To ask how you paid for your wedding?

[Picklemuncher123]

Fiance proposed to me last August and the aim is to save as much as possible to afford a decent wedding. But it's proving difficult at the moment as other financial emergencies seem to be cropping up.

Did you fund your wedding your selves ? Get a loan ? Parents or family help? How much did it cost in total and can I still have a lovely( by no means big ) wedding on a budget ? Thanks :)

£70,000 and paid for entirely by parents (except gifts which we paid for ourselves). It was amazing and I loved it but obviously an extortionate amount to spend. Would have been very different if we had been paying for it ourselves!

We paid half. My widowed DM paid half. Wealthy PIL who had paid for SIL wedding (and given her £10k for a house deposit) contributed nothing.

Parents - every penny. We were v young and traditional.

Around £16k all in. We were lucky our parents wanted to help. My parents paid for my dress and the venue (about £6k). PIL gave us £8k which covered food, drink, entertainment, flowers, transport etc. I put in the rest as it was for things like my shoes, bridesmaid gifts etc.

I regret none of it. It was one of the best days of my life and pretty much perfect!

Paid it ourselves. Paid for different things as we went along. Venue and food was paid in installments, that was the biggest cost. Those were the days before kids and mortgage though.

we paid it ourselves. about £500 (we eloped). it was a 'decent' wedding nevertheless.

it's bonkers to take out a loan for a half day party.

£1750 paid for by ourselves

20k, most paid for by my parents with DH mum paying for the church and flowers and DH Dad giving us £2k
Very lucky. We’ve been married 13 years on Monday

We saved and had done family help - our original budget was £6k because that’s what we could save ourselves.

Various relatives offered us money which was very kind so we had a slightly fancier wedding than initially planned.

I think we spent £11k total including wedding rings.

Honeymoon was interest free credit card paid off within a year.

We paid for a sit down three course dinner and all drink all day. About 80 guests.

Around €12k which we paid ourselves. My parents paid for my dress (£700) and my PIL gave us the money we paid for the honeymoon as a present at the wedding.

We paid for 90% ourselves, and the final 10% came from my family. It was a bit of a budget affair, nothing fancy. You can definitely have an amazing day on a budget. It's all about the people you have there and the memories you make.

One of the first things we did after getting engaged was to set up a joint wedding account.

We then put into it what we could over time by doing regular deposits, selling things on eBay and even gathering lots of bits around our house that we sold at car boot sale.

So we decluttered and sorted out home at the same time. Some family members were happy to also declutter and give some random items to us to sell. Anything we couldn't sell went to charity.

Any donations from family went into our wedding account.

Also, I set up a spreadsheet where for each item, e.g. flowers, I could compare several quotes and make sure we got best value.

When close family and friends asked about wedding gifts we were pleasantly surprised by offers to pay for photography or cake as a gift.

Instead of a gift list we did a Honeymoon fund which worked well.

We saved up for a couple of years (no help from elsewhere) and had a fabulous budget wedding.

Paid it all ourselves. Cut expenses according to your budget. No way would I take out a loan for a wedding - a mortgage is enough debt for a lifetime.

My parents paid for me to have a nice wedding car as a surprise (I thought my dad was going to drive me). DH’s parents paid for our honeymoon. DH’s sister bought the wine. The rest was us, about £5k I think, mostly saved and we ran up a couple of low-limit credit cards as well.

Oh and my mum made the cake, and we called in favours to get a string quartet.

Cost about £5k all in, but that’s nearly 20 years ago. Had savings and saved up some more.

Our savings. DH's parents paid for the invites. My father eventually stumped up for the booze, several years after promising he would.

I think it came to about £8k in today's money, including 80-odd people to a hot sit-down meal, our clothes, flowers, cake, etc. And the honeymoon.

We went abroad by ourselves in our late 20's (we had some family issues and it just saved a lot of headache), £7k for the wedding and two weeks all inclusive honeymoon. My DF paid for the whole thing. Would like to renew our vows in this country so he could walk me down the aisle (nobody's cheated ).

We spent 10k. We just paid for it as we went along. We were both well-established in our careers and had no children, so we were in a good financial position.

I reckon ours cost about one of our gross annual salaries. All paid ourselves. That includes everything - rings and honeymoon too.

I'm surprised how many parents contributed so much money for a wedding. I don't know anyone in real life for whom that is the case. Or maybe they just wouldn't admit it.
I would put saving for a house deposit way ahead of saving for a wedding. A home lasts longer.

We paid most ourselves through saving for a few years. Probably cost around £12k Inc honeymoon 10 years ago. Honeymoon was £4k. My parents paid for my dress and helped a lot. Mum did my flowers and her friend drove me. Dad helped with musicians he knew. We wanted to keep costs lower but everywhere is so expensive as soon as they know its a wedding.

We spent less than £10k on absolutely everything including a short honeymoon in Paris. 120 guests for wedding and another 60 for the party. We spent on booze, food and a live band. We didn't spend on lots of things. My dress and shoes cost less than £300 as was handmade.

We paid for it ourselves. We were in our 30s though so had the advantage of both having worked for over a decade and having lots of savings. Plus no kids.
I’d baulk these days about spending so much money (around 16k) on one day now I’ve got children.