Cost!?!

What are you getting for £1,100?

I can completely agree with that which is why I am having a D.I.Y wedding and unless I'm asked I do not tell them what it is for and if I am asked I tell them it is for a family event and not a wedding. An example of this is I was looking for a caterer and my mum phoned a company and said it was a wedding and they wanted £80 a head I phoned not realising my mum had and said it was a family event and I was quoted £40 a head

Caterers? At £80ph?? Who are you using, Gordon Ramsay himself??

Mine's costing me £20ph for 3 course meal, coffee & evening buffet.

What were you getting for £1100?

We did ours ourselves, I know some people think the invitations are key and 'set the mood for the day' - personally, it's just an invitation, and I'm sure that most people won't even think to keep them after the event.

I know some of our HIBS are incredibly talented and can do them much better than I could ever have done so, but we kept it cheap and simple. Have you asked any of the HIBS for quotes?

70 Day Invitations

100 Evening Invitations

70 Order of Services

15 Menus

15 Table Numbers

150 Place Names

170 Thank You Cars

Yes there is a lot there but it still seems a ridiculous amount!!!

Our catering is costing about £30 p/h for a 3 course meal followed by coffee, bucks fizz on arrival, 2 glasses of wine and a glass of champagne then its about 14.00 p/h for the evening buffet with pasteries and additional meal platters and fruit platters

Eeeeesh that is shokcing of caters, it really shouldnt be allowed, a law needs to be made ?

where was that quote. theres a few online companies i have looked at that look really reasonable

Are you sure you need that many invitations? Remember, you only need one per couple/family.

It was a chain of the printing.com

Just double checked and I would really need 73 day invitations, ha. OH and I have decided to just invite our friends on there own instead of couples to the day time, as our numbers would just get even more out of hand so a lot of those invites will just be going to 1 person.

I have now found a caterer who is doing the whole thing for 3000 which includes hogroast and pudding for 120 and buffet for 200 and includes staff

Wow youre having a biiig wedding lol.

were having about 50 in the daytime and 60 or so in the evening. (some will go home after lunch)

I'm lucky im having 80 to the day do but only need about 40 invites, not sending them to the parents, my grandparents or any of the wedding party! so saving on them.

will prob have about 150 to the night so about 60+ invites!

Have you had a look on vistaprint you can play around with them and reword, change colours or design your own on their?

xx

I designed and will be making my stationary so far ive made 200 std although havent used them all and it cost me about 30. i cant remember the website but if you google handmade wedding invitation designs there is a website that send you the kits to make everything and works out about 3-4 pound an invite

150 - 160 to day time.... would like to squish that to 130, but budgeting on worse case

250 - 300 to evening... and again hoping that will be more 250

I budgeted for £300! ha ha ha, whoops! But I do think that would be possible with home made!

Unfortunately i have a huge family. my family alone comes to 34 and that done include bridal party and must have invites like godparents

that's expensive for home made. You could buy them done for that.

I totally agree here! When i was looking at TOGS one had two packages on their site:

birthday package - £350 ( bascially 5 hours with all photos on disk)

Wedding package - £1400 ( 5 hours with all photos on disk)

WTF!

where abouts do you live as my tog is 395 for 9 hours but has other packages too

that includes a pre-wedding shoot

£395 for a tog is a bargain, they all seem to start from £800 upwards in the North East!

Put like that i actually agree, thats actually less than what i am paying for my invites, then again im getting info cards and rsvp and enveloped in with mine

Didnt want to read and run (and ive been on the vino! well tis Friday!) but even as a HIB and having a shop the whole reason that I started Lilypond Weddings up was because of the extra cost that was added by the word wedding!

Obviuosly we need to make money but the amount of customers we have that say "omg I cant belive the price" makes me smaile evey time! I can still make a profit without taking the P%** and that is the whole point of Lilypond!

I got annoyed when i was getting married (twice now!) so i can happily say that what we charge for what we do is not only reasonable it is cheaper! Even though we have been here some 8 years my motto is still the same!

Do not pay over the odds just because the word wedding is involved!

Shop around, haggle, and stick to a budget!

We recently had a bride in that wanted an envelopment style with extra info sheets but didnt like any designs we had in the shop. I worked around her budget and she absolutely loved what we came up with and again couldnt believe that we did it within her price.

Ooh it does annoy me! (lol)

Andrea

Try ebay. There are some lovely ones on there and they are really cheap, and some are beautiful. We're getting ours on there for £1 an invite.

omg i just went to your site! i cant believe those prices! can the true love ones be made with orange ribbon?

Yes of course

Andrea@lilypond

It's going to be a while yet but if i send you the colour of my theme closer to the time its needed would you be able to match it as close as you can? im going to be showing mother when she gets in from work cos shes paying haha!!

Hehe! no problem, email me at ****************@*****.**.** and i will send you the address to send a swatch etc to.

Andrea@lilypond

Quote - Wedding Make-Up - For me, 2 BM's and MOB = £311.70!!!

They are wanting to charge £173.70 for travel, which is about 24 miles round trip, I know fuel is hight but that ridiculous!!!! What they coming by helicopter....

More hunting required ?