FAO married people

tsgray70 · 15 Feb 2011 at 15:16

Mine cost about £100 17 years ago. Most expensive thing was the licence at about £60. Wifes friend made dress, another made the cake. All guests went to the registry office on the bus. I already had suit. We took the cake to the pub.

We were young, in love and completely skint. I had to sell my TV to get the license money.

Tysonator · 15 Feb 2011 at 15:22

Andybtsn said:
15k.

Honeymoon was about 6k. So 22k odd.

We split up 3 months later

Gutted !

I feel for you on this !

Edrof · 15 Feb 2011 at 15:23

tsgray70 said:
I had to sell my TV to get the license money.

I read that as "I had to sell myself as a TV to get the license money" :eek:

Cleverchap · 15 Feb 2011 at 15:33

Depends what you are having, and how many "distant" relations you have. Sadly, in my case, it's a big fat greek wedding, and hiring our what would be the equivalent of a functional venue.

Close to 350 or so people coming! £40 a head, unlimited wine and soft drinks, folks helping towards the beer/spirits, and missus family helping for wedding dress and other bits.

Working out around £25k or so ... not including the honeymoon.

Having said that my sister got married last year (well oct 09) and had £29k pinned on her ... So you actually, it might not cost you a penny ...

The only thing I have to sell are my dancing skills to make the money to go towards the band and then the traditional money dance ha ha

Cheers,
Chris P

Admiral Huddy · 15 Feb 2011 at 15:52

_Jimlad_ said:
less than 3k... had over 300 people as well..

we asked the guests to bring a dish instead of a present...

church - £500
Hall - £300
Band - £800
hog Roast - £800
Various - £500

Brilliant - good for you mate.. I bet you both a lot less stress and had great fun with that.. Better than a stuck up show case parade that weddings have now become today..

**** me, when I think that my parents got married in Church and had a few people round my Nan's "best" living room, which no one ever entered.. I wasn't there to see it though. They are still together 50 years or so later.. which just goes to show that that spending obscene money holds no guarantee for life long happiness or someone who was on a budget.. which people actually do believe.!!

Cleverchap said:
Close to 350 or so people coming! £40 a head, unlimited wine and soft drinks, folks helping towards the beer/spirits, and missus family helping for wedding dress and other bits.

Sorry, but out of those 350 people, how many people do you actually know? Would you take those people out for slap up meal one random Saturday evening? Probably not.. Why pay £40 for someone you hardly know, if at all.. It's obsurd... Didn't some politician say "We've never had it so good". Going by the silly money being mentioned here, he's probably right.

_Jimlad_ · 15 Feb 2011 at 15:56

cheers mate, it was not that we did not have the money, but just did not wanna pay silly amounts per person! it was more important that ALL our friends were there, it was only last August, the next day we drove a chilla van of food down to the homeless centre too!

z3b3dy · 15 Feb 2011 at 15:59

I'm not going to mention any figures but we made sure that our honeymoon budget was at least 3 times our wedding day budget (we paid for everything ourselves).

MADEinSTOKE · 15 Feb 2011 at 16:10

£500 only 6 months ago

Skully · 15 Feb 2011 at 16:49

Around £11,000 including honeymoon.

Her parents paid for the lot! Got my eye on their house next

Curio · 15 Feb 2011 at 17:10

Next to nothing. Got married at the registry office in Warwick (nice pics of us in front of castle, etc) had a great meal at a nice hotel after with family and close friends. Wife got a great deal on a nice dress from the clothes boutique she worked at. I wore the suit I wore to my brothers wedding. I can't remember the exact amount, but it was low 100's for sure. One nice bonus was that my brothers first job was as a wedding photographer - so that didn't cost us a penny either

Neither of us saw any point in spending a large amount of money. It was a perfect day and if you saw the pictures you would probably think it cost thousands.

RetiredGreyFox · 15 Feb 2011 at 17:22

My Sister In Laws was great.
Married at the Registrar in a normal dress
Straight to the pub for drinks
And then onto McDonalds for the meal

Still married after 15 years.

Clipsey · 15 Feb 2011 at 17:26

dmpoole said:
My Sister In Laws was great.
Married at the Registrar in a normal dress
Straight to the pub for drinks
And then onto McDonalds for the meal

Still married after 15 years.

Sounds awful to me

Edrof · 15 Feb 2011 at 17:37

It was alright until McDonald's was mentioned. Should have at least been KFC.

RetiredGreyFox · 15 Feb 2011 at 17:51

Forde said:
It was alright until McDonald's was mentioned. Should have at least been KFC.

But we'd been in the pub all afternoon and McDonalds was right across the road and then back into the pub - http://goo.gl/maps/KAS3

gillywibble · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:05

simulatorman said:
Was that the registry office, a few pints in pub and back to your place for the honeymoon?

Not far off. Registry office (by double decker bus), back to the pub and then a reception at the local club.

You don't need to spend a fortune

!bluetonic! · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:21

I get married in March. The wife-to-be said that ours is costing near 16k..

I couldn't believe the registry people cost so much.

We have a videographers, a live band, a string quartet and everything we wanted except tight-rope walking elephants.

DBT85 · 15 Feb 2011 at 19:34

vonhelmet said:
The trouble is that plenty of people are spending silly sums when they can't afford it.

The other side of that is plenty of people are more than capable of affording it and are getting berated for doing so. If we hadn't had the money we wouldn't have spent it, anyone that does shouldn't be getting bloody married in the first place.

Tysonator · 16 Feb 2011 at 13:08

!bluetonic! said:
I get married in March. The wife-to-be said that ours is costing near 16k..

I couldn't believe the registry people cost so much.

We have a videographers, a live band, a string quartet and everything we wanted except tight-rope walking elephants.

I was going to have some thing simular until I got the qoutes ! !

Prices just go up for a service as soon as you mention 'Wedding' !

boxman2000 · 17 Feb 2011 at 15:13

£3.5k including church, wedding car, 5 course meal at lovely hotel for 120 people and pro photographer - certainly didn't scrimp.

My mum did flowers and cake, also co-created the wedding dress with my mother-in-law. We only had champagne for toasting and there was a bar people could buy drinks if they wanted to (we couldn't afford alcoholic drinks and no way were we going to go into debt for people to drink with money we didn't have!)

Most of my friends that have gotten married over the past 5 years spent well under £7k, many under £5k and none of them looked cheap or felt restricted by budget.

LordSplodge · 17 Feb 2011 at 16:03

Admiral Huddy said:
Sorry, but out of those 350 people, how many people do you actually know? Would you take those people out for slap up meal one random Saturday evening? Probably not.. Why pay £40 for someone you hardly know, if at all.. It's obsurd... Didn't some politician say "We've never had it so good". Going by the silly money being mentioned here, he's probably right.

I never got the need to invite everybody and their dog.

Mrs LordSplodge* and I invited only immediate family and a select few others to the main event and a few more including close friends to the reception.

This was done because me and the wife didn't want this day to be about providing free food and drink to all and sundry - the day is about us! Secondly as the wedding meal and reception was held on a steam train had we invited any more we would have needed to hire more turn of the century carriages and they didn't come cheap.

* I like the sound of that. i wonder if she'd consider changing her name by deed poll?