Band? Pfft, spotify playlist.
Photographer? Get a mate who's got a good camera to do it.
There we go, about five grand saved.
Band? Pfft, spotify playlist.
Photographer? Get a mate who's got a good camera to do it.
There we go, about five grand saved.
Did you lot who've done it have open bars? That's probably one thing I'd want if I did ever have a wedding.
I'd just want a big piss-up, really.
Unless you're inviting about six people you'd want to put some very serious restrictions on that.
It's a bargain because we got a lot for our money, not because it's the cheapest wedding we could've had.Originally Posted by Toby
It is for what it is.
We've drink on arrival, a bottle of wine a head with the meal, and any drink of choice for the toast. The rest they can buy themselves, the only other thing we requested was some craft beers as some of my mates and her relations have beards, but they threw that in for free once we have 180 or more attendees.
We provided about 6 drinks per person if I recall correctly. We looked into an open bar and buying a barrel, but the price was just too much.
About 13k all in. Another couple needed for a deposit.
How much would it actually cost?
Abusing the open bar to have a Whiskey Coke older than I am
Good times.
I wouldn't have drinks that fancy in it. It'd be your normal beers, house wine and the bog-standard spirits.
This was at some manor house that Stalin and Churchill met in the tunnels underneath during the war (or something, the bloke showing us round was so posh I stopped paying attention after a while and started imaging Nigel Thornberry instead) so there was fancy stuff a plenty.
Well we were told we could put credit on the bar, and if it ran out, it ran out. We weren't offered any discount on drinks if we did, and buying barrels of beer saved about 3p per pint from my calculations. Buying everyone an extra 5 drinks each (on top of what we already provided) would've been about an extra 2 grand.
My fiancée's family are teetotal so there's no alcohol being served at our wedding (although the bar will be open). It costs £3 per jug for a jug of diluted juice.I think all in we're looking at £8k maybe. If I had my way we'd just have a big BBQ at our house after the service and invite friends and family. I didn't get my way unfortunately.
Are your family not teetotallers, @CJay?
I assumed all RPs were.
Nah, there's nothing wrong with drinking. I'd say the large majority of RPs probably are, though. Free Ps are the hardcore lot for that sort of thing.
Jesus that's an awful compromise to have to make, do they think that they're going to be laid down and force fed it with a funnel?
That doesn't seem surprising, they'll have to do something silly with prices to cover the staff costs of a juice bar.My fiancée's family are teetotal so there's no alcohol being served at our wedding (although the bar will be open). It costs £3 per jug for a jug of diluted juice.
Well the other thing is that a lot of the guests wouldn't be drinking either. I don't really mind, it's the father paying for it anyway.
I think we have drinks at reception and wine for the tables. I think we're going to just put some money behind the bar for drinks but I definitely don't want any of the guests to be forking money themselves when it's a piss up.
Spending that kind of money on a wedding.
Thinking you have any choice when you're the bloke
Shiii
Being ugly has its financial upsides
Well there you go. Cut eighty of them out and save the money.
I'd happily pay double if I could go home after the actual ceremony. I am dreading that day like anything.
I can't see myself inviting more than ten people.
Thirteen thousand euros on a caterer. It just gets madder and madder. Is he diving for his own oysters beforehand?
Surprising amount of family make up the numbers. I think we're going to end up with around 90.
At my mate's wedding last year, I was one of ten on his 'side' (including the 3 remaining extended family members he isn't estranged from) whilst the bride brought almost 100. He must have been seething.
I only have immediate family and no friends. 5 people on my side coming to the wedding
We'll all come, Sama.
Flowers. Everything is £1000 a pop as well.
Cake.
A friend made ours, and another friend did the photography as they were starting a business up, so that was good. It was still painful.
Our biggest costs apart from venue/food/drink were:
- The wedding dress (£1500)
- Bridesmaids dresses (About £500 in total)
- Mine and the best man's suit (£550)
- DJ (Can't remember, but about £400 I think)
- Photobooth (£500)
- The ceremony room hire (£400)
I did the invitations, website, placecards, table numbers, etc all myself. I did a website in return for an excellent wedding photographer (that was already one of my clients). My wife's cousin is a professional videographer, so that was covered. Her other cousin is in a band, so that was also free. Her mum did the wedding cake, so again, that was money saved.
I can see how people spend £15k quite easily. We had a ton of freebies.
We'll BYOB it with some cans of Red Stripe.
I guess I just have a different attitude to weddings. I've never really got the point of them, and if my girlfriend and I were to get married I feel like she'd give even less of a shit than I do as far as it being a big spectacle of a day goes.
The costs you've outlined there are more in line with what I'd have expected, SvN, it's just the venue and food that's surprised me. I guess my views might be warped by nearly all of the venues around me suitable for anything like that being community owned and not charging very much.
We were married at a hotel, and we also had about 6 hotel rooms to pay for too (at about £130 per night a pop - some people stayed 2 nights).
Community owned hotels?
Nah, there aren't really any hotels around here you'd want to get married in. The only nice looking ones are tiny. Most people have their weddings in village halls around here.
Not that it'll ever happen, but I'd be confident that her dad will pay for the lot. The man is filthy rich.
Just get married in Poser's.
Make a night of it.
Well, that's technically part of a hotel, and a perfect example of how shit they all are.
My friend had to pay for his own best man suit at that wedding I dodged. The little bitch.
Hope not best to leave that until after the marriage. More attractive with a ring on.
COME ON.
50 day guests, 100 night guests. Easy.
I'm a twit
Nobody really does the evening invite thing any more, not here anyway. Seen as a bit of an insult.
Yeah, I always thought that about it.
'I don't like you enough to pay for you to be there for the dinner but you can come along later and spend your own money if you like.'
We're inviting around 60 to the evening I think. I agree that it's a bit silly but it's better than no invite at all I guess. I hate wedding parties.
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