Ohh that makes sence hun, im so jealous of you getting wed in kenya.. the pics remind me of wild at heart
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CommentAuthorbridalmiss
We've got 190 guests and we're having a 3 day party for our wedding, with a restaurant meal the night before for 70 people, the wedding itself, then a buffet at my mum's the day after for family- so all in with the Maldives 10 night honeymoon and a 3 night mini-moon, we're looking at £24k all in (we're asking for cash as wedding gifts!!)
CommentAuthorAnastasia
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It still hasn't sunk in yet! I love wild at heart I think that's what made us choose Kenya although wild at heart is set in the south lol x
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CommentAuthortillyturtle
we set a budget of 7k. that was with both sets of parents putting in 1.5thousand each. the total spend is 9k. and the extra money has just come from collecting bits and bobs we didnt think about in the first place...and youll laugh at this (the dress hahah) we forgot to include it.. but my parents bought it for me. were not having a honeymoon yet so havent included that. however our wedding is abroad.
CommentAuthorHa_x3
Yeah I love wild at heart too
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Actually my budget will be ballooning again because there will be safari, trips, spending money, new clothes! Omg the list is endless...
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CommentAuthorStevie_Dee
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We worked on 5k kind of stuck to that not including spending money and little extras we have booked for the holiday part. xx
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CommentAuthorHa_x3
I havent booked any excursions, will book some over there as its cheaper
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CommentAuthorHa_x3
& Well done Stevie_Dee
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CommentAuthorStevie_Dee
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Lol thanks....much less stress than the 10k we had worked out for the UK wedding! Soooo glad we went for it now.
The boys (Steve included) want to do the pirate ship day and the Paphos water park. I want to see the cypriot delight factory in Yeroskipou (like turkish delight) for obvious reasons .....nommmmm nommmm, after that it will mostly be lazy days on the beach or around the pool. xx
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
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Yeah we will too as we were told it's cheaper but I am budgeting for them :-)
Trying to be little miss organised lol x
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
That will be fab for them! Ooo that's sounds yummy Stevie_Dee - a reason why I love Turkey! I just love turkish delight
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CommentAuthorStevie_Dee
Hmmm I only tend to holiday in countries that have sweet specialities, belgium/ switzerland....chocolate ahhhh italy (tiramisu heaven) wondering if I have a problem! Must see prices for Turkey for the next holiday! lol xx
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
Lol I think you may do!! There ice-cream is to die for too mmmm... ARGH just started my diet today this is no good lol x
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CommentAuthorStevie_Dee
I keep looking at your cupcake logo and its subliminally telling me to eat cake!
Sorry back to budget subject. I think the major problem in the Uk is they pray on the word 'wedding' before you finish a sentence, they have added an extra 0 to their normal price. I've noticed in Cyprus they don't see it as a way of adding more on to the bill, with the exception of the major operators and specialised wedding venues. xx
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
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It is there for that reason to make people eat cake lol luckily I don't have a massive sweet tooth or in my job it would be a nightmare to diet!
Ooo yes back to subject :-) I know it's terrible, I found it hard to swallow how much we would be paying just for food when we could be having the wedding we wanted... such a shame how they poke your eyes out! x
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CommentAuthorMrsKisywisy
i'm not really sure what our budget is. we didn't really set one...which sounds pretty flash, but we've bought as we went along and searched for the cheapest of everything
i think it's costing about 6k all in , which freaks me out as we are constantly skint!!!! lol
can't understand where we have managed to pull all this money from!!
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CommentAuthorStevie_Dee
I'm having my hair done with woven highlights before I go, not mentioned its for a wedding and they have said it will be £85 ...at the same hairdressers that were happy to charge me £148 for the woven highlights bit as part of a wedding package to include hair on the day for over £265
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
Excellent idea not mentioning the Wedding part if that's the price difference :-)
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CommentAuthorMrsKisywisy
holy crap stevie_dee!!! that's shocking!!!!!!!!!!
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CommentAuthorStevie_Dee
It pays not to mention the word wedding wherever you can...obviously you have to for certain things. xx
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
We budgeted £5k (not including the honeymoon) and so far the money we have spent and the money we are about to pay to the venue, comes in at .......drum roll please..............£2,700 for everything!
I am a bargain hunter and ebay is my best friend.....there may be more surprise expenses but if there is theres money in the pot to cover it as i have grossley UNDER spent.....which is not like me at all, Actually I dont think i feel very well ! LOL
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CommentAuthorkrissy905
i was hoping to get everything in at about £10000 but did have a budget upto £15000 just to make sure and know im getting a weeks honeymoon i think we will be coming in at the top end of my budget x
CommentAuthorMrs Badger
We haven't got a budget as such, but think it will come in just shy of £2500 (excluding the honeymoon) x
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CommentAuthorOfficially Mrs M
ours was £6.5K it came in at £6.9K when we put deposits on everything, not including the cake, car and honeymoon its more like £8/9K now with all things i've bought out of the budget
i really dread to think how much we have spent
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CommentAuthorKellyD
our budget was 15k and wrote a guestimate of how much i wanted to spend on each item. so far i have knocked off £1645 :D
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CommentAuthorMrsSaraParry!
our budget started at 5k (not including honeymoon because we'd have been going on a nice holiday anyway) but we're looking at spending more like 6k now. Still not too bad I suppose! My mum has bought my dress so I haven't counted that, and she's also just given us £1000 so that's helpful :o) We're probably spending about £2000 more on the honeymoon that we would on a normal holiday (its costing £2000 each before spends, and we estimate we'll need about £800-1000 spending money each including trips) so altogether we're looking at around 8k all in.
CommentAuthorLinzi-jo
Wow! Well my budget was at 5k but after reading this thread it looks like I will end up paying alot more :( Not sure where it will come from though! lol xx
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CommentAuthorElle23
Our budget is £5k and i am DETERMINED not to go over!!! From what we have booked so far, we look like we will be on budget
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CommentAuthorNicsquared
Our initial budget was 15k but we have pretty much doubled it, its standing at about 29k at the mo. That doesnt include lots of little bits i have bought as I go along so probably will be a little over 30k. A huge chunk is going on our honeymoon though - so its not all on one day we have had a 6k of help but the rest we have saved ourselves :)
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CommentAuthorElle23
WOW!!!! £30k?!!!!
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
30K jesus, thats a downpayment for a house.
I can resist anything but temptation
CommentAuthorMrsSmee2b
wow 30k im budgeting 6k not saved a penny tho only got 1 set of parents that can help but not expecting them to got my dress and paying monthly so its not a big chunk all at once! i so hope that i dont go over cos cant afford to really! but its my day and i want it to be special!!!!
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CommentAuthorsuzky123
ours started at 8k, then 12k then 20k and now its 25k. Everything is booked and almost paid for though so it will not be going above that. This includes rings and a honeymoon (just not spends or new clothes etc so we are saving up for those extras at the min as the rest of the money is in the account to pay for the wedding).
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CommentAuthormelliecake
Ours started out at 5k, it's now crept up to 6k and we are working really hard to keep it around that sum, not a lot left to do now so think we are going to do it :) Our honeymoon is 2k though and being paid for by very kind parents and not included in the budget, is that cheating? x
CommentAuthorMrsMarr2B
our budget started at £12K not including the honeymoon! but as it stands just now its going to be about £17K and that still doesn't include the honeymoon! :(
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CommentAuthorElliekitty
Our Budget was £4000, i knocked £1200 off the price by being cheeky and asking for discounts, however its about £3600 at the moment as i've now bought a proper dress :) x
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CommentAuthorElle23
My goodness!!!! I cant believe the higher budgets!!! We are not in that position at all but how do you ladies (who can afford it) feel about spending that amount of money?
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
please dont take offense, but even if i could afford it...(which i cant) but if i could , I just couldnt possibly justify spending that kind of money for just one day.....
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CommentAuthorElle23
I dont think i could either Raggedy.......
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CommentAuthorNicsquared
I guess its relative to our earnings so it doesnt feel too bad. We have what we want and have blown the budget on a few things that are important to us but havent gone totally crazy and somethings we have saved on. We own our house already so we dont need to save for that. We didnt want to look back and regret not having the things we wanted It is a lot of money, but you only live once :)
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CommentAuthorAnastasia
30k
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CommentAuthorRaggedyAnne
Yeah i suppose it is all relative, and being a lowly civil servant thats maybe why i cant afford it. TBH we maybe COULD afford it actually, but we just dont want to, thats why we are having such a small wedding of 24 guests, we could definately find 100+ family and friends to join us, but we simply dont want to spend that much, and we want a small intimate wedding.
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CommentAuthorMrsMarr2B
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We are not having an extravegant wedding, its just when we first decided on the original budget we had not really done a lot of research in to the cost of things. We have picked one of the cheapest venues in our area, we have decided against transport for our guests, invitations and all other stationery is being handmade. If I find any way at all between now and the wedding to reduce the costs then I definitely will. Not totally over the moon with what it is costing, but my positive outlook on it is that I am only planning to do it the once and want it to be as special as it can be, with all the loved ones we want there to be there to share our day with us. This is not money that we just have we have had to save long and hard to be able to afford this.
Mrs Marr 2 b!!! Can't blooming wait!!
10-11-12 can't come quick enough :)
CommentAuthorMrsMcleish2B
Our budget is £10k absolute maximum but we are looking at 7k at the moment!!! Wahooo!!! No Honeymoon though :o( and I have no bridesmaids BUT we will be married at the end of it and thats all we care about :o) xxxx
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CommentAuthorNicsquared
The world would be a boring place if we all had the same views and spent our money on the same things :) I wouldnt say we were having a big or flashy wedding, we are only having 60 guests, not huge. We are both happy with our plans and thats what matters to us
There are so many people out there who will tell you
what you can't do.
What you have to do is turn around and say, "watch me"!!
CommentAuthorMrsMcleish2B
Where are you going on honeymoon Nicsquared??? xxx
Wedding Day - 16th June 2012
CommentAuthorNicsquared
Kenya and Tanzania, we are doing a 8 day safari in Kenya then 11 nights in Zanzibar :)
There are so many people out there who will tell you
what you can't do.
What you have to do is turn around and say, "watch me"!!
CommentAuthorMrsMcleish2B
AWESOME!!! Totally jealous! H2B is in the Army soooo no Honeymoon for me but we're hoping to do something to make up for it next year :o) xxx
Wedding Day - 16th June 2012
CommentAuthorMrs Davro
Our budget is 1.5k. According to the budget planner in here we are 100 over budget without honeymoon. Hoping to come under without honeymoon. Think the honeymoon is going on the credit card.
