How much was your wedding?

BarryBlue

pinkshoes wrote: »

Married 4 years ago and it cost just over £1000 incuding dress, rings, and a sit down meal for 25 people.

I just don't get the whole big spend on a wedding thing. It doesn't have to cost a lot to have a fabulous day with friends and family.

Absolutely agree, you seem to have spent very wisely. I just don't get it either when people spend tens of thousands on just one day. Especially when you see some of the ridiculous nonsense that people seemingly can't do without on that day, like string quartets and wishing wells.

Our wedding was at the local Register Office. There were just ten of us, and we went to a nearby hotel for afternoon tea afterwards. It cost under £500 including taxis before and after. My wife bought a new outfit in a sale and still wears it to posh events now.

We did go on a cruise to the Canaries a week later but I'm not counting it as a wedding cost because we'd booked it before deciding to tie the knot and were going anyway! This week is our wooden anniversary.:)

LandyAndy

Just under £1000 including the honeymoon:cool:. That was in 1999.

LandyAndy

Happier_Me wrote: »

Around £3,000 16 years ago all paid for by my parents. Mum got my dress at cost price (she worked in a wedding shop at the time), registry office, small sit down meal and then a buffet for 100 people in the evening. I married on a Friday and really just wanted immediate family and no evening reception but it just snowballed into something bigger, mostly driven by my mum.

Had I been paying for it, it would have cost around £500:)

A few months later my brother married abroad (this holiday became our honeymoon) and it was brilliant. We are considering renewing our vows abroad in the year DH turns 50 and the kids turn 21 and 18, assuming they still want to holiday with us.

My experience is that children that age rarely turn down a free foreign holiday.

poorly_scammo

In my experience, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the duration of the marriage.

pearl123

chelseablue wrote: »

Just being nosy really, we are getting married in June 2018 and our is costing £16,000 for everything.


All being paid for cash, no borrowing


Extremely lucky that my family are contributing £4,000, his family also £4,000 and we're saving the rest.


How much was yours?
Did your families contribute anything?
Did you borrow any? (Credit card, loan etc)

I really don't understand why people spend so much on one day. If I had that amount of money to spend I'd rather spend it on a round the world tour at least then one could have memories of all the places and different cultures one experienced.
Each to their own!

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poorly_scammo wrote: »

In my experience, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the duration of the marriage.

My sister-in-laws wedding cost around £100k .. and frankly they are a lovely couple, have 3 great kids and the cost of the wedding was just proportional to the wealth of his family.

I've been to another expensive wedding (must have been > £40k) and we all knew the couple would split quickly.. and of course they did, within a few years. and she then took him for every penny she could. To be honest we could have predicted that before the wedding though.

My own... I don't actually know as my father-in-law paid for most of it. I'd guess it was about £15k-£20k.. The honeymoon was £4k and I paid for that, the rings and my wife's new diamond earrings. I'm currently saving up for my son's bar mitzvah's, which I figure is going to cost me 2 x £10k in parties

Gloomendoom

poorly_scammo wrote: »

In my experience, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the duration of the marriage.

I doubt that there is any hard evidence that supports that view though.

In fact, based on my own personal experience...

£100 Didn't last six months.

£6,000 Lasted nine years and still going strong.

chelseablue

Thank you, such a varied response


Our original costings for everything we wanted was £12k so we are over budget


I suppose thinking of our own money we're 'only' spending £8,000 (only she says!)


Apparently the average UK wedding is £25,000 so ours feels almost cheap :rotfl:

LavenderBee

2016


How much was yours? Just totted it up to include everything from giving notice to transporting everyone to the registry office and lunch afterwards as well as the usual wedding gumph. Expensive bit was the rings, £150 for his and £300 for mine (I have skin allergies and had platinum to be on the safe side).


£1160 (so £710 minus jewellery )


I'm not sure I would include honeymoon costs as we had 2 nights abroad and we are regular city-breakers anyway I think including spending money and taxi to the airport that was £500. But we go away a few times a year anyway and would have had a break around then normally!

Did your families contribute anything? My parents insisted on being traditional and that they must fund the wedding and offered us £500. It did not materialise.

Did you borrow any? Certainly not

sulphate

chelseablue wrote: »

Thank you, such a varied response


Our original costings for everything we wanted was £12k so we are over budget


I suppose thinking of our own money we're 'only' spending £8,000 (only she says!)


Apparently the average UK wedding is £25,000 so ours feels almost cheap :rotfl:

Spend YOUR money on what YOU want. I’m glad we spent the amount we did and had the day we wanted. 5 years later we have a mortgage and a child - another on the way - definitely couldn’t afford that now! So I’m glad we did it when we did :j