2019 Wedding

Impressed by all the savings people are making on their weddings! Can anyone recommend some great venues on a budget? Ideally looking in Greater London / Surrey / Hertfordshire.

Me and my fiancee have been looking but the costs are so high. Found a lovely venue which costs around £7000 for 70 guests including drinks and wedding breakfast (which is pretty reasonable for what it is) but it's everything else on top that's taking the cost to beyond what we want to pay. Very difficult to find the right balance between having the things we'd like to make it a special day but on a budget.

kdalwayskint - not long at all now :j

Realised I never came back and updated previously - wedding booked for 2nd Nov. BUT wish we'd gone for another date now - wedding ceremony at 11.30am basically found out after booking that it's at the same time the Rugby World Cup Final finishes. OH family are massive rugby fans so this could be an issue and all I keep being told is we'll have to make sure the TV is on

Bit fed up to be honest - felt like I'd made a dent in sorting stuff but now it's just feeling never ending and new stuff coming up all the time that hadn't even thought of.

Went to a couple of local wedding fayres which weren't particularly helpful apart from establishing exactly what we do not want - which was basically anything at them.
I think our style is so far removed from the usual wedding scene - or at least from the style at these particular wedding fayres.
One woman started reeling off a list of ed Sheeran songs she could sing - meant nothing to us, we said it wasn't our type of music - to which she then assumed we were goths (and no we don't look like goths either) and started offering us loads of black things she could decorate the venue with :rotfl:

Sorted so far;

Notice
Venue
Photographer
Save the dates - kind of - we just ended up Facebooking family who don't live locally in the end
Dress - not coming until Aug/Sept time and it will be first time I will have seen it in Ivory- one I tried on was dark green :eek:
Hair and make up
Ceremony wording

Flowers - ish sorted, had a meeting last week but awaiting a quote

Need to sort:
Food - venue has caters but need to pick all choices for whole weekend. Realised they don't do tastings either. We're both Veggie and want the whole weekend to be meat free sure some won't be too keen on that but sure they'll live. Main issue is their veggie options seem to be quite 'token' meals ie cheese tart, so hoping they will agree to do something different (they did indicate they would at initial meeting)

Rings - We were going to go bespoke and had a meeting with a designer but she went AWOL for ages and I had to keep chasing for quote. lost confidence - to be honest I think she forgot then hastily put together some sketches which were almost totally opposite of what I had said I wanted. Think I've found the ring I want on Etsy but it's from Italy and never seen in person so just a little reluctant ordering.
Guest list - not sure if to invite anyone else, or maybe some more for evening or just leave as is (25 guests currently attending)
Invites
Decoration - probably not too much needed but had a few plans of a few bits

Cake - this is proving incredibly hard because we want something that's not a wedding cake. Know what we want it just finding the right person to execute.
Basically we had a cake years ago from this Cafe on a day trip in bath - and we jokingly remarked at the time that should be our wedding cake, if all else fails I may contact them but it's just the logistics of getting the cake from Bath to me if they agreed.

Ceremony music - had kind of decided but not 100% committed yet.

Evening music - were just doing iTunes on a laptop but wanted to put together a playlist which we still need to sort
Suit for OH

I'm sure there's plenty more that I've not even thought of yet......:D

hey everyone , I'm back after a long hiatus.
Wow , everyone's weddings are coming along nicely and coming so fast!