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?

Married 2012

120 day guests

180 night guests

Wedding about £20,000
Honeymoon £7000

We got given £8000 from parents (4000 each side)

About £25k 8 years ago. Parents paid £6k each we paid the rest. About 80 day guests

Running - to some people, us included, clearing the mortgage just isn't a priority, we genuinely couldn't care less if we are paying it until the end if the term. We are about to pay a huge amount, about £20k for a celebration. We could easily take the money off our mortgage or invest it but we can afford to spend it, we will still have (depleted) savings and it's something we have known was going to happen for a long time. Of course we could do something smaller and more low key and pay off a bit of our mortgage but that has never been a consideration (although we do regularly take chunks off)

How even in 2004 did you do it for that? Most of the venues we looked at were at least £5k for the venue, flowers for church and venue £1k, food £50 per head for most caterers if not more. We didn't have wedding cars, favours and lots of other things...

We spent roughly £6000 on our wedding in total. We married abroad with 55 guests who were well fed and watered. The total included the 2 weeks holiday too.

About £100 in the mid 80s, I'm not really interested in wedding stuff and preferred to spend our money elsewhere. It would be the same now also.

£2500 in 2012, 30 guests no party.

And mum gave me £2000. We wanted registry office with my parents and his then a meal. Mum persuaded us to go bigger.

It was nice and I had a good time but I wish we'd done our own thing.

Just over 2k for 40 people at church (mainly family) and 55 people at reception. 55 in total.

That was everything church was cheaper than the registry office at the time.

Was a lovely day and family and friends still talk about it now

We got married just before getting a mortgage but we had a 40% deposit, we still spent £20k on the wedding though. We didn't go for extravagant choices but we wanted to be surrounded by the people we care about, and to be in the places we cared about (DH's home country and mine - which is in London) so it cost a lot as we have huge families. But we are still managing to overpay the mortgage significantly and expect to clear it early, probably before we're 40. It's a very good rate so there I don't feel there's a rush to pay it off, and we've gained a lot in equity even though we bought just a couple of years ago.

We didn't even have a mortgage, we were renting .
We spent a lot because my brother had just died aged 27 in a car accident and we wanted as many of our family and friends as possible to come and have an amazing time, and we wanted to do it all exactly the way we wanted, because life is too bloody short.

£160.

£35 each to give Notice of Marriage. £50 Registrar fee and £40 admin fee. In a register office with two witnesses. Could've been cheaper as not all boroughs charge any admin fee. Wish it had been cheaper to be honest, we barely make it back in the new married persons tax allowance

£27000 in 2011. This was before having children decimated our income

This was for 90 guests in a smallish hotel we hired for the weekend with a marquee in the garden. We saved a lot of money by making the invites and favours etc ourselves and shopping around for unique decorations to add personal touches to the venue but we didn't cut any corners. We paid more to hire a venue who would let us plan every last detail, i.e. no fixed wedding packages. It was perfect and I don't regret a penny.

£8k, 15 years ago. Around 40 in the day, around 120 in the evening.

Big do in 2007

130 guests all day. The afternoon champagne and canape reception is still fondly referred to as the "champagne assault" by our friends

Budget? Yikes. My Dad paid for lots of it. Thinking on it, probs about £20k. We paid for about £5k.

Had my dad not wanted to pay (v old fashioned, assumed he would pay for all of his daughter's wedding ) we would have done it much smaller and quite possibly overseas.

No regrets, it was a spectacular day. Actually, on reflection, I probably could have dispensed with the chair covers, but everything else stands!

We paid for everything ourselves, no financial input from anyone. As for mortgage paying off, we weren't bothered. Our mortgage was very affordable to us and was cheap to borrow (low interest rates).

Dunno, about £12k or so. Lots of mates rates (used to manage a hotel and hosted weddings)

Our parents paid for everything except our rings.

Honeymoon isn't included, that was about an extra £10k.

Oh, we had about 90 people during the day and then about 230 in the evening.

About £800 not including honeymoon. We only had 12 guests, the church was free but we gave a donation and the meal was in a private room of a nice hotel.

My mum and dad celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary this week. They got married at 9 am and were on the train to their honeymoon (bed, breakfast and evening meal) in Cornwall by 1 pm, having had the wedding breakfast at 10.30. Will have to ask what they ate at that time of the morning!

My mum said they had afternoon tea on the train - they'd never had anything like that, so it was a real treat. They were teachers and in their July pay packets they got August's salary too, so they weren't paid until the end of September. They ran out of money on their honeymoon and had to write to ask my dad's brother to send them £5.

My mum said that on the first morning of their honeymoon she was pouring my dad a cup of tea and realised she didn't know whether he had sugar in his tea. I think people spent very little time together then, compared to now.

It was a very, very happy marriage despite not really knowing each other that well

Our wedding cost about £16k in 2011 but that included 3 nights in a country house for 26 close family/friends including our adult DCs and partners and then 50 for the wedding day. Honeymoon not included. It was fantastic. We are still very happy and debt/mortgage free. DD just got engaged and is getting married next year, budget not final but I think about £20k should cover church wedding, marquee etc. I will pay most, her father will contribute and they will save some too. They have just bought their first house and don't have a massive mortgage so I'm happy to spend it on the wedding.

£12k including a £2k honeymoon, £500 dress, £200 bridesmaids stuff, £200 flowers, sit down meal for 120 guests, buffet for 150 guests, did photos ourselves.

My parents contributed £6k for the venue and food. DHs paid for flowers and the cake. We paid for the rest.

About £300 3 years ago. Just witnesses, and most of the bill was the four of us having tapas and champagne afterwards.

Got married in 2006 for about £1,000. Both been married before, I wore a suit, he wore a suit, Argos wedding rings, reception for about 30 in our house (it was a bit of a tight squeeze). Long weekend on the south coast in a nice hotel. It was lovely.

£28,000ish in 2009.