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

13k, including accommodation for 18 people, feeding every guest Fri-Sun, 3 course seated dinner, free bar, all outfits and decorations.

No cars, friends did photography, I made the cake, sister did the flowers. Special shout out owed to my bridesmaid who smashed her budget and got her whole outfit for 17.50 in the sales.

About £18k in 2013

With hindsight there are things I would have spent less on, and things I wish I’d spend more on. It’s so down to personal choice I think. Also some things I thought would be cheaper than they were and ended up spending more than expected.

£20k all in.

Paid for 11 family members to travel to Florida, where we met up with rest of family from US, Canada and Aus. 47 guests altogether for ceremony, dinner, drinks and after party. Also flowers, photography, hair, make up, cake.

That figure also includes park tickets for the 11 and accommodation and all food. Wedding dress £90 from ebay and stunning!

Well worth it to have family together. Wish I could do it again. to the same man obvs

About £200 last year. My DH and I had a registry office wedding then stayed at a pub on a deal. Family werent aware so just us. We have been together for 17 years but got married the day after I broke up for mat leave at just over 8 months pregnant. Could've spent more but we had DS on his way so we went on holiday the three of us this year. Don't regret it for a minute

Ours was around the £20k mark which was more than I ever expected to spend, especially as no cars were needed and my dress was an ex sample bargain. The venue was the biggest cost but we both loved it.

80 day guests, 110 night. Venue cost was around £10k and was the best thing we did, everyone loved it, very quirky and different. Registrar £600, hotel for us and some of our guests £2000, Photographer £1450 (brilliant decision), 6 minute video £1100 (great but overpriced in hindsight), singing duo £350, my dress £380 (bargain!), bridesmaids dresses £150 (bargain), groom’s outfit £800, rings £1300, meal night before £500, flowers £900, cake (cheese) £150 then other bits and bobs.

I’d just like to add that we are both in our mid thirties, own two properties and have fairly well paying jobs. We would not have spent that much money had we not had properties or felt we were financially insecure in any way.

Honeymoon was around £8k.

£40-£45k

We are getting married in June and ours is costing about £16,000! Didn't want to spend that much it just happened 🤷‍♀️

As little or as much as you want! A registry office wedding is around £200, a church wedding starts at £484 (yes that's my job!) Everything else is extra. Typically church weddings come in at £800 including music, flowers extra - but most just use the ones already in the church. Wedding dresses can be bought for £50 from oxfam (they have bridal at larger branches) and try amazon for bridesmaids dresses, keep numbers low (the last wedding I coordinated at work at 7 adult bridesmaids, 7 groomsmen- not sure when they became a thing in Britain, plus kids "in" the wedding!) A church hall or pub room can be hired cheaply, do your own food - or spend £20k on a swanky hotel, there's no set price. Mine cost £1500, I catered myself, bought a basic dress, married in church (cheaper fees then) and used my parents garden - a customer of my dad's with a brand new fancy car offered to chauffeur for free.

I think people need to put weddings into perspective,it's one day, never get into debt!

€10k twelve years ago, not including my dress (€1200) or honeymoon (approx €6k not including flights which we got as a present). 120 guests in a hired castle and we had to provide everything from furniture to toilet paper.

Around 5k for everything including venue / my dress / dinner etc .

Sadly my divorce is going to cost a lot more

£10k. 120 guests. 2017.

£6k including a two week honeymoon, was in 2005 though. We booked out of season as the hotel hire was a lot cheaper.

14.5k

£3k all in. Dress was an end of line, photographer was a newbie (and very good), venue was also just starting out so v.v.v.V cheap. We paid about half, family contributed about half in total, between them, for specific bits.

6k wedding and honeymoon 2005

Las Vegas Wedding with a dozen or so friends and another 8 close family members.

2 week honeymoon in French Polynesia

Guests paid travel and accommodation themselves and turned it into a holiday

£300 for celebrant, banns and tiny room. £100 for photographer, flowers and piper. £250 meal which my dps paid half of so really £125. £250 boat travel and £59 dress. Gretna blacksmiths cottage 2010

About 3k which included outfits, registry office, a photographer for the daytime part, a two course meal plus midnight canapés, and a free bar all evening for baoit 50 people. The reception was at a local pub, music and decorations were one made and therefore free. We So requested no gifts. It was such a fun day! Just over five years ago.

Was supposed to be £5000, turned into about £9000. One of those things where you try and source things to keep it cheap and cheerful and individual but when you actually look at all the bits and bobs cumulatively it was lots more expensive than you thought and you should have just bought a hotel package wedding in the first place. And I got suckered in to a dress above budget that I look back and hate now.

So many things I’d do differently if I did it again, got lots better ideas now!

This depends massively on the following factors;

• How many guests?
• What area do you live in?
• What type of wedding do you want? (A polished stately home or a barn with a shit load of bunting where your mums your florist, aunts your caterer and brothers the DJ)

If you want 10 guests in a cheap area and a diy style then you can get married for less that £100

But if you want 60+ guests, in a nice area and want a polished stately home affair...it’s going to be £20K plus!

I know this as I’m currently having this wedding and whilst we are doing as much as possible to cut down the costs, it’s hard without compromising on the event quality. For 70 day and an extra 30 evening we’re paying £11,000 just on venue/catering and that’s with a 20% discount applied!!! 😮

Yesterday I got a quote from the florist for £4500 and almost fell off my chair! - I kid you not!

But that’s the going rate in our area and we have elderly/unwell relatives for whom travelling more than 1 hour would be traumatic! So here we are...

It’s a rip off and I hate the amount we’re spending but it’s like being in a maze where everytime we think we’ve found a way to cut down on costs we turn the corner and hit another dead end!

Couple of grand. Flew to Vegas, got married by Elvis, then spent a week driving up Big Sur.

Peopke on MN all seem to have either spent £25 in Tesco vouchers (registry office had a double them up offer) or £50,000 and a 3 week honey moon in the Maldives!

You’ll also get a lot of advice along the lines of ‘I got married in a beautiful 5 venue and only spent £5000’ and you’ll be like 😮 but then they’ll follow it up with ‘we just didn’t have a DJ, or flowers, or chairs (😂) Aunty Mary made our cake and cousin Peter played the music on his iPhone whilst our mums laid out a MnS buffet that they paid for! It was amazing and cheap- you’re paying far too much!!!’ And then you’re like 🤔 ahhh, so you had 20 of your nearest and dearest on hand to do all the jobs you’d normally pay for and managed to throw a 3 party in a 5* venue...congrats