FAO married people

Rings £400
Wedding $275 inc limo and witnesses at The Little Chapel of The West in Vegas
Three weeks driving around California, Nevada & Arizona £3,000
Big fat party with all our friends when we got back inc excellent band £1,500

Bargain and not one regret :)
 
We hardly spent anything. We decided that it would be a waste to blow 15k on one day, so we eloped. The hotel was really posh, but my family wanted to pay for it. Then we came back home and hired a really nice old viallge hall and had a blessing which cost about £500 in total.

It was all perfect. We would have hated spending thousands on the exact same wedding that everyone else has.
 
Mine was about £6,000 - but it was 20 years ago and we only had a very small wedding with a marquee in my parents garden.

I worked with a very clever young woman about 5 years back who reckoned she couldn't afford to buy a house with her fiancee but apparently she could afford to blow £25,000 on a truly lavish wedding. Crazy. Just crazy. That could have been a 20-25% deposit on a decent flat or small house, but she blew it on a big dress and a huge pi$$-up.

They got divorced less than 2 years later. Horrific.
 
Andybtsn said:
15k.

Honeymoon was about 6k. So 22k odd.

We split up 3 months later
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How do you even get in that situation?! Were you with her long? Surely you dont spend £22k on a wedding unless you are absolutely sure she is the one, which she can't be if she's gone 3 months later :eek:
 
I'm not sure exactly as my dad paid for most but I would have thought about £9k for the wedding, £3k for the honeymoon. but we came in about £8k under our budget as we didn't want to rinse my dad for all his money.
 
[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 :(
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We felt exactly the same. The thing about spending a shed load on weddings is that you arent doing it for yourselves, you're doing it for everyone else.

For us, the wedding was a ceremony to show our commitment to each other (after 13 years together before getting married I suppose that shows commitment enough but hey) and that doesnt need to cost very much. Thats why we had a very small wedding abroad with only immediate family and very close friends.
 
God only knows, the wife's parents paid for it all. I would assume over £35k including the honeymoon.

The engagement ring was £1900, that was 15 years ago.
 
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