Just wanting to say hi!

Froggy-G

atypicalblonde wrote: »

:oAfternoon peeps, happy Friday to you all :beer:
Life continues a-pace here, we are still saving frantically for the wedding and hope the hit the £4k mark in the next week. I suspect that our plans to save £10k by the end of the year may be a little ambitious and it may end up being more like £7.5k, but TBH that is still pretty flippin good .

In essence, we are saving on the basis that we are paying for the whole wedding and honeymoon (we are asking for spending money for a wedding pressie so don't need to think about that). The budget for the wedding is £10k, and the honeymoon is £3k (please don't shout at me). OH's parents have suggested they will donate circa £3k to the wedding pot, but I really don't want to rely on this and then it not happen IYSWIM, so if they do contribute it will be a lovely surprise and bonus.

Mortgage is still coming down nicely thanks to our new arrangement :T and we are living as MSE as possible (most of the time :cool:) so all is good here.

Any tips to save money on a wedding are greatly appreciated - I have been on the wedding forum but everyone there is super organised and it freaks me out a bit . My main concern is the hire of suits and buying bridesmaid dresses - we are paying for 8 suits in total due to step parents on both side and step-brothers who are ushers, I dread to think how much that will cost :eek: Plus I heard that the average spend on a bridesmaids dress is £180 :eek:! I have 3 plus a flower girl - Eeeek!

Anyway, I am ranting now and realise this isnt really MFW related, so I'll toddle off before my thread is shifted to the wedding forum ;):D xxx

Hello :j

OH & I got married in 2007.. I had 3 ushers & a best man, and OH had 3 bridesmaids.. All very expensive... We kept to tradition with the bridesmaids, and got the dresses off the peg in the high street.. You can find good bargains (£60 to £100), and I would ask them to pay for their own shoes & jewellery...
As for the men, I had some in manchester, some in Reading, and some in France, so therefore getting the same suit for everybody was a no no.. We bought the same tie for all the blokes, and left it up to them to get their own suit... I would only get the suit for the best man... In order for the guests to distinguish who were teh ushers, they all had the same tie and button holes...

that way we cut off a large chunk of the costs...

Hope it helps...

Froggy G :rotfl:

katsu

We've just been to a wedding and the groom asked DH to wear a specific colour of suit and style of shirt (which we paid for) and provided a coloured tie (bridge and groom paid for). All ushers, best man etc looked OK as their suits fitted and suited them individually IYSWIM

For our wedding we let ushers, best man etc wear what they liked and they stood out because they were wearing buttonholes that matched my bouquet. The photos look fine to me TBH.