our budget was £6000, for venue and catering, decoration, flowers and favours, which we pretty much kept to. Family have offered to pay for things such as bridesmaid dresses etc, so probably the wedding did cost a little more just we didn't pay for it! Lucky Really! Disco thrown in by venue so no need to pay for entertainment. My mum makes cakes and im tring to D.I.Y most things myself. so all on course.
CommentAuthorInDreamland
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Had our dream perfect honeymoon in Hawaii!
CommentAuthormichgib
H2b said it was 10000 but now he has halved it as he doesn't want a big do. He will never know how much the bits n pieces add up to ha ha
CommentAuthorRachaelB76
think we are aiming for about 12-13K including 2 week honeymoon xx (so far looks like on track) xx
CommentAuthorEmmilou82
Initially I didn't really have a budget and at the moment it's looking at around £22k... Im trying my best to get things as cheap as possible but I'm not scrimping on anything. The venue with the wedding breakfast and post wedding pool party breakfast is £14k....GULP!!
Marrying 'The One' on 30th July 2016
I am now Mrs Emma Stokoe xx
We are looking at around £8000 for the 2 weddings (registry & Blessing) but have a feeling it will be more with all the little extras :) x
CommentAuthorEmmaG
my parents have given us £7,000 to spend on a wedding and its gone slightly over so putting the rest in, will be more like £8,500 , we having a 3 day wedfest :)
Soooooo excited to be marrying my Best Friend !!
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CommentAuthorleasa
Our initial budget was £10,000
But my dad gave us some money, my sister paid for photography as a gift! Both unexpected so we got everything we wanted without worrying too much about cost.
Final total (without honeymoon as it's not booked yet) is just short of £19,500
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Proposed in Monte Carlo August 25th 2013
Became Mrs K on 30th May 2015
Married my Gorgeous Greek God
CommentAuthorMrsRobson2Be
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We initially said our maximum budget was 10k & we have ended up at 10.5k so not massively over budget. This might go up slightly once the bridesmaid dresses arrive depending on alteration costs?? As the majority is now paid we are hoping to save enough so that all of our guests can have 2 free drinks each at the bar which will be around £600 max. However we should have been under budget as my mum ended up buying my dress, dad paid for food, H2B's parents paid for our honeymoon (although honeymoon was never in our budget).
CommentAuthorWelshBrideBethan2015
Our first budget was £10k but now it's about £15k not including dress or honeymoon which would take it over £20k.
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CommentAuthorMrsEmmaP
Our wedding is costing around £6000 including honeymoon. However our budget is £2500 (the rest my parents are paying) and so far we are sticking to it! x
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Got engaged on 25th December 2013
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CommentAuthorJoleneS46
When we first started planning our wedding back in 2012, we just wrote a list without comprehending how we'd pay for it. It came out as nearly £17,000 :O We had no idea how we were going to pay for it, so after much nagging from me, we cancelled it completely and thought about what we really wanted.
We're not really comfortable with churches and sit down meals in big hotels, so we have booked City Hall and will have a served buffet in a nightclub space within a hotel in the city centre - we've managed to bring the budget down to £8,500. I am so proud of this. If we don't need it, why pay for it?
CommentAuthorZaraJane
We started off at £5k then it went up to £12k but after some budgeting we've got it down to £9k with help from family we are paying £6k. It's hopefully the only time either of us are going to do this so we want it to be perfect and a lot of our budget is on entertainment, band, photographer etc
CommentAuthorEmily17
Ours started at 10k but oh wanted the big day and got upset that he couldn't have it on this so we looked at it again and increased to 13k
Based on what we have booked so far we are under :-)
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He proposed Jan 2014
Will become Mrs P 7th October 2017
CommentAuthorStephanieM158
Our budget is 5k. Venue. Food. Is £3000. Registrar £200. My mum is buying the dress. £1000 live singer and dj Cake is a gift. Partner made our rings Those are the big costs but i reckon i can get the others within budget.
Met 2004
Engaged 2014
Getting Married 2016
CommentAuthorEmily17
Wow Stephanie, what does your partner do? That is such a personal touch for him to make your rings
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He proposed Jan 2014
Will become Mrs P 7th October 2017
CommentAuthorVictoriaL46
Our budget for the wedding itself was 10k and thanks to a combination of finding the right people and "if you don't ask, you don't get" we have negotiated a lot of good deals, we have managed to come 2k under budget and not needed a lick of help. I think one of the best things we did was be realistic about how much we could save over a period of time to get the wedding we want. Our engagement, by the time the wedding comes, will be 2 years and 2 months. We've saved aggressively but not to the point we couldn't go to the cinema or treat ourselves now and then.
We've also saved a good lot for our honeymoon thanks to the wedding gift of accomodation from the best mans family using deals they get with their timeshares and my OH contacting Universal and Disney stating that we're coming from Scotland for our honeymoon, how could they make this even more special for us? It resulted in us getting open fast passes and $50 gift cards each to treat ourselves to a meal.
Met in Nov 2005
Engaged 13th June 2013
Becomes Mrs Stewart on 10th Aug 2015 Honeymoon in Florida!
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CommentAuthorKayleighS46
Our Budget for everything is £12,000 and so far were at £10.050!! That currently includes everything we've planned for so as long as we don't change our minds or add something else it should stay that way haha!! xx
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CommentAuthorMagpieBride
Based on my little spreadsheet, our budget is about £15000, including a £2000 buffer for last-minute/oh-poop-we-forgot-x/y/z things, and I think we're fairly on track so far; some things have come out a little more expensive than we thought, but others have turned out significantly cheaper, so it's more-or-less balanced in our favour right now.
And we're doing something like 70/80% of the decorations ourselves, so been able to search for some real bargains!
Still might have to take out a small loan, though.
CommentAuthorHazelM69
Amazing the variation mine in total has come to approx 20 (for everything incl estimating the little bits) budget was 15 so went a little over :S
CommentAuthorJennK
Our budget was 10k, but on top of this we had contributions for specific things from my mum and the inlaws which came to around 7k in total making 17k absolute total budget.
Out of our 10k, including honeymoon flights and accommodation, we spent £9889! So we gave the band an extra £100 as they were so so good and we felt we underpaid.
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CommentAuthorFlossie
Aw that's so nice of you Jenn x
Happily married
18th June 2016
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CommentAuthorEmily17
That's lovely of you Jenn. must have been so appreciative of that!
My mom mentioned yesterday that thy are planning on giving us money for the wedding but again I told her that as they hadn't told us how much we were planning to pay all ourselves so they don't need to worry about it. The thing is we aren't really cutting back on anything now other than my outfit. Everything we have chosen has been cheap but perfect to what we wanted so don't know what id spend the money on. We were going to use it for a videographer but we can now afford that ourselves. Just be more money to pay off the house!!
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He proposed Jan 2014
Will become Mrs P 7th October 2017
CommentAuthorSam G 2b May 2016
Our original budget was £16k all in, but since then my parents have offered a lot of help and also OH's parents are paying for some things, so total spend is coming in at just under £21k including honeymoon and spending money, about £15k without.
CommentAuthorCarolH81
Didn't really have a proper budget, I just kept an eye on what we were spending, H2B just kept saying whatever you want haha! with wedding in Gibraltar and blessing in spain it has come to around £10000 that includes 3 nights in hotel in Gibraltar and we paid for my mum and stepdad to stay in same hotel for 3 nights. That should be the total cost including dress, rings, suit and bridesmaids dresses.
CommentAuthorMrs Jones
Probably looking at around £12k for wedding and a further £4k for honeymoon - trying to save where we can, but just feel like were haemorraging money :-(
First Date 26 April 2014
Proposed 27 June 2015
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CommentAuthorKerryBolderson2be
our budget is 1500maximum we already have the dress and my shoes, we also have the rings. we are planning on having a private ceromany at gretna green (just me and my oh) and plan on staying their for 2nights and with the packages they offer this offers more than enough for everything plus we plan on having a party when we get back home x
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Met 31st July 2012
Engaged 31st July 2013
Becoming Mrs Bolderson 14th February 2018
CommentAuthorStephH96
We've not really got a budget for our, more of a what do we want, can we afford it and is if a good price philosophy! However we are looking at around 8.5k for flights accommodate and wedding including extras. I've budgeted for £500 for my dress, then we just need rings and OH suit then we are done I think
CommentAuthorBecci93
We haven't really got a proper budget either we're just getting what we want but as cheap as possible...
I think my spreadsheet is just under £20000 mark at the minute but I'm sure they'll be silly things I've forgotten but that does include our honeymoon which is £4k so that makes up a BIG proportion ... Love the idea of a pre wedding pool party emmilou!
CommentAuthorFlossie
So far we're about a grand over "budget", although it was more of a guide than a budget. We were hoping to spend around £6k of our own money with parents contributing for various other things... we've already spent £4.3k and have £2.7k left to pay out at the moment, but that might change if we add more! That's not including the honeymoon though which is another £2.3k although we're hoping to recoup some of that back through wedding gifts xx
Happily married
18th June 2016
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CommentAuthorMrs D2B
We should have about £6K of our own money to spend, my dad is paying for the venue (which includes food, some drinks and accommodation for me, h2b and the bridal party) so we don't need to panic about that. I'm saving for my dress separately (£1 a day in a pot should give me about £900 to spend) and we are going to ask for honeymoon donations rather than wedding gifts so (fingers crossed) that won't have to come out of the budget. However so far we have spent about £3K of the budget on registrar, photographer, casino and venue decorations, now starting to panic that we are going to go over with everything else we will need to shell out for :s
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CommentAuthorTicamis2be
3k and give or take a couple of hundred were still around that x
CommentAuthorEmily17
Ours is £13,500 budgeted but at the moment looking at £11,500 so doing well. Some nice savings have helped us :)
Met in 2009
He proposed Jan 2014
Will become Mrs P 7th October 2017
CommentAuthorJoanneH4
Our budget is between £10,000 and £15,000 but so far we've only spend £500 at the moment
CommentAuthorKerryBolderson2be
how come you have 2 budgets JoanneH4 x
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Met 31st July 2012
Engaged 31st July 2013
Becoming Mrs Bolderson 14th February 2018
CommentAuthorGabyF37
We are very lucky as my parents have paid most of the cost for the venue/wedding breakfast/dj/photographer. My OHs parents have paid for our evening do and my aunty has offered to pay for the wedding flowers! We're paying for wedding dress/bridesmaid dresses/suits/ceremony/rings/favours/cake/other extras/honeymoon.
We weren't expecting that much help at all but since we have it means we don't have to wait to get married else I think we'd be saving forever!
Coming in at around £15k (but I don't want to think about it, I worry about money too much! I'm tight as anything haha)
CommentAuthorInDreamland
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Had our dream perfect honeymoon in Hawaii!
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Married the love of my life on Saturday 11th May 2013 xxx
Had our dream perfect honeymoon in Hawaii!
CommentAuthorKatieH
We didn't really have a budget. We wanted to save £6k but we managed to save £8.5k so happy days :)
Met in 2007
Started dating in 2009
Got engaged in 2014
Became Mrs Holme 11.06.16
CommentAuthorMaxineP89
We started off saying a budget of about 6K but after looking at costings for various items etc, we increased this to £10k. After finding our dream venue, we are now thinking it will be around the £12k mark. We are paying for it all ourselves. We are paying cash where we can for deposits etc, but the big things will be going on the plastic.
Eeek you may think - not the plastic, but we just keep a look out for the best deals on transfer rates and interest free periods etc and then swap our credit card. Stick with one for six months or so and then start to look again for a good deal. (Doing it once every 6 months or so, doesn't do too much damage to your credit rating) We make a payment of around £250 each month on interest free, so the total comes down quite quickly before the next big item goes on.
Looking forward to becoming the 3rd and last Mrs McLauchlan
CommentAuthorStephH96
We were thinking about 10k. It will probably go up a little as we have decided to add on some extras as OH has done some extra work.
We're pretty much paying for it ourselves. Some has come from savings and the rest is on plastic (interest free). Our parents are putting to our party when we get back.
CommentAuthorShellbell
We haven't actually set a budget. We decided to wait until 2018 that way we can have the things we want without having to worry about how we are going to pay for it. Our biggest thing is our venue and when I sat and tried to work out how much it was I got it 2 grand over what we are actually paying lol xx
Met 2004 lost contact after a few years
Met again 2013
Engaged July 6th 2016
Married July 14th 2018
CommentAuthorNicoleW665
oh gosh,
I totalled on average our wedding should cost around 11,000, told my H2B that I had managed to get it to 11,000 from 12,000 we originally totalled it to be as i was pretty chuffed with my bargain hunting and he responded with "oh I had it at around 9,000" im fairly certain he's forgotten my dress! :') x
When we met: August 2009
When we announced engagement: December 2015
When we will get married: September 2017
CommentAuthorMrsMaherToBe
We originally thought £8000 then put it up to £10000, however now everything's been paid it's probably around £12000 just because iv ended up picking up things here or there, and I ended up buying my dress after not being able to find it to hire x
2009 met my boy.
2011 had our baby girl.
2013 had our baby boy.
2016 we'll live happily ever after.
CommentAuthorFayeJ67
Our budget was £8k not including my dress or the honeymoon. So far we are at about £6k and have most things booked.
I'm very very cheeky when it comes to suppliers and have managed to get massive discounts on most things so we wil have our dream country house wedding with all the extras but at a fraction of the cost.
So far we are having 70 people for the day, with canapes, champagne reception and 3 course wedding breakfast (including choices for both the starter and the main course). For the evening we are having a proper hog roast (with pig on a spit!) for 120 people. All taking part in a gorgeous georgian mansion with exclusive use!
CommentAuthorLeanneF96
We decided on a 5k budget. That went out the window for the things i wanted it was more like 10k. We have now decided to wed abroad as its cheaper!
CommentAuthorMrsToniKB
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Our budget is 16k we're currently on 11,500 so not doing to bad :) That's not including my wedding dress as my MIL & FIL are buying it... My sister is buying our wedding cake so that saving us too! We are paying towards our honey moon but my H2B family booking and paying for majority of it! So hopefully we can stay under budget :) x
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Had our dream perfect honeymoon in Hawaii!
