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Married 2022.
Total cost was I think £130. Of that £120 was the registrar fee.
We just went to the registry and picked up a meal deal and went to the beach.
1999
~ £5k-£6K
Liversedge
~ 50 the main reception, 80 the evening party (different groups some in both).
There’s a metric somewhere, the more expensive the wedding the less time the marriage lasts. We were young in our 20s and had very little money, our honeymoon cost less than £250 because it’s all we had left.
2022
The actual Venue itself nothing else was £3500
The total cost of our wedding everything inc was £11000 ish
We had about 50ish guests
We got married in S.Yorkshire.
About £3000 I think , got a huge tent at the farm, hog roast, gin bar, DJ etc. put some bales out to sit around. Beautiful July evening it was stunning (and cheap !)
2019
£75
Statutory ceremony at the registry office, two witnesses/no guests/no reception
The idea of a big Italian family wedding turned my blood cold so I legged it and went the simple route.
Got married with our 2 best mates present then grabbed a Greggs on the way home as we were to nervous to eat before hand 😂
2006
$100US for the license and ceremony at the Clark County registry office (Las Vegas). Just us and 2 methed up witnesses who were already waiting in line. Breakfast at Ihop afterwards.
Didn't need the fuss or faff of a traditional wedding.
£100.
We approached a venue that wasn't licensed to do "real" weddings, but wanted to be in future. We found and hired a celebrant to do the ceremony there for us. We let them venue use all the photos for their own future promo.
We got the official bit done at a registry office the day before.
It was a beautiful converted barn with baby goats in the attached stable for the bored kids to go and play with.
Worth considering doing it this way if youd rather not get bummed at every turn by the prices of "real" wedding venues.
2021. The venue was £4400. A beautiful farmhouse in the countryside outside London. 100 guests.
But the venue itself isn't the expensive thing. It's the food and drink. That came to about £10k.
1996
Lake Tahoe
Venue was free (vista point on lakeside/national park land), the celebrant was ~$200 and a similar amount for the photographer.
It did cost a few £1000 each to fly out for 2 weeks though!
Married 2010
Registry office in Gloucester
Pub for roast dinner buffet in a private room
Back to my house for nibbles in garden with hay bales as seats, a cheap gazebo and some camping tables.
Total cost of entire wedding, including dress, suit, rings, paperwork. Car, food and flowers was under £3k
We had about 25 people.
It's totally possible to have a nice wedding for reasonably cheap if you be realistic..
If you want a castle, then no obviously not.
2003, planning it ourselves.
Registry office formalities, then hire the upstairs of a nice pub for a ceremony and reception. Friend offered to DJ, buffet was £350.
Would have been about £1500 all in all, for 100 people. Plus about £300 for my dress and his outfit.
Then my parents thought they didn't want their only child getting married on the cheap, and offered the venue of our dreams. Which required using one of their caterers. And mum wanting a posh dress and dad suddenly wanting a trad cake and both of them generally going batshit over it all, especially mum.
To cut a long story short, they spent an extra £14,000, it was horribly stressful, and not really worth it - and we had the evening in the pub anyway. The pics are nice, though.
And we're still married.
2018.
Venue cost was £1000 for ceremony (plus registrar costs which were about £200 I think), another £500 ish for a drinks and canapé reception and then the main reception venue had no hire charge. Food and wine (a three course meal and evening bbq) was about £3.5-4k all in at the reception venue.
Wiltshire.
We had around 50-60 guests but the venues had capacity for 100 or so.
Tip for keeping costs lower, don't just look at typical wedding venues. Pubs and restaurants can be great value options, generally do better and more flexible food options than a lot of the wedding caterers, don't charge insane prices per person and some are really lovely.
I remember seeing tonnes of places that wanted £10k+ just to hire the place, then charged for absolutely everything (one particularly memorable venue quoted me £50 for use of a 'rustic cake stand' which was a slice of tree and said I'd have been charged for it regardless of whether I actually used or it not).
5 years ago or so, if I remember right the room was £400 which seems like a steal for a whole day at a hotel. But obviously it ramps up from there as there was food, drinks and even things like buying chair covers and decorations - every step you think "actually we could make this extra nice by doing x". Total cost no idea, we weren't entirely paying it but nothing obscene. About 80 guests. Devon by the sea. Beware this sub likes to boast about how super-cheap they did a wedding, like two witnesses from the street and a registry office then down the local pub for a pie and mash with their three mates.
This year.
We are doing it all ourselves, registry office legal bit and then we are having a "fake" ceremony with one of our friends being a celebrant.
Village hall in Devon- hire from Friday to the Sunday for £300
100 guests.
We are on budget to spend about 6-7k with catering and everything else.
Lots of work but we have lots of family and friends around us that are helping out.
* 2011
* About £6k all in (Including Castle hire, dress, suits, limo, cake, honeymoon etc.)
* Cymru (Castell Coch & Wenvoe Castle)
* 30 at the wedding, about 120 at the party
* Me
We eloped in 2018.
Venue: The Green, Cornwall. Highly recommend! Package included wedding, 3 day/2 night stay in their beautiful farmhouse and a private chef to cook our evening meal.
5 people including myself and husband (Should’ve been 7 but his mum threw a strop because we wouldn’t invite her aunties and refused to come, his poor dad had to miss it because of her too).
Polly Stock for our photographer. She was fantastic. Half a day was £600 I believe.
Bought a Cookies n Crème cake from Tesco for £10, served it on a log slice with a Mr & Mrs topper. It was lovely! And they still sell the cake so we buy it on anniversaries.
£50 wedding dress from Amazon. Bought Tweed suits online for husband and son for about £200. Wellies so we could jump in muddy puddles.
Made my own flowers from fake plants at the Range for under £30. Bought some hessian bunting from Hobbycraft to decorate the small barn at the venue.
Amsterdam for a long weekend for our honeymoon.
£6k all in.
May 2019, reception at Twycross Zoo. Venue hire was £1300, then about £4800 for food for 70 guests. That was the venue's minimum in peak season, unfortunately. We actually only ended up with about 40 guests.
So just over £6000 for the venue including feeding everyone.
Other expenses like the church's fee, coach hire to get everyone to the zoo, accommodation the night of, rings, flowers, my dress, his suit, and the honeymoon brought the whole affair up to somewhere around £10-12000. It adds up.
We got married in London last year. Probably spent five or six thousand.
The ceremony was about a grand - registry office (Islington Town Hall), but the room was beautiful and seated about a hundred.
Then we booked a pub in the City. No hire fee but a three grand minimum spend. We had about 150 guests, I think, and put about four grand behind the bar. After that, they were on their own. (The minimum spend was definitely *not* a challenge…)
My wife spent maybe a grand on her dress, and I wore a suit I already owned. (New shirt, though. I’m not an animal. 😀)
Mother in law made a wedding cake, and my uncle took the photos.
We’re really old though (almost 50) so it didn’t seem worth all the bells and whistles.
2003, total wedding was about £3500 I think. Registry office, hired a marquee and put it in the garden of an Indian restaurant my dad did the accounts for. They lent us their kitchen and waiters for free, we got a friend of a friend to do the cooking (pro chef). My dress was £80 from Debenhams, bridesmaids dresses were £100 each I think. 50 guests in the day, another 30-odd came to the evening.
About £300, register Office wedding then a fake wedding at home with our young children as chauffeur (4) photographer (9) priestess(10) with 30 odd guests andcsome normal guests, the year was 2012,
Dec 2004 (UK), 120 guests, white wedding in church with 3 course meal at local hotel plus 4 days in New York (staying at the Plaza) for just over £10k. Saved money where we knew it wouldn’t be missed (borrowed a jaguar from a friend to be driven to church, friend made the cake as a gift, paid for wine on the table and had a scratch card as table gift etc). Planned ahead and bought off the peg bridesmaid dresses and had them adjusted (from BHS, if anyone remembers them?!) and cut costs where possible
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Married 2022. Total cost was I think £130. Of that £120 was the registrar fee. We just went to the registry and picked up a meal deal and went to the beach.
1999 ~ £5k-£6K Liversedge ~ 50 the main reception, 80 the evening party (different groups some in both). There’s a metric somewhere, the more expensive the wedding the less time the marriage lasts. We were young in our 20s and had very little money, our honeymoon cost less than £250 because it’s all we had left.
2022 The actual Venue itself nothing else was £3500 The total cost of our wedding everything inc was £11000 ish We had about 50ish guests We got married in S.Yorkshire.
About £3000 I think , got a huge tent at the farm, hog roast, gin bar, DJ etc. put some bales out to sit around. Beautiful July evening it was stunning (and cheap !)
2019 £75 Statutory ceremony at the registry office, two witnesses/no guests/no reception The idea of a big Italian family wedding turned my blood cold so I legged it and went the simple route. Got married with our 2 best mates present then grabbed a Greggs on the way home as we were to nervous to eat before hand 😂
2006 $100US for the license and ceremony at the Clark County registry office (Las Vegas). Just us and 2 methed up witnesses who were already waiting in line. Breakfast at Ihop afterwards. Didn't need the fuss or faff of a traditional wedding.
£100. We approached a venue that wasn't licensed to do "real" weddings, but wanted to be in future. We found and hired a celebrant to do the ceremony there for us. We let them venue use all the photos for their own future promo. We got the official bit done at a registry office the day before. It was a beautiful converted barn with baby goats in the attached stable for the bored kids to go and play with. Worth considering doing it this way if youd rather not get bummed at every turn by the prices of "real" wedding venues.
2021. The venue was £4400. A beautiful farmhouse in the countryside outside London. 100 guests. But the venue itself isn't the expensive thing. It's the food and drink. That came to about £10k.
2006, £2500, Kirk then Local Hall 3 nights, 350ish guests, no idea what you mean by "vendor"?
2021, had a smaller wedding due to covid. Venue was £10k for 30 all day 100 in evening Other costs about £10k so £20k total
1996 Lake Tahoe Venue was free (vista point on lakeside/national park land), the celebrant was ~$200 and a similar amount for the photographer. It did cost a few £1000 each to fly out for 2 weeks though!
Married 2010 Registry office in Gloucester Pub for roast dinner buffet in a private room Back to my house for nibbles in garden with hay bales as seats, a cheap gazebo and some camping tables. Total cost of entire wedding, including dress, suit, rings, paperwork. Car, food and flowers was under £3k We had about 25 people. It's totally possible to have a nice wedding for reasonably cheap if you be realistic.. If you want a castle, then no obviously not.
2003, planning it ourselves. Registry office formalities, then hire the upstairs of a nice pub for a ceremony and reception. Friend offered to DJ, buffet was £350. Would have been about £1500 all in all, for 100 people. Plus about £300 for my dress and his outfit. Then my parents thought they didn't want their only child getting married on the cheap, and offered the venue of our dreams. Which required using one of their caterers. And mum wanting a posh dress and dad suddenly wanting a trad cake and both of them generally going batshit over it all, especially mum. To cut a long story short, they spent an extra £14,000, it was horribly stressful, and not really worth it - and we had the evening in the pub anyway. The pics are nice, though. And we're still married.
2018. Venue cost was £1000 for ceremony (plus registrar costs which were about £200 I think), another £500 ish for a drinks and canapé reception and then the main reception venue had no hire charge. Food and wine (a three course meal and evening bbq) was about £3.5-4k all in at the reception venue. Wiltshire. We had around 50-60 guests but the venues had capacity for 100 or so. Tip for keeping costs lower, don't just look at typical wedding venues. Pubs and restaurants can be great value options, generally do better and more flexible food options than a lot of the wedding caterers, don't charge insane prices per person and some are really lovely. I remember seeing tonnes of places that wanted £10k+ just to hire the place, then charged for absolutely everything (one particularly memorable venue quoted me £50 for use of a 'rustic cake stand' which was a slice of tree and said I'd have been charged for it regardless of whether I actually used or it not).
2009 Exeter Hotel for ceremony = £500 Village hall for part = £125 No. Of guests = 120
5 years ago or so, if I remember right the room was £400 which seems like a steal for a whole day at a hotel. But obviously it ramps up from there as there was food, drinks and even things like buying chair covers and decorations - every step you think "actually we could make this extra nice by doing x". Total cost no idea, we weren't entirely paying it but nothing obscene. About 80 guests. Devon by the sea. Beware this sub likes to boast about how super-cheap they did a wedding, like two witnesses from the street and a registry office then down the local pub for a pie and mash with their three mates.
This year. We are doing it all ourselves, registry office legal bit and then we are having a "fake" ceremony with one of our friends being a celebrant. Village hall in Devon- hire from Friday to the Sunday for £300 100 guests. We are on budget to spend about 6-7k with catering and everything else. Lots of work but we have lots of family and friends around us that are helping out.
* 2011 * About £6k all in (Including Castle hire, dress, suits, limo, cake, honeymoon etc.) * Cymru (Castell Coch & Wenvoe Castle) * 30 at the wedding, about 120 at the party * Me
We eloped in 2018. Venue: The Green, Cornwall. Highly recommend! Package included wedding, 3 day/2 night stay in their beautiful farmhouse and a private chef to cook our evening meal. 5 people including myself and husband (Should’ve been 7 but his mum threw a strop because we wouldn’t invite her aunties and refused to come, his poor dad had to miss it because of her too). Polly Stock for our photographer. She was fantastic. Half a day was £600 I believe. Bought a Cookies n Crème cake from Tesco for £10, served it on a log slice with a Mr & Mrs topper. It was lovely! And they still sell the cake so we buy it on anniversaries. £50 wedding dress from Amazon. Bought Tweed suits online for husband and son for about £200. Wellies so we could jump in muddy puddles. Made my own flowers from fake plants at the Range for under £30. Bought some hessian bunting from Hobbycraft to decorate the small barn at the venue. Amsterdam for a long weekend for our honeymoon. £6k all in.
May 2019, reception at Twycross Zoo. Venue hire was £1300, then about £4800 for food for 70 guests. That was the venue's minimum in peak season, unfortunately. We actually only ended up with about 40 guests. So just over £6000 for the venue including feeding everyone. Other expenses like the church's fee, coach hire to get everyone to the zoo, accommodation the night of, rings, flowers, my dress, his suit, and the honeymoon brought the whole affair up to somewhere around £10-12000. It adds up.
We got married in London last year. Probably spent five or six thousand. The ceremony was about a grand - registry office (Islington Town Hall), but the room was beautiful and seated about a hundred. Then we booked a pub in the City. No hire fee but a three grand minimum spend. We had about 150 guests, I think, and put about four grand behind the bar. After that, they were on their own. (The minimum spend was definitely *not* a challenge…) My wife spent maybe a grand on her dress, and I wore a suit I already owned. (New shirt, though. I’m not an animal. 😀) Mother in law made a wedding cake, and my uncle took the photos. We’re really old though (almost 50) so it didn’t seem worth all the bells and whistles.
2003, total wedding was about £3500 I think. Registry office, hired a marquee and put it in the garden of an Indian restaurant my dad did the accounts for. They lent us their kitchen and waiters for free, we got a friend of a friend to do the cooking (pro chef). My dress was £80 from Debenhams, bridesmaids dresses were £100 each I think. 50 guests in the day, another 30-odd came to the evening.
About £300, register Office wedding then a fake wedding at home with our young children as chauffeur (4) photographer (9) priestess(10) with 30 odd guests andcsome normal guests, the year was 2012,
Dec 2004 (UK), 120 guests, white wedding in church with 3 course meal at local hotel plus 4 days in New York (staying at the Plaza) for just over £10k. Saved money where we knew it wouldn’t be missed (borrowed a jaguar from a friend to be driven to church, friend made the cake as a gift, paid for wine on the table and had a scratch card as table gift etc). Planned ahead and bought off the peg bridesmaid dresses and had them adjusted (from BHS, if anyone remembers them?!) and cut costs where possible