Wedding Forum - Who's paying for your wedding...?...

Paying for the whole wedding ourselves xx

We're paying for nearly all of ours; my mum and dad brought the two bridesmaid dresses and my wedding shoes. H2b's mum said if I put the effort in I could sell her wade collection and keep the commission though I don't know how much that will be; she had 900 pieces so even if I only get a pound per one sold - that'll be £900 :)

Wow fern £10k is a huge amount for a honeymoon whos doing that?

My parents have offered to pay for some of our wedding but we'll also be contributing towards it ourselves. That's why we're putting the cheque I got from the Revenue & Customs folk towards part of it.

My dad gave us £5k and my mum gave us £3k then the other £5k we paid ourselves so total of £13k. H2B's parents offered to help out but we politely declined as we had savings of £5k for our wedding and didnt need anymore money so they gave us spending money for our honeymoon instead.

We paid for about 2/3 of ours and my mum very generously gave us the other third.

My MIL just reluctantly gave us £2000 for the venue deposit! I am grateful but she was an absolute cow to my OH when he approached the subject even though in June she gave the same amount to his brother and told us we could have it too!!! But thats a whole other story!!!
The rest of the wedding we are saving up for ourselves! My mum and dad have told us they are contributing but like us, they need to save money first. My poor dad is talking about selling the house, re-mortgaging so he can pay for the whole thing! Which I will never let him do.
My cousin is getting married next year and her mum and dad are paying for everything. I think up to know its £25,000!!! xx

I had no choice but to take the money from my parents - they have been saving since i was born for my wedding and they believe it as tradition to pay for their daughters wedding - i am very grateful and i am doing it completely in the 5K budget they have given.
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My sister confessed the other week her wedding and honeymoon cost £20k and they wish they had stuck to a budget rather than just getting what they wanted.

As my dad contributed to my sisters wedding, he insisted on contributing the same amount to mine, my dad works long hours and he's been putting money away since I got engaged, but my parents are in a position where they can help and no doubt they will contribute the same amount to my other sisters wedding when she gets round to it. My dad's been moaning at me as I haven't asked him for a penny of the money he has set aside for me as we have been paying the deposits ourselves, but I relented last week and let him pay the deposit for mine and my sisters dresses!

I am hoping to bring everything including the honeymoon in at £8k, if I can do it for less than that I will because that means we will have less to save up for a deposit for a house afterwards.

I think it shouldn't matter how much your wedding costs, its what you and your family and friends make of it!

me and oh are paying for ours and very proud of it everything is about us and no-one has a say in it lol we had a very tight budget of a max of £2500 an i worked my backside off to make that money over the summer and i did !!! the venue is not the best i could afford its the place ive dreamed off ! i was so lucky as it has just been taken over and the owners before dint do weddings so we got a really good price as it was the new owners first wedding. I have literally made everything else :) collecting bits and bobs here and there and of course the goo old bay of e! i know people spend £1000's and thats great for those who can but im so excited for our wedding as its literally ours . the one exception is our amazing wedding cake which my o/h's family member has made and only charged us £60 for ingredients and my god i LOVE it. We are hoping to go on honeymoon/my 30th in january so more saving after the wedding and as someone else said we have asked for donations from guests. Imo its not the cost of the wedding its the effort and personality you put into it! :)

Mil2b has given us 1k towards the wedding which I didn't expect and has helped out alot she also seems more drawn to the idea not that this would matter to me as before she wasn't bothered x

Wow, I can't believe peoples budgets! So lucky, weddings are so expensive! xx

well we planned on funding the wedding ourselves, we never asked for help but H2B family is kindly giving us £1000 and my Mum just paid half of my wedding dress £450 and then she just came out and said that mum and step dad are also going to buy drinks package and the food and that about £3000 so im sooo very grateful but we would never ask but very happy for their kindness xxx