Wedding Forum - How much did your venue cost?...

We only had our reception at our venue as we got married in a church. For 105 people we paid the reception venue £14.5k but that included canapés and welcome drinks, 3 course wedding breakfast with half a bottle of wine per person and bottled water on the tables, hog roast and buffet for the evening, exclusive use of the venue and grounds, bridal suite for hubby and I on the wedding night and brekkie the next morning. Our guests also got a discount on the rooms if they wanted to stay over. Other little things like cake stand and knife plus events manager on the day etc were included too. We also got a fist anniversary afternoon tea given to us which we weren't expecting.

We had a peak season Saturday wedding so it was always going to be expensive for the type of venue we had.

Our is coming in at about £14k. That's all day exclusive use, 110 for wedding breakfast, welcome drinks and canapés, bridal party buffet breakfast, post wedding breakfast, evening buffet for 160, bridal suite for the wedding night.

You may be better sitting down with the coordinator as ours priced up much higher until we sat down and talked it all through and we now get much more for our money.

We're getting married in a country house hotel on the outskirts of the Cotswolds and have exclusive use. For around 45 day guests and then a further 45 evening guests we have an estimate of around £6,000 which includes arrival drinks, a three course sit down wedding breakfast, wine on tables, the evening buffets, chair covers/sashes and the dance floor. It would be around £8,000 or so but we are asking our guests to pay for their own rooms which will cut the costs for us.

At the end of the day you just need to go with what you can afford. You will still have a fabulous day no matter where or what the cost. :)

Ours is about £15k for 110 day and 130 evening guests. That's for the ceremony and reception and exclusive use of the castle. It's more than I thought we would pay but we love the venue so we decided to go for it.

We got married in Gibraltar at registry office and had a blessing 5 days later in spain 6 of us in Gibraltar paid for my mum and step dad hotel stay and the blessing there was 39 of us cost around £8,500 including hotel bills this included church for blessing, flowers and entertainment (dj, mariachi band and flamenco dancers), and canapes and 4 course meal with drinks included during the meal, church blessing was at the same venue as our reception. x

That is right Emily, I honestly don't think anywhere on the IOW would cost over £10K for an all in wedding. The cost of mine was pretty average, and like you say, it was perfect for us.

Our venue was around 7k, we had a "suite" in a hotel which is 2 function rooms and a large foyer, plus a huge outside courtyard. The cost included use of the "suite", welcome drinks, 3 course sit down meal, cake stand and knife, evening buffet and bar staff, and 2 coordinators for the whole day, plus the honeymoon suite for us. We had 60 day guests and an extra 30 in the evening.

Most venues near me are barns where it's like 5-6k just to hire the place. We went for a hotel to bring the cost down a bit plus the logistics were so much easier.

we're paying just under £7k, that's for the exclusive use of the venue on the day, accommodation in the manor house at the venue the night before and the night of the wedding (inc breakfast) ceremony room, welcome drinks, a 2 course wedding breakfast for 65 guests, 1/2 bottle of wine per person, a dessert focused buffet for 100 people and a glass of bubbles for everyone at midnight (we're getting married on NYE). The place we're getting married is beautiful but it wouldn't have been my first choice if we had a bigger budget, but I'm glad we didn't have more to spend else I wouldn't have looked twice at this venue and therefore would have missed out on a really gem!

We knew that we wanted a big wedding (120 including children for the day) so a 'dream' venue with sit-down meal was going to be well out of our price range - the only venues large enough had general estimates around the £10K - £15K region.

So instead we are looking at a less formal option at a local community center, serving an afternoon tea instead of a three course meal and other such compromises. I wanted it to be a diy affair in any case, but I am still considering hiring an events organiser for the day. We'll see closer to the time.

Our venue had a cancellation so we've managed to get a good deal. Ours is coming out at just under £8000 for ceremony fees, chair covers, venue hire, canapes, two course meal, welcome drinks, wine, hog roast and ice cream cart. we have based it on about 90 people day time and 150 evening.

It is certainly the price that puts the price up as our food is well over £6000 of the costs (ouch :()

we are getting married in our venue, 3 course meal, plus tea and coffe, reception drink, 2 glasses of wine per head, sparkling wine for toast, room night before and night of, bar staff, waiting staff on the day co-ordinator, room hire for ceremony and reception, menu tasting for 2, buffet at night 4 kids meals for 76 adults and 4 kids we are paying £5k. it should have been about £7k for the monday wedding. A saturday would have been costed at about £9k

Georgian mansion sounds lovely.

our reception is costing £2,710. doesn't include the ceremony though. we are getting married in a registry office for £135. the reception includes 3 course meal, evening buffet, dj, centrepieces, room for the night, 3 months gym membership at the hotel, menu tasting, cake stand & knife, table linen, printed menu cards, discounted parking.

this is for 50 day guests & 70 evening guests. £37 per person for day £14 per person for evening x

Hmm... I mean, it depends really what you're getting with that. You're looking at 2 years away, I assume from your countdown? In which case, there's probably going to be a little added each year to the cost for inflation. And is it a Saturday? May is supposed to be one of the "mid-range" months usually, like September, with June - Aug being the expensive ones IF your venue charges like that.

We've just had our quote in for 80 guests, for the whole day. with exclusive venue hire etc They will get a 4 alcoholic drinks (2 glasses of wine, 2 prosecco) a 3 course sit down meal and hog roast evening meal. Also included is the use of a boat for my arrival, guest tours on the water for 2 hours on the boat, bridal lodge for the night of the wedding, 2 rooms for the night before for the bridal party and the groom, and full English champagne breakfast for Sunday and Monday. That's come back at £7,800 for the end of September on a Sunday. Our DJ, Casino etc. are all outside vendors at an extra cost.

If you email the coordinator (if you haven't done already) your proposed date, number of guests, and likely choices for drinks package, what you want for your wedding breakfast and evening etc, whether you want canapes or whatever, then they should be able to give you a good idea of exactly what the total price will be so you can consider further whether it's at all viable? xx

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Yes, just had a gander, looks amazing Faye!