About £15-20,000 excluding honeymoon.... arghhhhhhhh!!
Now Mrs Cobb!!!!!! :-D
CommentAuthoremsybexhill
Hello ladies! We are looking at about £2500,and so far are doing very well. Again,EBAY has been fabulous! 3gorgeous adult bridesmaid dresses for £69!!(Brand new...) Managed to also get table confetti from Tesco for £1 a bag....just need to take time to look around and keep calm.It'l all work out in the end :) xx
CommentAuthorerica the army wag
OMG i wish i could do my day on a smaller budget. Im lucky enough to not really have a budget but have said no more than 22,000 for one day as you lot are right its not about having or putting on a show its all about our commitements to each other. But no my venue is obiviously a rip off ( thats what im thinking now) its costing us 12,000 for 70 day guests and 140 night time incl all food and chair covers ( rip off) and its only in a country manor house in northumberland maybe the north east is way over priced xx
CommentAuthoremsybexhill
The South East is also very expensive,The minute you mention 'wedding' prices for everything get bumped up ridiculously :( We have no one helping with our wedding,apart from our cake being paid for by my Mum & Nan. We are lucky in the fact that my best friends (who are sisters) are photographers & florists so thats a big cost cut down. xx
CommentAuthornicnak_83
We have budgeted £7000 for our wedding not including a honeymoon. Hopefully it'll be a lot less than that though with all the bargains I've been finding, the internet is a godsend. xx
Wow such varied costs, im glad i joined ukbride as i was working out rough costs and it was adding up very quickly! we have to save for everything ourselves but im going to go ebay hunting now as so many of you seem to have found bargains! although the venue for me is by far the biggest cost x
CommentAuthorHoxxyhula
I'm not sure what ours will be yet - between 10k and 15k, depending on what extras we decide on.. don't think this is that bad because we are having just over 100 to the meal an about 140 in the evening and are being quite liberal with the booze! I don't mind paying for what I get, but it just really annoys me paying over the odds because it is a wedding.
We are lucky to be getting photography for the cost of two square meals and cake courtesy of one of my friends!!
CommentAuthorchegz
im cheap and cheerful and sticking to a budget of £1,500. yup, thats right..no zero's missing!! so far ive spent £100 exactly.................my dress (see my album) was £99 and a bag of table confetti for a quid. im making all my own invitations, making all my own table decorations,(white feathers,( for every good deed we do, we collect another white feather for our angel wings) and (im from the lake district so a nature theme is planned) , my man's dad is in a band so they are free, my mam and auntie are both fantastic buffet makers after doing loads for other events, my mam is a confectioner by trade, my friend is a photographer and doing it for a few pints,im making my own bouquet, button holes and flowers, can you tell the theme is cheap and cheerful.................im not skint or a skinflint but i cant see the point of spending thousands for one day when a weddin can be just as good on a lower budget. ive been to weddings that cost THOUSANDS!! and afterwards its like.................?? what did they manage to spend so much money on lol,?? xcx
CommentAuthorwelshy1983
I am on a budget of £3000 and am not planning on going over. Friends are saying it's your first time and all that rubbish, but i don't care has long as i got what i want and they my ideas i am happy. My bestfriend got married 2 years and spent well over £15,000 but she had no cars the food was awful. so im sticking to my guns..x
CommentAuthorHappy2bme
Think our budget will come in at around £3000 but got a totally AMAZING deal on our venue... Cant say it enough.. Check out moneyexpert.com (Martin Lewis money man from GMTV) Got our venue £1000, includes red carpet, engraved cake knife to keep, cake stand, complimentary ceremony room, reception room, bucks fizz welcome drink and wedding breakfast up to 50 people and evening buffet up to 100 people!!! Mindblowing deal expecially as you realize its not a rubbish hotel either!!!!
CommentAuthormoobag
I have looked on moneyexpert.com but am unable to find any venues!! what did you search for, i have tried hotels and wedding venues and nothing is coming up! Can you help me? Thanks x
CommentAuthorSCATTY1485
My budget is £5,000 and im really sticking to it, so my parents will be pleased xx
CommentAuthorSCATTY1485
Hi moobag, its moneysavingexpert.com, just put wedding venues and a search comes up, think you were looking at wrong site xx
CommentAuthorNatty C
Mine will be about 15 - 20k I think based on my initial estimates (including honeymoon) but I will try to get this down as much as possible.
The main cost is the venue as it's 5K venue hire and then i need to pay for the food & drink etc on top of that. Luckily my parents will be contributing some but the rest is up to us so we really need to save as have no savings or any money aside! I have planned what we need to save each month to be able to acheive it in time so as long as we stick to it we should be ok.
when i hear how cheap other people are doing it for i worry about spending so much and justifying it but i love the venue so much and only do it once don't you! plus i have a large family so just cant keep the numbers down for the day!!!
It is so stressful! x
CommentAuthorGoff
I wonder if im not finding my wedding planning stressful because we're NOT spending a fortune??
Hmmm..... interesting thought that.....
Do you think that the bigger and more expensive the wedding... the more stressy it is??
Sounds like it to me!
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Ride it like ya stole it.....
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CommentAuthorNatty C
yeah maybe! i think you've got a point there!
only thing that worries me is the saving up, the actual 'planning' I am really enjoying though and am so looking forward to getting into it properly, making things myself and finding bits. Wedding's not till Dec 2011 though so not much really for me to do until about a year before.
CommentAuthorL JO
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Goff I agree with you 100% I'm loving planning this wedding and we are proof you dont need to spend £1000's to have the most fabulous day...or maybe its our second time and we have learnt from experience !!!! xx
CommentAuthorHappy2bme
100% with Goff a ljo! Havin a ball and saving a mint = Happy Gina ;) xx
CommentAuthorL JO
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All I hope is that some of these lavish affairs live upto expectation...because I've heard of a few weddings that didnt !!! (including my first wedding) :-( xx
CommentAuthorCarlyroo
oh man, when i started reading this post i felt so bad for how much we are spending!!!! aiming for about 13 grand, without the honeymoon, but that is for 190 odd guests and the catering is costing a bomb!!!
CommentAuthorMrsRobo2b
under £1000. way under and looking good :) x x
CommentAuthorHelloKitty
As we got married abroad (11 nights in St Lucia with Sandals) ours was £7,000 which of course was our honeymoon too. Bargain.
Then our reception when we got back was just over £1,000 :)
CommentAuthorDiana89
I've set a budget of £5000 without honeymoon but I think I'll manage it for less than three. H2B wants an £8000 honeymoon though (two week cruise around galapagos islands) but I doubt we'll manage that it'll probably be a week in a BnB in wales then hopefully in a few years have dream holiday (if we havent started having kiddies by then)
CommentAuthorChrissy
After I almost died last year we decided after 23 years together to get married and give our family and friends a day they could remember where we are all together. The budget is up to £20,000 but last year made us realise how fragile life is and we wanted a day we could record on dvd as a memory for our children, who are my bridesmaids, ushers, best man etc. I love my better half more every day, even now and marrying him will mean everything to me and him. We aren't having a honeymoon but spending the money on having a day where the kids can feel amazing and our family and friends can have the best day ever. I'm lucky that I have a wonderful family on both sides and a great network of friends, to us it's worth every penny,but we are working tons of overtime to pay for it! ;o)
JD is taken so I'll settle for being Mrs Marge :o)
CommentAuthorMelly
Our budget is £2,000, but i think we are going to be well under it. The venue is going to be a big chunk of that as its a castle. Everything else is going to be quite simple, and i'm making most things. I got the material for my dress, h2bs waistcoat, bridesmaid dress and best womans dress for under £100. xx
CommentAuthorDiana89
Wow Melly bargain, I'm very impressed
CommentAuthorMelly
I'm making them all myself, so thats cutting the price down alot. xx
CommentAuthorMrsd2b
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Mine will be under £1000, were only having around 14 people at ours. xx
CommentAuthorNikkiB
Hopefully £7,000-8,000 for what we want! Saving well so far......just another few thousand to go!!! xx
CommentAuthorDaniiyelli
hopefully no more than 4-5 grand. im on disability and he is my carer so we dont earn much with 2 young kids to look after. our parents arent paying a penny towards it though personally im a bit gutted as im their only daughter and its my first and only wedding. oh and that 4-5 grand will include a family holiday for 4 all inclusive at around 2 grand so for the wedding really i have 3 nd i have no friends who know photographers or anything like that so it will be a challenge, saying that i think the venue will give us a good deal. im hoping to get a bank loan then pay it off afterwards but i doubt with the sorry state of affairs my banking is in i will even get a loan!
CommentAuthorTigerlily
we dont have alot of money, and even if we did we didnt want a big huge fussy wedding (not that anyone elses is x) but because of the hugeness of our families we have had to think of that and marc has never been abroad so we wanted to do something special for our honeymoon. but so far thanks to the amzing world of ebay we should be spending less then our budget and we over budgeted for our honeymoon anyway just to be on the safe side. but i agree with Goff, im having loads of fun planning for the wedding and its all about the commitment.
Can't wait to be Mrs Simmons
I love my boys! xxxxxxxxxx
CommentAuthorL JO
Dannii its suprising how much you can actually save if you shop around, when I was looking for a photographer I put a post on FB and asked if anybody knew of one in my town and I got 3 different numbers of ppl and we went to see one his work was fantastic he's been taking photo's for 22 yrs but only does it as a hobby we are paying £200 and he's coming to the house then the church and said he will stay at the reception as long as we want him...maybe try asking around hun x
CommentAuthorL JO
Just because some of us are not paying vast amounts on our weddings it doesnt mean our day is gonna be any less special if anything I think it will be better as it shows how much we have put into it...its all about sharing the day with the ppl you love isnt it ?? x
CommentAuthorTigerlily
exactly! on whatever budget you have its all about you as a couple and your love and families and friends coming together to help celebrate that!
Can't wait to be Mrs Simmons
I love my boys! xxxxxxxxxx
CommentAuthorfarmerswife2b
hope mine wont be any more than £5000! fingers crosssed! x
CommentAuthorMrs Ross
OMG if people could tell me where i could save money that would be great mine is coming in at £10,000
CommentAuthor*KelBel*
Ours is £4500 for the venue, and £3500 for the catering so £8k already and that's without everything else.... Luckily my dad is buying my dress and giving me cash towards whenever he's got some spare plus h2b's parents giving us £3k plus buying wedding cake, bridesmaids are buying their own dresses, so this saves us a bit... No room decorating,table plan,name tags,favour bags,centrepieces etc to buy as this all included in venue price xx
Velcro...my wedding day twinny! The Two Kel's!
Got engaged 14/10/12 in Central Park NYC!
Became Mrs Macdonald 13th September 2014
Mummy to 4 girlies and baby blue boy Due 10/05/2016
CommentAuthorButtonAndBoo
Fingures crossed it's £5,000 or under... We want to pay for it all ourselves so we have some saving to do, it will take even longer seen as though we are doing up the house while saving and planning.
X
CommentAuthorAmyP7
Ours is costing around 15000 and we are paying for it ourselves. A lot of staying in has been involved to save up. Personally I would have liked to get married abroad with a few guests and spend the money on the house but we have had so much pressure of h2bs mother to get married in this country that h2b said we had to get married over here x x
CommentAuthormillz090
Ours is coming in at £10,500 plus £2500 for our honeymoon. xxx
Finally marrying the love of my life !!
10th August 2013 - 9 years to the day we met !
CommentAuthorReginaldD
our wedding is about 30k paid nearly 3k and saved about 2 k
CommentAuthorPenguinJ
ours is coming in at around £8500 plus honeymoon (we are having 2, a minimoon to Rome for 4 nights and a week in french alps later in the year, costing about £1300 plus spends)
So lucky to be marrying my soulmate on 18/07/20
CommentAuthorMrs Jones
About £1000!! Its interesting lol :P
I dont know how people can spend like £20,000,00+ on there weddings!! Thats a deposit on a house!
Got together - 05.11.2006
Engaged - 05.11.2009
Married - 22.05.2013
CommentAuthorAmyP7
I agree jess, I have been doing my own centre pieces and invites to cut our budget down I can think of so many things to spend my money on. A wedding is just one day, i went to two weddings last year one that spent 25 grand and one that spent about 7 grand and you really could not tell that they had spent such different amounts of money. But it's personal choice at the end of the day x x
CommentAuthor*KelBel*
I don't wanna spend £20k,hoping to be all in at around £11k hopefully I'm not made of money lol.... But I do want an amazing once in a lifetime honeymoon that hasn't been included in that price... Just gonna have to do a lot of negotiating after new yr at wedding fayres n stuff for the rest of the things I need to book xx
Velcro...my wedding day twinny! The Two Kel's!
Got engaged 14/10/12 in Central Park NYC!
Became Mrs Macdonald 13th September 2014
Mummy to 4 girlies and baby blue boy Due 10/05/2016
CommentAuthorRachaelH78
How is everyone managing to do things so cheap?? Ours is going to cost around £18,000 in total, not including the honeymoon!! Maybe thats Cornwall prices! :( xx
CommentAuthorJennyHeather
I think ours is going to cost us between £7,000 & £8,000 altogether, we thought we would only be spending about £6,000 but it's surprising how it all adds up.
CommentAuthorKristina
I am spending around £2000 all together.
Met: 1st February 2014
Engaged: 1st June 2014
Getting Married: 31st December 2014
CommentAuthorKerryBolderson2be
we are spending around 1500 maximum xx
Mrs Bolderson2be
Met 31st July 2012
Engaged 31st July 2013
Becoming Mrs Bolderson 14th February 2018
