How much did it cost you get married?

SexyGreyFox · 30 May 2015 at 18:49

V F said:
Is it because of this?

More like this -

Malevolence · 30 May 2015 at 19:02

SpeedFreak said:
5k cermony and small lunch for 100
3k outfits and flowers and rings
1k photographer
15k evening meal for 300
3k honeymoon

cash gifts from guests were about £15k which offset a lot of the cost.

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SexyGreyFox · 30 May 2015 at 19:36

Malevolence said:
We have a Youtube button! \0/

Since when?
I keep typing the code in.

Malevolence · 30 May 2015 at 19:38

Dimple said:
Since when?
I keep typing the code in.

No idea, it can't have been more than a day or so though.

Now if only I can figure out how to get white text when replying.

robgmun · 30 May 2015 at 19:43

Looks like a new addition! Nice!

wilber · 30 May 2015 at 19:44

The figures posted here are one of the main reasons i do not want to pop the question! That and the revenge that will be enacted upon me.

Been together for 10 years this autumn and have plans for our future that cost money.

godinman · 30 May 2015 at 20:07

About 3k, 1.5k of that being honeymoon.

I guess it's all relative to what you are earning, but 20k on just one day seems absolutely mental to me, that's the same as our house deposit was!

We hired the local village hall for the reception, got the inside decked out with the white wall hanging drapes you get inside markees, family made the food, wife made the cake and as we only invited around 60 people we still had an open bar with more than enough for everyone to get suitable sloshed and have a cracking night. The next day we flew off to Croatia for a fortnight and came back debt free!

SpeedFreak · 30 May 2015 at 21:18

Moses said:
Could've just got your guests to pay for their evening meal, instead of paying for it and getting gifts back, and it'd've cost £12k . But I guess that sounds less impressive than dropping £27k and people giving you £15k.

That's how the Chinese like to do it. It's pretty much a given that they contribute £50 per head.

It was a bit odd, you do a tea ceremony and family give you gold rings, chains, bracelets etc...

Sgt_Pepper · 30 May 2015 at 22:22

Think I spent around £12k + 4k for the honeymoon, Missus split with me 2 months before.
Managed get some of it back, lost around £8k in total but still went on the honeymoon.

Dr House · 30 May 2015 at 22:44

Sgt_Pepper said:
Think I spent around £12k + 4k for the honeymoon, Missus split with me 2 months before.
Managed get some of it back, lost around £8k in total but still went on the honeymoon.

Thats sad but better before than after.

Part of what damaged my marriage was the cost of our wedding which ran into a unimaginable amount

[FnG]magnolia · 30 May 2015 at 22:50

Dr House said:
Thats sad but better before than after.

Part of what damaged my marriage was the cost of our wedding which ran into a unimaginable amount

Without picking that scab too much, what happened there? Were you the chap who spent 7 days in India?

Dr House · 31 May 2015 at 00:53

[FnG]magnolia;28106254 said:
Without picking that scab too much, what happened there? Were you the chap who spent 7 days in India?

yah, we had a huge engagement in the uk, a huge wedding in chatsworth house and then a even bigger one in india (2k people). Complete waste of money which caused a lot of friction all to keep the inlaws happy.

Live an learn, I will not be doing that again with my next marriage (if I get married again)

Combat squirrel · 31 May 2015 at 01:02

Dimple said:
Mine was nothing, hers was £22 and the photography was free.
Like most married couples our album went up into the attic 12 months later.

The best pictures I saw was a wedding where they gave out cheap cameras and everybody took pictures and gave the cameras back.

Diddums said:
This, a million times this. I also went to a wedding a few years ago where each table had a disposable jobbie on it and the door had a bucket for people to chuck them in after the event.

Some of the photos were excellent, no photographer could've caught those moments.

Then the hired photographer was useless :eek:

Yeah your right its about 'those moments', any good wedding tog will be doing the usual shots (at request of the couple), then at all other times should be on the ball watching the event like a hawk ready to capture those wonderful memories (which by definition are all candid shots)

I'm glad it worked out for you both, but all you have left after a wedding is the photos & rings, make both last

(Oh yeah and a wife or husband

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SexyGreyFox · 31 May 2015 at 02:04

Combat squirrel said:
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I'm glad it worked out for you both, but all you have left after a wedding is the photos & rings, make both last (Oh yeah and a wife or husband )

Err, me and Diddums are talking about other couples we know.
My marriage has lasted 35 years up to yet so nobody here can tell me what's right or wrong.

Glaucus · 31 May 2015 at 04:34

Tunney said:
Maybe some people can afford all three?

But yeah, I agree. Priority order for me would always be house deposit > honeymoon > wedding.

Some can, most people can't. 15k+ is a hell of a lot of money to the vast majority of the population.

Scougar · 31 May 2015 at 04:39

At least 20k. However, we as a couple didn't pay the vast majority of that.

Malevolence · 31 May 2015 at 06:29

All these people spending in excess of £20k to sign away their freedom, it beggars belief.

Feef · 31 May 2015 at 07:24

Total of about £600, though most of that was flights over to HK. That was the wedding for us, though we had to have a second thing back in Taiwan for all of the parents' friends etc, around 560 people. I have no idea how much that cost, but as pointed out about, it was covered by the guests paying (with enough left over for us that I could finally wipe out my credit card, woo!)

passey89 · 31 May 2015 at 08:43

5k
Got married in florida at a stately home.

Incl 5 star marriot world centre 2 weeks stay. Flights for me wife and son, disney park tickets, sea life, bush gardens, transfers, discovery cove.

LordSplodge · 31 May 2015 at 09:45

Malevolence said:
All these people spending in excess of £20k to sign away their freedom, it beggars belief.

Agree about the costs (spending 20K on one day is silly in my opinion) but you aren't signing away your freedom. I've been married decades and I've got plenty of freedom, thanks.