Wedding Forum - How much is everyone budgeting on?...

For the wedding, about £12-£14K. Then another £4K for the honeymoon.

Only spending lots of money on 2 things which are my venue which is £3000 my photos are £1000, so hoping to do the lot for 6 grand :-) hopefully less

:-( no honeymoon yet for us going to save after wedding for family holiday to florida. Might spend the weekend somewhere just the two of us tho

It varies massively :) everyone does it differently - and spending more money doesn't necessarily get you a better day! I'm not one to talk, I'm probably going to bankrupt myself :) but if I were less lazy and more craft-oriented I would probably spend far less!

Should mention- mines costing quite a bit because we have 120 day guests and 180 at least in the evening...

Well, we are only going to do it once!

very true! x

I said £6k max to start with, but it's looking like it will come in at around £12k now.

I've budgeted £10,000 officially for savings, wont let myself spend more than £7000 but I really would be surprised if I spend more than £5k tbh, apparently the average is £25k, thing is I'm the type of person who begrudges the price of things, I'll happily wait 6 months or more for a dvd I really want so it drops in price so I know I'd be unhappy if I spent a load of money on one day, but I fully undertand why other people would

as little as possible.lol
probably around £3k, we just don't have the money what with a baby and me on maternity leave. i would love a fairytale wedding with all the trimmings and a week in the caribean. but at the end of the day being married is far more important to me than the actual wedding

tbh im hoping not to spend that much - thankfully i have a lovely daddy paying the venue and the meal :) and me and h2b are splitting the rest! his parents are kindly paying for the flowers for our wedding so thats another expence knocked out and my uncle is taking the pics! serious you are spending 4,000 on honeymoon?? were going on a 10 night med cruise for 800 each all inclusive!! so im a happy girl! i personally would rather put the money into a house!

you can do amazing things with alot less money xxx bargain hunting is the key!! xx

To be honest, we haven't set a sum in mind just tried to get value for money in most departments and then pay off as we go comfortably without too much stress and strain! Id advise a budget price in hind sight however I was graduating from uni when started organising and had no savings whatsoever so thats why we've had to do it this way! Im gettin married in 8months and so far roughly have spent £3,000 on reception, £800 wedding dress, £500 mens suits, £250 photographer, Cars £200.00, wedding candle £50. Made all invites and my bouquet which approx came in at £200.00. Still need to get videographer, center pieces, jewelery, honeymoon , wedding rings, and other bits! Id say overall an approx of £7,000! Hope this helps xxx

we are spending £11,000
roughly thats £555 on church with bells and choir, £850 on flowers, £400 on videographer, £6,000 on venue which is exculisve use breakfast for 53 buffet for 250 in house co-ordinater and fireworks, £450 on cake, £100 for rings, £170 on DJ, £199 on chair covers which inculeds set up and delievery ironing on site and pick up the next day, £1,200 on my outfit, £150-£200 on invites, £200 on BM outfits, £90 on hair and makeup at mine for me and my daughter, £440 on suits, £50 on cufflinks and socks and lots of other bits xx

WE REFUSE to get into debt for the sake of one day..irrelevant if it is our wedding day!

Totally agree with cece but find it sooo hard to stay 'grounded' think these days its very hard not to get caught up in the moment and let your heart rule your purse strings! Id hate to get into mountains of debt and start married life struggling with finances, think important thing is to keep level head and remember the importance of your wedding day! Saying that if I had loads of money...Id have fireworks the lot!!!! hehe xxx

we havent set a buget but H2b knows what a bargain hunter i am ......but i still wont scrip on money , ( lucky enough to have H2b in a well paid job) am saving everything i can at the mo ready

we budgeted £5000 for our wedding cuming in under that and having sit down meal. Refuse to spend more.
x x x

I actually did a budget yesterday and it came in £1800 over what I wanted to spend. But i have spent less than that budget on most things, so I'm hoping it will come down £1k or so.....heres hoping

Our budget is £3000.....cant go mcch higher cos we moving from a fully furnished property to an unfurnished one in may.

Same here Goff hoping no more than £3k ... but think it might be slightly more x

We've got at massive guest list at 160 for the day guests (H2B has large family!), so we're looking at £17k, but the majority of that will be going on venue/catering/drinks. I was quoted £180 per person by one hotel.... some prices are just ridicuolous! Trying to do some things homemade though as I think it's nicer where possible, such as invites, decs and flowers x

wow! i just couldn't spend that much money! xxx

about 4k :)

Wow, you girls amaze me......anyone fancy being my wedding planner?! Ours is looking at coming in at £23k and that doesnt even include extras I'd like such as chocolate fountains, entertainment etc.

Just goes to show London is a complete rip off!