Whats the most expensive and cheapest weddings you have been to and which was best?

black-saturn

I was wondering what was peoples most expensive weddings and the cheapest weddings they have been to and which were the best in terms of enjoyment of the guests that were invited.

Two of my cousins had big weddings. One of them got married in the early 1990's and wore a dress encrusted with rhinestones which cost her £3,000!!! She had about 200 guests to a posh sit down meal and another buffet in the evening. No expense was spared. if you can think of anything you have at a wedding, she had it. She got divorced 9 months later!!! My other cousin got married in June this year and had a similar wedding. The wedding cost £13,000 in total. Throughout the whole event I felt like I couldnt relax and be me. You feel like you have to look like your having the best day of your life but in actual fact it was a bit stuck up and stuffy and a lot of waiting around in rooms for things to happen.

A friend of mine had a wedding on a really tight budget. She wore a plain black skirt and a white blouse to get married in, they walked to the registry office from their house which was about 15 minutes walk away then walked back again. They used a disposable camera for the pictures, her sisters bouquet from her wedding and had BOGOF wedding rings for £34. The reception was a "bring a bottle" event in their flat. They got divorced after 1 year!! But I have to say the cheap wedding was the one where I enjoyed myself the most.

bylromarha

My friend got married here.

http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/areas_a_h/elvaston.htm

Divorced 2 years later...turns out the guy was scum...had been sleeping around before and after the wedding. Didn't know many people which probably added to my un-enjoyment of the day.

Cheapest...been to loads of village hall type weddings. All very relaxed and very fun. Best was probably the one where the bride and groom ordered in dominos pizza for dinner and greggs cream cakes for puds. Fizzy from tesco.

But, the posh wedding would have been a pile of fun with the same crowd that were at the pizza wedding TBH.

daveyjp

Most expensive a college friend who was married in Aberdeen and the reception was at the Marquis of Pitfodels Hotel - cost an absolute fortune.

Cheapest - registry office, £100 budget each for clothes, free church hall (one of our friends is a vicar!), M&S food and we hired 'sumo suits' for entertainment.

AnnieH

My weding was very MSE:money:
My dress cost £80 out of a catalogue - OH's suit was from Matalan.
The ceremony was register office so about 30 quid. Church hall £28 :eek:
catering was a bit more as it was lovely, and we bought cans of beer, bottles of wine etc from Makro.

That was it.

Lovely day was had by all, and noone got p1$$ed and fell out :rotfl:

Quackers

Price has nothing to do with it.

Its all about the company.

I've been to 'posh' weddings and 'cheap and cheerful'.

I had just as much fun at both. Great company, good food, lots of Vodka ka ka and plenty of cheesy music.

The last wedding I went to was one of the best I've ever been to and it was 'posh' I suppose. Nice big hotel, gorgeous daytime food, champagne almost on tap, amazing hot buffet complete with chocolate fountain centrepiece, great music. And to top it all off our children didn't want to come so we booked a room at the hotel and stayed over. We were all up until the early hours. I was bridesmaid too as it was one of my best friends wedding and it was one of the best weddings I have ever been to.

dlb

My wedding was a cheap but cheerful do.
Reg office then walked to the pub after(fri), then on the saturday had a party/reception at home, we lived in a 2 up 2 down at the time but still had 50 odd guests!! We had a great time and only cost us about £600 in total.
So people sometimes ask me if i would do it different if i had a chance to re-do but i wouldnt have changed a thing. We have been married 7 years now.
As someone said before its not how posh/cheap, its the people who are there.

ailuro2

$250, so about 125 GBP, no one else there but me and my OH:D Cost a bit more for the flights and accommodation though!:p

Dearest was one in the Dalmahoy hotel, absolutely beautiful place to get married, the reception was done fantastically well, the entertainment perfect.

The two cannot be compared on price, only on the numbers of people there to help celebrate.

Go with what you feel comfortable with. We aren't close to lots of people, so decided to disappear by ourselves to get married.

The couple who were married in the Dalmahoy have a wide circle of friends and said it was a strange exercise working out who your best friends are, as they couldn't afford to invite everyone to the meal.

I loved both weddings, but liked the bill for our one much better.

Plum_Pie

I definitely think it comes down to the people. Anyone who isn't goping to enjoy themselves becasue (eg) the bubbly isn't vintage champers is not worth inviting.

Alikay

My cousin's wedding was pretty expensive - lovely village church, morning suits for all the men and a beautiful gown for the bride. Horse drawn carriage to a fabulous hotel, decorated with amazing floral and balloon-art. There were lots of people and it must've cost thousands, but was perfect. The older generation were not especially impressed as bride & groom had lived together for about 10 years, and all these oldsters were saying how they'd had weddings that cost sixpence and involved meat-paste sarnies in their parents parlour ...."but at least we could be together....not like today where they just shack up together at the drop of a hat, then show off with a big do years later!":rotfl:

Cheapest was my best friends civil partnership- there were only 12 people (5 were me, DH and our kids!). Bog-standard taxi to the registry office, suits for the brides and a meal at a restaurant afterwards.

Both were lovely wedidings, just very different. I probably enjoyed the cheaper more intimate one best....just as it was so great to see my friend so happy, and with someone who was clearly besotted with her (after years of her dating the most ghastly men imaginable!). But the cousin's one was brilliant too. Both couples are still together and very happy.

pinkshoes

Weddings are SO overrated. Far too much politics about who you OUGHT to invite etc... and people getting stroppy because you don't invite them.

My parents recently attended a medium budget wedding, with 80 guests and a buffet meal served by the hotel. My parents were on table 10 of 10, and when they arrived at the buffet, there was nothing but potato wedges left, and a few scraps of chicken! A bit strange, as guests were being served by hotel staff so weren't just helping themselves to masses of food! Turns out the last 3 tables had got very little food, and the hotel just claimed that it was all the couple had paid for, even though they'd paid for a buffet for 80 people, so refused to put out any more food.

If that wasn't upsetting enough for the bride and groom, the hotel also ran out of lager by 8pm, and then at the end of the night when they were shown to the honeymoon suite, which had been booked 12 months in advance, they were horrified to find it was not the room they had booked, and just a normal room. The hotel then told them they'd given it to a family who had needed a bigger room!

Just goes to show that hotels are more interested in making money than customer service...

I went to a great wedding for 500 people, where they had a giant marquis (sp??) on a farm, roasted 2 entire pigs on spits, and each family were asked to bring a home made desert... Budget very low, but such a great wedding!

black-saturn

I'm going for a medium wedding. My dress was bought cheap from ebay (a goth medieval dress) and OH's suit was from a charity shop

We're having a registry office wedding followed by a blessing in a church. We wanted a church wedding but they wouldnt let us as OH is divorced (which seems to be the crime of the century). Were having 1 car which is a limo to get me and bridesmaids to the church and then get us from the church to the reception. The flowers are artificial ones from the market. The reception is in the club room of the local holiday camp. We are having a sit down meal for 30ish after the wedding and a buffet for a further 20ish in the evening with a disco.

The whole wedding is costing about £2,000 in all and that's including the honeymoon!!