FAO married people

A good friend of mine just got married over a month ago and it cost him around £1600 thats for everything except the honeymoon
Registry office
Homemade food with the reception in the local village hall
I made the cake for him with my partners uber cake making skills
Suit for less than £100 and im pretty sure the dress was not much over that

But as said above many many times it all depends on what you want and what your happy with.

It doesnt have to be expensive to be nice
 
First one was around 5K 10 years ago. Czech castle, town hall, great meal for around 30 or so. No honeymoon IIRC.

Second was in Singapore around 5 years ago and about the same price. We made the cost of the reception back plus a little more due to the red packets given as wedding gifts.

I had to pay fully for both without any assistance and no, I am not particularly well off. My wife had to wait until this year to get a reasonable engagement ring as we managed to get a good price when we sold our apartment.

As we have two sons with another on the way, traditionally, I will have to pay for their weddings as well which is likely to be a much higher cost as it is all about creating a big 'Wow' here with inviting just about everyone you can. I am sorting out the savings plans now :D.

RB
 
£40k last year, not including honeymoon and engagement ring. There were a lot of people at the wedding (150 - both have a big family) and then 300 to the night time party.
 
cm1179 said:
over 1k for a dress that will be worn for one day? (the best day of her life hopefully granted) but it's a bit over the odds imo and far better spent on a once in a lifetime trip or on a house deposit, childrens fund etc
Click to expand...

it cost us £250 to have my GF's daughters wedding dress washed and put in a box alone!!

wedding was about 18k total.... a mind bending waste of money when we are not rich...
 
An old friend of mine got married in August last year. They already had a child before they did get married and guess what? Just before christmas I find out they have broke up... wtf? I think the divorce is not far off. what a joke! Not sure how much they spent though but It was a big gathering.
 
I couldn't agree more with KNiVES. Utter madness some of the costs of these weddings. Chap I know spend over 40k on his daughters wedding and honeymoon. I cost him dearly to the point he down graded his house, got very ill only to find the couple didn't even get to the first anniversary. I'm not saying this is the fate of every wedding but weddings today just seem to be charade to fore fill a womens childhood fantasy of being a princess for a day.

Our wedding cost around 4k about 10 years ago.. Hired a local hotel, light lunch and buffet. I went to one recently that hired a hall and had a fish and chip van come round - superb.
 
Nearly 11 years ago...

Wedding was around £600.
Honeymoon was around £5,000.

No rings. No wedding dresses, etc. It was a relaxed, simple, lovely day and we spent all the money on the honeymoon. I'd do it the same way again. I know so many people who get stressed over their wedding days when it's actually just a big show for other people. So instead wee just drove into London and got married at the Marylebone registry office, then had a meal opposite, drove home and jumped on a plane out to Malaysia for the honeymoon.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I couldn't agree more with KNiVES. Utter madness some of the costs of these weddings. Chap I know spend over 40k on his daughters wedding and honeymoon. I cost him dearly to the point he down graded his house, got very ill only to find the couple didn't even get to the first anniversary. I'm not saying this is the fate of every wedding but weddings today just seem to be charade to fore fill a womens childhood fantasy of being a princess for a day.

Our wedding cost around 4k about 10 years ago.. Hired a local hotel, light lunch and buffet. I went to one recently that hired a hall and had a fish and chip van come round - superb.
Click to expand...

Holy hell? 40k and then it don't last a year? I also agree with you on the last part too. It's silly the amount some people spend. So glad I am not getting married.
 
Getting married in August, looks to be costing about £17k including £2.5k honeymoon. 70 people to the ceremony/breakfast and 140 to the evening.
 
MrLOL said:
Thing is i'm not alone.

Watch any of the wedding related reality TV that's about and you'll see this is repeated all over the country.

But people just accept it because of their preconceived ideas as to what a wedding should be. Doing it any different, ie without huge amounts of friends and family and with a big lavish ceremony is often seen as something to be ashamed of.

Not in the 21st century its not.

You sound like you had it lucky. Very few can hold a reception for a large ammount of people and have 2 families and have no arguments over seating arrangements at least.
Click to expand...

I agree with this guy. Not been married or likely to be anytime soon as missing a vital component lol. But if family started to get involved like it happened to this guy it would seriously do my head in.
 
Some of the numbers in this thread are a total joke.

The special part of the day is the vows, not the castle you splash a years salary renting for 6 hours.

I've been to a few mates weddings over the last few years. Sure the expensive ones were good, but the one that was a registry office followed by a hog roast in his parents garden was in no way worse and I dont believe this cost more than 2k.

Spend the money on a bigger house or better honey moon ..... or just avoid the debt !
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom