Wedding costs

I'm getting married in 3 months :eek:.
I think our wedding will cost around £15k excluding the honeymoon which will be around £8k. The venue is the most expensive part at £7k, and there will only be around 65 day guests. A hell of a lot of money, thankfully not paid entirely by me, but we want it to be a special day for us both.
 
I'm not getting married, ever :p

Some friends of ours did it on a fairly tight budget of a few thousand and it was ace. Rented out the top part of a bar in nottingham, had 3 rounds of excellent buffet food, and a great evening overall.

I would like a sit down meal at mine, church, but reception I honestly have no idea about. Although I think the Mrs would want everything, especially somewhere like a country hall with posh grounds.

Will look at hiring an OcUK photo god to do our wedding photos, but not mrk as he would probably takes pics of the shiny BMWs from every weird angle :p :p :D :D
 
Getting married in about 2 months.

Rough costs so far

Kilt - £1000
Dress - £500 (from the states, same dress here £1200).
Invitations - £160 (£120 for 100 evening invites, £40 for 20 day invites)
Church - £0
Band - £350
Food for evening reception - £600
Cake - £0 (sister in law paying)
Meals for day guests £300
Flowers / Balloons - £250
Hotel - £0 (hotel gives 2 nights free due to wedding reception being held there)
Car hire - £0 (using family cars)

Probably forgetting some other stuff.
 
[TW]Fox;13224884 said:
I hope that was a very long time ago or you didn't pay them very much!
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It was 2005 and we didn't pay very much at all. Two chauffeured Jags for the entire day (early morning to early evening) cost us £200, and they covered a few miles in that time (driving from Walsall to Solihull, then to a local park for photos, then to Shirley for the reception). I think the final figure for the wedding was around £2,500.

I don't understand people who spend tens of thousands. If you've got that sort of cash lying around, it should be whacked straight into a mortgage. Even worse is when people borrow money to pay for their wedding. :confused:
 
Evangelion said:
It was 2005 and we didn't pay very much at all. Two chauffeured Jags for the entire day (early morning to early evening) cost us £200, and they covered a few miles in that time (driving from Walsall to Solihull, then to a local park for photos, then to Shirley for the reception).
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That doesn't sound too bad especially if you got a nice suited chaffuer as well. The thing that threw me was thats about 500 quids worth of car :p But I guess if that enables them to offer a good experience for less cash why not?
 
[TW]Fox;13225039 said:
That doesn't sound too bad especially if you got a nice suited chaffuer as well. The thing that threw me was thats about 500 quids worth of car :p But I guess if that enables them to offer a good experience for less cash why not?
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Both chauffeurs were beautifully suited, with caps and all; they looked like a million bucks. We're standing next to the older Jag in that photo; the other one was a later model.

Having ridden in the older Jag, I doubt very much that it was "500 quids worth of car"; it was in immaculate condition, totally original and gloriously comfortable. I'd say it was more likely to be worth a few thousand.

:)
 
Wiggins said:
A friend of mine has just tallied up his cost so far. He just needs to get the Photographer which he reckons will be around £1000 and his total has hit a little under 20k.

3 Credit cards and a small loan from the parents has paid for it.
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£20k on a wedding and only spending £1k on the photographer :confused: most decent photographers charge £2k+ these days. My prices still are around £1k but i dont class myself as completely experienced yet, so my prices have plenty of room to grow, already being told i undercharge!
 
Fatboy said:
www.baros.com

Heaven on earth absolutely beautiful.
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Actually looking at that thinking about my honeymoon. Could you give a little detail on your stay and rough pricing, it really does look like heaven ?

My Mrs really wants to go there, but do it properly (she means honeymoon) and the maldives are the only islands in that area of the world she hasn't visted. She spent ages around mauritius and madagascar as part of her year abroad at uni.

:D
 
I seriously don't understand why a couple would put themselves in so much debt for a wedding.

Sure, get married.. but don't used credit cards and loans to do it, don't spend more than you can afford !

I did all our own stationary for it.. she made up the "favours", doo was in our garden.. reg office was more than good enough :)

Divorcing 10 years later *wince*
 
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When/if I get married I would hope my partner is happy with a small ceremony with only family and close friends, followed by a fairly low key party in the evening. Most of the money can be spent on a honeymoon :)
 
Bear said:
Im getting married in September and its come in at just under £5k not including spending money. Getting married in Vegas staying at the Bellagio for 4 nights, going to Kauai in Hawaii for 8 nights staying at the Grand Hyatt Regency, then going to LA for 2 nights staying at the Beverly Hills Hilton before coming home.

Decided to spend the money going away instead of having a wedding at home.
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We did this last year, almost anyway. Married and stayed at the Bellagio, then went to San Francisco, then on to LA. Bellagio was very good, who is your wedding co-ordinator there btw? :)
 
dmpoole said:
Well it worked because we've been together for 34 years.
I actually gave her £200 for the ring and she came back with £178 change (yeah, she went and bought it on her own because I said it was gay to go in jewellery shops).
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Heh, we didn't want something big and fussy - we'd prefer to have the money to spend on cool stuff that will last longer than a day. I don't really remember much about the event anyway - it went so quickly!
 
ScarySquirrel said:
When/if I get married I would hope my partner is happy with a small ceremony with only family and close friends, followed by a fairly low key party in the evening. Most of the money can be spent on a honeymoon :)
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Good luck to you :p

Getting married in May and I also thought the forums would be my haven from wedding planning, alas not.

As for honeymoon - off to Hong Kong for 5 nights and then some Indonesian island spa type place for 10 nights to relax, a Banyan Tree resort I think. Although the latter may change.
 
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