a Friday wedding in north east derbyshire plus £4 for certificate. It's about £35 each for licence, then remainder is notice and room/registrar.

You can get married without notice on a fast track licence but this costs more.

OP are you just wanting the bare minimum as in just turn up in your street clothes for half an hour? If yes then £125 is the cheapest. If you're wanting a bit more than this go onto the O/S board not the wedding board IMHO as some of the wedding board has astronomic costs still IMHO.

When planning ours we cut the guest list down to 350 must be there people before we decided to stuff it and just have immediate family. Our entire wedding including meal in a top restaurant came to less than £1k. Xx

Kayalana99

Sorry but I just think it's just stupid to spend ten figures + on a wedding, it's ONE day. I want a nice day for my wedding but I don't need to spend 30k ...I am not trying to impress anyone I just want to marry the man I love, good food nice venue ~ full day with the family coming up to 5k...but even that is to much for me (but I am finding it so hard to keep the costs down...ugh!)...their are always better things to spend the money for all those saying they 'had the money' unless you are a millionaire with a few 100k sitting in the bank.

If that makes me an internet Scrooge so be it!!

tillyenna

I think what makes people come across as 'internet scrooges' is not accepting that if people want to spend money on it - that's OK. No-one is making you do it!


I totally respect the OP for wanting to have their wedding for the minimum possible cost.


Personally, I know my family want me to have a party, I don't particularly, but I've compromised, and we're having a modest do with a budget of 5K, which is manageable for us without going into debt, and still leaving a chunk of our savings for other things.


If someone wants to spend 50K on their wedding, and they have the money to do it - then that's up to them. Yes, it might not be what YOU want, but there's no reason to judge them for it - each to their own as they say!

Idiophreak

Kayalana99 wrote: »

Sorry but I just think it's just stupid to spend ten figures + on a wedding, it's ONE day. I want a nice day for my wedding but I don't need to spend 30k ...I am not trying to impress anyone I just want to marry the man I love, good food nice venue ~ full day with the family coming up to 5k...but even that is to much for me (but I am finding it so hard to keep the costs down...ugh!)...their are always better things to spend the money for all those saying they 'had the money' unless you are a millionaire with a few 100k sitting in the bank.

If that makes me an internet Scrooge so be it!!

Even I have to agree with you on that. Ten figures? £1bn? For a single day? that's a bit much.

Seriously, though, there may always be something better for *you* to spend your money on, but different people have very different ideas on what the "best" thing to spend money on is...

Honestly, we had a great day, just the way we wanted it...not to impress anyone (we could have had a much more "impressive" wedding for the money), just to do stuff the way we wanted...at the time, it was the best thing we could spend the money on...and I'd still say it's the best money we ever spent...we had an awesome day.

seven-day-weekend

OK, I apologise for calling people bonkers. I think if they have the money and can afford to pay that out on a wedding, that is up to them.

I personally consider it an absolute waste of money, but then again all my husband and I wanted to do was make it legal, we didn't want a flash dress or venue or cars or hundreds of people there or a year of planning. Even if we'd had the money we'd still have chosen a cheap and simple ceremony.

However to some people, the bling is what they want and if it's their money, fine.

Apologies once again.

Kayalana99

Idiophreak wrote: »

Even I have to agree with you on that. Ten figures? £1bn? For a single day? that's a bit much.

Seriously, though, there may always be something better for *you* to spend your money on, but different people have very different ideas on what the "best" thing to spend money on is...

Honestly, we had a great day, just the way we wanted it...not to impress anyone (we could have had a much more "impressive" wedding for the money), just to do stuff the way we wanted...at the time, it was the best thing we could spend the money on...and I'd still say it's the best money we ever spent...we had an awesome day.

Whoops... ! Just had 10k+ in my head but somehow got a bit mixed up oh well. :rotfl:

I can easily see how it could get to that figure tbh now planning my own I thought 5k would be more then enough for our wedding (def not going over that) but I am finding myself cutting to the bare minimum to stay in it, my step sister is spending 30k on hers and they havn't even got a house yet (although they are both doctors so ...)

I've been brought up not to be wasteful of money shall we say...and I know we all have different ideas but 30k ...for one day...it makes me cringe ... ><

30k...is just over a house deposit on a 25% buy to let property.. you could be well on your way to owning two houses with that kind of money...and you'd have an income for life!!

At least it's not as bad as the guy from my OH's work who has 'spent 15k' on a wedding (put the deposits down for his 15k wedding) and then gone on to ask everyone for a loan at work instead of telling his wife to be that he can't afford it.....great start ey.

lazer

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

OK, I apologise for calling people bonkers. I think if they have the money and can afford to pay that out on a wedding, that is up to them.

I personally consider it an absolute waste of money, but then again all my husband and I wanted to do was make it legal, we didn't want a flash dress or venue or cars or hundreds of people there.

However to some people, the bling is what they want and if it's their money, fine.

Apologies once again.

It is not about the bling, it wasn't the fancy dress or the cars that cost the money - it was the guests mainly, with a large family (Minimum guest list with just parent, siblings, aunts & uncles would be well over 50).

It was about making the day special and sharing it with the people that our important to us and about showing our appreciation to the people that have loved and supported us for years.

To me it was not about making it legal, we are both religious, weren't living together beforehand etc, it was about declaring our love for each other and making a committement to each other before God and before our family and friends. It was the start of our lives together.

I personally consider any car costing over about £8k a complete waste of money - and would not spend anywhere near that, but a lot of people would think a new car costing about £15k could be a bargain! A cheaper car does the same job gets you from A - B, the same as a cheaper wedding has the same outcome as an expensive one (ie: you are legally married at the end of it). I wouldn't however say to someone wo had bought an expensive new car that they were bonkers, that they could have paid the deposit on a house with that money etc. It is fully up to them how they spend their money.

A wedding, the start of a marriage, is much more important to me than some consumer goods, a car, gadgets, a holiday or whatever, it was money well spent. (And my husbands car is 12 years old, mine is 8, so we save money on other things)

74jax

Brighton_belle wrote: »

And 'this 'moneysaving site' is about getting the best deal you can for what you want, not about not spending money on nice things or luxury.

I fall into the category of wanting the best price deal on nice things and luxury things.

I'm, luckily I know, no longer on the breadline, but that doesn't mean I don't want a good deal for a luxury holiday, or look around for the best price for a nice item.