How Much Are You Paying For Your Venue?

Wow you are getting a lot for your money!!

How many are you having during the day, if you don't mind me asking?

ETA: We are spending £3,000 and that is 150 guests @ £20 per person for a welcome drink and high tea and evening buffet - no toast drinks package as yet, but I am working on it with OH.......

Ours is costing £4200, for 65 guests, 3 course wedding breakfast, drinks package and the evening buffet.

Bridal Suite B&B and all the usual inclusions

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50. We were meant to be paying £5000 for 60 guests but when the venue foound out that we only wanted 50 guests and that another venue were willing to cater for that number she offered us the £4000 price and chucked in the bridal suite for an extra night plus the room for my H2B.

We are on a tightish budget an so we have opted for hiring the Town Hall (which is beautiful) and getting an outside caterer and bar in.

Costs:

Hall Hire = £450

Caterer (3 course meal for 92 guests and night buffet for 170) = £2727

Table drinks = £300

Total = 3477

Wow you have all done really well! We wrote off a 3/5 course wedding breakfast because we couldn't justify the expense, but that said, we would have 150 day guests so perhaps we were right to do so. Hmm, makes me wonder at the 6.5 month mark, which is not good.... ?

Saturday in July Ours is £6000 Which includes.... Exclusive use of the grounds Hire of the WHOLE building for 24 hours DJ 3 course wedding breakfast and drinks on arrival, 2 with breakfast and champers for the toast Evening Buffet Table Centre pieces Free night in the honeymoon suite Free overnight stay & Meal on the first anniversary Glass tea light holders and tea lights, Menus Table numbers, Place cards Table plans and all 52 en suite rooms to give out to guests with full english breakfast the following day. glass tea light holders and tea lights, a menu, a table number, place cards and a table plan.glass tea light holders and tea lights, a menu, a table number, place cards and a table plan. And use of the silver cake stand and knife and some other bits and bobs

Wow Mooey80 you are getting a really good package there.

We are paying £75.00 per head for 50 guests, we get canapes, reception drink, 3 course meal and 1/2 bottle wine per person and 1 glass of Lanson champagne for the toast and coffee. We also have to pay £17.95 per head for the evening buffet for 80 guests. All the decorations, flowers and chair covers are down to us to provide. They wanted £500 for the ceremony room!! but we got it knocked off and 10% discount on the rooms. We reserved 20 rooms at £72 and any not taken we will have to pay for.

We also get red carpet, cake stand, co-ordinator on the day and bridal suite.

They also take £1000 deposit in case of any damage to the property and fittings by our guests.

The reason we really love the place though is because we have the whole house and gardens exclusively until Sunday afternoon so will be totally private, and some places wanted £1000's on top of the package price just for exclusivity in our area so seemed a fair deal.

We're paying £9167 for the venue (was £8000 for 80 guests but we wanted extra so they are at a lower price per head as are on top of the package) on a Saturday next January for this we get

• hire of the whole venue for the day
• wedding co-ordibator
• 3 course meal
• reception drink, toast drink and wine with meal (1/2 bottle per guest)
• Evening DJ
• Buffet in the evening (package allows us to go up to 150 guests inc in price)
• master of ceremonies
• table plan and menu's- table linnen etc.
• cemermony room decorations inc chair covers for the ceremony
• cake stand and knife
• If the accomodation is fully booked by the wedding party (will be as most of my family is from up north and we are in kent) free bridal suite

wow you have a really good deal there!! where are you getting married??

Our wedding venue is £450. We have full use of the whole house for 3 hours so plenty of time for photos, canapes and drinks afterwards, hopefully the weather will be nice as the house has a beautiful garden with waterfall. Because it dates back to the early 1500's you cannot hold a reception there but luckily our local inn is not charging us any hire for their restaurant. This has helped us loads because it means we can treat everyone to a lovely 3 course meal and drinks. ?

We've got a package for £7750 for 75 guests (sunday 29th July) which includes:

3 course wedding breakfast

Cake stand and knife

Our bridal suite for the night

Exclusive use of the venue

Hire of venue for 24hrs

Personalised wedding breakfast menus

All bedrooms allocated to us, upto us to give them out.

Master of Ceremonies

Membership into the bridal club for discounts on dresses etc

Venue's costs for Civil ceremony

Drinks included which works out at 3 glasses of wine and a sparkling wine to toast

Hog roast for the reception

Dj

Chair covers

Think i've missed something.

You are definetly getting a good deal there!!

ours is £4000 for the venue alone! we dont really get anything included in that just exclusive use of the venue.

We are then looking at another £4500 for catering and probably £1000 for drinks!

like i say you have got a really good deal!

xxx

We don't have exclusive use of the hotel though...

Wowsers everyone's got some really good deals there!

Mine is costing £3k. And for that I get...erm... free use of the toilets? lol. On a more serious note, thats just the venue charge, and included in that is all linen, cutlery and glasses, a few flowers I think.

Catering is on top of that, and ranges between £50-80 per head depending on what we go for food wise (but we won't choose that until next year I don't suppose, so won't know full price til then). Evening buffet will be a further £8ish per head. They don't provide any alcohol (I don't think), so we do that ourselves but there is no corkage fees which is quite good I think... Also its exclusive use, and an August saturday wedding.

And this was one of the cheaper venues near us! ? But for us, its exactly what we wanted, if a little more than we were expecting to pay...

We are paying £4600 for 100 guests in the day (welcome drink, 1/2 bottle of wine with meal, glass of champagne for toast, 3 course meal) + 180 guests fish & chips in the evening. That also includes all the tables, chairs, table cloths, runner and matching napkins, an outdoor bar for guests while we have our photos done and the and the DJ in the evening. I think it's a pretty decent bargain!

Our venue cost £2500 just for the hire charge, but it is all ours all night and we also get it for a few hours on Friday to set up and a few hours on Sunday to clean up.

In total our wedding looks to be costing around £12-13k, but I think we're getting a fair amount for that... firstly it's in London, which bumps all the prices up, and then we're having a 3-course sit-down meal for 220 people, 2 Routemaster buses for transport, and all the other bits and bobs included... cake, photographer, DJ, dress, suits etc.

Village hall - from 7ish on fri till 12pm on sunday (allowing set up and cleaning) for the grand total of £385 including cutlery and some crockery (having paper plates as we don't want the washing up!) spending £800ish on food for 55 and about £500 on booze and drinks saturday un august

Hi

What a good threat, think its interestin to see the prices differ from different parts of the county, ours is in Sheffield, £4800, thats for 75 day guests, 3 course meal, 150 evening guests and buffett, a 4 drink per guest package, including champers, bridal suite, rooms for parents, toast master, menus, place cards, cake stand...

Sarah

Our package is £5000 for 60 guests, this includes venue hire, red carpet (!), cake stand and knife, setting up, linens, reception drink, 3 course dinner, toasting bubbles, 1/2 bottle wine per person, evening buffet for 75% of guests, MC (general manager!) and bridal suite for the night.

Any day guests over this are charged at £65 per head.

Our venue is costing £6000: Master of ceremonies, Venue hire, canapes, welcome drinks, 3 course meal with half bottle of wine, champagne for toast x 80 guests,evening buffet for further 80 guests, bits and bobs like candelebras mirror plates, place cards, table plans. My venue is exclusive use and there is a further £1700 to book all rooms, we haven't decided if we're going to help guests pay for their rooms or not yet?

Ours is £4800 for the venue, that is the hire of the whole house and grounds etc from the Friday to the Monday. Its a large house with plenty of rooms for guests to stay for the weekend. We have hired in our own caterers which is good so we can use one we know . We our having family to stay for the weekend , the wedding on the saturday and a get together lunch on the sunday ?

Ours is £2500 and that is for wedding breakfast (3 courses) for 42 guests and an evening buffet for 120 people (thats including the 42 ceremony guests).

But can anyone help (sorry to hijack the post) - what are people having for evening buffets? We want something thats not too fancy (im from a family of farmers lol) but will look lovely, taste great, kids will love and wont break our budget, we are on a bit of a tight one x

Ours is £1500 for venue- including red carpet, linen,cutlery, cake stand and knife, exclusivity of the venue, silver service.

We are having a total of 80 guests for the day ceremony and wedding breakfast and around 120 people for the evening reception.

Then on top we are paying £24 a head for 3 course wedding breakfast (we managed to haggle and cut the costs dramatically!) Then evening reception we are having a hog roast- £10.50 per person and only being charged for 75% of the guests attending.

This was one of the cheaper places for us to have our wedding- and for us one of the nicest! ?

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Thats a really good deal- mine's pretty simular but twice the price (details are earlier in the post) we're in Kent and I just checked our venue and even for a mid-week wedding the min price is £5500- I'm beginning to think I should have gone back to Newcastle (where i'm origionally from) the budget would have went a lot further!!

We're in Oxford and have the village hall from 9am Friday til 11.45pm Sunday for £600, that's for the bank holiday weekend in August. We only get tables and chairs included for that, we need to hire all our cutlery and crockery etc in through our caterers. Hence our catering quote for 80 people is about £2500 for all the equipment, staff, canapes, BBQ, berries to go with our wedding cake for pud and evening buffet of cheeses, crackers, chutneys and pate etc. Still need to buy the drinks and decorate the place on top of that too!

We're paying just under £5000 (about £4800 I think but I need to check) for a Sunday in May and for that we get:

Room hire for the ceremony

3 course wedding breakfast plus coffee for 65 guests

Drink for after ceremony, 2 glasses of wine, sparkling wine for toast and water for each guest

Evening buffet for 120 people

Bridal suite and champagne breakfast for us

Family suite for me for the night before

White table linen, table plan, cake stand, etc.

We're paying £3990 for a Saturday in November and we get:

Exclusive use
The bridal suite
2 extra rooms for parentals (providing the other 10 rooms are booked which they will be)
Welcome drink
3 course wedding breakfast for 60
Half bottle of wine per person and glass of fizzy toast
Floral centerpieces and top table arrangements
DJ
Evening hot buffet for 100.

Hrm I think that's it. I've forgotten myself actually!

Ours is just a register office do, but done at the town hall. Cost us £150 for the ceremony itself, we have another venue for our meal, and our night time do again at another venue, only cost me £90 for the room for the night time do, thats the room hire and the owner decorates the room and stairs to co-ordinate with our colours. xx

We are paying £3k for a Friday in July

We getting venue hire for ceremony and reception

Flowers in room

Table linen and chair covers

DJ

Welcome drink

3 course Wedding Bfast for 40

Evening buffet for 80

Honeymoon suite

1st year anniversary meal and room

MC

think thats it ? There are some massively different budgets out there...wowsers

We live in Switzerland and hence are paying in Swiss Francs (around 1.5 CHF to the pound).

We have hire of the venue (may not be exclusive use - we are getting married in the stables, and the reception is in the wine cellar), including linens & tableware for 3,600CHF - around 2400GBP. We can have chair covers for an additional 400GBP, but that seems a bit expensive to me so I'm shopping around.

The catering is separate - they also provide the staff. I estimate that this will cost around 7,000CHF (~4500GBP) for a three course dinner. We are supplying our own booze which they will serve at no extra charge.

This is for around 100 guests.

Our venue costs were around £8k which was for

Room hire / ceremony costs

Drinks (Champers or half pint of beer) and canapes for 85 people

3 course meal x 85

1/2 bottle of wine each

Toast drink

Evening buffet x 120 (75% guests)

Bridal suite

The only cost I know so far is the marquee hire, which is £1,500.

We'll then have the costs of catering, table hire etc on top of that.

No venue hire fees, as the reception will be in the grounds of my fiancé's parents' house.

God you all sound like you got a good deal!

Our venue is £3500 just hire and tha it! We have to pay for food and drinks on top of that which we hopefully be arounf the £60 mark!