Wedding Venue Cost -AIBU or just tight?

[Boys2mam]

I genuinely don't know if I am or not.

DP and I have decided to get married (). We are to marry in a registry office and are looking to have our reception at a local restaurant that has recently started doing wedding parties. They want £1400 just for their marquee hire and the round tables and chairs. This just seems alot to me just for effectively a function room.

You could have your meal within the restaurant or you can hire their marquee. The marquee is a proper job; flooring, carpets, chandelier and they will put a bar in too so guests don't have to troop through to the main building.

You then have to sort your own decorations or pay them extra and they will sort them.

I know its probably not the best place in AIBU but I want some well rounded input.

So, long post short, AIBU to consider spending this amount just on the room or being a tightarse for an actual good deal?

TIA x

Can someone please explain to me the attraction with Marquees? I mean, it's a tent, a tent with electric light and heaters and so on, but what is the big deal with them? Is it more space?

Ok, if weather is good, can imagine the view would be nice, although they must get hot. And in October, won't they be cold?

It's worth looking around for a decent hotel/restaurant that's not up its own arse. We had a lovely venue, and £35/head included wedding breakfast, wine, evening buffet and the hire of the venue.

I saw a pretty pub in a market town today offering an all inclusive deal for 50 guests 3 course meal, champagne for the toast etc all for £999. Don't know what it consists of exactly but your deal seems a bit steep

Anything involving marquees pushes your prices up alot! find a hotel who will rent you function rooms instead - we paid £1000 for room hire (including the room we got married in) for our wedding.

Don't go for marquees unless you've got a lot of cash to spend!

Worth looking at village halls and the like too. I got incredibly lucky with ours, we got use of a brand new village building, who had all the proper conference tables and commercial kitchen set up - pretty much for a token use since it was the first wedding they'd had there.

For decorations if you have to do your own - tonnes of blogs out there or forums with ideas of things you can do really cheaply and effectively - we had ivy trailed around tables that had come from someone's garden tidying, with vases and things from Ikea - the whole thing was cheap as chips and looked amazing.