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Help for Newbies: Hidden costs in weddings

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- CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
I thought I would share with everyone some of my findings and I'm sure alot of you will add to the list. I figure this will help new brides to set up their budgets etc.

I've found I have had to pay for things which I didn't expect for things such as:
wedding certficates
Banns to be read or giving notice to registrar
Engraving of wedding rings (depending where you buy them)
Extra charges from venue for having a couple of meals different from everyone else
Cake stands (if your venue doesn't provide them)
Cake knife (if venue doesn't provide them)
Fittings for your dress and bridesmaids
Damage waiver on suit hire
Fuel allowence for vintage cars after a certain distance
wedding insurance

Please feel free to add to the list to help others out.
- CommentAuthorluvlifejen (mrs berr
i did put allowance on for some of these.
one of mine that i found was high chairs at the venue
x

soon to be Mrs Berry 26.11.2011
- CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
I'm lucky my venue has loads of them which is a good job with the amount of kids and babies I've got coming. They also have loads of travel cots as well.
- CommentAuthorluvlifejen (mrs berr
wow ur lucky lol i have quite alot of kids coming i'm so excited haha i will have about 5 until 1 tho :S but their parents are sending them with grandparents after 7 poor things (mum and dads time to party i think!) so all the evening kids are over 5 the youngest is my step son xx

soon to be Mrs Berry 26.11.2011
- CommentAuthornickers
didnt know you had to pay to have banns read or giving notice to registra???xx

MRS RICHARDSON HERE
LOVE MY LITTLE FAMILY MY GORGEOUS SON
AND HANDSOME HUSBAND XXXX

- CommentAuthorluvlifejen (mrs berr
in liverpool its £33.50 each x

soon to be Mrs Berry 26.11.2011
- CommentAuthornickers
well im pleased i read this then lol least i have some idea thanks ladIes xx

MRS RICHARDSON HERE
LOVE MY LITTLE FAMILY MY GORGEOUS SON
AND HANDSOME HUSBAND XXXX
- CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
I'm sure plenty more will come. My budget has slowly risen by £1000 with sneaky costs I hadn't thought about.
- CommentAuthorluvlifejen (mrs berr
typical really isnt it! but hey ho we want a lovely day right? :-) xx

soon to be Mrs Berry 26.11.2011
- CommentAuthorOjsmummy
the only thing i am struggling with is registrar fees for wirral cant find any info anywhere
- CommentAuthormummyto2
i've just given my notice of marrige and it was 33.50 pp im in manchester

im a married women now
mrs carson-moores

i love my hubby and my kids with all my heart and soul
- CommentAuthorStevie_Dee
My OLD VENUE decided they wanted to charge an extra £55 for the setting up of a table for our sweet station...for sweets and jars we are providing! Exactly what part of sticking a tablecloth on a table takes £55???? xxx

I have a gorgeous husband!
2 brilliant wonderful boys, a wonderful life
in Cornwall. Happiest woman ever!
Now making our house a home. Blessing 2014.
- CommentAuthorluvlifejen (mrs berr
google it ojsmummy xx

soon to be Mrs Berry 26.11.2011
- CommentAuthorOjsmummy
ive tried jen -- i for notice of marraige its 33.50 and 3.50 for certificate

but i need to try find out what it would cost me for the registrar to do the service and cant find it
- CommentAuthorluvlifejen (mrs berr
its 33.50pp like mine i just looked and put the link on ur wall xx

soon to be Mrs Berry 26.11.2011
- CommentAuthorOjsmummy
thanks jen -- is that what the cost of them coming to perform the service at your venue costs aswell tho ?
- CommentAuthorluvlifejen (mrs berr
no its separate thats just the notice you have to give mine in the venue is 295 xx

soon to be Mrs Berry 26.11.2011
- CommentAuthormummyto2
im getting married at my local town hall, so when i did my notice of marriage they told us then that the room would be £248,but i knew that when i booked the date, just give them a ring and ask

im a married women now
mrs carson-moores

i love my hubby and my kids with all my heart and soul
- CommentAuthorOjsmummy
okie dokie ladies thank you
- CommentAuthorLauraMck
I am sure our registra is costing around £400
- CommentAuthorSuzie Bear
Bloody hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEk

not even considered most of these!!!!

Mummy2b did you just go to Manchester town hall?????

is Mrs Suzie Bear!!!!
Gotta be pink!!! :0)
I think I blinked and missed our wedding!! lol
- CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
  
  edited
crap you just reminded me i need to buy a cake stand! oops ! x and a knife i think i will just take my big kitchen one or Al's chain saw

Enjoying being a wifey!!
Currently baking a small person at last, took a while :)
- CommentAuthorKerrylou
Ojsmummy - I think £33.50 is the national standard for registrar fees/banns but it changes every year so by the time you get round to needing to do it you're probably looking at around £37-£40
xxx

It's right what they say
"The course of true love never runs smoothly"
But if it had been easy then we wouldn't love each other as
much as we do right now - 1 week to go :D
- CommentAuthormrs pinkalice
I would like to add stamps to the list. im sure most people have thought of them but i didnt, when you think you need stamps for save the dates, day and evening invites, it all adds up! x
- CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
I hadn't thought of that. Yikes something else to add to the list!
- CommentAuthorMrs Steer
pinkalice, i totally agree it soon adds up xx

Is now happily married to my gorgeous man
11-06-11
- CommentAuthorEmsy5000
chair covers where a surprise for me

Dyslexic
its spelt wrong
I No! I Now! I Know!!!!!
I am NOW MRS LONSDALE!!
- CommentAuthorslitwristbarbie
it cost me and my HTB £68.00 To give notice at reg will cost us £83.50 on the day the £3.50 is for certificate the £80.00 is for registrar to turn up at church
- CommentAuthorGriff
I can't believe how expensive it all is one venue i've seen charges 350 for using their dj but charges 400 to let another dj in at the venue!!!
- CommentAuthorJane
If I was having a sit down 3 course meal I would have free table linen. Because I'm having a sit down buffet I have to pay laundry charges for table linen. I kid you not. Not impressed. Especially as half the table cloths are being provided by me as they are a special colour!!!! So I'm paying to launder my own tablecloths!!!!
- CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
Ouch Jane I would have them about that. If they are your table clothes then you can take them home dirty and wash them yourself surely?
- CommentAuthorlinzi
register signing pen, guest books, post boxes, place cards and menus. They are all things i hadnt even thought about when we first went over our budget.

seen someone on real weddings signing their register with a bic biro! shock horror.

I don’t repeat gossip so listen very carefully!!
Started Slimming World - 23/03/2011 - 2 Stone to lose!
Total Loss = 1 stone 7 lbs.
As at 23/11 - 3 days before the wedding.
- CommentAuthorLucie
seriously you have to bring your own pen to sign the register? Now that one shocked me! there's so much to think about isnt there with it all. Still cant quite get my head round the fact we have to pay to say we want to get married as well as pay to get married!

x
- CommentAuthorNuttytart
Yes there are loads of things thats why people should allow a 10% contingency fund in their budget.
- CommentAuthorsalamander
we have an all in one venue, but I didn't notice that the actual ceremony room hire wasn't included, so that's an extra few hundred on top of the thousands I'm already paying

Also...

dress alterations
nails
makeup
hair trials
breakfast for those staying somewhere overnight (mine's part of the price but others may not be)
- CommentAuthorMrsSnedden2B
Thank god i have a lot of friends and family doing for me made a big saving when craigs great auntie is going 2 be making all the invites :) and i no the guy that is doing the guys kilts getting that dirt cheap nd on top i making a lot my self lol In Scotland it is 30 pounds per person to submit a notice of marriage then there is 9 pound for a copy of your wedding certificate also in the church of Scotland the fee for the church is now around 100 pounds and on top around 20 pounds donation to curch officer for openin church and last thing an organist will cost around 50 to 60 pounds hope that helps someone xx
- CommentAuthorluvlifejen (mrs berr
i so love this thread!! keep it up :) helping me loads xx

soon to be Mrs Berry 26.11.2011
- CommentAuthorgrumpyoldmoo
Getting married in a venue on a Saturday in Scotland costs A LOT more money than it does on a week day
- CommentAuthorluvlifejen (mrs berr
most places r like that does my head in! cheaper on a week day or sunday! but i wanted a sat! :) xx

soon to be Mrs Berry 26.11.2011
- CommentAuthorlinzi
Lucie - defo take a nice pen with you to wedding! They will have a pen there for you to use, and if you are happy getting photographed holding an old half chewed bic then fine. But I think I would rather something a bit nicer in my photos!

I don’t repeat gossip so listen very carefully!!
Started Slimming World - 23/03/2011 - 2 Stone to lose!
Total Loss = 1 stone 7 lbs.
As at 23/11 - 3 days before the wedding.
- CommentAuthormomari
in my part of country sat,sun and friday have the same price just mon-thu is cheaper.
- CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
I've just realised that I need to pay for something else and can't for the life of me think what it is now I have just logged on. I wish my brain would work sometimes.
- CommentAuthorXLittleMissMe!X
Ooooo I just remembered when I went to the last website I viewed. Dress cleaning and storage! Yikes!

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