Ours was 4.5k but its going to be about 6.5-7 but fil2b asked if we could add on some guests and he would pay for them - there has been 30 added on so far atm its 120 adult day guests and 20 kids so think we are doing pretty well x

Ours is £2013 for the venue, 3 course meal, evening buffet, master of ceromonies, table linen etc. I thought that was a good deal xx

Ours is £10k, £13 inc honeymoon.
Venue is £5000 for 75 day, 130 evening with 8 hotel rooms.

I didn't set an amount to stick to as such, I made a list of everything we would need and everything we would like and the amount i'd be prepared to pay for each thing and added it up to get £10k.

We've had some help from family as they were keen to marry us off within a year which we couldn't have managed on our own!

Ours is coming in at just under 24k including honeymoon, and our wedding is a 3 day celebration. It's 18k for the main wedding day (including things like rings, outfits, insurance etc), and that's for 137 day guests and another 26 evening - but Mum has helped us out by giving us 2k for a wedding present plus our humungous cake! Our reception and catering is coming in just under 10k and the photo/video 2.5k, so overall I don't think we've done too bad considering!

Ours is coming in at £12k, we'd originally budgeted for £9k. and we havent gone overboard, a lot has been DIY but we havent scrimped. That's not including honeymoon either.

Our reception for 60 day guests (3 courses plus tea/coffee, half bottle wine pp, 2 glasses of fizz) and extra 80 evening guests (with small buffet and welcome drink) is costing just over £4000.

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Supposed to be £10k more like £12k! C x

The average cost of a UK wedding is £11,000. We are looking too do ours in under £5,000. Which I know we can do as we are making everything we possibly can. The only thing we are gonna have too splash out on is the Church and Venue. Hopefully we can do it.
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was 3k then we found extras that we liked so now is 5k max so far we are under 4500 so not bad, saved allot my making most things like invites, centrepieces, sashes etc and shopping around i never take the first quote

We havent really set a budget, but it is rapidly heading towards £10.000. Thats without the honeymoon, but if i still work with the co op i will get a 10% discount off that too, which is something i guess. the venue, which is for the wedding/evening and the 3course sitdown meal, and buffet for 100 evening guests, a wedding planner, toastmaster and a 3 course meal on out 1st anni is costing just over £5000, which for what i was looking at was really cheap. Thats also with 30% off as its not in the wedding season.

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Our original budget was £3000 which was just a figure we would 'like' it to be lol.We realised when we went to see the first venue that it was not going to be enough for what we wanted.We never came up with another figure we just tried to keep costs as low as possible,cutting costs where we could but without cutting corners.I saved an awful lot of money by making my own cake,favours,stationary,table planner etc etc and i got loads of bargains along the way on my veil,shoes,bridesmaid dresses,tiara and of course we didn't have a photographer.We reckon its probably cost us about £8000 but that includes £1300 for a ticket from Australia for my husbands son.It doesn't include a honeymoon which as it will be a family honeymoon to Australia will cost almost as much as the wedding again! xxx

we're aiming for 10K but hoping to come under. not done enough so far to really have a realistic idea. I think we've spent about 6K already on ceremony, reception venue, food, drinks, dress and rings. Fingers crossed it comes in under but i'm not banking on it! x

Ours was around 7000, but I think its going to come in closer to 10k.. which is very scary! We are trying to save and scrimp, and diy a lot of things but our rings were much more than we thought and we fell in love with the caricaturist.. plu our cake is way more than we first thought! our venue including wedding breakfast, drinks reception for 80 and evening buffet for 100 is coming in approx 4000.. xx

Ours was no more than 5k we would of been over by about 1.5k but my parents have said they want to pay for the food & drink and they paid the first £700 off on my dress so that saved us a bit :) xx

Our budget is £7000, its crazy how quickly things can add up though!

ours was £15k but now at £18.5k so buy the time we have finished i think it would be closer to £20K its mental how much money we pay out.

We set our original budget at £10,000 but it kept creeping up & my mum explained that a whole point of a budget is that it DOESN'T increase lol. Then we decided £12,000 .. now it's looking more like £14,000-£15,000 including honeymoon xx

We were aiming for £5k maximum but we didn't realise how expensive weddings were! Lol. It's looking at around £7k including honeymoon but £1k of that was just my dress! Oooops

Our Budget is £8000 but so far I've overbudgeted for pretty much everything lol all the booking is done and wedding should actually cost around £7000. We're lucky that our Bridesmaid is paying for her own dress and shoes and the groomsmen are paying for their suits. We're haven't planned on a honeymoon though as we didn't think we could afford it so maybe we'll be able to have one now x

We're aiming for under £3,000 and so far I think that we're on target. We're having a smallish wedding (45 for the day), we're getting married at the local registry office which is costing £125, and then the reception at our local pub where we can have the function room for free so have only got to pay for the food and drink

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Our budget is £2000 and we are on target to spend just under... Fingers crossed; even thought so far I have only spent £145 because nothing is due yet. We are only having 30 (or less day guests).

Good luck to the girls still trying to keep their budgets.

i originally budgeted £5000 for our wedding but now its more like £10000, i didnt want to spend this much, as i can't justify spending that much on 1 day but its what h2b wants, (i've been married before) glad we dont do credit/cards etc else i'll be putting my foot down! must say im surprised how much everything costs and i take my hat off to anyone that can do crafts or are doing it cheaper Xx

Our maximum is 10k but thats with over budgeting everything.
We will be doing a lot of diy items (flowers, invites, etc) so hoping these items come in under budget, for example we've allowed 500 for flowers but they should be under 200 hopefully! 1000 for 2 gorgeous cars but could have a limo for aound 300, am I really willing to spend 700 extra to have a picture next to a fancy car? 1000 for my dress but after reading up on here think i'll probably go with 'she who cant be named' for around 200! We'll have to wait &see.

we worked out that we could save approx £14,000 over 3 years but I am hoping that the budget will come in at around £11,000. We seem to be fairly on track for that but will know better once we finish booking the large items such photographer and entertainment.

So far we have spent:
Venue £5,000 this inc 3 course meal, reception drink, canapes, teas and coffes after meal, 2 glasses of wine per guest and sparkling wine for toast, evening buffet, ceremony room hire, table linen, upgrade to suite on the night of the wedding and complimentary suite for me the night before. We have 80 day guests and approx 120 at night.

Flowers £600 this is for bridal bouquet, 3 x bridesmaids bouquets, 1 x flowergirls bouquets, 4 button holes, 2x mum corsages and 10 x table centre pieces.

Cake £325 we had £100 voucher that we won so the cake was originally £425 for 4 tier sponge with each tier being a different flavour.

Dress £300, gift from friend who owns bridal store i only paid a fraction of what the dress is worth.

Venue dressing £free we won venue dressing for 50 which included chair covers and centrepieces but i had already ordered the centrepieces so i am getting all of my chair covers free instead.

We have budgeted £2,000 for the entertainment and photographer in total so if we stick to that i reckon we are on course to make sure we stay in budget.