How much was your wedding?

gunsandbanjos

I'm getting married in 3 weeks, less than £1,000 all in.

Anoneemoose

£5000 altogether.

Dresses from BHS and Debenhams, adjusted to make 'ours' by a local seamstress.

We made our invitations ourselves.

My (now estranged) father made our cake.

We had all of the other trimmings like cars, photographer flower etc.

As a previous poster did, we got married in the afternoon (4pm) so went straight into an evening do, which meant we could afford a 'posh' buffet.

We were given some money by our parents, saved some ourselves and borrowed about £1000, which was paid back in a month or so.

It was the best day ever!

Piggywinkle

jimbo747 wrote: »

Ours cost £9k some 10 years ago, a third of that went on wedding dress, but was worth every penny. Lovely wedding at riber hall, sit down meal and chatting and drinking with guests until early evening when they all sodded off and left us to it which was fantastic.

We hate wedding discos with a passion, the thought of kids racing around, embarrassing grannie dancing, s**t music, tacky disco lights, crap buffet food, people sat at sides not talking because it's too loud....eurgh.

It's a good job I didn't invite you to mine then! Bar the people sat at the sides not talking (and the buffet was actually really good), you just described my wedding reception. My family and I had a great time anyway!

trailingspouse

Lots.

But that includes
- the cost of having to do a 2 week residency so that we could get married in the UK (we are from the UK but were living abroad at the time) - 2 weeks' loss of earnings, air flights, accommodation.
- the rings
- the honeymoon
- the dress
- the ceremony
- the reception
- the disco
- the late night bacon butties
- my personal favourite, the string quartet

And we could afford it. That's the most important thing.

MaxPerwer

Our wedding we had last year was around £16k, saved up very hard and made our own props really helped!

onlyroz

Wedding ceremony: £500 (civil ceremony in a stately home)
Dress: £55
Suit: £300
Wedding "breakfast": £100 (sandwiches made by my sister-in-law)
Reception: £1400 (hire of Thames riverboat)
Reception food: £300 (buffet)
Jazz band: £450
Hotel for wedding night: £200
Honeymoon flights: £2000 (paid for by my parents - we went to Canada)
Honeymoon costs: Can't remember but say another £2000


Total: £7305, paid for by us apart from the honeymoon flights. This was in 2002.

MandM90

Registry office: ~£500
Suit for OH: £400 in sale (in laws paid as gift)
My outfit: black jumpsuit I already had
Rings: £3500 for my engagement, £900 for my wedding (mum paid for latter as our gift) ring. Jewellery place chucked in his free.
Meal+booze at local Thai place for 9 people: £400 (in laws insisted on paying)

We paid: £3500 for my engagement ring, £500 for wedding day itself
Our parents contributed: £1,700 towards wedding day

So, not much.

We had originally booked a big barn near where we live (Berkshire) and planned a band, open bar, 150 guests then thought **** it and have saved the 5 figure sum it was going to cost us. No regrets. We had a wonderfully fun and romantic day with the people we love and exchanged vows.

I don't see anything wrong with spending £20,000 on a wedding but we thought about it and realised that in our fifties that money, wisely invested, could be over £200,000 which would bring us closer to our goal of retiring early and ultimately equates to more time together as a family doing exciting things. So we tucked it away (in the end it's gone between ISA, retirement and mortgage overpayment) and feel like we made the right decision.

looby1

Our wedding cost 20k in 2006. We were very lucky, my parents paid for everything except the rings. Hope you have the best day!!

phoebe1989seb

We married aged 21 in 1988. DH wanted us to elope, but instead we got a special licence and married asap......not pregnant, btw

I made my own dress that included a circular dog-tooth check mini skirt, lol - I was a fashion student at the time - and DH got his outfit from a charity shop. I did buy some new black tights - with hearts and butterflies - that must have cost all of a fiver!

Our wedding rings were the most expensive purchase. Mine was about £250 from that purveyor of cheap carp - Ratners. It's a very unusual design and people still comment on it today

Flowers were picked in our neighbour's garden and we celebrated afterwards with our two witnesses (one of whom was a professional photographer, so our wedding pics were his gift ) by having lunch in the nearest pub to the registry office.

Our parents didn't attend, which was our choice. Mine had offered to do the traditional thing and pay for their only child's wedding, but we refused. They more than made up for it a few years later when DS was born, by paying for his education from 4-18.

No honeymoon - we couldn't afford one, but we've made up for it since with some very nice holidays.

Total cost of wedding, probably less than £500.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

£2 for the license,that was 46 years ago.We did'nt care about the wedding we just wanted to be married so we arranged a civil service and made things legal just us.We did'nt want family there it was our day.We have never regretted it.To us it was just a way of making it legal,the stuff that came after was what was realy important but everybody's different.Each to their own.