Do you regret how much you spent or your wedding?

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Prompted by a wedding thread, whilst I absolutely LOVED my wedding and it was all saved and paid for without debt, I do occasionally think that I could have had a new kitchen by now instead

I would have felt it was all worth it, had my sister not cast a dampener over the whole thing. I was so so stressed, I still remember it now. And otherwise, it was such a lovely wedding.

I genuinely have no idea how much we spent because my DP's insisted on covering it. But I do know it cost a lot less than if we'd had 100 people in a usual wedding venue where we live.

They don't regret it so I have no guilt around it and we have fantastic memories.

We got married abroad, the cost of accommodation for guests was included in the package. It was close to a weird regional airport that Ryanair flew to and we gave people enough notice that the flights were pennies.

Because it was on site for a whole weekend we had guests say it cost lest than attending a wedding in the UK because they didn't have to worry about taxis or hotels for the night.

Three days with our loved ones, partying the nights away, eating great food. Zero regrets.

Yes. It just got bigger and bigger and bigger.
I don't even know the cost. But it was over £30k.

Having children puts things in perspective. Now I wouldn't dream of spending such a ridiculous amount on a day. Makes me cross thinking about it

I spent about £50k for 70 people (last year)
I don't regret it - the venue was expensive but very unique. Every detail was considered and it really was exactly how I dreamed it would be. I could have invited hundreds more for the money, or spent alot less but for me it was perfect. My parents paid for alot of it and we both own properties and had savings leftover so I didn't feel we were being irresponsible. I see why some people would think it was a waste though.

We spent loads. Don’t regret a thing. We haven’t gone without in other areas of our lives since, or not been able to do things because of the amount we spent n our wedding. It could be afforded. We wanted it, a we did it.

Registry office with 12 guests in the Lake District. It cost less than a £1000 and worked out perfectly despite a complete lack of planning and stress! Wouldn’t change a thing.

Nope, we spent about £700.
Same end result as someone spending 10’s of thousands but no debt/hole in bank account. Still have great memories of the day and some lovely photos taken on my phone. Plus no stress (we didn’t have any guests, just our witnesses)

We spent £23k in 2012. Don't regret it at all. It was brilliant.

I think in hindsight it was a load of nonsense - I don't regret it as such but there was no need for a lot of it and we did a very low key version.

The canape bill alone was a grand! I'd forego the canapes...

No, we chose to get married on our own with no guests. It was fabulous. I had a great dress, lovely flowers, fab photographer, beautiful platinum rings and we got married in the grounds of a hotel on the banks of Lake Windermere on a sunny day.
We spent about £3k but most of that was on 5 nights at the hotel.

Wouldn’t change a thing! I do think weddings with other people at are a waste of money though, I married my husband-didn’t need anyone else there! Much as I do love my parents a big day was not my thing.

Would definitely do it differently.... Only regret the amount as we had guests to please others which upped the cost. Guests we still haven’t seen at all since our wedding day almost eleven years ago! Venue was beautiful as was the food and drink, amazing day but could definitely do it for less. We both have more of a backbone now and wouldn’t be pressured into inviting people we don’t have relationships with!

About £6-£7k 2 years ago on beautiful barn wedding for 100 including cheap honeymoon in U.K.

We used savings and didn’t spend more than we had as we had recently bought a house and had a baby.

I’d have been happy with spending £500 but DH wanted something bigger

No because we've been together 25+ years and haven't married yet!

No. We did it for between £3500 and £4000. 3 month engagement and planned the wedding within 2 months. Paid for ourselves. Was perfect

Yes.

We spent £1.5k.

Which I know isn’t a lot for a wedding but it was all for other people to eat lunch and get pissed on us. Mainly dickhead friends of dh, I only had two friends there. Horrible day and a waste of money.

Nope, 11 years ago we spent. £47 on the register office, £50 on a dress, about £50 on taxis, and then put a couple of hundred quid behind the bar in a pub a few days later.

I did wonder at the time of I would regret not having a big wedding (we had 9 guests), but I don't at all. It was a perfect day.

No, we spent a little over £33k 10 years ago and would do it again.

I loved our wedding. It was exactly what we wanted it to be; fun, relaxed and spent with the people we loved. We hired the venue for the weekend, had everyone stay with us, hired a creche to come to the venue so the children could all do their thing whilst the adults made a huge celebration of it. It still often comes up in conversations when we get together with friends along the lines of "do you remember..." (not by me - that'd be arsehole behaviour).

Massively, especially as it didn't even last a year...

Yes very much. I didn't really achieve what I wanted either. But I only spent what I could without any debt etc so that's better than being disappointed and overspending I suppose!

7.5K all in. Waste of money as a wedding is not a reflection of how much you love someone. Wish I'd buggered off abroad to do it and purchased better house with larger deposit.

No. We spent a lot but we were in a fortunate position to be able to afford it, thanks to our own savings and some family contributions.

I do very much regret not going on a luxury honeymoon. We felt we couldn't justify the expense after spending so much money on the wedding. In hindsight, as our honeymoon was a bit disappointing, and knowing what a tough year we had after our wedding, I wish we'd treated ourselves to something fabulous. Years later, now we have a 3yo and another on the way, we can only dream of that kind of holiday now!

Not at all, we spent £6k and saved for a house whilst planning the wedding and everything worked out how we wanted to.

I don't regret the cost, because we could afford what we spent, but I'd do it very differently if I did it again now. We had about 100 people and 15 years later we're not even in touch with many of them. DH felt he should invite a load of his colleagues, which was a mistake and meant there were all these virtual strangers at our personal day. If I did it again I'd have half the people and only invite people I was pretty sure would still be in our lives in 10 years time (at least!)

Yes. We spent about £8k so not expensive but I often think "what else could we have done with some of the money". I did enjoy our day but I do think it was only one day! I'd have enjoyed it just as much having spent less.