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Wedding Cost
garrardrj:
My daughter is getting married in 2019 around September . We will be paying for the day ourselves , the groom's side cannot afford to contribute. Anyone else had a situation like this ? Having had no involvement in my own wedding and the cost etc i was amazed at the cost of the venue hire ! Also the cost of catering for the wedding breakfast (Why is it called that?)
Anyway the reason for the post is what did your wedding cost and a brief outline of the type of location , ceremony , number of guests etc.......911 on hold again !
GTIEagles:
Subscribed to this post with interest, as I will be looking at getting married in the next few years. We will probably go for something modest though!
richtung:
We got married in 2014 so the experience is relatively recent.
Ours was a Chinese wedding so not comparable with your daughters (unless of course she is also having a Chinese wedding!).
You haven't asked specifically but one way to reduce costs is to have a wedding midweek. This seems to be more and more popular. Ours was on a Tuesday. We found the advantages to having a midweek wedding were:
1) More availability for venues, photographers etc etc
2) you can haggle (quite hard) on the price - most suppliers are twiddling their thumbs during the week which puts you in a decent bargaining position.
Hope this helps
Rich
Juliand:
More of an observation, based on relative's events.......Flippin loadsamoney. An outdated, over-rated waste of money for one day, is my opinion.
My wife and I paid for our own wedding, getting a loan. My wife's parents weren't well off, and I didn't think it fair to expect my parents to foot the bill under those circumstances at the time.
Much better to give them £10k as a deposit for their house, or pay off a chunk of their mortgage, if they already have one.
Unromantic, moi? - just being rational in the face of the reality that it's mega-money for just one day...... Party pooper, ha ha :indifferent:
rich83:
If she wants a big flash wedding then she needs to pay for it herself.... :wink:
At the end of the day you need to give them a budget. Anything over that then they can pay themselves. :happy2:
Or write them a blank cheque and get your pants pulled down.. up to you :signLOL:
I think ours was probably about 10k.... 70 guests. To this day, many of our friends and family still claim it was the best wedding they had ever been to.... I think we went to bed at 4am.... :drinking:
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