How are you paying for your wedding?

Not sure on total cost yet - about 11-13k I suspect. My Mum is giving me £5k at the wedding to get around inheritance tax laws (seriously look into this if your parents are giving you any money). OHs parents are giving £1k as this is what they have his sister for her dress. I didn't expect anything so am v grateful for the money. The rest I'm paying for myself (OH paying off debts instead so we can start married life with none of his debt left). I'm saving £600-800 a month for this. No idea how we're gonna pay for a honeymoon yet though, plan to ask for money for this as a gift and will either put on a zero % card or go a few months after the wedding.

Wedding should come to around 11000 then between 2 and 3000 for the honeymoon. OH's dad paid the 500 deposit on the venue, his mum and step are giving us 500 and my mum wants to buy my dress and accessories (around 600 to 800). OH's step dad used to be a baker and will make our wedding cake. I didn't expect any of this and am so grateful. We expected to pay for everything ourselves and budgeted for that.

100% paid for by us. It comes in at about 5.5k (we chose not to have an expensive wedding)

7k for the lot, were paying 2k the rest is split between our lovely parents.

Very lucky to have a professional cake maker a florists 2 hairdressers a pro makeup artist a card maker and we have bagged a be camper all for free!

It's all about who u know

I must be the only one who doesn't count my honeymoon as part of the wedding budget. In my head it's totally separate, and I explained this very important fact to my husband early on - honeymoon does not come out of budget!

We were very fortunate as hubby was in a position to pay for dream wedding - both our parents contributed around £5/6k each to whcih we were extremely grateful. Fortunate that we did not need it, but helped and both sets of parents would have been very upset at not being able to contribute.

Both sets of parents have very kindly given us £5k each. As our venue alone is £11k it basically pays for that which is fantastic!

My mum has also bought my dress for me so I'm very lucky :-).

It's totally separate. We had a big family trip earlier in the year so the honeymoon budget is modest. If I added it to the wedding budget I'd have started crapping myself about the cost and cutting out stupid things that I wanted, just 'cos I wanted them.

School boy error to count honeymoon in the wedding budget!

We will be paying for everything ourselves and have set our date for just over 2 years away to give us time to save.

I have no idea how much it will cost in the end but if we haven't managed to save the money then we will have to go without certain things on the day. Any extra money we save will go towards a honeymoon, otherwise we won't have one.

I made mrmini sell a kidney. Gave us a few grand and my lucrative sideline in taxidermy funded the rest.

Oh golly, my Boy could have got you a far higher price...

I see the honeymoon as separate! Well the mini moon (4 nights in a uk luxury lodge) is included, as its straight after the wedding, but we're hoping to go to Malaysia for our honeymoon, which we're hoping will partially be paid by any money gifts we get.

We're paying for it ourselves, we budgeted before we set a date so we knew how much we would have to set aside each month and how long it would take us to do it and not get ourselves into debt. OH is contributing slightly more per month than me as he earns double what I do. We didn't count on any help from family before before booking anything. Mum offered to pay for dresses but I don't think I will take her up on the offer because I know she often doesn't have much to spare to even treat herself and I'd rather if anything she could use that money to buy herself a nice dress to show off as MOB.

Buggertits. Bet your boy wouldn't have left him in a bath of ice either... Ah well hindsight is a beautiful thing.

I deal in drugs on a regular basis. It helps fund my wedding.

We're spending about £30k. My parents gave us £10k, my mum has paid for my dress (although I think she saved money from my nan when she passed away for this), OH's parents have given us £4k and the rest is coming from us.

The whole wedding including honeymoon will be £21k. My Mum and Dad have given us £10k and the rest i son us......whilst also saving a house deposit! xx

We paid for the whole lot ourselves. Think it came to about 10k, we saved up as we went along.

Ours will be just over 8.5k without honeymoon.

5.5k - ceremony and reception venue inc food and drink. PIL generously paid for this.

3k - dress, rings, DJ, TOG, BM dresses, registrar, Hair & MUA, favours, stationary, veil, shoes, flowers, centrepieces. We're paying this by saving our bums off. Honeymoon 1-2k will be paid by this too.

All the little bits and bobs we're paying out of wages.

Our wedding is coming in at around £14k at the moment.

We have been very lucky in having some generous donations from our family, OH's parents have given us £5k (the same as they gave his brother), my Mum and Sister have given us £1k, which was completely unexpected. These donations have just gone into the big wedding pot and haven't paid for anything in particular.

My Dad is buying all of our wine/fizzy stuff for our drinks reception, wedding breakfast and toast drinks. OH's Gran has paid for our wedding cupcakes. My Sister also wanted to pay for her own bridesmaid dress.

The rest is being paid for by us, we have a lodger and have been saving their rent since we got engaged which has helped, we have also used bonuses and each put a bit back from our wages each week towards the wedding.

I think the total for the day itself was between £12-14k. We spent another £5k on honeymoon but that was nearly a year later so I don't count it with the main wedding spend!

We paid for virtually everything. My BMs insisted on buying their own dresses, and my parents bought/hired their outfits themselves, which was very sweet of them. Our mums made the cake and my parents paid for the icing to be done by one of mum's friends. My parents paid for accommodation for them and the BMs for the night before and the night of the wedding. They had initially said they would pay for more - when I expressed some hesitation about inviting ALL my cousins, my mum insisted and said they would cover the cost of that, but then Dad lost his job unexpectedly and I didn't think it was right to ask for the money, so that's just been kind of brushed under the carpet now!

We're paying for everything ourselves. Neither sets of parents can afford to help us out, although OH's parents gave us a little money which they were going to give us for getting married so we could put as much deposit on our house as possible. We're saving everything we can afford to (not a lot!) and not going mad with stuff. As you may have seen in other posts, our budget is about £1500. I am getting £150 for helping another photographer photograph a wedding in August, so that will go in the fund too. Every deposit or payment from a wedding goes towards mine!

Currently it's 10k but who knows by the time I'm finished haha. We are paying for it ourselves.

i also don't count the honeymoon as part of the budget. We would love one and hopefully will have one but will just see what money we have left.

mil is kindly giving us 1k (I believe, but feel cheeky so am not counting this money in our budget), my parents paid our catering deposit for us. Mum has brought my dress but we are paying her back.

Some of you have very well off parents

My dad is putting in 1k and OH's parents we aren't sure waiting for an insurance endowment or something hoping its not too much. I didn't expect anything off anyone our wedding will cost no more than 5k, not using credit cards or loans unless absolutely desperate. I am one of these people that has never had handouts and saved for everything myself its makes me feel mortified that our parents want to contribute. OH says I am mad not to want to accept any help with paying for the wedding.

ahh but if they really want to, you should let them.

We were very fortunate as we did not need our parents' contribution, but it was somebody they both wanted to do and I know my parents would have been so upset at not being able to contribute. I would say let them if they want to.

I feel the exact same way. My parents have helped me out of a hole on several occasions in the past and I would hate the thought of taking any more money from them. H2B feels pretty much the same way. He's done well for himself with no help, financial or otherwise, from his family and kind of sees the wedding as a way to prove this to them.

Wedding/honeymoon is costing between 18-19K, I would estimate half of that is coming from our parents and just under half is savings. The rest has gone on credit cards when we paid the deposits and I bought stuff without bothering to pay it back. I dont think anything else is going on cards, there are a few more things to buy that we didnt budget for but all in all they arent expensive and will more than likely come in at £100 or less.

I havent however budgeted for shopping for my honeymoon but I wont be buying expensive stuff so it will be fine. I am certain if I asked my parents for an extra £100 they would happily oblige but I would prefer not to as I feel a bit bad as half of the expense is adding things that are not necessary!

I dread to think what our total spend is now, definitely hitting 20K or more without our honeymoon.

My parents gave us 10K, OH parents around 5.5K. We have put the rest in ourself.

Honeymoon we have paid for ourselves.

We are paying for it ourselves - so far have managed to save around 3k and haven't even thought of the honeymoon yet. Total cost looking like around 5k. Neither mine nor OHs parents are able to contribute, but we don't really care, just want everyone to be happy and well on the day.

I have £7-8000.00 coming from family and im trying to save with h2b as we speak we're aiming for about the £8000 mark to.
Although..........i told OH he could plan the honeymoon, £6000!!!!!!!!!!! I nearly hit the floor!!! so in total we need to save £14,000 in just over a year!!! I dont think ts going to be possible :/. we're at £3,500 so i think his weekend drinking habbits might have to go on hold and seriously budget our spending to nil. Live on bread and water for the next year lol....atleast i'll be thinner

My H2b parents are paying about 6k and my parents (who are seperated) are paying about the same between them. We are paying for our rings, honeymoon and loads of other stuff so probably a couple of thousand.

Mostly ourselves. My parents have gave us 2k towards the venue and half of my dress. My gran has gave us 100 as our present early. Then weve got a friend making the cake and a friend doing hair

At the moment we are planning on paying for it all ourselves, with the exception of my dress and the cake which my parents are sorting. None of our parents have mentioned money and nor will we be asking, if they want to offer then great so far the tally is about £11,000 not including the holiday....