Wedding Forum - Is this average price?...

We looked around a local hotel today and the price for arrival drinks, a 3 course sit down meal, 3 wines, drink for toast, for 60 adults and evening room and buffet for 120 people total just under £6000. The wedding in July on Saturday. Is this a normal price? I've been to 2 other places but they were even more around £9000 fore bits included in this one. I will look at few others if I can find them as curious and got a while yet buts wondered if this would be a normal price? Some people say that it's alot others say that it's good and I have no idea x

That's loads better than any quotes I've had in Surrey for 100 people! Well done. Is it a nice place?

if you're not sure, get quotes from other places in the area and compare. Most will do an indicative quote online or over the phone. Remember when you ask other people that different parts of the country have different average prices. I know we're paying a premium being in Surrey, as with everything flippin else!! Being a Devon girm, I'm not used to these London prices! Grrr.

That's just a bit more than ours (although Sat in June it was same price for whole summer)
Ours would work out about 5100 with your numbers - but doesn not include ceremony , DJ, chair covers but does include room for the night, cake stand, knife. I'll put a link on your wall as they are a national chain and may be worth you looking at what they have close to you

For every other venue we've looked at bar the one we've booked you have a fantastic price there.. For ours we get loads of stuff for a really cheap rate, but all the others we'd have got the same as you for £7000 ish xxx

wow Sita, I want your wedding! That sounds fab x

For a hotel package that sounds reasonable. Ours is £64 per head for full day guests, and an extra £15 per head (I think) for evening only guests. We get a similar thing to you; red carpet, arrival drinks, MC, wedding breakfast with unlimited wine, and evening buffet included for full day guests, with just the extra to pay for those coming later. We also get our room for the wedding night included, and a discount on accommodation for our guests, oh and a cake stand and knife. We worked out that with our guest list it comes to just under £9000, as young children are only about £12, and we have on guest who is tube fed and won't eat at all, so we've been told that we don't need to pay for her.

I would say that's a good package and very normal, ours is more like £8000 but that's cos venue hire alone is £4500 then £3500 for food and drinks package for day and night x

'Average price' varies hugely depending on where you live, the type of venue you want, etc. I live 'down South', in Greater London, so our search area included some of the most expensive parts of the country: Berkshire/Buckinghamshire/London/Surrey. When I see what people from up North are paying, it makes me realise just how much more expensive things are down here.

We're getting married in Berkshire, and are paying £7050 for canapes, a 3 course wedding breakfast (with choice of 4 main courses), 2 glasses of buck's fizz, 1/2 bottle of wine, and a glass of champagne, for 59, and then an evening buffet catering for 75, as well as room hire. Hotel rooms, cake stand and knife, entertainment etc are all on top of this.

copied and pasted off mines website
£2,395 Any Day
Includes; Civil Ceremony, 3 Course Wedding Breakfast for 40 Guests
& Evening Buffet for 100 Guests
In addition they all include…
Master of Ceremonies
Civil Ceremony Room Hire
Red Carpet Entrance
A Glass of Champagne for the Bride & Groom
Bucks Fizz Reception for Daytime Guests
Perfect Setting for Romantic Wedding Photos
Wedding Stationary; Table Plan, Menus, Place names & Table Confetti
Table Linen & Napkins
Silver Cake Stand & Knife
Evening Room Hire, Resident DJ Hire
Complimentary Bed & Breakfast for the Bride & Groom
Ours comes in at £3195 as we have 80 daytime guests and 120 evening guests and we upgraded to directors suite for 1st night
room. We also added toast drinks. Yorkshire seems to be cheap compared to everywhere else :)

Wow ID... I thought mine was expensive... Yours makes me feel better now but ur in London aren't u?x

Wowee that looks amazing!

Thanks Kelbe;, we do love it.


Emma - is that Pr£5t£d H@ll? xx

Yes :)

Thats the place!!

Oh wow! Emma! My sister got married there 2 years ago! It is amazing! The food is fantastic and the service faultless! Great choice!!!
x

I loved staying there! We stayed the night before and night of the wedding. Had a fab time! Best place to be a MOH xxx

I have to say they were incredible and gave my sister and BIL an amazing day and as a CBM/MOH I can say they were incredibly helpful! Food portions are huge too!!!

Lol - seriously, I only managed half of what I was given at the wedding breakfast and then had to force myself to eat at the evening buffet as I was desperate to try the hog roast and WHOA!!! DELICIOUS!!!!!

My sister had a few veggies in the evening but there is also plenty of veggie options even with the hog roast :D
xxx

Oh the hog roast really is delish there! Mmmmm! We had such a lovely day, you will have an amazing wedding! xx

InDreamland, my h2b was at Hunton Park today for a conference! and we're going there in the summer for his work summer ball, it looks gorgeous!! xxx our cheapest quote was £2300 and our most expensive so far has been £6000 !! we're only having 15 people!! the 2300 even included accommodation but it was in a little hotel which doesn't really 'do' weddings, hence the price. I'm being a bit of a snob about venue tho and have decided that I want to get married in a country house kinda venue which are all bloody expensive as their main income is weddings! We are viewing one next weekend which i am so in love with, on the phone the guy said the house hire alone was £3000 and then we need cost of catering on top of that so will prob be around £5,000. Expensive but if its "the venue" worth it i guess xx

Wow, I feel like I've got a good deal with mine!

We have, for forty two guests:

Ceromony room hire in the library
Two reception drinks
Selection of canapés
Four course wedding breakfast
Reception room hire
All linen and cutlery
Half a bottle of wine per guest
Champagne to toast
Master of ceremonies
Bridal suite
(we are having our evening reception elsewhere as the layout isn't ideal)

All for £2,600. It's a gorgeous regency style independently owned hotel, and we were expecting it to cost twice that! Xx

That said, I think a good deal is in the eye of the beholder - as much as budget allows, venues are something you just can't pick on price...we would have been happy to pay a lot more for this venue, which makes it seems like a fantastic bargain to us...we also went to one place where it would have been cheaper, but it was dingy, tatty and the food looked pants.

Xx