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Planning & Helpful Tips > Wedding budgeting & Money: OMG! just added up!

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- CommentAuthoralmost a year wife!!
so ive just added the total of everything that ive bought so far and i nearly had a heart attack!
£877.41!
excuse me while i pass out!

anyone else gone a bit mad?

xxxxxxxxxx

Ill marry my hero
- CommentAuthorHeather
I know it soon adds up doesn't it. ill be glad when next wednesday comes and all ours is paid off and we can think about our honeymoon clothes lol
- CommentAuthorRedSez
It's so scary. I opened a 0% credit card for just wedding stuff and got the first bill which was £1100!!!
My total budget is £6000 so it freaked me out seeing so much in one place!
- CommentAuthorfiona
We were super careful and have been really lucky with the help we have had ie cake as a wedding pressie, yet we have smashed the budget!!
- CommentAuthorLegoWife
My wedding dress, veil, shoes, jewellery and a few other bridey bits has come to a grand total of £300 lol :)

~Wedding made of Lego~
*Married 30/03/13*

- CommentAuthorHeather
No credit cards here we have paid for everything with a really big struggle and going without stuff but at least once the day is over and we come back our honeymoon. It will be time for saving for 4 birthdays and christmas. shocking
- CommentAuthoralmost a year wife!!
well i wouldnt mind but this is stuff ive mostly bought from my wages etc! h2b has bought nothin so far! so tbh im a bit annoyed really....mum bought the flowers and dad paid dep for car but everything else ive bought! so AAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!
neeeeeeed to back off buying for a bit i think! x

Ill marry my hero
- CommentAuthorHelenW
what have you spent it on!? We are yet to really start spending anything so we are at £700 deposit and £20 favours.. think thats all so far.. £50 ring deposit going down on friday but I imagine I'll be the same! I've lost a lot of wedding spirit recently just cos its so far away!! xx

"Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary
life, love gives us a fairy tale"
- CommentAuthorStaceyP91
Were paying everything ourselves, no credit cards or loans. Dad has helped pay for the deposits for venues etc but part from that we have done it :D paying things bit by bit :D

But like you said it all adds up. We had a budget of 8K but think its more like 10K now... my dress however was 1,500 lol

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- CommentAuthoralmost a year wife!!
weve bought:
insurance
Deposit on car
flowers
centrepieces
hair combs
invitations
cake stands for afternoon tea (10 altogether)
embroidered serviettes for top table
wine glass charms
favours
table decs
candy buffet stuff
cake dummies
veil
dried confetti and pouch bags
bridesmaids gifts
bridemaids hair combs and clutch bags
table decorations
photographer dep
theres more too...

can u tell im trying to justify myself?!?!?!?!?!?!
oopsies
xxxxxx

Ill marry my hero
- CommentAuthorHelenW
well you've bought quite a bit for the money! It's difficult to say what our budget will be, we are paying for it all ourelves, but as we have so long to plan for it we are paying things off bit by bit so havent really set ourselves a budget per say we just know roughly what we want to pay for things.. and have already stuffed that up! Our rings we wanted to spend about £400 and we are spending 600! and our cake we were going to go for a standard M & S one for like £150 but fell in love with one for £350! However we did get our venue down 2000! I dread to think what our final bill will be! x

"Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary
life, love gives us a fairy tale"
- CommentAuthoralmost a year wife!!
its scary though isnt it - its so easy done! were lucky with r venue really coz my uncle is events co there! pwef! x

Ill marry my hero
- CommentAuthorRedSez
Here is my £1100

Registrar fee
Photographer deposit
Bridesmaid dresses
Flower deposit
Stuff to make invites and stamps
Stuff to make table plan and place cards
Table decorations
Favours
Bridesmaid shoes
Honeymoon balance.

Doesn't sound so bad when i write it all down!
xx
- CommentAuthorKellyD
redsez can i ask u who u went with for your 0% credit card
x

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Need to Loose 3 Stone! So Far = 2 stone 5lb
- CommentAuthorsuzky123
erm yeah, budget had tripled hehe x

cant wait to be Mrs Evans less than 3 weeks woooo
start weight 10st 1.5 lbs
weight now 8st 4.5 lbs
total loss to date: 24.5 lbs now need to maintain!
- CommentAuthorInDreamland
Don't worry! I think you have actually done well and got a lot for your money!

For all the things we've booked, agreed prices for and paid deposits, we've committed to a spend so far of £17,275. So far we've actually paid out in deposits £2,815. Still plenty more to book and pay deposits on ..............honeymoon, my dress, BM's dresses, H2B and all groomsmens and dad's suits, flowers and venue decorations, wedding rings, stationary, presents etc. etc. I've roughly worked out when all is paid for we've have spend just under £30k!!!! Talk about running away with it all! Thank goodness we're getting a lot of help from parents for this wedding!

I was good at budgeting until I got engaged! Seriously. Wedding budget has actually increased by 50% :S

xx

Married the love of my life on Saturday 11th May 2013 xxx
Had our dream perfect honeymoon in Hawaii!
- CommentAuthorRedSez
Tesco credit card Kelly D, I went through Martin Lewis's website though. He always knows which are the best. x
- CommentAuthorKellyD
thanks x

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Need to Loose 3 Stone! So Far = 2 stone 5lb
- CommentAuthorjodie b
We hoped to do £10k but realised it was gonna be more £15k blink and it's gone!!

I'm waiting to get my pay slip but praying we can pay £1,400 of our final £1,700 balance on Friday

I can't wait until my purse can breath again!! Lol xx
- CommentAuthorMrsKisywisy
we've spent just over 5k so far :/ and still got 2k to pay. bricking it haha but we've got so much for what's we've spent

I'M MARRIED!!!

I am now Mrs Bananaman!!!!
13/09/2012 in Peyia Town Hall, Cyprus
- CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
  
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Our budget for the wedding......(not including the honeymoon) was £6,000 and the planning was mostly left to me......so being the bargain hunter I am I have cut that right down and we have spent just a few quid shy of.......drum roll please......£3,000...just by DIY-ing and shopping around.

biggest expense would have been our dresses......I made them and saved loads.

BUT H2B was in charge of the honeymoon, and that cost £3,000 too, SO.....basically what I saved on the wedding paid for the honeymoon.

But it's now all paid in full, so now I can just relax and wait for the wedding day to come with no worries....

I can resist anything but temptation
- CommentAuthorSelinaK
I set a budget of £7500, but its looking like we will get it in under £6500. Just registar (245) and chair covers (240ish) left to pay, and I'm please to say only the registrar and my ring will have gone on credit cards. And even then, I only put my ring on cc because I was buying it online and you get better protection!
My budget spread sheet shows what I have spent, and where the money came from. A good grand of our total spend came from my wages, on things like my bargain dress, stationary, pretty things, sweets and so on.

ooh, thinking about it my 2 pairs of shoes, and the grooms shoes, went on a store account. So less than £400 on credit! Shame the rest of my mahoosive debts didn't go down lol!!
xx
- CommentAuthorb2bnicola
Ive spent a grand total of £2.99 for rose petals to go in the favours - but we've changed our colour scheme from light blue to burghandy haha so theyre no good anymore! lol x

Happily Married! :) xxx
- CommentAuthorAnnekaC
no big payments for me just yet, that all starts next yr!! Just changed my job aswell to my old place that made me redundant, but i love it and will be on a 6k+ pay rise :). But on the plus side i brought 28 mini pocket games from there which should of cost me £182 :o and i got them for £32!!! bargin!!!
But im saving £200 a month to put towards the venue and then buying something each month also towards it to try and save as much as i can, and not panic too much :)

Enjoy your days ladies :)
- CommentAuthorOfficially Mrs M
i really dread to think how much i have spent from my wages for little things, my OH is paying off the big things but i've bought everything else i've bought the BM dresses, BM shoes, my shoes, table decs in fact everything that isn't classed as a big thing!!!!

8th September 2012 I married my best friend
1st September 2014 our little family grew by one

Women are made to be loved, not understood. - Oscar Wilde
- CommentAuthorBobsi
looking at what you have actually spent the money on i think youve done quite well to have only spent that much.
weve set a 10k budget but want to get that down if I can. xx

Got together June 11th 2006
Getting married June 11th 2014
8 years to the day and I'll be Mrs T.
- CommentAuthorMrsKisywisy
if my h2b knew this wedding was going to cost as much as it is, he would NEVER have agreed to set a date lol

chucky, honestly, you've got a hell of a lot for what you've spent, so don't feel bad at all :D

I'M MARRIED!!!

I am now Mrs Bananaman!!!!
13/09/2012 in Peyia Town Hall, Cyprus
- CommentAuthorCarole5817
Its amazing what happens when you add it up....scary! we opted not to go to New York because it was gonna cost 8k, added ours up including honeymoon and its touching 11,500 and ive made loads of stuff, table decs, flowers etc etc....just glad we have been saving since last Jan....cant wait x

Looking 4ward to being Mrs Greaves, proud to call him mine x
- CommentAuthoralmost a year wife!!
ah thanks kisy!!! i must admit it was a shock and i told h2b n dad n mum last night n they were like....hmmmm maybe u should have a break lol! x

Ill marry my hero
- CommentAuthorsussie
we had budgeted 13k and its come in just shy of 9k at the moment, but still got suits and flowers to book. We have paid out 1380 so far, on deposits and the diy still. we have decided that his money goes on the house and mine goes on the wedding and on debts, as we are trying to clear them at the same time

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