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weddings & Money !!
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Could anyone give me a rough price they would expect for a wedding ...
A normal everyday one in a church , nice reception with nice food and decoration in a resturant or hotel , cars , flowers etc ......
A normal everyday one in a church , nice reception with nice food and decoration in a resturant or hotel , cars , flowers etc ......
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I've just done some photography work for some people who were on a budget who i think spent about £3000, and they'd got a lot for their money.
We had a 4Star Hotel, Ceremony, dress, suit (I bought not hired) photographer, decorations gifts champaine and wine - 40ish bottles in total and corkage (we provided our own wine/champaine) and some accomodation 7/8rooms for few nights.
tbh you can get a REALLY nice wedding with change left over for £5,000 and there is no need to pay a lot more.
(this was also back in september
We haven't booked anything yet but quotes we are getting back from places are around £4000 for the ceremony, wedding breakfast, evening buffet, drinks and entertainment for around 100 people.
my boyfriend's sister is getting married in may and without the honeymoon, its costing them about £15,000 (i say them, more like my boyfriend's mum and her fiance's parents!!!).
the couple are paying for the honeymoon themselves, haha. that will probably cost more than the wedding though with the amount of places they are going!
weddings are expensive! i don't think i'll ever be able to afford it
saying that, my friend is getting married in november and i'm sure she said she's only spending £5-£6k.
Thats not bad as the food where I got mine should've been about £45.00 per head so thats £4500 for 100 people,
Mine was only for 60 people and I obviously got a discount
numbers is the big thing and in my opinion the food is the biggest cost in all weddings I've seen the bills for (where I work and my own)
Here is a link
http://auchrannie.co.uk/wmslib/pdf/WeddingBrochure.pdf
just for idea's this is a little under the standard price for the level of service/type of hotel.
There are ways to keep the costs down without losing out. Easiest way is by NOT telling people the things you're getting are for a wedding. Suppliers hear 'bride' and the price immediately doubles. Cake, for example - the shop we got it from did wedding cakes starting from £150. We told them we wanted a cake for a 21st birthday and got exactly the same thing for £65 :thumb: I also got a photographer who was very talented, but not very experienced, and he charged £400 (instead of the £1000 quotes I got elsewhere) and did a brilliant job).
We also did bits ourselves - I did all the stationery on a bogstandard inkjet printer, and fancied it up with ribbons and eyelets. We got favour boxes in bulk off ebay and filled them with Costco jellybeans. I made my own jewellery and did my own makeup.
It's easy to get carried away with makeup artists and chocolate fountains and the like, but remember it's just one day. Your marriage will be just the same whether you spend £400 or £40,000, but do you really want to kick off your newlywed life under the shadow of £40,000's worth of debt?
We had a registry office wedding, which was £370, and the hall hire was £200. My dress was £50 from Debenhams sale, I was lent a veil and tiara by one of my new aunties. Everyone wore suits they already had ... glass hire was cheap. My mum did almost all the food and my mother in law did the rest. My father in law took our official photos, but everyone took photos really and we got some lovely ones that I'm really pleased with.
I wouldn't have changed a single thing about the day, it was fantastic and so much fun You don't have to spend a fortune to have a great wedding.
Oh and flowers were a gift, I designed the invites myself and another new auntie printed them at her printing company as a gift to us. We didn't bother with favours, what's the point, and a friend's band played at the reception. :thumb:
My sister in laws weddings both cost around £40k if not more but my brother in laws wedding was about £5k and just as nice.
I don't think that you should spend ridiculous amounts on your wedding unless you actually have the money to spend - i was lucky that both of our families are well off - i think that the thing which makes the day nice is having your friends and family there and you can have just as much fun in a church hall as long as there is dancing and alcohol - i'm still trying to persuade someone to have a bbq on a beach.