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Wedding and saving for a mortgage
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What savings have you and how much are you saving a month ?
Are you looking to but a newbuild? If so beaware that whatever date the builder gives you will change and probably more than once.Never pay on an estimated bill. Always read and understand your bill0 -
There's always option B.april_hunt wrote: »Sorry If my question was unclear! Just wanted to know other peoples opinions and advice on what they know or have done themselves.
We've been together 22 years, and aren't married...0 -
There's always option B.
We've been together 22 years, and aren't married...
Fair enough, but it only costs about £50 to get married. It's the wedding (i.e. celebration/party) that can be expensive.0 -
I think its a little more than that,possibly around the £200 mark for something very basic once fees are also paid,but yes that's the principle,its how you dress it all up that costs the money!Fair enough, but it only costs about £50 to get married. It's the wedding (i.e. celebration/party) that can be expensive.in S 38 T 2 F 50
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We did the 2 together. Saved for a house deposit and had a wedding. The wedding was actually 6 months after we moved in. The wedding cost total around £6500 including honeymoon. We got married at our new local church, the reception was in our new local village hall and honeymoon was a weeks UK holiday. We had 130 day guests and an extra 50 evening guests.
You can do it much cheaper if you cut the guest list down too. Catering was our biggest expense.0 -
Increasing your mortgage by £6,500 means an increase in the total repayable over 25 years of over £10,000 (at 4% interest).0
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Let me put it another way - every pound that's spent on the wedding instead of going into the house put, so is put on the mortgage instead, actually ends up costing £1.54.
And that's assuming that the LtV doesn't go into a higher interest rate.
<edit: A reply's been removed suggesting an extra £10k wasn't that much.>0 -
First marriage £12000 (1994). Very stressful
Second marriage £2500 (2010). Absolutely perfect.
I do mean the wedding and the marriage lol0 -
There's always option B.
We've been together 22 years, and aren't married...
We're the same, may be 23 yrs as can remember when first started going out but can't remember the year first started living togetherIf you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0 -
One of the worst weddings I went to cost about £25K, although that figure did include groom's stag trip abroad.If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0
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