Wedding Forum - Budget brides budgets! under 10k...

We're saving on a wedding breakfast getting married @ 12, photos then got Buffett, speeches etc then when evening guests arrive candy Buffett, choc fountain and cold Buffett, we saved on flowers, car is free a friends, were staying at mine the night before and I have a mobile hairdresser who I've known for years, I'm doing my own makeup, we had the venue half price as my hubby knows the owners, my Richard designs veil is gorgeous its 72inch with crystals I had it for a steal 60-172 lol my tiara was 15-90 Amanda wyatt shop was closing also had ring cushion and garter from there for 15! My dress was off the peg too so saved 500! The suits were buy 4 get one free! The photographer is 300 half the price with an unedited cd so were going to do our own wedding album. Were not bothering with a videographer, were having a decoration package too x

Thanks the-future-mrs-bowsk just goes to show you don't have to go over board things that you can keep are worth more x

The dress - £0-£700 max budget
The shoes - £0.99 Bay of E
The Kilt - £0.00 He already owns it
Bridesmaids dresses - £36 each (x 2)
Best man - £0.00 owns own kilt
Hair and make up - £80 total
Flowers - £ 100.00 inclusive of bouquet, button holes and table centers
Cake- £30 to make ourselves
Invites - £60
Ceremony -£300 including ceremony venue, reception venue and wedding licence
Transport - £Free
Photographer - £595 full day
Reception - £1000 food budget
Drink: £250 champange and wine for tables
Dj/ band - £650
Favours - £40
How many guests -100 day, 200 night
What day - midweek / weekend: Saturday
Other costs??? Reception decorations: £100
Honeymoon: £1000 budget max
Total: £4977.99 approx HOPEFULLY we wont go over that.

I was so happy when bidding ended and I had won them. I jumped up and down and squeaked like a kid! lol

Soo farrr

Venue - £2800 for 60 people, including meal, dj, drinks and ceremony.
Dress - Up to £220 including postage
Shoes - £20 Simple pair of kitten heels
Decor - £20 so far. Very DIY. Created own place markers from clay. Own ring cushion from materials. Own cake toppers from clay. Own wish tree made from branches and painted.
Transport - £70 - Just paying petrol as it's coming from Birmingham down to Somerset and back. The man is a good friend and colleague of my dad so he's letting us use his big green open top vintage bus for free!
Photography - Unsure on prices yet, but it's a good friend's son, so will be doing us a great deal.
Engagement Ring - Free. It was my mothers. So an heirloom.
Rings - Ebay job so unsure yet. Not going for expensive material no point.
Favours - £45 - Jars saved from pasta sauces, baby jars ect, filled with sweets and old material tops, twined wrapped around and hand made Eat Me tags from the cardboard toilet rolls. Main price is the sweets. Also Bird place makers are clay and people can take them home as well, to act as paper weights.
Bridesmaid - Up to £30 each, so a maximum of £150 for the 5.
Flowergirls - Up to £20 each, so a maximum of £40.
Page Boys - As above - £40
Ushers/Groomsmen - Prim@rk job for suits - So again up to £30 each.
Groom's Suit - No sure yet.
Flowers - Doing my own so will be buying stems. Maximum of £50.
Bouquet - A rose bouquet from Asd@, add a few gerberas - maximum of £15.
Other costs- Splurge really, - Butterfly release - £120 Maybe a tiara not sure yet.

Amount of guests - 60
Day - Saturday
Month- 30th May - 1 day later and the price would of almost doubled!

So Far: £3,620

Massive bargain hunter here, so will try and get everything reduced. Also have entered tons of competitions to get as much as i can for nothing. Will not take anything at the price they say at first, i will get it down!

Plus we are rather lucky, future FIL also wants to be involved and has thrust a £1000 onto us. So we will only be paying £2,620 so far.

Yep Lana, just uploaded them to my pix :) FABULOUS deals going on there Lauren, well done!!!

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Are you not having a photographer Rennie?

Oh and great going Lauren; how did you get a venue that cheap?

My venue is costing an arm and a leg and were supposed to be on a budget lol

Dress/bolero -£1400 (splurge)
Grooms outfit - FREE! (Uniform)
Venue - FREE!
Flowers - £200 artificial all done by moi!
Table centres - £6 / table (made by me!) - £80 total
Rings - His £200, mine £1500
Catering and wine (120-140 guests)£6000
Band - £1000 max
Car - £500
Photographer - £1350
Favours - £130 (cost of raw materials like jars and sugar - other than that home produced honey and rhubarb and ginger jam and sugared almond trios)
Cake - FREE! Made by aunty
Hair and Beauty FULL works (part of pre honeymoon stuff) -£300
Tiara and veil £300
Bridesmaids x 4 (inc shoes!)- £900
Ushers and dad's outfits - £500
Stationery - FREE - (Printed by a client of mum's! The StDs were emailed!)
Gifts - £100
Shoes £20
Honeymoon £2000

Guests, 120 day 140 evening (both have very large families)
Saturday 31st May 2014

Been paying some things as we go on a payment scheme, and mum and dad are paying for the reception, my dress, 1/2 the car cost and the bridesmaids.

H2Bs mum and step dad have paid for the honeymoon.

We're still under £20k which is good!

This is the rough draft of our budget so far, will probably end up nothing like this though as I have a tendancy to buy stuff without checking if we can afford it first. Hoping to spend £7000 max.

The dress - Was down for £500 max, won it on here in June - now £0
The shoes - £50
The suit - £100 (buying)
Bridesmaids dresses - £100 each *2
Best man/ ushers - Prob buy it about £75, may get him to pay half
Hair and make up - not though bout it yet...oops!
Flowers - £150 (foam or real touch)
Cake- Included in wedding package, will prob pay upto an extra £100 to upgrade from the basic one tho
Invites - £100 (all DIY)
Ceremony -£600, church service, includes organist, bells etc., booked
Transport - £300
Photographer - £495, booked
Videographer? - undecided if we want one.
Reception - £3499
Dj/ band - included with reception
Favours - £150 including a candy bar
How many guests -47 day and 80 for evening
What day - Saturday
Other costs??? - approx £800 to cover rings, sons suit, general decoration and gifts etc

Total so far £6621 :)

I feel doubly good about our budget now! Even though its still alot of money to us I think its worth it.

dress: free, my mums one
viel: £20 bay of e
Indian stylr headdress: £20 bay of e
grooms outfit: £200 so far but need shoes
invites: £30
Cake: free, aunty is making it for us fingers crossed its nice!
Venue: £1600 for marquee including tables and chairs and lighting etc
buffet and booze: £1500
Photographer: 700
Videographer: won! So free!
Church with bell ringers: £700
Bridesmaids dresses: 1 human @ £30 1 dog @ £20! Bay of e
ushers: £20 again dogs lol cos im mad
Favours: £300 but its a big pick and mix stand so people choose their own and stuff their face!

decorations: £150 made by me including fair ground stalls, guest book, centre pieces, games and prizes, flowers from my garden and silly signs everywhere

madly this has come in at just shy of £6000, I cant believe it. I was hoping more 4000. Luckily my mum and grandparents are helping out a huge amount. I already owe them everything, I guess they now own my afterlife as well! Very very lucky and grateful to have such a kind family.

Feeling very humbled by this break down of costs.

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christinaB38 mine cost around £35 to make that includede card envelopes, gems and ribbon for the side i made 40 day and 70 evening invites although the eve were extra x

Mine are costing about £40 to make. Including all card, ribbon, ink and stamps, inserts and envelopes etc - just need to make them now! xx

Mine will cost no more than £50 for all invites and everything, 40 day, 40 evening, im thinking im gona do blue glutter glue around the main body of tardis and put a couple crysal me bobs in the lantern/light on top!

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Mine are. Dress £850/shoes £19/ side tiara £45/ veil £60/ accessories £ 60/ x2 bridesmaids dresses x270/ hair x3 £100/ transport £0/ church £400/ suits £350 x 5/ flowers everything £400/ rings 1k/ decorations £250/ gifts £150/ fgirl dresses and accessories £ 150/ makeup nails etc/ £120/ venue total £1200/ drinks on arrival and wine in table £150/ honeymoon undecided as yet but budgeted £1000-1300/ photographer £300 grooms transport £0

Hi,
Some really good bargains here!
I was wondering from those of you who got flowers from The Bay of E who you got them from; I'm looking for artificial flowers and they are cheapest on there but so many different sellers and worried about the quality.
Can anyone give me any suggestions at all?

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So far - some projected cost, some actual
The dress - £700 - half price in the sale
The shoes - £20 max - won't see them under the dress its huge lol
Tiara and jewellery £125
The suit - £100
Bridesmaids dresses - £40 each x4
Flower girl/s - £0
Best man/ ushers - paying for their own
Hair and make up - £100 - mates rates thank goodness
Flowers - £150 bay of e
Cake- £100 a friend is making for cost
Invites - £10 found some 'nice enough' ones in poundland and am glueing on some pearls
Ceremony -£900 - god registrars charge a lot to come out lol
Transport - £0 not planning on having it unless we suddenly have spare money
Photographer - £899
Videographer? - £0 - not allowed :-(
Reception - £3,538
Dj/ band - £290
Decorations - £591 including centrepieces, favours, candy buffet, chair covers, starlight backdrop, bay trees, wishing tree
Gifts - £100 max
Outdoor decorations - £50 diy decorated jars with candles and lights for trees and bushes
Rings - we have no idea but don't want to scrimp on them as they are forever
How many guests -55 day 110 evening
What day - Saturday in August

We are hoping to get money instead of gifts so that we can afford a honeymoon somewhere nice

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thanks for bumping lana :) had a little nose, heres our rough budget,
Dress £150 - £200 max
shoes £20
suit £100
tiara £15
bm dresses x 2 unsure
flowers - either making own or seeing florist friend
hair £25
makeup free (sister)
nails £20
invites making them
ceremoney £382 + £55 booking fee £35 each license
transport - dads sporty looking car lol
photography asking uncle or friend
reception/bar gift from MIL/FIL
band asking uncle and his band - £50 ish
reception decor £40
gifts £30-40
sweets for table £30
bubbles/pinatas for kids £30
centrepieces undecided yet
rings £60-80
prob forgot something lol i left my wedding book at home with list in lol xx

Registrar fees: £474
Cathedral blessing: £420
Reception (includes hire, food, booze, buffet): £3,700
Ceilidh: £550
Photography: £995
Flowers: £70 (bought and made by us)
Dresses: £406 & ? (my dress not bought but have £500 in the budget to accommodate)
BM dresses: £190
Suits: £124 (best man is wearing military uniform, ushers in hire suits)
Hair/Make-up: £150 (probably only budget for hair and do own make-up)
Invite's & RSVP's: £10 (make ourselves)
Cake: £20 (make ourselves and with family members)
Rings: £80 (using family hierlooms so only need to re-size)
Dress alterations: £200? (no idea what this will cost but have £200 in the budget for this!)
Bridal accessories: £50 (includes veils, headgear, garters etc)
Thank you gifts: £100
Insurance: £39
Honeymoon: £0 (present from best man)
Honeymoon spending money: £200
Transport: £0 (using family cars as distance is so close)
Order of Service booklets: £5 (make and print ourselves)
Lingerie: £10
Decor: £20

Currently £7,892 but fluctuates until we've booked on everything!