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?

12k, probably around 13.5k if including honeymoon.

We were mid-20s, childless and had some contributions from parents. That said, we also stayed in a shared house until a few months before the wedding so we could save as much as possible for the wedding and a house deposit.

We spent very little, honestly can't remember - celebrating our 30th Anniversary this year, a handful of guests and lunch out at a nice restaurant, no 'bridal' outfit just a day dress I could wear again. Absolutely no regrets, would not have wanted a 'big' wedding.

We didn't provide booze, the wedding didn't go on all day, and we didn't have 80 people!

If you are on a budget you do have to cut things out.

Given almost 50% of marriage send in divorce, I'd say spunking tens of thousands is very short sighted!

Ours, not much.

Had it at home ( we have acres of land ) . Fab.

£252 for the actual wedding package.

Less than £5000 for the entire thing, including holiday to New York then Las Vegas, rings, outfits.

@MsJuniper just a lucky find! I tried on a handful of dresses that we collected from the shop floor and that was the first one I tried on and I just loved it. I went to a couple of other shops to try other things too but nothing compared to that first one. Went back to buy it and discovered it was (relatively!) inexpensive because it was one of the shop owner's own designs rather than a bridal designer.

Including the rings, hotel for the night, registrar and petrol, prob about £1500

@Hellooojackie I don't disagree with the stats at all but in my case I know it really is until death us do part I've known since the day I met him that we would be together forever (but we were together 8 years before we got married, so didn't rush!)

1989: £500 max
Monday morning at registry office, decided three weeks before the event. We'd been together 10 years and decided that we wanted to make it official before starting a family.
Family and a few close friends only.
M&S suit I could then wear for work. Ring: second hand bought in the Brighton Lanes.
A very nice lunch at a Brighton seafront hotel for the guests following the ceremony.
We would not have wanted anything fancier than this.

Three weeks ago in New York... $60 for license and ceremony (less than a minute!), £2500 rings, £200 dress.
Just the two of us.

Less than 3k. It was a wonderful day and I wouldn't do it any differently

£5k and I wouldn’t spend any more, it was perfect.

Dress £350 from local bridal shop, it was last season’s and in the sale, didn’t need any alterations it fit perfectly.
Flowers £120 for my bouquet and top table arrangement- we did the tables ourselves with flowers from Morrison’s.
Register office £185
Men’s suits, bought not rented £160 each including alterations.
Reception 3 course meal for 50 at the local golf club, they were just starting to take weddings so did a cheap deal, I think it worked out at £50 pet head.
Wedding car was FIL’s friend whose hobby is restoring vintage cars, so £0.
Photographer was a brilliant wedding photographer who agreed to do 2 hours instead of the whole day so only charged £500.

Rings - we got a Tesco credit card and used that for our normal expenses and paid it off in full at the end of every month and saved up the Club Card points to use in Goldsmiths, at the time they were exchanging for 4 times the value so I think we got £300 off the cost of the rings.

We didn’t bother with photo booths or sweet carts, they’re a nice idea but they’re not missed because everyone usually spends their time catching up with people they’ve not seen for ages at weddings anyway.

Ours was evening only though. Booze was boxed wine and cider, aldi bubbles, crates of beer when on offer, aldi fruit shoot alikes, and the invites said to bring something if you preferred a special tipple. Worked fine and nowhere near £1k.

berniebotts we did exactly the same! Never met any one else with Argos rings. 12years and count I ng. I don't want to replace them now. My £30 wedding ring has too many memories attached.

Wedding cost £1000 inc. Honeymoon.

Too much, wish I'd paid a chunk of my mortgage off with it instead.

Just looked at my budget, we spent £24k ten years ago
Venue hire/registrar/food and drink, 25 day guests, 200 evening, £17k
Band £1.5k
Dresses/suit/shoes etc £2k
Flowers/photos/thank you gifts/stationery/misc. £2k
Wedding rings £1.5k

And to answer the original question, don't regret a penny of it.

1.5k

We had a very traditional wedding 30 odd years ago, one bridesmaid no morning suits, reception in lovely university hall, no evening do, we left on honeymoon from reception. About £3k would not change any of it.

Less that £2k. Intimate ceremony and had the friends and family I wanted there and catered for them well so that they just needed to attend.

Didn't see the point of wasting thousands on a party, it then becomes more about the big day than the vows which is likely why so many end up divorced.

I'd help my children with uni costs or a house deposit as much as possible but I'd never pay for a wedding. If they want to blow an obscene amount of money on a party then they can self fund it.

£1200 including a weeks honeymoon. 1986.

About £7k - I don’t regret what we spent but wouldn’t have wanted to spend any more.
A friend made my dress, my sister did my flowers and a friend took our photographs, I made the favours and my FIL printed our invitations.
We had 40 guests in the day and 100-odd in the evening for a hog roast and disco.

The only thing I regret was leaving our hotel booking for the night of the wedding til the last minute as we ended up somewhere a bit rubbish. Actually we should have stayed in the hotel where the wedding was with everyone else, but thought that we should ‘go away.’ That doesn’t seem to be the thing now - the weddings I’ve been to more recently the bride and groom have spent the day with everyone else the next day, which is much nicer I think.

One of my jobs is as a wedding celebrant and I've been to a quite a few weddings! As others have said the most important thing is arranging a day that you are happy with and that feels right for you.

I've been to very expensive and also budget weddings, I wouldn't say the money spent is the decider it's making sure you have a day that reflects who you are and what you want. I'm sure you could get that for £1k.

5k , just me and DH went abroad... it was perfect 👌

About 7k which included a cocktail afternoon tea, wedding in a barn, prosecco reception drinks, marquee and all decorations which I did myself, with bbq garden party, bouncy castle for kids and garden games and all booze and softdrinks so guests didn't need to buy any themselves - was a lovely day