How much did your wedding cost (African and Traditional)

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I’m trying to find out how much a typical Nigerian wedding costs in london/south east. As you know we usually have a traditional wedding and a Christian wedding.

From a quick Google search it seems that the U.K. average is £25k and the London average is £35k. That’s helpful but I’m really looking for a number specific to our cultures way of getting married

So I thought I’d come here and ask

Didn't want to leave unanswered but can't be of much help because my wedding was a while ago and the last couple I was privy to their wedding budget had theirs about 8 years ago in London. From what I can remember, I don't think it was more than £10k - 15k. It wasn't a small event, not large either.

I'm quite shocked at the cost now but things have changed.

I think it would depend on the specific culture - Yoruba, Igbo, etc? - number of ceremonies, guests (and their guests. Lol. Unless you're doing strictly by invitation), location, vendors, how big/small you want it, etc. I've tried to look it up and it seems it's still between £20k-£30k, more or less.

Depends.

Hey @NotSoNewAndShiny thank you for responding. Okay 10 - 15k is not bad. In 10years things would have gone up, so I’d say £20k is a good ball park. I don’t think it will be a large wedding.

Oh my tribe is Edo, don’t know what the other one would be yet 😅.

Haha. Okay, nothing wrong with planning and preparation.

Actually, I was going to write 'Edo' next but decided to just put 'etc' to include all the ethnic groups. Now I wish I'd done that.

Remember the 10-15k was around 8 years ago. Things have gone up since then, now including the price inflation due to the pandemic. I wonder if it will still be 20k, ten years from now.

Still, I believe you can have a wedding with any budget though, it all depends on how you cut it and what you want.

Hope you have a beautiful wedding when the time comes.

It really depends on the type of wedding you want. We had 250 guests and did it all on one day. Cost us £50k 3 years ago. For this we had top catering, open bar and we did a LOT ourselves eg I designed and printed our invitations, I made a lot of our decor even though the big decor pieces we hired. If we outsourced everything, I think it would add another £10k

Hey @Redcart21 thank you for getting back to me. Ohh that’s great to know, what would you say was the biggest expense?

Renting the hall? The catering or the food?

It was the catering followed very closely by the venue hire, but we did have 3 separate meals throughout the day (lunch, dinner and midnight buffet) as all our events were on 1 day. We went for a high end caterer as good food was very important to us.
But you can spend endless money on a wedding so set your budget first and work within that.

Oh my tribe is Edo, don’t know what the other one would be yet 😅.

This really made me laugh - Love this! 🤣