cheapest wedding ever
About 90 quid for the licence/ceremony.
£220 for two rings (mine is steel and cost £30).
£60 for her dress.
Reception about £15 (cups of tea with cake on Brighton beach.)

I have a colleague who paid £10,000. He'll be paying it off for the next five years.
(frankspencer, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:01, 10 replies)

I like your style
I did very similar myself. With my (now) wife six months pregnant and a newly inhabited (much more costly) house we were in no position for anything lavish.

Same £80 - £90 for civil ceremony
£110 for her outfit (Including shoes)
£55 bouquet & button-holes (callah lillies sp?)
£180 for my new suit & shoes (suit worn at least 10 times since)
£1400 rings Both platinum with diamond in hers (figured I'd spend on these as they're the only things that we'll keep)
£95 round of drinks for guests at nearest bar to town hall.
£210 dinner, bed & breakfast in extemely posh country hotel.
All arranged in the space of 2 months, big day was 2 weeks after moving house too.

We were at one of her friends big posh weddings the other day. Total cost estimated £35k. The bride fell over at the reception breaking her arm and spent the night in casualty, had to cancel their honeymoon etc.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:12, closed)

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Thats funny thats just like the wedding I went to, in my reply to an earlier post.
It wouldn't have been the same wedding cos the one I went to was in Canterbury, but a similar idea.

I reckon there's money to be made in organising wedding days for £1000.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:17, closed)

Mine
Was organised in two weeks.
(frankspencer, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:23, closed)

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Actually you're right, hiring someone to organise your tea party reception defeats the object a bit, doesn't it.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:31, closed)

I'll see your two weeks and raise you!!
It was two months from deciding to get hitched until the day itself. After a quick count up, we only took one and a half days to make arrangements, it would have been less had things worked out differently.

I checked dates, spoke to her, called back to book the ceremony and arrange to post our bands (meet the registrar) one day at work.

We took an afternoon off when we went to post the bands (whatever that actually means) and went shopping for the rings afterward.

I found and booked the hotel for the wedding night one lunchtime at work.

We got both our outfits and the flowers the day before the wedding (took Friday off, got married Saturday).

Howzat?!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:57, closed)

Greencloud
It's the banns you post (notice of intention to marry) but posting bands sounds so much more fun!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Fri 4 Jan 2008, 17:38, closed)

We did it in 6 months
We got married in the Town Hall in the Old Town Square in Prague.
Total outlay £2000.

I always despair at people who pay a fortune for their wedding. It proves nothing. They spend two years planning this thing and when its all over they have no hobby left so they end up rowing.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 4 Jan 2008, 23:10, closed)

My small one...
...we only had a small wedding with a handful of guests at a registry office. We then followed it with a small reception in the toilets at McDonalds. I was taking a leak and suddenly the brides sister grabbed at my throbbing member whilst the new father in law started rubbing his balls over my nostrils...(sorry Frank - I'm getting withdrawal symptoms.)
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sun 6 Jan 2008, 15:00, closed)

Steady on FS...
At our wedding at Acton Town Hall no less: one ring bought for £5.00 from a stall in Ealing; licence? Can't remember paying for it; her dress was a white dress from Next...in the sale, think it cost about £25.00, I had on a charity shop suit and tie; reception? My Mum, Dad and one brother in a pub on the river at Hammersmith, my Dad asked for Champagne but it was the week after the Boat Race and they'd run out. I had a pint of Fullers; honeymoon? my Dad gave us £100 and we spent a couple of miserable nights in Bournemouth in the rain.

It was our 20th anniversary last year...
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 16:14, closed)

@Mrsliveinbin
...it depends if they live near a river I suppose.

Coat. On. Departs.
(Zutroy started without you, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 12:55, closed)