A warning for all you unmarried couples out there!

Cobbler_tone

4 weeks until mine, marriage. Really for the reason to protect one another with a complicated situation and not having faith in pension trustees and wanting to make sure either of us has a roof over our heads when the other is no longer here. The registrar said don't under estimate the emotion of the day though and will be nice for our 3 surviving parents. Nine of us in total, not 'on the cheap' but more £3k as opposed to £30k.
If you'd asked me 12 months ago I would have said I'd never do it again! It makes sense.
Then onto the will.

Savvy_Sue

LPAs for health may be even more important than you think.

I have a couple of friends, not living together but very committed and supportive of each other. One's in hospital and their family is trying to prevent the other from visiting. The patient WANTS to see them. When they're able to leave hospital, I'm fairly sure the family will want to move them hundreds of miles away, "to be close". I know that's not what the patient wants: they've said so publicly and repeatedly. 

Family are arguing that patient lacks capacity to decide who he wants to visit. 

It's a mess ...

keithmac

Cobbler_tone said:

4 weeks until mine, marriage. Really for the reason to protect one another with a complicated situation and not having faith in pension trustees and wanting to make sure either of us has a roof over our heads when the other is no longer here. The registrar said don't under estimate the emotion of the day though and will be nice for our 3 surviving parents. Nine of us in total, not 'on the cheap' but more £3k as opposed to £30k.
If you'd asked me 12 months ago I would have said I'd never do it again! It makes sense.
Then onto the will.

Our wedding wasn`t much more than that, everyone had a great time. I find it`s the people you are with rather than how much you spend that`s most important.

Hope you have a great day and congratulations!.

Eldi_Dos

One of the couples we are friendly with recently got married after nigh on thirty years of living together, our first thought and concerns were that one or other had bad news on the medical front, but thankfully everything was alright there, they were just formalising matters.

Mrs_Ryan

Keep_pedalling said:

gwynlas said:

Yes it appears to be the norm that people will live together and have a number of children whilst declaring that they cannot afford to get married when what they mean is they cannot afford £10-20K on having a party beyond their means.
They could save all that money that goes on wedding and bridesmaids dresses, matching suits for the groom and ushers carriages and canapes and put it towards something with more permanence.

A registry office wedding or CP costs less the £200. 

If you have the statutory ceremony it does. Certainly I know my CP cost considerably more than that! 

luckbox

In my experience our registry office used a form of dynamic pricing for our CP, so we chose the Thursday morning slot to make things official. If we wanted a weekend slot it would have been a lot more.