How much did you spend on your wedding?

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Subject_Beginning_16@reddit

Around £17k with a designer wedding dress (bought off the rack Milla Nova), 40 guests, unlimited alcohol, lots of food and we also provided accommodation for everyone. Beautiful day ☺️ It was a June wedding but it was raining/lighting!

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nude1997@reddit

Well… 50k or so

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knotatwist@reddit

What currency?

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nude1997@reddit

American Dollars. It was extreme estimate.

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knotatwist@reddit

Seems a tad unfair given this is a British sub and you didn't include a currency indicator. £50k is extremely high for UK weddings £37k is still high but more "normal" given £30k is not an unusual amount to spend anymore.

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nude1997@reddit

My fault I can’t read 🤯

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Emberpelt@reddit

Wow, was that a lot to you? Would you change spending so much?

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nude1997@reddit

No. Actually I’d spend more so more peeps could come. It was on the Jersey shore

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heretolurkb1tch@reddit

Just under 15k

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heretolurkb1tch@reddit

100 people to the evening, back in August. Fed everyone

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VariableHawk@reddit

Between £500-£600. Registry office fee, 2 titanium rings and lunch for the 2 witnesses after. Wore clothes we already owned. This was in 2013.

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dontmeltplastic@reddit

£5k - only had immediate family and close friends, hired a private chef, it was perfect.

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TinyDistance@reddit

£1.2k with 12 guests. We got married while we were on holiday, which was about 1k on top of that for a 1 week holiday with lots of treats. It was such a lovely day and week, and I wouldn't have it any other way. When I was getting into the wedding planning I could see how all the costs could build up. I kept feeling like we needed more and more things to make it look like what a "wedding should look like", but none of it was necessary in the end. I've told few people about my wedding day, it's nice talking about it!

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hickyfromkenickie@reddit

Spent £15k for about 80 people in London in 2022, depressing to think how much money that is and that is SO CHEAP for what a lot of weddings cost

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Far_Growth_9617@reddit

I don’t know how so many people in this thread have managed to spend so little! Unless they’ve had registry office weddings or haven’t included every single thing?? We kept a a meticulous spreadsheet and everything all in (including honeymoon) was £48k. We did have 87 day guests and 130 evening guests and it was a bank hol mon in August however it was a late availability deal so we got the venue package for cheaper than it would normally be. I’d say it was a normal wedding, not budget but not extravagant either. We DIY’d pretty much all the decor and got a lot of things second hand like crisp wall (as we didn’t have canapés) off Facebook marketplace! We tried to keep costs as low as possible and it was still that expensive by the time everything added up.

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Jemma_2@reddit

I think most people don’t include the cost of a honeymoon in their wedding costs, as that’s a separate thing. Ours cost us about £20k but there was another £5k of costs added on that we didn’t pay for, so £25k altogether. The main difference to yours is the venue cost, which was a last minute deal for a bank holiday Sunday in April and was £6.5k for 60 day guests and 20 additional evening guests. Our cost for additional guests was similar to yours, maybe a bit more. We had 100 day guests and less than the 20 additional evening guests that were included in the package. But our cost was pre Covid as we were supposed to be April 2020 (delayed to April 2022) so I suspect a lot of that increase is the Covid price hike.

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itsallconfetti@reddit

Wow! I have to say I’m really surprised by that number. I know people in the UK who’ve gotten married at estates (south west) & rented the entire accommodation for a couple days for half that budget 😳

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HirsuteHacker@reddit

There is no world that a 48k wedding in the UK is 'normal', that's a very expensive wedding

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Far_Growth_9617@reddit

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Far_Growth_9617@reddit

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Moment_13@reddit

I love the spreadsheet! A lot of it comes down to personal priorities. For example these jumped out to me: - With alterations, veil and shoes you've spent over £2k on your wedding dress. For me, I couldn't bear to spend that much money on something I'd wear for only a few hours - £800 on gifts for bridal party. As much as it's nice to thank them, this is a big expense most people wouldn't spend - Nearly £3k on photography/videography - Having to spend £2k on decor when you're paying £17k for the venue is a big chunk on top I'm sure your day looked absolutely stunning and your guests would have had a great time, but it's absolutely possible to do a wedding for less. We spent £5k for our church wedding and reception at the community centre. We had £10k saved but it was more important to us to get on the property ladder so we didn't want to use all of it on the wedding. For £5k we still got married, our 80 guests had plenty of food, we had bottles of prosecco on the tables and the venue had a bar if they wanted to buy drinks, we had music and dancing and a great time.

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DustInTheMachine@reddit

To me there's so much unnecessary extras on there (all the presents and the photobooth) HOWEVER. I'm not hating, I love a good wedding and you clearly took care of your guests. It's all about individual choice isn't it. I do think that the wedding industry can suck you in (not you personally, a general "you") and make you feel like certain things are non negotiable, when in reality there's so much added, unnecessary faff. If I had invited my whole family it would have been over 200 people, husbands side would add another 150. With 4 kids at home (blended family) there is no way we could justify that cost. We decided to do the best of the best for our budget, no skimping for 26 guests in regards to food and drink. I think the total was around £3k in the end. We also spent £1k on nice hotel rooms for the 6 of us (so 3 seperate rooms) I made my own flowers, buttonholes and table flowers. We hired a newly qualified Photographer £700. I hired a bog standard taxi to take me to the town hall and husband walked with his groomsmen (our sons!) Our outfits were from Monsoon and Next with ebay purchases for accessories (ties, tiara etc). Bridesmaids dresses from ASOS and ebay (flower girl) My daughter's friend a trainee makeup artist did our makeup (bride, 2 bridesmaids and mum of bride) for £500. We did our own hair. Liverpool Town Hall (stunning venue) was not expensive - ceremony only but under £500. We were restricted to when we got married as my dad's attendance was the most important and time and health was against him unfortunately. This also helped soften the blow to those not invited, as they understood the situation. We did say we'd have an evening do for everyone at some point but it never happened. Maybe we'll do a vow renewal at 10 years and have a big party.

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ThisIsSpata@reddit

Your cake and band hire were very cheap! Also nice job doing a spreadsheet, love that!

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EntrepreneurAway419@reddit

Because everyone on reddit has to be in the race to the bottom and shit on anyone that enjoys their time or money.

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chewmypaws@reddit

Because you don't need to spend thousands.

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Far_Growth_9617@reddit

I agree that weddings ‘can’ be done cheaply, especially if you’re happy with a small registry-office ceremony and a more casual celebration afterwards. And clearly that is the case based on a lot of the responses I see here. It just surprises me as I know the cost of the average wedding is £25,000-£30,000. For us, it was really important to have our friends and family there, and to be able to properly host them, especially as many people were travelling to be with us. We wanted to feed them well and thank them for being part of such an important moment in our lives. In the UK you also can’t legally get married just anywhere, it has to be in a licensed venue. It’s cheaper to get married at a registry office than a licensed venue, but they limit numbers, hence why we needed to get married at a licensed venue that was wasn’t a registry office, which all come with significant costs of thousands to hire and feed guests. The council registrar (who does the legal part and is only there for the 30-minute ceremony) costs around £700 alone. So while low-cost weddings absolutely exist, once you start factoring in guest numbers, food, and a licensed venue, the costs do add up pretty quickly, at least in our experience. Like I said we DIY’d most things and the cost was still astronomical (£38k all in). But we did have a summer wedding with lots of guests which I appreciate inflates the cost.

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Jasboh@reddit

I think this kind of thread just attracts people on either end of the scale. I had a cheap wedding but the majority of weddings I've been to were not cheap.

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ghcfc88@reddit

You can get legally married anywhere in Scotland, which helps to save a bit of ££

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Far_Growth_9617@reddit

I didn’t know that! We are in England

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AccidentalNapper@reddit

We spent £150 because we just went to a registry office with parents and children. That’s how you spend so little…….

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Muggerlugs@reddit

That’s literally what they commented… “unless they’ve had a registry office wedding”

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AccidentalNapper@reddit

Yes? I’m literally confirming that you can spend so little with a registry office wedding?

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Waste_Kangaroo2214@reddit

The prices in your spreadsheet look about standard tbh. We did a casual registry office/ pub wedding but when we were considering more traditional wedding reception venues the costs were totalling £30,000- £35,000 for 60 people so 48k makes sense for a larger summer wedding.

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itsallconfetti@reddit

Getting married in September but everything is already either paid for or booked with a deposit. Total in Bristol is £8k. We’re having somewhere between 30-40 guests. The £8k total is if all 40 guests come.

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coreant@reddit

35k maybe

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Infamous-Magician180@reddit

Married 12 years ago, spent £12k. We had 400 guests. Our food was the main expense, but they were just starting out and we got hot food for £10 a head. The venue was £250 for the whole afternoon/evening. The only thing I wish I’d paid more for was a professional photographer.

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Ok-Permit-5080@reddit

We eloped, but took a could have guests. £3.5k all in, including 3 nights in a verrrry nice hotel as our mini moon.

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Alternative-Bee2962@reddit

About 7k for 60 guests and was a register office as it was a civil partnership and then to a small venue for tapas and wine and then followed by a cheesy disco and tapas buffet in the evening. The food and wine was the bulk of that 7k and it was back in 2011, but we still had a decent day and was just sensible with what we spent and even though we separated 8 years after it was still the best day of my life and we are still best friends and still talk about it and have been separated for 6 years. You don't have to spend a fortune to have a great day

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Emberpelt@reddit

The £125 fee from the council, that was it.

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sparklescc@reddit

This and my 5£ on sale jumpsuit. 2 witnesses and they payed lunch for us

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Emberpelt@reddit

£5? Nice!! I can’t imagine the stress organising a big wedding.

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sparklescc@reddit

I have tried several times and then I start seeing the number and give up so just decided council

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MoonmoonMamman@reddit

£19k. Exclusive use country house, 110 guests, 2019

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AnimalcrossingWW@reddit

About £3.5k - we flew to vegas and eloped so that includes flights, hotel for a week, suit & dress etc

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Playful-Section-5401@reddit

Around £26k Saturday in September 2019. 120ish guests, stately home, band and expensive photographer.

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mumwifealcoholic@reddit

25 guests, 3 course meal, free bar,beautiful old water mill -3800GBP. Included a DJ for after party. Spent another 1200 on photography and a cake. My dress cost 80 quid from Monsoon.

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literallyspinach@reddit

About £11k, the wedding was May 2025. It was a great day.

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thethirdbar@reddit

£11k in 2013, which BOE calculator tells me is just under £16k in today money. 56 day guests +30 evening. The biggest expense was venue hire & catering - at Samlesbury Hall in Preston. Then photography, flowers, and venue dressing. Wedding & bridesmaids dresses were made by MIL, and wedding cake made by FIL, which saved costs - these can be quite pricey. That's excluding wedding rings and minimoon. We didn't have a honeymoon until the year after once we'd replenished some funds.

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SleepySloth2468@reddit

Question for everyone. Do you pay these costs upfront, ie do you need to have £25k etc in an account or do you pay it off monthly like a mortgage?

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RealSuPraa@reddit

stagnated! suppliers ask for deposits to secure the date. our venue was £10k and they did it in 4 payments of £2500 every 4 months

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mi_mi_75005@reddit

For all the vendors - photographer, venue, DJ etc - it was usually in 2 parts like a deposit first then the final payment a few weeks before the wedding. But yes generally you need all the money available to you because you're constantly having to pay for things as they come up

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RealSuPraa@reddit

ours is in about 14 weeks!, £21k we started the process in 2023 so plenty of time to save exclusive use of venue for 3 days (Friday-sunday) including use of 7 cottages to sleep 28 guests we charged our guests a small fee for their stay (around £200 per couple) and made back around £2.5k

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mi_mi_75005@reddit

We had a sunny Saturday wedding in November in central London. Fitzrovia Chapel with a string quartet, then lunch at a Syrian restaurant in Somerset House - this was for 47 day guests (we provided transport between the chapel and restaurant), then we had 50 / 60 extra evening guests join us at a pub we exclusively hired out near St Paul's Cathedral where we provided a buffet, arrival prosecco and some money was put behind the bar, late evening snacks too. There was a DJ & 2 dhol drummers to kick off the party, and we had a cake made from a lovely local baker. Between 16k-17k in total!

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mthemedic@reddit

8k, registry office wedding and village hall reception on the Dorset coast, had a blast. Village hall option in lovely location underrated I think! Also could bring as much food and wine as we liked and had option of very nice caterer.

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barrysxott@reddit

About two hundred quid mid week registry office two witnesses.

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mywingtips@reddit

£17.1k for a Sunday in June at an exclusive use castle. We had 45 guests & DIY’d the flowers/table decor/wedding cake to save money. We also waited 1 year until a summer weekend date became available on the castle’s ‘late availability package’, which saved us over 15k!

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ChocolateSnowflake@reddit

About £22K. Exclusive use Scottish castle. 65 guests.

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girlandhiscat@reddit

Same, London 2023. Spent £23k 65 guests.

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D3ad54M@reddit (OP)

When was this?

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ChocolateSnowflake@reddit

2023.

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Optimal_Cherry2846@reddit

20k, fun fact didn't even end up getting married 😂

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greenglossygalaxy@reddit

Yeesh, that’s a lotta bucks for it not to go ahead. I’m sorry - or not sorry - depending on how you feel about it!

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Optimal_Cherry2846@reddit

The financial loss was worth the emotional gain. Am now happier than I've ever been, thank you for your kind thoughts Reddit Stranger 😊

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MillyMcMophead@reddit

20k well spent then! Happiness is priceless.

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malin7@reddit

How?

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Optimal_Cherry2846@reddit

Called it off 28 days before, turns out most contracts require full payment if you leave it that late to change your mind 🤷‍♀️

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TheToolman04@reddit

About £6,500, was in a hotel with 100ish guest about 9 years ago. That included service, hall hire, catering and a bar/staff.

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TR_881@reddit

Destination wedding to NYC in 2018. £13k for rockerfeller rooftop ceremony and meal in nice restaurant for 13 people incl open bar. Didn’t pay for anyone to be there, people saw it as a bucket list holiday with a wedding tagged on. Would recommend.

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Obvious-Water569@reddit

We're starting to plan now too. Honestly I've been stressing about the cost because we don't have family chipping anything in and I'm the primary earner in the household, but my fiancee recently got offered an executive directorship at her work which will take the pressure off quite significantly. Still, we're not looking at a massively expensive wedding. We're exploring venues in Ireland that include a lot of services in the price such as flowers, photographer, ceremony and rooms. That's shaking out to be about £5000-6000. We expect two or three grand in additional costs like travel, food and drink, and miscellaneous expenses, then the same again for her dress, my suit and the rings. So all in, £15-17k

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SolentSailor@reddit

~£14k for everything. 2025 in Brighton with 44 guests for the ceremony and evening meal. Around 10-15 additional guests for drinks in the evening. Included accommodation for several people and breakfast the next day.

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Moment_13@reddit

We spent £5k on our wedding day in 2018. Late afternoon church wedding, followed by reception at the community centre with a huge buffet of food that we put on ourselves (mostly organised by my mum and aunt).

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CarelessTangerine185@reddit

£7k all in. April 2022, all in one venue, 50 guests, everything was as homemade as possible (cake, flowers, favours). Dress was from wed2b. Suits were just what everyone had already, but bought buttonholes and pocket squares.

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reggie_doodle@reddit

Less than £5000 for everything including dress/suits. Had a registry office ceremony on the Friday with immediate family and then a meal in a local restaurant. Had an evening reception on the Saturday where we put on an open bar and a serve buffet. This was 2022 and in Scotland in case that’s relevant. Got to wear my dress twice too which was nice!

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StraightDesigner2360@reddit

About 60k 🫣 170 guests on a Sunday in April 2024 at a stunning Cotswolds venue

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buginarugsnug@reddit

I made a detailed post on mine here [https://www.reddit.com/r/Weddingsunder10k/comments/1kwjun0/breakdown\_for\_my\_early\_may\_2025\_uk\_wedding\_12k\_35/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Weddingsunder10k/comments/1kwjun0/breakdown_for_my_early_may_2025_uk_wedding_12k_35/) You might also find r/UKweddings and r/weddingplanning helpful :)

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Wishmaster891@reddit

12k - 2023

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Seriously_oh_come_on@reddit

18k. 110 people. Wedding venue/GC near York. 2016.

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Flaky-Walrus7244@reddit

A few hundred pounds. Courthouse wedding, dress from a regular store, dinner at home with friends and family.

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Hopeful_Neat_8706@reddit

£18k 120 guests all day, Scottish highlands community hall

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Pyriel@reddit

2011, £6k all-in, including the hire of two castles, dress, suits, limo and the honeymoon.

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Jenpot@reddit

£16k. 20 guests at the ceremony, another 20 at the evening reception. We paid for our honeymoon with the money we got from folks as wedding gifts, wouldn't have gone otherwise. Our biggest expense was the venue and food (which was amazing). 16k seems like an insane amount to me and it took us years and years to save that up.

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DustInTheMachine@reddit

2023 - £6k. 26 guests, town hall ceremony and then a sit down 3 course meal with free-flowing booze, no evening reception (although a handful of us carried on into the night in the local city) 2014 - my brother spent £26k on a huge wedding. They divorced in 2020. My brother's experience realy put me off spending silly amounts on "the perfect day". We actually went a grand over budget with ours, but that was on fancy hotel rooms 😂

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Prana_ceramics@reddit

We’re spending 15k in Bristol, 100 guests

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HonkyBoo@reddit

3k. Small ceremony with 15 people on the Friday, and bought them all dinner at a local restaurant. Big party at a local venue the next day for the rest of the family and friends, paid for the first round of drinks.

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frenchbread07@reddit

We booked in September for an April wedding, last min availability (3k) but total price is 4.6k for nice chairs and 50 day guests, this price also includes additional 30 guests for food, we are only having an evening buffet, total cost will be around £9.5K all in photographer, cake, DJ, dress…etc

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frenchbread07@reddit

This is also for Good Friday!

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decentlyfair@reddit

Eloped to Gretna. With two night hotels (very nice ones), wedding dress and suit from tailors, rings, meal for two, photographer about 8k ish

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PM-me-puppietax@reddit

Planning ours for this year. Work in events full time so have a good idea. Attempted to make it under 20k with favours but real work its gonna be closer to 30. Shit is really expensive

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MiChiMad@reddit

I’m in the same situation, working in events I thought I’d be able to really stretch the budget more effectively than people who don’t organise events of that size/type, and finding the wedding tax on venues/vendors etc is very real.

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Theviolette13@reddit

28k last year for 95 guests

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nowtoriginaltoday@reddit

About £12k. We had 20 day guests and one table for our wedding breakfast and then an additional 50 guests join us in the evening. The venue and food made up £8k and the rest is all extras like photographer (£700), registrars (£600), rings (£500), flowers (£300), dresses, favours etc. In addition to that we had a free bar and my Dad insisted on picking up the tab and that was £2k. The receipt was longer than me at 5ft 2. You can make savings where you need to. My dress was £150 bought online, our cake was £85 made by a friend, I made all the invites and printed them off at work, cost me about £10 with postage. My friend had a cake topper for her wedding that I really liked, she paid £250 for it, I made my own version for £12. No idea why our photographer was such a steal though, she was fabulous. All people remember is the food, drink and music. Don’t worry about silly extras that don’t make a difference at the end.

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Mikon_Youji@reddit

Roughly 7k. We had the ceremony at a registry office and then the reception at a golf club.

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GotAnyNirnroot@reddit

About £37k, in 2024. 80 day guests, further 40 evening guests. My wife paid half of it with inherence, and our families paid 10k each. For that reason I let my wife choose the wedding she wanted, because it was way more important for her.

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Beevershot@reddit

Seriously, elope. Get married at City Hall for $100 or so, then have a party for family and friends. It cost us $35 thousand all totalled without the honeymoon and that was about 20 years ago and I did my best to budget. Put the money towards a house. People that love you will understand and those that don't are entitled and selfish. Your most important people can be with you at City Hall or justice of the peace. Church weddings are ridiculous, overpriced and have to marry on their schedule.

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HirsuteHacker@reddit

City Hall? This is the UK. And OP never said they were looking for a cheap wedding. We spent £18.5k and felt ours was worth every penny

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Beevershot@reddit

That's nice for you. I'm sure it was worth every penny or schilling. When it really comes down to it, it's a big party for everyone else's benefit. I'm only advocating for keeping things simple and walking away from a nonsensical industry that overprices everything. Having a wedding with 135 people (like I did) was nerve wracking, filled with other people's drama, and it didn't have to cost so much. It was a great day, people still talk about it, but it was only a few hours for the cost. What's important is the love that is shared and some people as witness to an important step in life's journey. Have a big party, make it a destination, but the minute you mention wedding, the price jumps 30% at least.

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qt_31415@reddit

£45k, Saturday in August 2024, 115 day guests + 30 evening guests with open bar in the evening and accommodation for 16 people. Best day of our lives.

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sparklybeast@reddit

£7k back in 2005 (country house with 60 guests & live band) and then £500ish in 2014 for a registry office with four guests, existing outfits, supermarket flowers and a meal at a local restaurant.

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swordofthecross@reddit

4 family or very close friend weddings in the last 2 years so let me give a few examples: Sister-in-law - 100 guest DIY wedding at a rural lakeside gazebo venue in wales - 8k in Aug 2024 (mid-week) - mostly comprising food, registry / ceremony fees, dress, Suit hire, and band. everything else from decorations to invites to flowers was DIY Brother-in-law - 70 guest chain hotel wedding in the south but outside London - 15k in May 2026 (Saturday) - mostly comprising hotel fee, food, dress and suit hire, DJ, etc, Me - 70 guest upmarket barn venue in East Anglia - 30k in May 2025 (Friday) - mostly comprising venue fee and 4 course fine dinin (12k combined), clothing, cocktail hour, DJ, decor, etc. Close friend - 80 guest upmarket stately home venue just outside London - 50k in July 2026 (Saturday) - mostly comprising venue fee, 3 course fine dining, band, clothing etc. Obviously you also have the registry office only option (which Reddit loves), but hopefully these are some representative examples for if you do want to do a proper day.

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Dramatic-Ad-4607@reddit

Almost 4k May just gone on our 15 year anniversary. It may not seem fancy or anything but it was still the best day of my life and we managed to get everything we wanted to do put together for that day. Thought we would of had to spend about 15k at first until we went another way and cut back. We had a lot of help from family (Aunty is a chef so discount on the food, Godfather works with fancy cars so got a discount, mum knew our dress maker so got a very nice discount, aunty is a professional hair dresser so did my hair for free, friend of the family was an ex photographer and wanted to get back into it so used us as a test to see how they would do so only charged us £120 for the photos and printed them off for us in a lovely album and put them on a memory stick)

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HirsuteHacker@reddit

We spent about 18.5k last March, if you want I can give you our full cost breakdown

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ccaaaaa@reddit

~£2500 - Monday registry office wedding and then afternoon with 7 guests. Hotel night before and night after. Mostly just wanted to get married and have some really nice photos. £1000 dress, £500 photographer, £200 makeup and hair, £180 hotel. £150 registry fee, £300 afternoon tea, £200 other meals days before and after.

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juicynugget@reddit

About £20k. Small wedding with just 12 people in the UK, that was about £6.3k. Then a bigger wedding abroad in Europe with about 110 people, around £13k. We paid for all of them to stay in the hotel, bridesmaids, family etc we covered for 2 nights. Honeymoon was £9k. No regrets, we were ready to spend that if it meant getting everyone together and doing the things we’ve always wanted. Many things in my home country we DIYed or we used friends etc, so was cheaper than it would have been otherwise. Separate to that, in my culture people gift you money so all of this ended up being covered by gifts, including the honeymoon, with money left over too. When we go to weddings we gift money as well and so on. This is just how it’s done and I find it a very cool tradition that enables people to make their dream day come true.

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PamVanDam@reddit

<£3k, eloped to New York, biggest spend was on a decent photographer, did a little mini moon in Toronto and had a fab two weeks making it just about the two of us. No stress.

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Top_Opening_3625@reddit

£5000 on absolutely everything clothes, rings,food, make up and venue etc. We did a much shorter ceremony but had a lovely time. I hated the venue but it was the only thing o could find for the number of guests we wanted.

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Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit

Mine was about £17-£18k. Sunday in April. Exclusive venue. ~45 daytime guests. ~65 evening guests. 3 piece band in the evening.

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Rymundo88@reddit

That's a mental price for April to be fair. Must have been quite the venue

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Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit

It was a beautiful venue. But the vast majority of the price was not the venue tbf. Live band was a decent bit, as was the registrar and hair & makeup

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strawberrypops@reddit

We eloped. The wedding stuff itself came to around £1200 but, since we made it one big holiday, flights and a hotel took it to around £5000. We could have spent more but we wanted to run around sightseeing and doing touristy stuff so saved our money for that!

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PrimeWolf101@reddit

£20k, last August. Had it at a purpose made venue, provided wedding breakfast and pizzas in the evening and had 75 guests. Main expenses were the venue £9k, food £3.5k, toasting drinks plus table wine £1.5k, decoration and flowers £1.2k and photographer was 1.7k. Everything else just kind of adds up, rings, outfits, accommodation, DJ ect

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death-in-tipton@reddit

2022, West Midlands safari park/springgrove house. 35 day guests/3course meal and drinks package. Evening 100 guests,hot buffet and disco/ live singer. Stay in the cheetah lodge cost 7k .

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Rymundo88@reddit

£5k and had the appearance of a wedding more than thrice the price. Haggled the shit out of Bham County Council We spent the difference on our honeymoon. Absolutely zero regrets.

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Neither_March4000@reddit

£150......Registry office, no cars, dress, fancy clothes, no guests, no photos, no flowers, no rings , no stress, no aggro, no expense , no nuffin. Then the pub for pie and chips with out witnesses, loads of beer and a good time was had by all 😁

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Realistic_Rest_8529@reddit

Destination wedding to Mexico. 2018 15 people adult only 5* hotel Around £6k for the set package including two week stay. Added around 7k of extras. Then dresses, suits etc around £2.5k. Two bridesmaids and paid for dresses, hair and makeup. Boys bought their own suits but we paid for ties and shoes. So around £15.5k We had a party when we came home which cost around £5k (we had a proper wedding cake which cost a bit because in Mexico it was £400 for a one tier basic 😅)

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destria@reddit

This was 3 years ago, we spent about £20k total.

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UniqueTart6744@reddit

About $200 maybe? We got married in my living room with my roommates as witness and priest. This was in 2003. We spent maybe $125 on rings. The rest is the marriage license and dinner at Denny’s afterwards! Currently on a very happy 23rd year of marriage!

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Realistic-Muffin-165@reddit

Think we were a few hundred quid. Similar deal to yours (we went to a local pub/hotel so a bit more upmarket than Dennys)

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straightnoturns@reddit

Thankfully only £5k. The day just goes insanely fast and now I’m divorced 3 years later.

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JoeDaStudd@reddit

£10k which included £2.7k for the honeymoon. It was June 2024 It was a church wedding, a nearby pub with private oak building for the day reception, evening was a local village hall.\ DIYd a fair bit of the decorations and flowers, but spent a bit more on a good photographer and a local jeweller custom making the bands.\ Looking over the spreadsheet we could have done it healer but we spent money where needed. Parents of the groom paid for the entertainment and the brides family paid for the dress and some extra desserts at evening.

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greenglossygalaxy@reddit

£5k - the rest £10k was gift by family members upon our engagement. I’ll remain forever thankful.

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Naive-Interaction567@reddit

£3.5k. We had a tiny church wedding with 30 guests and we hired a restaurant afterwards. This was a few years ago.

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nirvamy@reddit

We made £20 on our wedding! Local church, reception in my garden and post reception at the beach

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Bunnora@reddit

Approx £7k-8k in 2018, if you include the honeymoon which was more than half of that cost (and the best bit!). 20 people, ceremony and 3 course meal at a nice hotel.

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Browbeaten9922@reddit

I think was about 7k but that was abroad. Probably woulda been 20k here. That was for about 70 people.

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murderino767@reddit

£10,000. Legal Marriage at the registry office on a Friday. Village hall hire from Friday - Sunday for the celebrant ceremony and party. £10,000 included everything you can think of for a wedding… food, photographer, band etc etc.

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Lazy-Kaleidoscope179@reddit

£5k

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rbbt456@reddit

About £6k but that was 15 years ago! We got married in a small church. Rented goods shed of a railway museum for the reception. Lunch was buffet hog roast. Rented tables and chairs and had to lay them out myself. Decorated venue ourself with friends. Hired Beatles tribute act for evening plus mobile bar. Friend did evening catering. Best wedding ever!

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MDL1983@reddit

£5k, maybe £6k max. Including our flights / hotel for a week abroad

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Big-Cockroach-6875@reddit

Either a bit more or a bit less than £10k (in 2016) depending on whether you include the honeymoon

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AlertWorldliness2238@reddit

Less than £200. I wasn't prepared to pay an insane amount of money for a day

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Intrepid_Bearz@reddit

Around 1k We had a registry office do, 2 witnesses. Biggest expense was our suits. We thought it would be nice for it to just be about us and not have the stress of family and friends to feed, water and accommodate. We did intend to spend 15k on multiple wedding receptions in different parts of the country, but Covid arrived so that got cancelled and saved us the expense.

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vestibulepike@reddit

£25k including the honeymoon, in central London, we had a town hall ceremony and museum reception. It was an evening cocktail party.

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