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LiE said:
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.
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May I ask why spend that amount? £17k is a fair wack of a deposit for a house, a new car or a decent chop off any existing mortgage.. That would nearly pay mine off :D

We are having an anniversary party in June.. Village hall on the common.. (lovely grounds) for 220 people, buffet, bouncy castles, booze all for less than 2 grand. Why are looking for a live band to play so we are looking at £3k.. Add the ceremony costs and outfits.. surely that come to less £5k but considerable less £14.5k

I hate the fact people are invited to a wedding breakfast you hardly know just because they are partner to someone you do.. My wife was invited to reception from a girl at her work.. I wasn't invited which is fair enough I thought.. I joined her for the evening.. Good for her by being honest..
 
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December last year - Including dress, ring, honeymoon to Egypt, around 17k. Best day of our lives so far, both really enjoyed ourselves.
 
About £4k including ten nights in Prague. We had lots of people help out - wife's mum made the dress, my mum did the cake, wife's sister's boyfriend did the food for about 120 people at cost. Loads of money to be saved if you have friends who can help.
 
<£3,000. Getting married in July.

Goal was to be as cheap as possible, neither of us wish to spend months worth of rent on less than 24 hours.
 
vonhelmet said:
About £4k including ten nights in Prague. We had lots of people help out - wife's mum made the dress, my mum did the cake, wife's sister's boyfriend did the food for about 120 people at cost. Loads of money to be saved if you have friends who can help.
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That's certainly the way to do it.. Hats off to you Von..

The day is about the coming together and celebration of two people.. It's not a parade for exhibition.
 
12k in total.

the above price included our honeymoon to the maldives too.

I thought it was a ridiculous amount of money at the time but have been to weddings since then that have cost a hell of a lot more and werent at as nice a venue etc.

I suppose it depends on what value you put onto one day, and how much of that value you are willing to say goodbye to just for some memories, to me it just wasnt worth the amount of money we paid out....the wife has a different opinion.
 
Ours cost about £8k 4 years ago. If I had not controlled the costs it would have been over £10k but with a bit of negotiation here and there and just keeping things sensible we had a fantastic day without getting overcharged/ripped off/generally financially abused.

People seem to thing haggling on wedding services is uncool.
 
I know when I get married, I am going to try and hire Raymond Lin for the photography :D

What are prices like abroad? A friend got married in Greece last summer, I don't know how much it cost but I am willing to bet it would be under a lot of the figures in this thread (I think :o)

Look at this for a view at his wedding :eek:

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Married back in 2005 - total cost was around the 35k mark. But we got married abroad so that added to the cost in one way but detracted from it as it discouraged the relatives we didn't really want there but might feel compelled to invite if it was closer to home. :p
 
Back in September last year my wife arranged our whole wedding in 8 weeks for £9k, should have cost £30k but got a cancellation on the wedding venue, which would have cost £15k had we pre-booked it but got it for £6k including meal for 60 guests, buffet for 100, all rooms and breakfast, we had the service at the venue too. The remaining £3k went on everything else, we didn't go away for a honeymoon, instead we went to Thorpe Park :p
 
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My wedding cost equivalent of £500 15 years ago - got married on the beach in Whangamata, New Zealand in Spring had a massive BBQ in a pit in the sand and a hangi for around 100 friends and family. A great time had by all.
 
I am genuinely amazed at the sheer waste of money that some people want put into a single day. It is such a shame to fritter away hard-earned that can be pout to soooo much better use. You have the rest of your life to spend together and enjoyt the fact you're married so to us, it just beggars belief the amount of effort and money that gets peed away over a single day in that life.
 
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.
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I totally agree. Each to their own I guess, but for me that would be a giant waste of money which is more about giving the wedding industry money for a cookie-cutter wedding that is the same as everyone else's.

I think the only thing worth spending extra money on is a wedding planner. Then you get to do the fun bits and she/he gets the worry.
 
Conanius said:
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 !
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We only spent that much because we could afford it (parents paid a lot of it)... we did exactly what we wanted on the day - two ceremonies (register wedding, followed by part of Hindu wedding), and had everyone there we wanted. Why shouldn't we be able to spend what we want on the wedding? :confused:
 
16 years ago and we were skint.
Registry office, reception in pub and a weekend in St Ives. Can't remember how much it cost but certainly less than 1k. Spending 20 or 30 k on a wedding is a complete waste. Much better to spend that money on improving your home or saving it.
 
I am fairly certain my GF would prefer a cheap wedding and a Lotus afterwards rather than 20k spent on 1 day :D

Just one of the reasons she is brilliant and I love her very much!
 
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