Weddings on a reasonable budget!

katy_ann

Myself and my fiancee are trying to plan our wedding on a reasonable budget but finding it tricky! We dont have excess money to spend so we really need to set a reasonable budget, how much would you say is reasonable for both ceremony and reception and all the bits in between! Any help would be appreciated! Thank you x

Gloomendoom

How much money have you got?

katy_ann

We are looking around £2500/£3000 really

lazywife

You can do a wedding reception for £100, you can do one for £10000. It depends what sort of things you want.
6 years ago we had a wedding reception in a nice hotel, for 80 people (upto 100 on night) on a Saturday. Everything we could have wanted. Came in about £4000.
Have a look at the sort of thing you like, get prices, see if it's possible.
x

lazywife

katy_ann wrote: »

We are looking around £2500/£3000 really

That's definitely realistic.
People cost money, the less people, the cheaper the wedding reception :-)

katy_ann

Yes thats what we are hoping to do, only after reading all these wedding forums people seem to be picking 20k from money trees! It had me worried! hehe

Buzzybee90

katy_ann wrote: »

Yes thats what we are hoping to do, only after reading all these wedding forums people seem to be picking 20k from money trees! It had me worried! hehe

Or they've just saved. I'm not saving I'd spend so much on a wedding but if they've worked hard to save why not!

You budget should be achievable though

If you're in debt, shouldn't you be dealing with that first?

katy_ann

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

Or they've just saved. I'm not saving I'd spend so much on a wedding but if they've worked hard to save why not!

You budget should be achievable though

If you're in debt, shouldn't you be dealing with that first?

Yes thats what were trying to do, but we are each putting £100 into a savings account to save for our wedding as we know it wont happen for a long time

Gloomendoom

lazywife wrote: »

That's definitely realistic.
People cost money, the less people, the cheaper the wedding reception :-)

If you get them to bring food, people don't have to cost much. That's what we did.

It does probably depend on your family/friends though.

Buzzybee90

katy_ann wrote: »

Yes thats what were trying to do, but we are each putting £100 into a savings account to save for our wedding as we know it wont happen for a long time

Well done Katy and fianc!, good luck

Al1x

Do you have family members / friends who can help you out (bake cake, make favours, print invites etc) instead of buying you a gift?

Look out for unusual wedding locations, you might find somewhere that doesn't usually do weddings and could save you a small fortune. We were lucky that there is a beautiful barn in the village we had for our reception, it cost less than £200!