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 :)

My wedding cost about £100 - marriage license & rings off e-bay. It was the two of us & #1 child, plus two friends who were witnesses in their lunch break from work. It was perfect & incredibly romantic - pissed everyone else off because they weren’t invited but it suited us. It’s your wedding do what YOU want!

We were lucky enough to be gifted £15k by my mum who had inherited. My fiancé' s parents have paid for the evening do and a little extra for 'something fun'. My fiancé and I paid the rest and the total is about £25k. We are getting married on June 1st(so close!) after only getting engaged end of August so we were very grateful for assistance financially as we haven't had that long to save. Obviously timing was our choice, but there was limited availability and we didn't want to wait.

Although it is initially way more than we would have wanted to spend, we are overjoyed with the perfect venue etc so don't regret any choices we have made. Grateful to be able to invite both of our large families. You can have a beautiful wedding on a huge range of budgets, don't worry. Yours will hopefully be perfect for you. Congratulations

I made my wedding dress and we had a modest reception in a working men’s club followed by a cheap honeymoon.

DM paid for my dress, we paid the rest - £5k in total (small, simple but lovely overseas wedding and a huge party after). We were buying a doer-upper at the same time so needed the £ for that, our home was far more important than a flash so.

I sold my first start up.

About 5k 23 years ago. PIL and DM helped fund the drinks. We had about 50 people there. We did an incredible about ourselves (both arty). Do what you want to do, not what is expected. It's about the marriage, not the wedding.

8.5k 15 years ago, including honeymoon. We saved up and paid for half and both sets of parents paid for the other half. Traditional church wedding, cars, flowers etc, reception with 115 guests and everyone there for the whole thing.

My whole outfit cost about £200 though which saved a lot. Proper wedding dress but bought in early spring and 70% off in Monsoon - end of season clearance. Veil, second hand on eBay but lovely silk designer one for £30. Shoes and tiara brand new but also bought from eBay. I got my dress taken in for £30 so that it fitted like a made to measure dress.

We spent £8.5k funded half by us and half by family. Had family been unable to help out we'd have had a longer engagement and less expensive wedding. No point starting married life in dept unless it's a mortgage.

Paid for it ourselves. About 8k I think all included. Humble rings and only 20 guests. Wedding Dress was the most expensive part.

Ours was about 8k. My parents gave us £5.5k which covered the venue and reception. My grandma bought our dress, then the rest was from us saving... we did a lot on a budget!

And I certainly wouldn't spend £70k on showy weddings if I couldn't afford enough fridge space for some buttercream. Priorities, innit.

Eh? Who can’t afford fridge space?

I'm getting married in August and we've totally self funded it. Costing £8500 for 100 day guests and not sure how many evening guests yet. We booked it January 2018 and said to save £200 each a month towards the wedding but I have bought little things towards it myself on top. I've kept a running budget constantly and every idea ive decided to use I've then we'll researched it, tried to find a deal or if I can DIY it to save some money. I'm crafty anyway so enjoyed it! Weddings can get very overpriced for the sake of some lights or getting a professional in when really it's not needed - having £300 light up 'love' letters won't make your marriage any happier or the people celebrating with you have more fun. Buying them an extra drink or having some more food probably will xx

My mum & step dad paid about £7k towards it, my grandparents paid about £3k and we saved about another £10k over the year we were engaged (our honeymoon was about £6k of that).

Of course you can have a nice wedding on a budget, just limit your numbers.

I wouldn't take a loan out, starting married life off in debt wouldn't be a great idea.

Ours was about 25k including honeymoon. Parents paid for dress, flowers, order of service, transport for guests to reception. We paid for the rest as we went along- But we had a house so no saving for deposit, had well paying jobs and no kids. Now with kids and a bigger house (and mortgage!) there’s no way we would spend that much.

We paid. Like you we were struggling to save due to other things taking priority. The registrar office was £79 back then. We got cheap wedding bands in Argos and had a couple of friends witness. Less than £200 all in, including lunch afterwards.

I never wanted a wedding, just a marriage.

PPI repayment, savings thingy payout. Did loads of online surveys for cash and vouchers which were used to buy stuff. Parents also helped us out. Found an amazing venue that was way cheaper than it looked. Whole thing cost about £5k.

My parents paid for most of it but we kept finances very much in check, we paid for a new suit for him, his mum paid for the bridesmaids dress (sil) church and reception at my parents house, I did the catering. Around £1500 but was quite a few years ago so probably closer to £2500 now. Getting married costs from under £100 to whatever you are willing to pay! Think about what matters eg does it have to be a church, but also where you can cut corners eg try oxfam bridal sections (major cities) and buy secondhand.

We had a registry office and not a white dress, a meal with 20 people in a restaurant, and a big party in the house. Cost £1000, twenty plus years ago.

Mine cost about £14k. My parents contribited 2, in laws contributed £4k and we paid the rest ourselves. A small amount, maybe £,1500 went on my cc. MIL gave us a couple of k more towards the honeymoon. We saved mainly. I wouldnt take out a loan for a wedding. Ours was medium sized.

Ours was about £4.000, my parents helped with the costs and they paid for my dress. We had about 70 people at a low key pub wedding, a brilliant day.

Congratulations

We paid for it all ourselves, saved £10k to do so and then booked a relatively ‘last minute’ (three month before deal, which if we’d booked when we first started saving would have cost £14.5k for wedding venue / food / drinks alone).

My parents paid the largest part (venue and catering), we paid other bits, and ILs for others. I think the wedding came to about £25k, mainly because we had around 180 guests.

I inherited a few thousand pounds and used that. Spent about£3k. Quite a lot of guests but informal.

My parents paid half, PILS paid a quarter, we paid a quarter and paid for our honeymoon ourselves.

We actually didn’t want a big wedding - the quarter we put up was the amount we wanted to spend total, but my parents were very, very keen on a big wedding, so we conceded.