To ask how much your wedding cost??

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Was it a big or small affair and did you have any/much financial support from parents/ family?

Married about 20 years we paid the fee for the church and nothing else.

You'll have to check with my dad,.
I think about €25,000.
My parents were insistent on paying for everything, they even paid for accommodation for loads of people, transport to church and reception and a taxi on hire all evening to get people home. They made most of the decisions, my mum was in heaven. They loved the whole thing.
DH and I had the best time, everything was perfect, so relaxed and fun.
I think a relaxed wedding with lots of food is crucial.
My in laws paid for the honeymoon.

(Namechanger)

£65k in 2004.

All paid for by us.

Church then sit down 4 course meal for 220 in central London. Free bar all day (no-one got silly).

It was an amazing day!

About 10k in 2011. That includes honeymoon which was very generously paid for by the in laws.

Posted too soon. We had about 80 guests in a beautiful civil ceremony venue with a BBQ. We saved and paid for it ourselves.

About 1.2k at a guess, may 15. My mum bought my dress (£450) in laws did food £300.

Honeymoon was 2.4k though. We paid for that ourselves (booked and paid for it before we planned the wedding )

Ours is a really small wedding and is costing about £600. Registry office, dresses for me and 5 bridesmaids (not really my idea to have 5 of them), back to a pub for a pub lunch for 15 people. The only thing we've spent more on is my engagement ring, which was £500 on it's own, but the plan is that I'll wear it forever.

About £30k in 2014. It was a whole weekend though - 2 dinners and a lunch - as we got married in my foreign far away homeland and so had loads of people travelling. Set against the expense was the fact that we were in foreign faraway homeland (ie good exchange rate) and we got married in th autumn so it was wedding off season.

We probably spent another £10-15k on the honeymoon but it was unbelievably awesome and the best holiday I've ever been on so I count that as separate!

About £500 all in, registry office then pub meal. Was perfect and wouldn't change a thing (maybe a different style dress though!).

About £11,000 5 years ago. £9000 of that was on the amazing venu hire and food for a whole weekend, including paying for some accommodation. We had about 50 guests the night before, 100 for the wedding and 180 for the evening.
Everything apart from the venu was quite cheap, including my dress (£200), suit for dh, flowers and bridesmaids outfits.
we were very lucky that my parents gave us £5000 and mil £2000. We paid the rest ourselves.
Best day ever

We just got married about a month ago and it cost no more than £150 all in. It was obviously pretty basic, but no less wonderful for that.

We got married last year, ceremony and then buffet and disco etc for 120 people, cost total of 6k

About £500 in total. 11 guests.

Forgot to add that I wouldn't set a budget that needed outside help. I wouldn't want anyone else paying for my wedding.

We got married at Rowton Castle, it was the only place we viewed and I fell in love with it. It cost us £39,000 all in as we went mad and had a Groovybooth, a full-on creche (all of our friends and family had young DCs and we didn't want anyone bored/fed up as weddings are pretty dull for small children) and I spent a small fortune on dresses for myself and the bridesmaids. However, and this is my only defence, DH earned a great salary and it didn't get us into any debt. Had we not had that sort of income we'd have married somewhere else for a few grand and been just as happy.

I loved it, had the best day imaginable and smile every time I think of it.

Ours is costing about £5000. We're running off to do it and not inviting anyone so that covers flights and 7 nights accommodation in NYC, an "elopement package" which includes Central Park permit, officiant and 3hrs photography, my dress and shoes, his suit, the rings, my stylist on the morning of the ceremony and enough spending money for the week's holiday.

My parents have paid around £1500, his parents are being told that we're married when we get back (can you tell that there's tension there...?)

35k in 2005, paid equally by us, my parents and in laws. Small wedding, only 65 and no extra evening guests. No debt either, always important.

15k in 2014. We're in Scotland so I think that changes the costs a bit too.
We had 70 day guests for a sit down 4course meal and a further 70 for the evening reception, we had hot rolls and weddng cake served at the bands interval.
It was more than I wanted to spend but both sets of parents gifted us some money for the wedding.

£2k which included the flights over. (We live in Germany but married in UK) We borrowed £500 from a friend and B/SIL paid half of my dress (they are like second parents to DH).

No honeymoon, 40 guests, £300 dress, registry office, hired out a Chinese buffet, bought flowers for bouquet in hobbycraft. DH and DS bought suits. Bridesmaids wore own dresses. Rings were £20 Argos cheapies Friend did the photos in exchange for using them for her portfolio. Went to Boots for make up testing and then bought everything which looked good, SIL did it on the day. We just invited everyone by phone/FB because we did it all in about six weeks. We booked a hotel for one night child free after the wedding and went out on the town with all of DH's friends in suits, but again, didn't spend THAT much.

In hindsight, I'm not sure how it came to £2k, it might have been because we had to stay in England for four weeks - staying with S/BIL but we did buy food shopping a couple of times - and Christmas happened too, but we only spent about £100 on Christmas.

I seem to remember trying to keep it around £1k but when we got back and worked it out we had gone quite a bit over. This was last year.

We're getting married in May and it looks like it will cost just under 4k including our honeymoon. We're having a civil ceremony with 60 guests, and an evening do in our local pub for around 120. I got my dress in Monsoon a few weeks ago for £149. Our rings are being made by a friend who is a jeweller. Really can't wait!
We're paying for everything upfront but my parents are paying us back as a wedding present. We're so grateful for that as are in the process of buying our first house.

About 90 guests, had everything we wanted, big white wedding but still had an air of intimacy. Came to just under £6k, my mum and stepdad contributed £2.5k my dad contributed £2k and we did £1.5k.

Ours was small - 35 guests, civil ceremony and afternoon tea with flowing bubbly, before a few more guests joined us in the evening for live music and a BBQ.

Including a two-part honeymoon (a few days alone in UK then a trip with our son), it was around £7k, and the day was utterly perfect.

The only help we had financially was the cost of my dress, which was made for me and paid for by my parents, and was around £600. Everything else we paid for ourselves.

£150 tops. 1983. Possibly less. We're still together so I have almost had my moneysworth. Don't get why people waste money on it really and TBH if I had my time again - I wouldn't even spend £100 on it.

My wedding dress £20 from a hippy shop. Can't remember what register office/certificate cost. Then price of some sarnies and a barrel of beer round our place. People still talk about it as the best wedding they ever went to.

I was at an expensive wedding not so long back and they put us on the same table as friends who were saying their wedding was also quick one down the registry office, then pie and peas in a public park near a chippy. Apparently their's is also fondly remembered.

About £20k in 2012. We had two events, on in DH's home country and one over here where my family are. We flew my closest family out to DH's home town and paid for their hotels (we spent two weeks out there as a holiday). So it wasn't very glamorous but we spent a lot due to having big families and being split across continents. My dress was from a Chinese online supplier (which fit perfectly) and my sister did my makeup/hair, we had no decorations/flowers/DJ/honeymoon. DH paid for almost all of it from his salary, I paid for all my girly stuff and his ring.

£10k plus honeymoon of about £2k but we did it last minute and out of season six years ago. We were planning a wedding in summer but it would've ended up around £20k which I didn't think was sensible, although even £10k seems ridiculous now. I know £15k plus is pretty normal, sadly two weddings have ended in divorce shortly after in the past couple of years and they'd have been very expensive. I'd have been gutted, and fuming with the exhusbands in their cases. I wonder if the big wedding adds any pressure. I loved our wedding but may have done it cheaper if I could go back in time.