how much did your wedding cost?

[ogri]

hi all. just being really nosy so you can tell me to mind my own business if you want.
ours was about £2500. i bought my dress brand new off ebay. hubby did same with his kilt suit. we had a lovely buffet in a beautiful hotel for 60ish. we had a great band. we danced all night, despite being 5 months pegnant. the party went on all night and well into the next day.
i wish i could get married to do it all again, great day.
thanks for your replies.

Acnebride!

Way out of order!

My mother did try to get her new boyfriend on the top table - tricky - we already knew him, he used to fix our cars before he started going out with her - I couldn't see him on the top table somehow - but she tried all the same.

And my PILs did mention that one of their friends was a bit put out that she'd only been invited to the evening. That's one of THEIR friends we hadn't seen in nearly ten years!!!

In the end we just stood our ground. Their so-called friend stopped speaking to them and the rest of my family caused loads of trouble about seating arrangements, but we kind of felt, well, we were paying

by the way, were you really an "acne" bride?? I've seen you around before and wondered how you got the name??

Good for your mogwai!
(When's that baby gonna make an appearence then?)

Ours cost £65. Price of the registry office fee I think. Got married in flexi-time! Registry office is in the building I sometimes work in,so at one stage,it looked as if I'd have to drag a witness down from their desk!

No regrets,big dos aren't our thing (although I love other people's.)

ha moondog!

No idea when it's going to make an appearance. My MIL just phoned and said "I wish you'd hurry up". Am ONE DAY overdue. I KNEW I shouldn't have answered the phone.

Well, with regard to weddings, family etc, you have to stand your ground if you are paying, right?

Actually, PMSL - my mother called some sort of "family conference" over the issue of having our mechanic on the top table. My auntie and uncle came to our house and hurled abuse at us! In the event, the relationship was predictably short lived. He finished with her two weeks before the wedding.

Of course, she neglected to tell me he'd finished with her until the day before the wedding, by which time, it was too late and we still had to pay for his meal. We also had to re-print our photographs list so his name wasn't on it.

Still, at least I didn't have to have my mechanic on the "group shot" with my new husband and my mother...

moondog
snap! but if you factor in the cost of the ring, maybe 120 gbp lol.

lol at the mechanic saga!
You conserve your energy, girl. There's a big job ahead of you (and you'll be fine! )

Nightynight...don't even have a ring! The registrar offered us hers (for dh to pass over ceremoniously on the grubby little nylon lace cushion that they keep for such pomp!).

How we laughed!
(Kindly of course-she was a very nice woman.)

good thing no-one suggested that to dx!
actually, I liked having a ring though am now ringless once more.

does conserving energy mean eating ice pops and chocolate??

I could tell you a few sagas with regard to my mother and her boyfriends - all highly unsuitable. She went out with a guy from the parachute regiment a couple of years ago. He had the union jack tatooed across his chest (diplayed the first time I met him). I was serving coffee using the best china and listening to a bit of Vivaldi at the time - felt totally out of my depth.

Couldn't think of a thing to say to him, so asked about parachuting. I asked "when was the last time you jumped?". He just looked at my mother and she started giggling in her bobby socks (kid you not, pom-poms at the heel).

He moved in with her two weeks after they met - left his wife, who lived up the road. I went to her huse and all the family photos had been displaced by framed shots of some kids I'd never met (HIS kids).

He stayed a fortnight - but she got a new kitchen rug and some storage jars out of it

I can see the attraction,but I would only lose it and then be heartbroken.
Jewellery and I do not have a happy relationship.

Yes mogwai,and flicking through copies of Junior Pregnancy&Baby,half sneering,half lustfully at bespoke walnut cribs......

Oh that's hilarious! Reminds me of my sister,meeting some mates of her (French) dh in a downtown bar in Marseilles (natch!)

One told her he was a 'plongeur' (as you know,same term for diver and dishwasher).She started asking lots of exceptionally polite questions about how long he had trained for,how difficult was it,issues of physical fitness.....

This is the woman who during a pub discussion about Rambo (circa 1986) actually thought that all these scallies were discussing Rimbaud the poet.

Lord love her.

It's a curse, being high-minded, n'est-ce pas?

Tout a fait d'accord.
Lost count of my acquaintances and friends who start banging on about Big Brother and celebrity Love Island (and other emissions of this ilk) who then trail off and say 'Er......bet you don't watch it do you...?'

'No,my dears,I am far happier sitting at home with improving works and uplifting music.'

I'm such a snob, but there are many kindred spirits here on MN.

Mine was £5000. Paid (still being paid) for by my Credit Card and a small input from my parents.

That included a 3 course meal for 120 people.

name - was about to use my own name as the username when decided 'no' - looked across the room at our wedding picture and bingo

Not too bad but I have PCOS so when not on hormonal contraceptives get vast waves of spots from time to time

hence the other reeeallly expensive thing at our wedding was my foundation

Ours was just under £5000 for everything - rings, outfits, cars, flowers, church, reception, honeymoon to Dubai and spending money. We got married up in Scotland as it was about a third of the cost as in the South of England!

I get called a snob too - I have no idea whether I am one or how to spot one. I certanly don't make a habit of littering my speech with french unless I'm talking to ....well...another snob????

Nothing wrong with maintaining a standard.

Acnebride I have a friend in a simila position. Can't believe the cost of foundation. She gets hers on prescription - can you??

moondog
I keep wondering...is your dh turkish? cos you keep refering to Turkey

Here's how to tell if you're a snob BTW:
You have a beautiful daughter. She has three suitors, each of whom is handsome, kind, great cook, great sense of humour etc. One is a PhD and aclaimed Oxford don. One is as rich as Bill Gates. And one is heir to an earldom. Which one would you honestly rather she married, or is it all the same?

Ours was about £12-13K I think, including honeymoon. It was the traditional wedding really. I did make my own invitations and table decorations and my dress was only about £150. Not sure how it all added up actually - well, honeymoon cost over £4K I think.

I think the earldom...but then again those country estates are a bugger to maintain.

thats what they say so the rest of us wont get jealous.

Blimey, on prescription? what a great thought!
I don't think mine is that bad, i just wanted a foundation that really suited me, rather than one that was OK in a dim light with one eye half open

think it was about £900. We had a registry office wedding and a reception in my mum and dads pub. It was cheep and cheerful and I don't think that I could have enjoyed myself more if we paid £9000.

nightynight,we live in Turkey but my dh is Welsh.
It's not the glamorous Med bit by the way,it's the up on a mountain by the border with Iran bit.

I'd rather my daughter married the PhD guy-no doubt about it!