Getting married for £120

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In light of other threads in which posters feel access to marriage is blocked by the excessive cost, I just wanted to point out that every district in England has an obligation to provide statutory marriage ceremonies.
These cost £46 plus £4 for your certificate.
You will also need to give notice of marriage which costs £35 each.
£120 in total.
While I realise this is still a large sum to be found on a limited income and some districts choose to limit the number and location of statutory ceremony appointments they make available, I thought it might be worth putting out there as it can be hard to find this information amongst the mass of wedding business stuff on the Internet.

We calculated our wedding to be around two k . We will be having a register office ceremony and a reception. Around £600 of this will be outfits and rings, we don’t wear gold so the silver rings we will be having are bespoke and beautiful. We may even spend less that £2 k! The reception venue is cheap and we will be doing our own catering because we don’t was sandwiches and cocktail sausages on sticks kind of buffet! It totally does not have to cost tons of money! We could have a wedding for a couple of hundred but my previous weddings were done in the cheap and my fiancé wants me to have what I want!

2k is a ton of money for party 😲

OP's point is that the wedding itself only costs £120, which is much more affordable.

We got married for £125

exactly OP

Ours cost about that. I’m amazed how prople splash out thousands for one day instead of putting it towards a deposit. (How many people end up divorcing?)
I’ve never been the kind of girl who got excited about weddigg dresses and hate the attention anyway.
It’s the rest of life togetger that matters.

I totally get that and my first two wedding s were along those lines.
I just desperately wanted something a little more elaborate this time is all! I wanted a nicer ring and outfit!

So many people confuse a wedding and a marriage. If you don't want a fuss then you do it in the way the OP suggests at a very minimal cost. You can even get married in your jeans and t-shirt.

All the rest of it - flowers, cars, receptions, bridesmaids - is purely optional.

fantasmagoria1, I hope you enjoy your wedding day and have a wonderful time.
The purpose of the Op is to point out that couples can still get married even if they don't have thousands to spend, that the prohibitive cost of a big wedding does not mean couples can't access the legal protections of marriage if they want to.

I think the point of this thread is that if you want to get married for the legal protections it brings, then it can be done quite cheaply.

It you are getting married for a party/dress/rings, this is not the thread for you. This is not a cheap party planning thread, rather a legal one.

My second one cost just that.
It was actually surprisingly lovely.
Me and dh, 4 friend, two registrars.
Very loving and intimate
I enjoyed it so much I did it again three months later on a beach in Tenerife
But I felt just as married with that one

Well indeed.

A colleague is looking at swanky wedding venues at the moment and getting sucked into the madness. They also want to buy a house but are putting it off so they can save for the wedding first. I want to shake him. But he’s young and I’m a twice married old cynic, what can you do.

That's all we are gonna do. Not having a big do, which I think might kill my mum as I think she is planning my wedding in her head and the venue is a huge castle near us for certain.

I would love a wedding dress though really, but I'd feel a bit stupid going to a registry office with it being just us in a wedding dress. Will probably just buy a really nice dress I can wear again.