Planning a wedding

Jimbeam3678 · 30 Oct 2010 at 17:17

Dolph said:
Find a venue, shouldn't be too bad for March next year. Hope venue has wedding planner/coordinator, give them budget, take their advice and support

Thanks for the good advice as usual from yourself. I was hoping and halve assuming March would be a quiet time in the wedding world. Here's hoping

Do places tend to be open to a little bit of haggling on the price and/or throwing some freebies in ?

LordSplodge · 30 Oct 2010 at 17:32

If I was getting married in York I'd pop into the Railway Museum and see how much it would be to hire the Mallard.

Mind you I couldn't afford the price Midland Railway Centre wanted for the Duchess of Sutherland so I settled for a British Rail Standard Class 4.

The only bit of our wedding other than book the registrar down to me was the choice of steam train to pull the wedding train.

Sorry can't help you OP other than don't spend loads and avoid hotels. Like a wedding meat factory.

Skidder · 30 Oct 2010 at 17:41

LordSplodge said:
Sorry can't help you OP other than don't spend loads and avoid hotels. Like a wedding meat factory.

That's good advice many of the more typical wedding venues are extremely conveyor belt and will only let you choose from a limited list of caterers and other suppliers - if you go a bit off the beaten track you may find they are more amenable. We approached a local yacht club that we liked the look of from the river and they had never done a wedding before but were happy to rent us the space. they were open to anything we wanted to do and charged peanuts for the room relative to the local known venues.

Dolph · 30 Oct 2010 at 18:16

divaboy said:
Thanks for the good advice as usual from yourself. I was hoping and halve assuming March would be a quiet time in the wedding world. Here's hoping

We booked our wedding in september for the following March, and we had a pick of hotels and dates during that time. It was from about may onwards they were booked solid.

Do places tend to be open to a little bit of haggling on the price and/or throwing some freebies in ?

Everywhere is open for a bit of haggling in my experience.

Jimbeam3678 · 31 Oct 2010 at 01:16

Thanks again much appreciated

Jimbeam3678 · 31 Oct 2010 at 12:38

LordSplodge said:
If I was getting married in York I'd pop into the Railway Museum and see how much it would be to hire the Mallard.

Mind you I couldn't afford the price Midland Railway Centre wanted for the Duchess of Sutherland so I settled for a British Rail Standard Class 4.

The only bit of our wedding other than book the registrar down to me was the choice of steam train to pull the wedding train.

Sorry can't help you OP other than don't spend loads and avoid hotels. Like a wedding meat factory.

Good idea with the railway museum :cool:

Would have a some sentimental value to it as my late father built and audited trains at York carriage works

LordSplodge · 31 Oct 2010 at 12:57

divaboy said:
Good idea with the railway museum Would have a some sentimental value to it as my late father built and audited trains at York carriage works

Yeah and far more memorable than a hotel. Everybody at our wedding remembered it. Victorian dress, steam trains and buntings...oh and a hexagonal cake because round and square are passé.

Ideally you'll only get married once so it is worth making it special and that doesn't mean expensive. Our wedding was not cheap but it was a fair bit less than the average wedding.