Cost of a Wedding

davidwood681

Spend £500 or £1,000,000...............it won't make any difference to the success of the marriage

trailingspouse

However much you decide to spend, do NOT go into debt to fund it.

loubie_lou

If you want the sit down meal experience have a late afternoon wedding (before the clocks change) for decent light for photos and then have your meal. Have the people you want all day there and a few more for drinks and nibbles in the evening. This is what we did and it didn't cost that much at all.

DigForVictory

By all means propose. (I wish you both all happiness.)

Just include, in the same half hour, the word 'elope'.

No matter how much money you can both put into this, the wedding industry can siphon three times that off you & a lot of the fun, so scheme to go large on the stuff you Both Really Want & skip the rest.

You may even find her family go along with this.

Primrose

Cut out the evening event altogether. Just have the wedding and a buffet Reception and then clear off on your honeymoon. When the cost of your wedding lasting a few hours equals or exceeds the amount needed for the deposit on a house in which you will probably spend years, you know you,'ve lost the plot and are entering LaLa land. Don't go there!

Seems strange but the further away you get from the event on the other side the less relevant all the trivial issues over which you fretted will become.

Good luck!

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

The question should be how much are you willing to spend on a wedding? It doesn't matter if the average wedding costs £5000 or £50,000. If you can only afford a certain amount then it doesn't matter what society says you should. Also what is important to you. Do you have 100 people you absolutely must invite or does it just sound good to say you are having 100 guests.
My mum had her wedding paid for by my grandad 37 years ago, in today's money it would be about the 25k mark. She says she enjoyed the day but probably would have prefered the money lol. I'm getting married in exactly 2 weeks time. It's me and my husband to be and 2 witnesses. The whole day is costing about £200. I couldn't care less as I will be spending it with the love of my lifeand that's what's important to me.
What do you actually want to do and spend?

Savvy_Sue

Thrice wrote: »

rings

Ah yes, I forgot rings! If he doesn't wear one (because of allergies) and his mother offers his grandma's ring, that saves a bit too! We just had to get it re-sized.

And we didn't have any 'entertainment' either. Our guests were happy to chat to and mingle with each other: adding a DJ or music of any kind would have seriously inconvenienced any guests with a hearing loss (including most of my family).

DH sometimes says that a wedding is the worst possible start to a marriage ...

pickledonionspaceraider

Elope........

Pollycat

Gavin83 wrote: »

£500-£1m. It's an impossible question to answer, it will depend entirely on what you want.

Along the lines of 'how long is a piece of string...

HampshireH

We got engaged recently. Having a sept 19 wedding.

Aiming for 5k - likely to be nearer 6k when I actually ait and worry about it all. Venue is just under 3k for half the number of guests.

So many little bits we hadnt even considerdd that add up