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?

Oh and wedding dress was £200, bridesmaids dresses and shoes were about £100 and ties for the men who wore their own suits were about £70

About £15k - included wedding, separate party for all and sundry plus long haul honeymoon. My dress cost £1k. We splurged on a band, photographer. I did my own flowers, decorations, bought cheese cake from waitrose. I loved it and don't regret spending that amount. It's really hard to get costs down but pub/village hall/making own food/cake can help save loads

Reading with interest as we are in the process of planning ours...
Current budget is £10k, and looking like it will come in just under that. We are only spending that much as have been gifted money by family for the day. If that hadn’t have happened we would be spending much less.
We have gone for a cheaper venue, lots of eBay bits and homemade stuff. The big cost is the venue/food as we have quite big families and a wide group of friends that we want there to celebrate with us.

Ours was about £35k, last July. (Not inc honeymoon)
We had 125 all day guests (no extra evening guests) got married in church and then a gorgeous hotel in Northumberland.

The venue cost about £17k for all day, canapés, 3 course meal and evening food and drinks package.
We also covered part of the cost of the rooms at the venue for our guests to stay over.
£2.5k on flowers
£1.5k on my dress
£1.5k on my shoes and bag
10x full suits (groom, father of the groom, 6 ushers, best man and my cousin who gave me away)
5x bridesmaids dresses
Dessert table (12ft long! because I didn't want to restrict myself to 1 cake or dessert)
Singer for church and drinks reception
Band and DJ for evening do
Photographer
Videographer

Don't regret a single penny spent and we have the most amazing memories

All I can say is have what you want and can afford. There's no point over-stretching yourselves and stressing out for 1 day

£26k and £10k for honeymoon. Was it worth it? Yes.

No idea what we spent on ours. We had a long engagement so started picking things up ages before we got married such as candle holders, table decorations.
Around £5.5k for food and venue and that included sit down 4 course meal and evening buffet and room for dh and myself
£800 on photo booth but that was because I had a tax rebate so was last minute booked.
Flowers about £6/700 I think... soon before the wedding we had a bit more money so ordered a few more flowers such as thank you bouquets and extra button holes so all family had them
Make up and hair £200
Cake £150
Dresses for flower girls/ bridesmaids £150ish? Not entirely sure as accessories purchased over 3 year period
£35 for bits for sand ceremony.
Dress came out of a different fund as I used money my mum had left me when she died.
Photographer £1k but was gifted to us by parents.

We spent about £8k, with half from my parents. It was a perfect day, and I don't regret any of it. But honestly looking back now, I wish I'd had a small wedding and spent the money on something more practical.

Around £200 in 1999, including registry office fee, outfits and party. Mum made a cake. Party at my house. Guests were asked to bring a bottle. Got food from M&S and take away pizza when everyone ended up staying much longer than expected. It was fun and relaxed.

Oh, and we got amazing photos for free as one of the guests was an aspiring professional photographer.

My first was £8k and was really fantastic. Second was about £2k (£1500 was just the bar bill!) and was pretty shit.

£250.
£50 on rings and the rest on a night in a hotel.
We married in the hospital chapel as our baby was seriously ill and not expected to make it.
Outfits all donated from a wedding shop, food and drink put on by the hospital ward.
Church/Marriage fees waivered by the vicar.

Our parents paid for the most expensive bits (my parents, venue and catering, which is the vast majority of the cost, his parents for flowers, transport, DH's suit, which cost more than my outfit, and entertainment) - I know this is weird these days but it's still quite common in Jewish families.

I paid for my outfit (bridesmaid dress, handmade shoes and custom hat - came to about half the cost of average wedding dress) and my first night in the hotel - my mum paid for the wedding night. I would guess it came to about £25k for it, we had around 180 guests.

I think everyone was very happy with it, we were. The cost was in the catering really and we wanted to have friends and family friends there - the most extravagant single thing was the wedding night hotel, which was a real boutique luxury job that we'd never stay in otherwise.

I'm always for people doing whatever makes them happy and that they can afford, be it a couple of hundred quid (one of the most memorable weddings I went to was also the cheapest!), or £100k. If we'd been paying ourselves, I expect we'd have had a marquee in my parents' garden, 100 people, a buffet and photography and DJing by our mates which I guess we could have done for under 10k.

Definitely less then £4k overall, inc. my ring which cost almost £2k as we designed it together.
Married in a registry office followed by afternoon tea for 10 guests. We then threw an afternoon garden party at home for about 50 friends the following day and ordered the party food from Waitrose, sarnies, strawberries & cream etc. plus plenty of nice soft drinks and some booze. I bought an inexpensive summery pink dress from Monsoon for the ceremony as had no desire to look a prat in a white wedding dress because I'm just not a dress wearing person. Did my own hair and make-up. No formal photos as I can't stand being in photos. No honeymoon.

Wouldn't change a thing.

10k, 120 guests, high quality three course meal and great evening buffet, and professional band.

We did it in a large restaurant, they didn’t normally do weddings so they didn’t charge extra for everything. Guests even got to chose their meals from a choice of three per course.

It was fab.

44k - wedding abroad with 60 guests. Irish husband who felt the need to feed and have an open bar for 3 days as a thank you for travelling for the wedding. Loved every bit of it but I cringe just thinking about how much we spent. I would've been happy to hire a villa with a few close mates for the weekend and chill