To ask how much you spent on your wedding

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I'm interested to know how much people really spend. I'm looking to spend less than a grand all in, and wondered if anyone has ever regretted spending a fortune/doing it on the cheap?

Excluding rings, about 90K.

£900 give or take. No regrets whatsoever. All guests fed and all alcohol supplied in sensible amounts.

We budgeted £15k and it came to a bit more than that, including our honeymoon. Not that long ago but I've clearly blocked out the final figure
I do wish we'd been able to spend a bit less, but we were up to over £11k just on the venue hire and food/drink. Pricey area of country for weddings + high season + big families so difficult to cut down on numbers.

Saved on:
My dress - mum made it.
The cake - mum - I helped!
Stationery - all made ourselves but obviously the paper etc cost.
Flowers - bought online and arranged ourselves.
Hair
Cars
Favours

We paid a lot for our photographers because we wanted nice photos and loved their style.
Biggest part of our budget went on food which everyone loved so that was worth it.

It was a wonderful day! I do think about the bigger house we'd be living in now though if we'd saved a bit more

Under £200 including the legalities.

How can you do less than £1k? I spent more than that on my children parties sometimes. 🙄 There's always one.....

Around £15,000 possibly a bit more.
Don’t regret a penny of it. Couldn’t afford it now after children so glad we got married beforehand.

No idea. Had the fantastic good fortune to have parents who picked up the entire bill including open bar for around 200. It was in a marquee in their garden, but they took the opportunity to re- landscape the garden and have the house redecorated as part of the planning/preparation. If you include that, way over £100k. The elements we paid for (live bands particularly) were about £10k.

£14k excluding honeymoon. It was an amazing day, the reception was beautiful and I loved it - no regrets.

The next year we had an anniversary garden party at our home. We spent £300 on food, I made my dress, MIL made a cake, we reused some decorations from the wedding. Honestly, I enjoyed the garden party more! Obv it wasn't a wedding but all the same people were there, we were so relaxed and just enjoyed everyone's company.

If we did a vow renewal I know which party I'd host again. 💚

£17k excluding honeymoon

We just booked our wedding today...(after deciding to get married on Thursday! Lol!)
A beautiful local venue had a special deal on for a ‘last minute’ wedding and we paid £2,850. That includes all food, daytime drinks, evening buffet, DJ, table settings and flowers, and even post bridal suite. Loads of other little extras too. Well over 50% off the normal price!!!
6mths today ❤️

I generally say it was about £10k, but when I think honestly it was more like £12k including all the random shit I bought in the last few days before the wedding! That was all outifits (we bought everything rather than hire for the men), the ceremony, food, free bar, flowers, hotel for me, hair etc.

£10k was covered by our parents, and the rest of the odds and sods we paid for.

About £5000 - we had a small wedding abroad

I can’t remember but around 12k perhaps?

I did enjoy the day but it wasn’t magical or perfect etc and I do regret spending the money now when I realise what it could have gone towards.

Would loved to have done it on a budget and been really crafty and inventive that would be lots of fun.

In my head about £22k but in reality it was closer to £25k... as the day drew closer my enthusiasm for updating the costings spreadsheet waned dramatically! Not including cake (a gift), engagement ring or honeymoon but does include everything else like buying groom's outfit rather than hiring for example.

Wouldn't change a thing

£150 just the 2 of us. Worked for us. Neither wanted a "big do". I couldn't of coped with organising a big wedding. Just never been something that appealed.

About 3k I reckon. Could have been less but I completely fell in love with a dress for £750 and it needed £150 in alternations.
That 3k included the £550 to the church for the actual marriage fees as well. We did a buffet for about 100 but there was actually only 80 odd guests, so plenty of food. Everyone got two free glasses of champagne and there was Danishes and cups of tea laid out in the church after the service whilst our photos were taken. It was a very relaxed day and I wouldn't do a thing differently

€180 - which was the cost of the town hall fees and wedding rings.

It was a small private ceremony with just 3 guests.

It was perfect for us and I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

We had no guests, so ours was relatively cheap-but was about £5k inc honeymoon. Wedding plus rings was about £2.5k I think. But that included 4 nights in a lovely hotel (the one we married in).
You can get married for just the cost of the paperwork if you like.

£7,000. That included church service, cars, flowers, cake, wedding dress, 2 bridesmaid’s dresses and shoes, morning suits, 3 course sit down meal at reception for 50 people, evening do and buffet for 100, photography and cars. It also included the honeymoon (10days in a 5* hotel, abroad). Our parents paid 4grand between them and we paid the remaining 3.

£30k 😫🤦‍♀️

Was about 10k. Married last summer in 4* hotel in South East with 50 guests including welcome drinks and canapes, 3 course meal and evening food. Had the most amazing day and don't regret the expense. Was aiming for 6k but went over... Would do the same again, was all paid for by us alone and we did it as we went along so didn't get into debt for it.

From memory big costs were:

1k venue hire
700 hotel rooms
1100 dress and alterations
900 photographer
200 bridesmaid dresses
280 make up inc trial
450 dj who was there all day and sorted ceremony music, speeches etc
500 reg office fees
450 kilt hire (not cheap so far from Scotland!)
3500 (think this was about right for food)

I did a lot myself - cake, flowers, invitations, favours, table plan, bridesmaid dress alterations. It turned out to be very stressful in the end because a lot had to be done last minute, but it was so worth it :)

1975.....cost us £750 all in ☺

About £25k including honeymoon. Some from each set of parents and some we paid ourselves. I know I'm lucky. We had an amazing day and lots of people still say it was one of the best weddings they have ever been to. We spent a lot of that money on food and drinks (canapés, three courses, unlimited wine, evening buffet, free bar all night) for the guests. All guests were invited to whole day. We also spent quite a lot on 2 different bands, accommodation for bridal party and some family, and the honeymoon. I don't regret it at all and I'd do exactly the same again!

£174 six weeks ago.
Two friends as witnesses took some photographs.
No rings.
Loved it.