How Much Are You Paying For Your Venue?

We are looking at a friday in july 2013 at a venue near us

for £2995 we get:

Wedding cake by an award winning supplier in our area

2 bridal cars

top table and individual flower arrangements on each table

chair covers with co-ordinating sashes. white table linen and napkins

arrival canapes

welcome drink

full wedding breakfast inc tea coffee and tablet for 50 day guests

glass of wine and top up during meal

glass of bubbly for toast/speeches

dj

buffet for 100 evening guests

MC

red carpet

first anniversary dinner

cake knife and stand

bridal suite

i think thats a fantastic deal!

im going to see them soon re booking cant wait!!!

ETA we are also getting personalised table plan and menus

We're paying £1000 for venue hire - it's exclusive use of the whole place. We've got £35 a head for wedding breakfast, £15 a head for drinkies, and £15 each for the evening buffet. And our own personalised beer of course. But we don't have final numbers yet, so can't put a final figure on it, but we're estimating £4500 for the day.

I can't get over how many extras people are getting as part of their packages!

Ours is £4750.

includes civil ceremony, red carpet, arrival drinks, 4 course wedding breakfast for 50 people, 2 glasses of wine per person, glass of bubbly for speeches, MC, cake stand and knife, white table linen, barbecue for 100 people in the evening, bridal suite and room the next morning for private breakfast with guests. It's basically exclusive use as they only do 1 wedding per day, the only other guests will be the hotels but apparently there aren't many at weekends.

Saturday in November.

I have two venues..

Castle Ceremony - £1010.50 - Registrar, Room hire, seating plan, name cards for each guest, wine and use of a room before or after for bride and groom to freshen up, Silk flowers customised to our colours for the room, exclusive use of drawbridge and inner bridge, Corkage for Champagne, Exclusive use of upstairs of turret, waitresses to serve champagne, Afternoon tea for 40 people.

Ex-Holy Trinity Church Reception - £2750 - Room hire, Chair covers and sashes, Meal, toasting wine, cupcake and tea/coffee for 141 people, Napkins, 'waitresses', Table name holders etc.

We are paying £3915.50 for the last Saturday in March 2012.

I live in Teesside.

We get:

Canapes

70X 3 course Wedding breakfast plus coffee and mints

70X Drinks package (Arrival drink, toast drink, wine with meal)

150X Evening Bacon/Sausage buns, wedges/chips and onion rings

Centrepieces for all tables

Red carpet

Silver cake stand

Toastmaster

Personalised menu cards

Table plan

Bridal suite

I though mine was a great deal but some of yours are amazing!

Very similar to ours!

London, £2600 venue only!

Also you're the closest to my guest number that i've seen so far so i feel your pain when it comes to the catering!!!

x

Gosh isn't it crazy how much a room and food and drink can cost?!

Ours is expensive, mainly due to the fact that we have so many guests - 230 in total. Each table of 10 costs £600 so that's already £13,800 not to mention drinks. I think we've estimated drinks to be about £100 per table as it's BYOB and we're providing some spirits and things so another £2300 at least on top of food costs. Boohoo, and to make it worse we have a second wedding reception the following week. Hoping that it'll be cheaper because it's a buffet though.

Ours is approx £4,000 - dependent on final numbers. For that we have a sat in Aug, use of room fri and sun to put up and take down. It's a huge light room with grounds, a large patio area with seating, a grassy space for the kids to play (we're getting giant games like jenga, plus there is space for a footie game) and our very own lake! It's a three course meal with coffee for approx 90 and an evening buffet for approx 160. The room has a dance floor and its own bar and toilets but there is also a small side room again with a bar which we though people may wish to use if the music is getting too much for them (thinking my stepdad here!) Its also totally suitable for disabled with the patio area outside which is important as my friend needs that.

We're not getting anything like table decs but I want to do my own anyhow and they are happy for us to decorate the room however we want to. They were also really laid back about us changing the menu so we can have exactly what we want which most places within our budget and area seemed less inclined to do. There is also a welcome drink, wine on tables and a toast drink.

Hopefully this thread will be helpful to those that are looking for venues and make sure they get the right deal.

For a Saturday in July 2012, we are paying £4,250 for 50 people (negotiated down from £7,500), which includes:

Venue hire (exclusive) for ceremony and reception - this includes a marquee with all the trimmings

Canapes

3 course meal

Ceremony flowers and table flowers

Drink is not included but there is no corkage, so we can serve as much as we wish. Booze cruise it is!

We're paying around £13k. We get the manor house exclusively for 2/3 nights (we can put up our family, I can get ready there, they're throwing us a dinner party thing on the Friday night so the families can spend some informal time together after the rehearsal); fully stocked larder, breakfasts (catered or DIY depending on what we want). We then get the Tithe and other rooms for a reception for c100 people. 3/4 course menu of our creation, staff, all soft drinks & mixers, cutlery, crockery etc. Evening buffet accompaniments to go with our cheese stack.

Lots of other bits and pieces. What's helpful to us is they'll take deliveries all week before hand - we can have our booze, cheese, lighting etc delivered when convenient to us, not to them!

Goes to show that numbers and location have a huge bearing on costs.

Thanks, Tricks! We could have got something cheaper but this met all of our requirements so we're happy!

Honestly? I dont know exactly lol OH takes care of everything budget wise, i just say yes this one, or like that one! im not spoilt, or a kept women, just crap at numbers and stuff lol he just wouldnt trust me to claculate everything right!

I reckon its around 5k for the venue hire and that includes a master of ceremonies, the bridal suite, the breakfast room to ourselves the next day so we can have friends and family, a bridal room on the day for me to get ready in, table plans, name cards (tho not seen these, may have my own done). the use of a wedding co-ordinator for the day, part fo the manor and grounds closed off for weddings only..the three course wedding breakfast, hire fo the room for 70 guests minimum, arrival drinks, champagne to toast bride and groom, cake cutting knife and what not, red carpet(!!!) use of the room the day before for set up etc (theres a stage where the dj /band can set up the night before so not to disturb the daytimes goings on) exclusive use fo the piano bar for us and our guests.......ummm...think thats it?!

Our venue was £4k which meant exclusive use of the barns, overnight accomodation in the honeymoon suite, breakfast in the morning and a minibar with champers in.

We're paying around £9000 for ours:

Ceremony room: £300.00
Marquee: £2000.00
Drinks Package x 105 guests: £1464.75
Wedding Breakfast x 105 guests: £3412.50
DJ: £300
Evening Buffet for 160 guests: £1912.00

We're hoping to get an email from the venue today with a better figure as we feel the price is abit high for a 3* hotel!

Ours is around £1800 which includes:

Room hire

Accomodation for bride and groom

Dj

Decoration package (basically everything apart from chair covers)

Reception drink for 80 people

Evening buffet for 120 ('posh' bacon/sausage batchs with homeade chips)

Ours is working out around £13,000, which includes exclusive use for the day, reception drinks, canapes, 3 course meal with wine, champagne toast, evening buffet, and the 6 rooms for the night. The rooms are amazing too. That's for 80 guests on a Sat in August. It's way way way over budget, which means that I'm trying to scrimp on everything else in order to keep the whole wedding under the original budget, but I love it so it's worth it.

OMG!! How did you manage to get that?? x

JJeeeeezzzzzzzzz some of you ladies have got some serious bargains! Im shocked at this thread! Celtic goddess you have an absolute bargain!

Mine is going to be aproximatly £5500 in total. Saturday wedding in May 2011. Manor house hotel.

70 guests for 3 course sit down meal

Arrival drinks, 2 glasses of wine with meal, sparkling wine for toast

Room hire/garden

Evening buffet reception for 120 people

Table numbers/menus

Toastmaster

Red carpet arrival

Ours is 4grand just for venue alone on a Sunday - but it's in August so it obviously hiked up the price but I only want a summer wedding so I am off work with plenty of time to plan and prepare - so for me it is worth it. this does include exclusive use as long as our guests take the rooms, if not there could be random people staying there too but not likely as only a few rooms. Think it gets us things like lighting, tea lights, matching chairs and aisle carpet, cake stand and knife, but the major stuff like catering, decor, flowers, DJ and so on are all on top of that ? Still we have it worked out so that we can do it all for around 10k, and if we really save hard could push the budget to 15k including a luxury honeymoon. Crazy money really!

its a complete package the venue is doing. i think its fab as well! it doesnt look much from the outside but its lovely inside and ive been to a wedding there before so i know what its like. its close to a stunning castle also ( good for photos) and theres a famous biscuit factory nearby which exudes this lovely smell of hot caramel about 3pm every day lol....ok i know thats got nothing to do with weddings but its amazing!

and i also go to my slimming world class there every week so i know the ppl who work in it...........theres a wedding fayre on april 17th so im looking forward to that.

Ours is around £4000 for a saturday in April 2011

This includes

red carpet

Theatre for ceremony

exclusive use of 3 reception rooms

welcome drinks

2 course meal for 100

1/2 glass of wine each, and purple champagne toast

hire of linen and chairs, cake stand etc.

pork rolls and small buffet for 90 (75% of guests)

apartment for night before for all my girls, mam and myself for preperations

Bridal suite (of which apprently John barrowman broke the bath! )

Breakfast

I think thats it

Too bloody much now I have see whaty some others are paying.

About 7k which includes.....

Hire of whole house (marquee, ceremony room, gardens, another room and all 4 bedrooms

BBQ wedding food (posh bbq)

seat covers

DJ

Drinks Package (1/2 bottle per person and bubbles for toast)

cake stand etc

Bridal suite the evening before the wedding

Hi,

We're paying 13k for our venue which includes a car (new rolls), a DJ, flowers for the tables bar and halls, exclusive use of the castle and all the grounds (which are lovely). 13 bedrooms exclusivly for our families and us. canapes (as much drink as people can drink for the time of the canapes). 3 course meal with as much drink (including soft drinkes) throughout the 3 courses. Champagne for the toasts.

From my workings out so far i think its going to be another 8-10k on top and thats not including a honeymoon.

x

wow thats lots of money Reddress, especially seeing as the last post you put up?! How long untill the big day?

Hi,

17 months to the big day....

Yeah it is a lot of money but there hasnt been a lot of money spent yet so i guess its a good time to start asking myself questions.

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We are paying £1999 and we get- (for 40 guests its £35 extra for day guests and £5 for evening guests)

Bucks Fizz or orange juice on arrival

3 course Wedding Breakfast followed by tea and coffee

A glass of fizz for the toast

A glass and a half of House red or white wine served with the Wedding breakfast

Complimentary room hire

Evening disco

Bacon rolls for your guests during the evening reception

Complimentary overnight accommodation for the bride & groom

And because we booked on the day of their wedding fair they threw in 2 extra bedrooms and £500 behind the bar ?