How much did it cost you get married?

Brutal biff · 29 May 2015 at 15:47

Me and the missis have been together nearly 8 years now so have decided to tie the knot and make it official

We're looking at febuary 2017 and the costs are eye watering what we've been looking at

I know registry office and a pub reception is much cheaper but we've decided to have a day to remember so we've set a budget of 7k

robnut · 29 May 2015 at 15:49

4.5k In a country house all in. lucked out with car and photographer though.

George Hincapie · 29 May 2015 at 15:49

£10K for the cermony and reception.

chroniclard · 29 May 2015 at 15:50

IIRC about 25k roughly, then honeymoon.

Lima · 29 May 2015 at 15:54

£14k ish for wedding (100ish day guests, further 40 or so in evening)
£5k honeymoon

chief barker · 29 May 2015 at 15:58

About tree fiddy.

Mrs Chief was not happy.

zootfloot · 29 May 2015 at 15:58

Too much.

Save your pennies for a mega holiday and have a much smaller, low key wedding instead.

You'll remember the day just the same, but you'll remember the mega holiday even more

Burned_Alive · 29 May 2015 at 16:00

Somewhere in the region of £15-18k for the wedding, including dress and rings (as they were paid for outside of our original set budget of £15k). Around £7k for the honeymoon.

The key to a cheap wedding is to invite as few people as possible, or at the very least dont invite them all to the day

cheesyboy · 29 May 2015 at 16:01

£18k all in, including honeymoon. 7 years ago

Was a great day but..... I do think we should have done it a bit cheaper.

Difficult to do a "traditional" wedding for less than about £10-12k, though, I would say.

Akagi · 29 May 2015 at 16:02

Nowhere near as much as it will cost you to get un-married, according to the threads I've seen on here.

GinG · 29 May 2015 at 16:02

I think ours was around the £20k - £22k mark including honeymoon.

Cosimo · 29 May 2015 at 16:03

Acme said:
Nowhere near as much as it will cost you to get un-married, according to the threads I've seen on here.

Getting married to a Polo was an expensive business.

Randomface74 · 29 May 2015 at 16:04

Jeez... could have a few of those 8pack rigs for that.

doesn't talk back either

chief barker · 29 May 2015 at 16:06

My wedding was dirt cheap as I said.

I'm not paying for people to get drunk start fights and **** off the wedding which is normally what happens.

Gixer · 29 May 2015 at 16:07

Damn price of weddings is something that puts me off wanting to get married in the first place. Ridiculous as that may sound but I really see it as pointless spending all that money on ONE day! The reason I would want to get married is to show my ultimate commitment to my partner, not be fleeced by one company after another all because what you are purchasing is for a wedding.

Call me Mr grumpy guts but I'd rather have the cheap registry office venue then spend all the money that would have been spent on the rest of that ONE day travelling around the world and gaining far more memories and fun experiences for around 31 days, might be more destination dependent!

Everyone is different though and I do appreciate some have a little more spare cash to splash more frequently than others.

Akagi · 29 May 2015 at 16:10

Cosimo said:
Getting married to a Polo was an expensive business.

HEY! Moxxi and I, err, I mean, my car and I, wait no... Me and my car, are not married! :mad:

Malt_Vinegar · 29 May 2015 at 16:14

The Mrs and I think we can do it under £500

Sweeet

yer_averagejoe · 29 May 2015 at 16:16

Christ. I've been working for 6 years now and have 25k to my name. No way is that getting blown on a wedding.

chroniclard · 29 May 2015 at 16:16

chief barker said:
My wedding was dirt cheap as I said.

I'm not paying for people to get drunk start fights and **** off the wedding which is normally what happens.

Have never seen a fight at a wedding.

Sankari · 29 May 2015 at 16:18

£2.5k, just under 10 years ago. Lots of mates helping out (including the professional photographer) so we saved a ton of cash by paying little or nothing for services which would otherwise have cost a packet.