Can you get a grant for a wedding?? I was just being courious as i know you can get grants for all sorts of things but is there sutch thing as a wedding grant?? , dunno why im asking cus there cant be really can there, it just enterd my mind and thought out of curiocity id ask lol xx

i didnt know lloyds did loans for weddings...wish i had know that a year ago!! xx

teri banks do loans for everything?

awwww i get u, do they have special rates u mean?

awww cool, hopefully we will of paid weddin off by april then 1500 on honeymoon to pay x

yes so glad we started payin so early though lol

its best! means we have alife instead of just payin weddin off lol

Lol so thats a no then, only loans not grants, ah well worth a try lol xx

It wouldnt be fair lol, but you never know what the government does these days lol

PS - just realised the title to my post had been changed lol, thanks mods ;-) xx

alcoholics and drug users get benefits to feed their habit so it wouldnt surprise me with this awesome government we have :-)

it does make me mad wehn housing gets paid for .....council tax paid for ......school meals paid for ...... when they can swan off on holiday ... buy more gadgets than i could dream about and all thanks to the fact that not only do i work but that mr lala has now worked abroad for the last 18mths just so that he had a job and there fore meaning that we will have seen each other for a total of 70 days in that 18 mths

Lala i know each case is individual and hence the ignorance is bliss comment as i never knew this happened with "ex convicts"
I agree however that the "freebes" people get in this country is a joke.
No offence to anyone intended at all but H2B and i are both trying to bring up our children by ourselves as WE chose to have them and WE are therefore responsible for them!
I feel if you cannot afford to provide for your children, DONT HAVE THEM!!!
We both work and are keen to show our children that this is what you must do if you want a good job and some money to spend on nice things but it makes me sick when i realise we would actually be etter off if we didnt work!!!
Where is the sense in that?
Seriously is a**e about face!!!!

elle its fine hun no offence taken from me

my dad was a self employed builder! hes retired now like, but wen i was at school and he dint have a job due to lack of or weather, he was entitled to me havin free meals but he refused to let me have them ( long story short he dint have a gud upbringin and was picked on alot), htey have always paid their way through life and let me tell u their bank balance an dproperty show it these days! they have always been hard working and very good wiv money ( me am hard workin n pants wiv money lol)

I have to say that myself and my partner both work (i am on maternity at the moment) and we receive benefits. If we never i dread to think where we would be. Living in Cornwall unfortunately cost of living is very high compared to the very low paid jobs round here. In this current climate we are very lucky to have our jobs and are also very grateful for the top ups we receive.

I've just about always worked since leaving school 23 years ago (probably been unemployed for less than 6 months of that). Tbh I think even if working means that you're going to be bringing in less initially than benefits it still pays in the long run to work. After all it's better to hold your head up and say you're working than say you're 'long term unemployed' (sorry if that offends anyone but just my opinion). And after all, once you're in a job there tends to be yearly pay increments anyway and chance of promotions etc so it definitely pays to be working. Also, if you have kids I definitely think it's better to be a positive role model for them if you're working as opposed to them having parents that don't. Working in a school in an inner city area I've seen this far too much in the past few years - and it usually rubs off on the kids when they get to school leaving age, as they think if their parents can get nice things and not have to work, why should they. Shocking really.

I've recently had to sign on (some of you have probably read my thread about all the c**p I've gone through at work) and it's definitely been an eye opener. I can't actually believe the some of the people in there. Some of them look like they've been there so long they're part of the fixtures and fittings - and today a guy was there to sign on for JSA but couldn't speak a word of English (they had to get an interpreter). Sorry, but how the hell is he seeking work if he can't even speak the language???? I agree benefits seem to be handed out to all sorts of people (some of them wrongly IMHO).

My husband works, has a decent job - but even now he earns too much to claim Working Tax Credit (just over the limit by a couple of grand). Luckily my son is still at college so we can get Child Tax Credit and Child Benefit but can't get much else.

Even when we were both working (I've worked continuously for the last 15+ years) we could pay the bills but had to seriously save if we wanted the 'nice' things in life. But I know someone who is a single parent on income support (decided she couldn't work because she has a child at primary school(?) and couldn't get the hours that she wanted). She's been like this for years - but can still afford at least a couple of foreign holidays a year not to mention gigs whenever she feels like it (and not the small local ones, usually the stadium ones). I think some people just know how to play the system while the rest of us support them and their kids!!!

I think the main benefit that needs reforming is child benefit. The upper limit for this is about 58,000 a year. So if Me and my partner earned 57,000 a year we would still get the 80 quid child benefit every month. What a joke. Imagine how much they would save by lowering that to say 45,000.

I work and so does h2b but i get a top up of money because we had our daughter. Its only £81 a month but it really does help us. We used to get another grant but that stopped in april cos the government lowered the how much you earn so we no longer qualifiy but we both pay our taxes and we both have had a job since we left school i was even at college and uni and still paying tax so i feel like i can say that i dont feel guilty about recieving this extra money to help my family out.

How do you get sponcerd by a brand?? never hurd that before for wedding lol xx

Plenty of people do take the pee and are too picky. Although there are people like me to have to fight foreigners just to get simple cleaning jobs. There are also so many people who do get away with fraud and it's infuriating, but everyone's situation is different and I don't think it's justified talking as if ALL people on benefits don't deserve it, besides at the end of the day it's better to have people getting money they "don't deserve" (by not working) than the rich/poor divide being massive and having people en mass living on the streets. Although if people on benefits are receiving more than a working couple on full time hours then something is definitely wrong.

I don't have a TV license and the TV licensing people know this. We don't watch TV and anyone is welcome to come over and check if they want. It most certainly is a "nice" thing and not a necessity.

Holly - I wasn't having a go when I mentioned the TV licence - but you do have to be careful where you say that, as you never know who is reading. That's fine if you honestly think that TV is a 'nice' thing and not necessity. But it isn't just TV's you need a licence for. The only way anyone can watch TV without one is by watching catch up only.

"Exception: If you only watch catch-up services online, then you don’t need a licence. For example, you don’t need one to use BBC iPlayer, or ITV player, to catch up on programmes after they have been shown on TV."

I agree that it's wrong if people on benefits are getting more than a working couple - but I do think some people (and not ALL) know how to play the system and cheat the benefits. My MIL (only in name, horrible woman lol) hasn't worked for years. She's in her early 50's and believes that she's 'paid her way in life now' - even though it's about 20 years since she last worked!!! She's quite happy to claim anything she can, and moan about her health (another way of cheating the system cos there's nothing really wrong with her).

Yeah I'm sure if you used as many small local businesses as possible they'd put you in the paper/give a discount :)
That's the new "thing" isn't it, using local :) Xx

I read an article about a woman who managed to get her entire wedding for free because she promised the suppliers to put their logos on whatever they provided and to get local news coverage on the event. She did pull it off but it looked more like a corporate event/wedding fayre than a real wedding as all there were ads and logos every which way! She saved herself about £15k so more power to her to having the gumption to go for it! Xx