Wedding budget

Totally unrelated to our little ones but those who are married, how much did you spend and how many guests day and night did you have? I have been looking at getting married abroad as I thought it would be a lot cheaper and for a week all inclusive with met partner, 2 kids and the “wedding package” it’s actually looking at about 8-10k and due to my friends circumstances I know they would not be able to come. So it would literally just be very close family who attend (I know it’s about us but I like the thought of celebrating with everyone) We did view a couple of wedding venues at the end of last year but I found out I was pregnant during planning so that got put on hold! They ones I did view realistically were quoting 20-30k (30k quote was based on literally everything included - dj, flowers, the full shebang)

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Minus honeymoon was around £9/10k. 55 day guests and an additional 30 for the evening. Registry office, then travel to a hotel that did the food, both sit down meal and evening hot buffet. We had a live band. My cake cost the same as my dress and accessories 😂 (cheap dress/accessories, relatively expensive cake). It’s more of a faff but you definitely save by arranging things separately, e.g dj/band, flowers, etc as we had everything we wanted. This was 2021 for reference so am aware things are probably more expensive now.

We married in Cyprus and I think all in was about £12k. That was dress, 3x bridesmaids dresses, hair and make up, we paid for our own photographer and videographer to fly out. And a weeks holiday. This was 50 guests. I think the wedding package may have been about €6/7000. With venue hire, food, Photo Booth, DJ, flowers, cake, decor. The planners did everything for us in terms of the wedding itself. We just sent pics of what we liked. They were amazing as we got married mid pandemic (September 2020) so the only thing we had to worry about was getting there. The day itself was all them. And they did a perfect job 🥰

£15k for a church and reception 50 people £100 per head with all the trimmings.

80 day guests 150 evening guests Church wedding less than 10k

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