How much was everyones wedding?

£400, 18 years ago. Registry office, then off to the local Royal legion where father-in-law had hired a function room with bar. Obviously being at the Royal legion drinks where dirt cheap which was a bonus. Had sit down meal sorted by local catering service then some old dude did a disco. Then off to local Hotel for the night.

Much fun was enjoyed by everyone!

can never see the point is spending thousands the day is what you make it with your families don't need thousands to do that.......

have told our kids they can expect the same so not to come to us and expect us to pay for anything.
 
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Mate - thats cheap as!

Well done!

We're doing ours on a STRICT budget, and its come in at ~£7k
 
Our church + trimmings (Bells, choir, flowers) is ~£900

Reception 60, then an extra 60 for evening) is about £4.5k

Dress, dunno, but she bought one in error which we cant return, so probs best i dont know ;)

be happy you got a bargain.

RDIT: THought i clicked the dit button, as opposed to reply, but there ya go! :o
 
No idea, her folks paid for it (poor buggers have three daughters).

However most of the cash was on food, booze and a decent band. You might remember the wedding, but everyone else will remember the reception. Mother in law made the bride's and bridesmaids' dresses and we had the reception for 140 in a marquee in their garden.

Best wedding I've ever been to. I bet it cost somewhere around £11,000.
 
Looks nice.. and i enjoy a good wedding but I personally I think they are a waste of money just to satisfy some womans childhood fairytale fantasy..

Our wedding came to around £5.. we had exclusive use of a local hotel and grounds which were stunning. No church service though.. We weren't allowed as I had been previously married.. Pretty hypercritical of the CoE really.

We had a great day. It was nice having the ceremony and the reception all in one place so none of this false leaving the church first and arriving at the reception last driving round and round for 30 for minutes whilst people get themselves sorted. It meant we could start chatting to guests straight afterwards and chill.

In hindsight, both of us wished we'd got married abroad somewhere leaving guests to make there own way. True friends and family would have come. We both resented paying for sit down meals for people we hardly knew, like guests partners and distant relatives you've not seen since you were two..

We went to a wedding recently were they only invited their closest friends and family to the day. Since it was my wife’s friend and I hardly knew the girl, I was only invited to the evening which was fine. Hats off to their honesty and putting their foot down.
 
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Got married May 07 in a Himley Hall near Wolverhampton and then onto a Hotel out in the Worcestershire countryside. To be honest we kinda lost track of what it cost but circa £6k to £7k for 30 guests.
 
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Looks nice.. and i enjoy a good wedding but I personally I think they are a waste of money just to satisfy some womans childhood fairytale fantasy..
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Each to their own of course by my wedding was one of the most important days of my life. It was a weekend that I will never forget and worth every penny.
 
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Each to their own of course by my wedding was one of the most important days of my life. It was a weekend that I will never forget and worth every penny.
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Of course mate.. Sorry it wasn't criticism, just a cynical old mans opinion!

I enjoyed my day too and apart from my kids being born, it was the best day of my life but it is expensive never less.
 
Mine in 2003.

Church - £350
Reception venue - free
DJ - £100
Buffet dinner (Hot carved meats, hot boiled potatoes, seasonal veg, whole dressed salmon, KFC style chicken, pizza, fries, salad) - £700 for 80 people.
28 bottles of wine (one red, one white on each table) - £130
Cars to/from church - free (wedding present from parents).
Cake - free (wedding present from aunt)
Decorations for reception - £50
Dress - free (made by relative - wedding present)
Suits - £80 each (half price offer from Moss Bros)
Photographer - free (uncle, wedding present)
Flowers - £80
Invites - did them ourselves, maybe £30 in stationery.
Edit:- Forgot about the rings - plain gold bands - mine £140, hers £80.

All in, £1870

And I thank the Lord everyday that I have a wife with inexpensive tastes. Having said that, it was an awesome do that I'll never forget it. Everyone I spoke to the following week said it was one of the best weddings they've been too :-)

The other key is that when you book the reception venue and the food, don't tell them it's for a wedding :-)

My opinion - as long as your friends and family are with you and you have a good place to get plastered that night (and cheaply) then it's a success. Who cares what fancy food, decorations, favours (does anybody eat sugared almonds?) you have?

Although if you want to spend £30k that's also fine - it's your day so do what you want. Plus your keeping people in a job :-)
 
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It will probably be the best day of your life.

That is until you have your first kid

Then your wedding day will probably pale into insignificance & you really will learn what never ending expenditure is.

Luckily my wife had more sense than to spend more than £10,000 on one days extravagance (not only losing the meaning of marriage, but also getting sucked into the materialistic overexpenditure) - And we have both agreed if we were to do it again, it would half the amount of people and half the amount of claptrap.
 
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Then your wedding day will probably pale into insignificance & you really will learn what never ending expenditure is
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This I don't understand either. Then again, my little boys are only 2yrs and 9 months, so maybe I have reached the expensive stage yet.
 
So how common is it that parents pay for their kids weddings?

My boyfriend told me that for both his brothers weddings, both sets of parents paid half. My parents can just about afford to pay the bills, let alone half a wedding :(

Not that I'm getting married any time soon, but just wondered.
 
£3400 (inc. honeymoon in Sri Lanka) in 2003. It was an absolutely brilliant day followed up by a great honeymoon.

Whilst in Sri Lanka we got talking to a few more brits (3 couples). The average they had spent on wedding + honeymoon was close to £20k. What a waste of cash tbh, your wedding day goes so quickly. I'd be spending £5k max then putting the rest away to put into a mortgage or to provide amazing holidays for the next 4 years (a guaranteed quality break for the short-term future, which arguably is more important than a lavish wedding and probably better for the relationship).

My boyfriend told me that for both his brothers weddings, both sets of parents paid half. My parents can just about afford to pay the bills, let alone half a wedding
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Tradition has it that the bride's father(parents) pays.
 
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