To ask how much your wedding cost??

[Anxiousanne01]

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

Just over 10k paid for it ourselves 2007 but then (not expected) got 1k wedding present from DH parents and 10k gift from my parents. So it went to overpay mortgage.

pinkchampagne1 was just going to ask if you'd put the comma in the wrong place...as "would have cost double is on Sat".... for £700,000k ha

About 12k not including honeymoon and rings.
My uncle is a photographer he did the photo's as his gift.
I did my own flowers (Mil did button holes) and my own favours.
My Sil makes wedding cakes (her gift)
I also made my own invitations.

My mum paid for my dress. (1800)
My dad contributed 3k
Inlaws contributed 3k
The rest we paid.

fees for giving notice. (about £30 each? I can't remember, it was only a couple of months ago!)
fee for registry office.

about £8 on two red shirts for my boys.
about £60 on my outfit including boots
about £25 on his outfit
baby girl's clothes we had anyway (cost about £5 when we bought them in sales though).
petrol to get to registry office.

and the two witnesses paid their own travel costs.
we gave them both a small gift each.

And that was it.

Around £180. Including outfit, ring, licence and meal.

That was 3 years ago in the lake district.

Um, about £80k in 2010, not including rings. I am not sure if it included honeymoon either (which was about £20k). We paid for it ourselves, save for £5k gift from each set of parents.

We have very good jobs (my husband is incredibly well paid).

It was an amazing day.

About £1,500 10 years ago. Big reception in a village hall, caterer friend did the food and did it all for £600. Disco party thing in the evening. It was great.

That was a Civil Partnership, next year we're getting married in a really special location with a few family and friends. Lovely ceremony, big celebration lunch for 20 afterwards, 4 little bridesmaids. It'll be about £2,000.

Probably £400/500. Not much as we had the reception in the garden and did everything ourselves. My dress wasnt expensive, it was about £40 from Debenham's but I slightly regret that now as I think I could have chosen a much better one for my size. Roses from tesco etc and buffet food.

fifty pounds!

We were aiming for under £10k (London, 2012) but I think it came in a bit above that. DPs and PILs each contributed £1k I think, the rest was us.

MIL did our venue flowers so I only had to pay for my bouquet, buttonholes and two little posies for my flower girls.
DM made the wedding favours, and DH and I DIYed as much as we could - table plans, menus, collected jam jars for candles, made newspaper cones for confetti.

My dress cost less than £200, I think our biggest extravagance was the cost of the venue, food/booze and photographer. We still didn't have as much free booze as I would have liked though, if we'd had more money to spend I would have put more behind the bar.

We had around 65-70 guests at the ceremony and maybe another 30-40 odd in the evening.

About £35k for 80 guests. We had no financial input from either set of parents. It was a fantastic day but now I have DC I regret spending so much.

Ours is next Summer and should come in at just under £18k as long as we stick to the calculations! That's including a £6k honeymoon budget though that we are yet to book. My DPs are being very generous and are contributing around £8k which we are very grateful for, along with my OH's DM who has scrimped and saved to contribute around £1k despite us insisting she doesn't bless her. Nothing from OH's 'D'F as we don't have much contact with him. Paying the rest ourselves through savings!

About £2K for everything including the honeymoon we had about 60/70 guests

Lol. I got distracted by delivery man as I started posting and noticed my mistake as soon as I posted message but there is no edit/delete option! I certainly couldn't afford a 350,000 wedding...it would cost about £100,000 more than our house!!

In 2013, about £18,000. My dad insisted on paying for most of it and we have a few thousand off the in-laws towards a family holiday and a few days away after the wedding. That was for 90 guest all day and an exclusive use of the venue, plus coach for all the guests to a couple of hotels.

ok didn't put details
£50 registry office
both parents , siblings and two friends.
Went home after to our house
His Mum gave us £50 cash we used for train fair for a weekend away. My Mum paid bnb.

I wore a family passed down dress.
We already had his suit.

He turned out to be an utter teat so I'm glad I only spent £50 on him.

*fare

£1.5k in 1991 - we paid for everything except the photos (present from my parents) and free bar, which DH's dad funded. I got my dress on sale in Selfridges, Bridesmaids' dresses from Laura Ashley (again in the sale), we had a church wedding (Roman Catholic, they only ask for a donation rather than having a price list plus my cousins have amazing voices so they led the singing), followed by sit down meal for 75 and evening disco/buffet for 150 at a local (gorgeous) hotel. One of the single most expensive things (apart from the meal) was probably my headwear - I had a medieval thing going on and bought a pearl-trimmed 'gable hood' style headpiece from Harrods that cost £75 (eye popping expense at the time as the dress was only £180!) and a friend brought back some seed pearls from India for me which I had woven into my hair. I wore the shoes my mum got married in (Italian leather stilettoes from 1964, no one saw them under my medieval dress, but they were lovely - shame DD's feet are already bigger than mine or I'd keep them for her too!) Another friend made the cake at cost for us.

It was 24 years ago yesterday :)

About £12k all in inc honeymoon in 2006
We paid for it ourselves.
120 guests at a country house hotel, one room for ceremony, another for party + gardens. We paid for rooms overnight for ourselves, best man & family, chief bridesmaid & family. Rings (his is more expensive than mine due to huge hands) and dresses, photographer etc. We had the place from 11am to 2am. Fab 10 day honeymoon.
The only thing that wasn't included was our wedding cake as this was an amazing gift from a confectioner family friend.

I'm not sure exactly as my parents paid for most of it.

It was a small wedding, with no evening do.

There were about 60 guests and I think it cost about £3k for everything, maybe a bit more - late '90's.

He turned out to be a keeper, and I wish we'd spent a lot more. I would have loved an evening do, and fireworks and ice sculptures .

I've never added it up. I'd guess £6 (including the honeymoon and the wedding rings)
Small-medium civil ceremony followed by meal which included our own wine, hotel did not charge corkage.

We were lucky and cut lots of corners and were gifted things too. We have a professional photographer in family who did the photography as our gift, I just saw on chat this morning that that can cost £2K

I would say that my mum paid for maybe 1K - my dress, our honeymoon suite, flowers, favours and candles.

PIL gave us £1000.

A friend did the cake.

I felt like I spent a fortune on my appearance; hair highlighted, hair trial, hair cut, upstyle that morning.
Spray tan for myself and my sister.
Eye brow tint and shape.
Nails
Bridal makeup.

I'd love to be doing it all again

Part of the reason we didn't have an evening do was because we didn't want newly divorced FIL and MIL to have a big alcohol induced fight. They managed that during the photos straight after the ceremony.