How much did your wedding cost?

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Average wedding is around the £27k mark in the U.K. I can't think of a wedding I've attended or known of that could of cost this much? no judgement if people do pay this amount, but it seems pretty crazy! I can't believe that it is the average, unless most are paying £5k and the £1,000,000 do's are throwing off the averages?!

How much did your weddings cost?

£10,000 including the honeymoon. London, 2014.

It was lovely, the only thing I'd change was my dress as it went seethrough in photos and the alterations were really expensive.

@somewhereonthem6. I'm not sure they had the self awareness to realise. For them it was ALL about the money and showing off.

6k just for reception, bar and bus for guests. Had 50 people in a small country house, food was outstanding...5 courses..fillet steak was gorg. Every guest had a choice of 3 starters and 4 mains. Dessert plate or cheese board...but we put cheese board on all tables. More food about 10...oh and wine oe something and scones on arrival.
The night before we d a party with more food and drink.
Safe to say no one was hungry....it was remote so meant a lot to me that food was fully available.
Photographer was great 3k...my dad didn't make it so we 're did the photos when he was better foc.
Dresses about 1500..suits same.
It was a good day and everyone really loved it. No accommodation for guests apart from dh family. (Mine lived 5 minsdown the road) so we got 2 night b&b plus dinner for 80 euro for guests...pool etc so a steal and provided a bus to and from...they could go whenever they wanted...bus was there all night.
Sounds posh from the menu but it had mis matched plates and was honestly like being in your own big house, very relaxed.
Spent far more on honeymoon...

crunkly But your wedding did not actually cost £9k. That is what it cost you.

Our wedding was last year in May and cost just short of 40k including a 2 week honeymoon straight from the wedding. It was absolutely amazing, the best day of my life! but if I was to do it again! absolutely no way! I would elope in secret in a £20 dress!

20k in 2011. It is a lot, but my parents have a six figure income, insisted on paying and will spend 10k on a holiday. I could have gone wilder but it seemed a waste on one day.

P.S my dad insisted on a free bar.

at some of the costs
We spent £8k in 2008. Could not (just bought house) and would not (paid for everything ourselves and won’t go into debt for a party) pay more. I thought £8k was a lot to be honest, but great day.
All organised in 3 months, most money went on venue and fab band. Amazing dress only £700 as local dressmaker made me something bespoke (got calls from friends on Will’s and Kate’s wedding day saying she’d copied me ) normal dress shops laughed at 3 months as not enough t8ne to ship one from China
Only regret was the photographer, he was terrible.

The £27k is absolute fantasy. There obviously aren't any 'official statistics' on the cost of a wedding [e.g. when readers had theirs was there a person following you round totting up your total expenditure?] so the numbers that one sees printed in various places rely on really tiny samples & are nearly always strongly skewed towards the very most lavish end of the market [e.g. I could imagine a pretty good way to get lots of data easily might be by asking a wedding planner, but of course most people having a regular-sized wedding wouldn't dream of hiring a WP].

Anyway, mine was c 9 years ago, SE England... quite big & lavish, c 100 people, I think it worked out at c £140 a head in total, so £14k, including dress but excluding rings [c £4k total] & honeymoon [maybe about the same again].

£7000 for everything in 2016, 70 day guests plus additional 40 in the evening. Think we found a happy medium

About £11k in 2011.

I would say most weddings I've been to in recent years would be between £20k and £50k at a minimum. Most have been amazing. One (probably the most expensive one) was awful. It was obvious the brides parents were just showing off to all their friends, who made up most of the congregation, and there was nothing personal to the couple at all.

About 7k in 2015 - we had an evening ceremony with a cricket club hogroast reception straight afterwards. No favours, no save the dates, no chair decorations or fancy LOVE letters.

The expensive bits were: my dress, photographer, decent suit for DH, hogroast and wedding cars.

Ours was about 9k, 13 years ago and but we did cut back a bit to save a few £s for example we made our own invites; had a afternoon wedding and only invited immediate family and close friends ect.
We saved like mad for 3 years to pay for it all, then we didn't have massive debts hanging over us.
Yes we upset certain people by not inviting them, but at the end of the day it was our wedding and they weren't paying for it.

Venue plus table set up, food for 100, music and photographer £1250.00
Dress tiara underskirt and shoes £550
That was 4 years ago August.

A little under £40k in 2014. 150 guests, plus another 30/40 or so in the evening. That doesn't include the cost of the rings, bridal shower, stag do or honeymoon.

But if I could go back in time, a more sensible me would spend a lot less...

We got married July 2017 and our wedding cost £38k. 125 people (all full day and evening guests, no one just evening) full church service and all day hotel reception (including supplementing cost of guest rooms at venue) not including engagement ring or honeymoon

First was around £4.5k back in 2015. Full on shebang but we saved on table centres, photographer and my dress, plus no cars. We did spend another £4K on the honeymoon though.

Second was about £850 in 2014, but my mum covered the cost of the meal for 6 afterwards as a present so we only paid for the fees, rings and a bunch of flowers which was about £300, plus the honeymoon (two nights in Whitby) at about £250.

Ooooh love this thread! Got engaged at Christmas - had a miscarriage in January so I'm throwing myself into wedding planning. My draft budget for a cheap wedding with lots of corners cut (no photographer, no car, friends doing the music etc) comes in at £9k!! Anyone got tips for having a big wedding, but still keeping the cost down? We've got big families and lots of close friends but not too fussy about it being a fancy venue - more important to have everyone there 😊

First was 2005, not 2015!

About nine hundred. Dress was €100 shoes were a fiver

Ours cost around 6k all in. DH suit cost £1k, food and open bar for 25 guests came up to £1.6k (but I knew the chef and we drank 40 bottles of champers so probably not mkt price!). My dress was £250. Flowers cost £500 because I’m obsessed with flowers! Church, rings, cheap wedding cake, etc made up the rest. We used the difference between our saved wedding fund and what we spent to pay 25 percent deposit on our house, and completely refurb our house. Do what makes you happy op. All the talk of 27k average is rubbish. Spend what you feel makes the day perfect for both of you, within the frame of what you can afford.

About 20k in 2008

Would have happily had a much smaller affair but as the only daughter I felt I had to keep my parents happy

£6K excluding honeymoon, in 2006.

Maybe 40k in 2009.. didn’t include honeymoon. Feel a bit sick writing it down but it was a fabulous party. Hired a large large house for 3 days.

1k in 2005