To ask how much your wedding cost

[Foamybanana93]

Been engaged for 4 years now and finally about to start wedding planning, we wanted to buy a house first, I have no idea where to start, not sure about how much a wedding will cost to be honest, so wondering how much everyone spent ? I know it’ll differ for each person but just curious

About £750
Registry office, 2 rings, meal and a hotel for the night.

It will be under £1k

Avoid hotel venues and save 30%

Have two course meals and wedding cake 👍🏻

Go to France and buy sparkling French wine/champagne

Pick a late time and avoid and evening do just invite all the guest and have a lovely Buffett

There are so many ways to make the day special with spending stupid amounts of money

£1600 but that included flights and hotel to Vegas, then we got hitched in the chapel of flowers. Actual wedding, with flowers, photos and witnesses was £120.

$5k, nearly 20 years ago, excluding rings. Only 30 guests, very, very luxurious for the small number of guests! Amazing buffet, all alcohol catered by us. We paid for everyone’s accommodation for the weekend too! Loved our wedding and often have guests remark on it still after all this time. I’ve been to loads of massive weddings which have been great fun, but my very favourites personally have been the small intimate ones. To each their own.

I want to go to crispysausagerolls wedding!

But mine was about 7k I think.

Ours will be about 20k when all paid for. We’ve hired a castle for the weekend in Ireland, we’ve also gone all out with the band, flowers, food etc.

My dress was off the peg though, £500. We are also having quite a small ceremony - 80 people total.

£75k (£80k inc honeymoon)

175 guests
£17k on flowers
£25k on food & drink (canapés, 3 course meal, open bar)
£2500 on wedding dress & BM dresses
£1200 veil
£900 wedding cake
£4500 photographer & videographer
£4000 venue
£275 cheese cake
£3000 ceilidh band, piper & DJ
£5000 wedding planner
£500 cars
£2500 donation to charity in lieu of favours

Bits and pieces made up the rest (gifts for wedding party, confetti cones, toiletries in loo, shoes, ice cream cart, invitations etc)

£8k last December between Christmas and new year. 80 guests and hired a decent restaurant. Parents gave us half. No bridesmaids and an off the peg dress that cost £250. Had a free bar though! Instead of all the 'trimmings' folk who came really got stuck in. We got married on a weekday but lots were off for Christmas. Cake and photos were gifted and DH best mate who is ££££ gifted us our wine. Pick your time and you can save £££

I think Crispy is OurKate.. (heck how much would that have costed? £millions..

£16k, a few months ago, 120 guests, spent £8k of that on food and drink

I would love to see your wedding dress acrispy! I’m gettig married next year and obsessed with weddings atm 🙈

I reckon by the time we have have paid everything off including honeymoon will be approx £30k which sounds so much to me!

£800 all in, two years ago. Village church, then a garden party at our house with a gazebo, hay bale seats on the lawn and a help yourself buffet. It was perfect and didn't put us anywhere near the red. Our friends still talk about what a great day it was.

About £800 for everything apart from rings, rings cost more than the wedding!

£7k in 2016, which includes £2k on the honeymoon

Buffalo

I know how mean averages work! I did advanced stats as a module at uni and have taught stats at A level most years for the past decade. I've always noticed that, when these figures come out, it tends to be a survey by people with a vested interest in costs staying high i.e. wedding businesses! The surveys tend to be on people using high end wedding products (high end magazines) or connected to the upper end of the cost spectrum with wedding awards and so forth. This, I'd say, would make the sample unrepresentative and reflective of the upper end of the income/spending scale (people who have cheap, laid back weddings are probably not buying wedding magazines etc).

I may well be completely wrong, but the figures are so high I've always been suspicious! And this thread has reignited them! :)

Just checked and one of the current "averages" quoted in the Independent is over £30k now.

About £4000 including a week in Paris (breakfast only included in that). This was 15 years ago. Married in church, buffet reception in a hotel with a disco. It can be done on a budget and still have a lovely day

Italy last year, 75 guests.

With the accommodation and flights for us and the wedding I would say it was about 15k.

2k. Late afternoon register office ceremony ,12 guests , and we all ate a lovely meal at our favourite restaurant. No wedding cake ,we had blueberry cheesecake for dessert. It was a lovely day.

Around £30k all in (a lot of guests and a central London location). However we had already bought our first house - I think that’s so much more important and while it was amazing - honestly, afterwards do you realise that it’s just one day

£500 ish, registrar + 2nd hand outfit for me + bbq in the back garden + 3 nights in a bnb. 16 years ago.

About 17k and a 6k honeymoon.

I got married this March in London (zone 2), 130 guests & it cost £10k. We saved money by:

• Hiring a "dry hire" venue for £2k that allowed us to bring in our own caterers (a buffet at £10 a head) and we got an obscene amount of of alcoholic drinks delivered from Ocado

• Hiring a wedding dress instead of buying one: £200

• Sourcing suppliers from gumtree (eg. our DJ was £350 and our photographer was £400)

• Selling the venue decorations on gumtree afterwards to get some money back

• A friend made our cake and only charged us for ingredients (£200)

• Asking guests for money instead of gifts (THIS made the biggest difference, in fact we were gifted close to the £10k we'd spent, meaning we almost broke even!!!! )

£15k 15 years ago. Bloody ridiculous. Wouldn't do it now!