We initially thought it would cost about £10,000 but it will be nearer £17,000. We are having 83 guests for the wedding breakfast and an extra 50 or so at the evening reception.

£30k oh my days I think i might stick to a budget of 10-15k (best get saving!!!!!!!!!!)

We are thinking about 12k (not including honeymoon) and that is for 85 day guests and 130 for the evening although these numbers keep going up. Both sets of parens are giving 4k each so we said we would put 4k towars it too.

I know earlier I said 10-15k but thats probably too far out but £5k is probably more realistic!!

i've half done the table plan (care of the website!!) all i need to include is his family (hes very choosy so he can pick who he wants iaint bein responsible!!)

well i've started selling some tat on the bay website to get us some money in.... so far im making £1.50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in the words of a supermarket anni!!!! lol I've listed 13items and its cost me less than £3 n so far I'm selling 1 item for £1.50!!! but hey ho.... entrepreneurs started somewhere!!! lol
I've got more items at my parents which i'll list too.. I will get some decent money behind me for this wedding!!

well done, how long ago did u quit? we quit 4months ago and i dunno where we found the money to do it! Byron should be £200 a month better off but he has a car to run, n as for me well I dunno where I found the money to but I certainly couldnt afford it now!!
But defo well done on the quitting xx

40a day geee whizz!!! u sure cant only down side u cant drink at xmas!!!!! lol

checl it all out as if the 5k includes everything, it may be cheaper overall to go with that package as it is surprising how all the extras cost!

Hi, I am new on here. I joined a while ago but decided to have a proper look round tonight :)

I'm 46 and this will be my second marriage. I wanted to elope but my eldest son was most disproving and my sis in law to be would've been upset too although she always says to do what we want. Then there is MY sister who would want to be there and you get the idea. My thoughts of paying £600 for an elopement in Devon have turned into 8.5K *sob*. That includes a package at a nice hotel for 40 people for the wedding breakfast and another 40 for the evening @ £3000. Somethings have been expensive like my dress (ouch!) and the rings and yet I paid just £15 for the wedding invites off feepay. A friend is doing the photo's and another is doing the cake at cost. The inlaws have given us £500 and my sis and bro in laws to be have paid for the DJ. The 8 and a half grand includes the Honeymoon in Benalmadena, Spain, 2 weeks in a penthouse apartment, can't wait! :) x

babybex you made any improvement on £1.50?

Kat - no :( I have 2 watchers on a book at the mo but nobody buying.
Oi bidders this money is to fund a wedding, I won't get far with £1.50!!!!!!!!!
I really need to go to mothers and get the stuff I have there and get that on the wedding fund!!

I forgot to take the brochure home last night for the wedding venue across from my work!! H2B gave me the reaction I expected - we can't afford that blah blah bloomin blah!!! Does he not realise we have been engaged 4 yrs and done nothing!! We could be married or on the final countdown now but noooooo we still haven't lifted a finger!!!
(starting to pray for a number of things-
1) decent bonus from work
2) a lotto win (which I don't play)
3)a premium bond win (only ever won a tenner)
4) the £25k wedding comp on here (roll on Feb 14th) (here UKB ppl - I'm begging you here purrrleeeeeeeeeeeeeez let it be me, and I'll share whatever I have left over with my fellow UKB friends)

ohh u having wooden flowers anni?? I'm contemplating
What my plan is - is to decide what I really want and what kind of money it is going to cost and then Im going to save what i can and then hopefully he wont be as bad if i say well ive saved this much in this little time!!
We were talking last night n he said weddings aint cheap blah blah blah, but they can be (but not tacky) he just needs to see that you shop round, a certain blue supermarket has STD (not a sexually transmitted disease) and invites for like £1.50 for 10 yes they are plain and simple and I would like to create my own but it shows the cheap options are there!

50 day guests and 100 evening started out with £6k and we are more like £7.5k now as my dad was made redundant so i had to buy my own dress

MrsC2B u have 11days to wait, if my OH was anythin to go by I'd have 11yrs (I've brought the leaflets home tonight for him to look at!!! hehehe)
I'm looking at getting a 2nd income to help pay for the wedding when we do finally book something!

we have 50 for sit down meal, then at the moment we have 120 at night time. (about 50 night invites have not RSVP'd yet).
We have managed to do it all for £12k so far, so long as nothing goes wrong that is what we are sitting at at the moment anyway. Then another £3500 for honeymoon.
i made my own invites, post box, table plan, OOS, place cards, some decorations, etc etc. Whatever i could make myself I have done. My splurge has been booze, canapes and flowers. Really wanted real flowers, especially peonies in November!

Wooooow...i do not want to spend thousands on our wedding. For one day? I also dont want us to get into debt doing it. :(
We're planning a ceremony outside (hopefully), with a BBQ/hogroast and live band for the evening. Probably around 50 guests, possibly not even as many as that.
Luckily, i have a friend knows a caterer, a photographer and someone who does wedding cakes, plus i have two other friends, one for make up and one for hair, and a classic caddy which my uncle owns, plus i can have my dress and veil both made for me for the cost of the material with any luck. So really, we're looking at the cost of the venue and cut prices for everything else live bands included (fingers crossed!!)
Honeymoon i think we'll just ask guests for donations as opposed to gifts so we can actually have one haha!
All seems a bit far fetched tho at the moment, seems sooooo far away, we want it to be next year! :(

thanks linzmum... will have a look into that i shop at that tesco all the time.

We have worked out a budget of around 7-8K and thats all from us - no offers of help etc but to be honest that suits us as its our way then. It has come at a price though - Mr P worked away in Australia with me left behind with the 3 kids for nearly 8 months so 2011 has been a tough old year! We were going to use money for a house deposit but since we are hoping to emigrate as soon as we can we have decided that this is more important to us at this stage in our lifes. Budget wont include honeymoon as onus for us will be to jet off to Australia to live as soon as we can.

We have a venue that we are really happy with and we got a fantastic deal - £3295 for 70 day and 100 evening and thats 3 course wedding breakfast, evening buffet, drinks package, ceremony and reception room, linen, toast master, DJ, bridal suite and breakfast!

Bought my dress yesterday for under £500 so Im really chuffed with that and everything else is coming in under budget so far ie made invites ourself and currently at £48 and just need to buy stamps

We sat down and made a minimum budget ie just essentials venue, food, registrar, outfits etc. Then we worked out a medium budget to include extras like Stag and Hen, Favours, Photographer and finally a Max out (in our opinion) budget which had extra entertainment, extra bridesmaids, spa treatments etc. We are having most from Max Out budget but looking at coming in at nearer Medium budget now we have researched and haggles lol

Ours is about £16,000 with £3000 being donated by members of the family buying certain things. I don't think weve done too badly, haven't had to scrimp on anything or cut anything out, in fact we've ended up adding more things on.xx

Whoa 30k!!!!!

My budget is £15.5 k and £3.5k on the honeymoon (although we are using this as our gift so we will prob save a little bit of money here

Wedding budget worked out as follows: (actual figures for most as booked everything!)
> Flowers (bouquets and buttonholes) £168
> Chair covers £240
> Registrar, notice and certificate fees £450
> Cake £300
> Rings £600
> Wedding Stationery £85
> Cars £440
> Photography £1050
> Videography £900
> Dress £1600
> Suit Hire £450
> Bridesmaids £450
> Gifts £50
> Lingerie £50
> Hair and Make up £175
> Wedding insurance £30
> Wedding venue £8600 (includes flowers, harpist, toastmaster, DJ, food and drinks packages for both day and evening, honeymoon suite and champagne for couple, balloons, ceremony charge and exclusive use of house)

*Kat* - update on bay of e..... my items are finishing today (well some more tomorrow and i listed some new last night) im currently at £8.00 towards my wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bit of an improvement on £1.50 lol

We have reduced our budget to around 2k, partly because we would struggle to find the money and partly because we have changed our mind on the venue and found a cheaper photographer. xx

My Budget is £4k max, at the moment we are looking about £3,400 but theres always those extra costs.