FAO married people

GravyMonster · 17 Feb 2011 at 16:06

IIRC including honeymoon it came to about £11k.

britboy4321 · 17 Feb 2011 at 16:19

£9000.

350 people so serious compromises (no photographer, got mate to do it. Place kicked us out at midnight. £6 bottles of wine on tables, not £16. You get the idea ...)

Evening guests pay for themselves in as much as they'll spend £50 per person on a present for you .. but they cost about £50 each for their drinks etc.

kristmace · 17 Feb 2011 at 16:32

You can end up spending so much.

I bet ours was less than £5000, and that was with 200 guests.

You'll have to cut a few corners, but we thought it was worth it just so we could accommodate and pay for that many people.

DBT85 · 17 Feb 2011 at 19:49

Admiral Huddy said:
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.!!

I don't honestly think anyone thinks something so absurd. Some might think that they will look bad if they don't have a big wedding, and that is wrong and sad at the same time. And there are also plenty of people who will think badly of a could that does have a cheapo wedding which again is wrong.

But honestly, nobody believes that spending big money on a wedding means happiness.

SoSolid · 19 Feb 2011 at 14:58

LOL marriage. I laugh at the silly amounts spent on signing a bit of paper. I'd rather have a cheap wedding (assuming I was silly enough to marry) and then travel the world for a couple of months for the honeymoon.

SexyGreyFox · 19 Feb 2011 at 15:41

My Sister In Law just got married again aged 47 (after 12 years living together) and that was a very basic cheap wedding.
They went on their honeymoon and took their best friends so she would have somebody to talk to and he would have somebody to play golf with

atpbx · 19 Feb 2011 at 16:21

We spent about 3k including the honeymoon.

fini · 19 Feb 2011 at 16:29

boxman2000 said:
£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!)

Wait, that doesn't seem right. Pro-photographers (rather than someone who happens to own a camera and charges) start at around £1k so that leaves £2.5k immediately. Wedding car + church are likely to be around £500 together leaving £2k for 120 people - that's £16 a head for a 5 course meal!

Tysonator · 19 Feb 2011 at 18:07

Now I own a DSLR and also know others with decent DSLR's I would 3 or 4 of them at my wedding instead of wasting money on professional, who IMO did not do that much of a good job !

Redmint · 19 Feb 2011 at 19:42

Looking at some of these numbers makes me glad my OH isn't keen on the idea of getting married.

D.P. · 19 Feb 2011 at 20:46

[TW]Fox;18466396 said:
At the moment I have this idea I'd rather spend as little as possible on the wedding and spend the entire saving on the honeymoon.

Because the perfect DAY followed by 2 weeks in Spain sucks compared to a nice day followed by a 2 month tour of the world. I think the latter offers the better memory.

I'm sure the flaws will present themselve soon enough

I'm with you on that.

SexyGreyFox · 20 Feb 2011 at 16:40

http://www.google.com/weddings/

Mint_Sauce · 23 Feb 2011 at 20:07

dmpoole said:
This saddens me that you think you didn't have a proper wedding because you didn't spend 15k+.
Every day on these forums people laugh at scams but the wedding scam is the biggest of all.
You are made to feel inferior if you haven't spent X amount on stuff - what a crock.
My 22 year old work colleague is getting married this year so I have to listen to about 10 women chatting about it - that's fair enough but when I hear the prices for the most stupidest of things I have to reach fo ranother heart tablet.
I'm pretty sure my daughters have got the same thoughts as me on weddings and they will do theirs as cheap as possible.

I don't feel inferior for spending less, it's just we dragged everyone down to us (most of our friends are from London and we're Devon based). Our reception was like an old school hall and we didn't really do a lot (I basically did nothing!

).

If we had spent a bit more time on planning (not money) I think it would have been a better celebration. Money helps facilitate but we certainly don't think spending money makes us better, to hell with anyone who judges you on what you spend on anything.