So, I just added up everything we spent on our wedding...

I can believe it, we also budgetted £5k & we're not finished yet but our spreadsheet is telling us that we're on track to be spending £9k & that doesnt include a honeymoon & / or car. But, like you, we're lucky in that we havent had to borrow money & we've paid for it ourselves, I feel for any of you out there that are having to.

I've done this too and now OH is freaking out and saying we can't afford the wedding! It's his own fault for making me total it all up should have just stayed in the little naive bubble!

My parents have contributed £3k each and we budgeted £4.5k which has gone about £2k over :-/ this doesn't include our honeymoon but I keep thinking we would have had a holiday anyway and I haven't been away in 2 years while being pregnant and having a newborn whilst he has had 2 snowboarding holidays!!

Ive done so much to save money but pretty much everything we estimated was twice the price and you keep seeing little extra things you just must have!! Xx

Oh dear!

I initially hoped to spend £5000 on top of the £3000 that my parents are contributing. I expect it will be nearer 7 by the time the wedding is here. I've also not counted the honeymoon (PIL paying) or my ring, so really it'll be nearer £12k in total ?. Luckily we've not got into debt for it, but it still seems obscene when I think about it.

Kerry x

Ive spent a grand total of about £30 so far which I think is quite good lol but we have none of the big stuff done, so far we have:

*invites

*scatter crystals

*bridesmaids + MOB jewellery

*groomsmen jewellery (they're rings but will be used as pendants so need thongs to mount them on still)

*4 velvet hearts shaped coat hangers

still need to pay for the rings but we found them and spoke to the designer, it will be £50 for both

not included in that is the little vintage temporary engagement ring or the shoes for the engagement shoot that was another £24

our budget is also £5000 not including honeymoon but im hoping to try an come under that (optimistic and probably naive lol)

We didn't really have a set budget in mind but was aiming for about £7k not inc. honeymoon. Once I added it all up it actually worked out to be about £10k! Thankfully my parents paid just over half of that or we'd never have had the wedding we did.

At the moment, we're coming in at about £1k over my original £12.5k budget. Of that, we've only actually spent about £3k so far, so I'm hoping that as we go along I'll find places to keep the costs down. Especially as it looks like we're not having a honeymoon atm.

I haven't added ours up formally but I think we have spent about £3,500. Bargain!

Eeek! Well we had £3k cash from OHs parents and £1300 from mine for the photographer invoice. On top of that we worked out if we save hard each month we could save an additional 7 - 8k So budget of £11-12k not including honeymoon.... We havent paid for that much yet but so far are at £13k with what we've paid and have projected to pay.

I wanted to get on the property ladder... then he bloomin proposed!!!

Oh god no, don't do that!!!

we had a budget which we have kept to for the big things (venue, clothing, catering, wine, entertainment etc) however, on top of that I dread to think how much we/parents are spending on accommodation over the weekend. Plus we are putting on an evening do the night before and brunch the day after.

Then there are all the "little bits" outside of the budget, gifts, confetti, candles and decorations and our honeymoon. The way I see it as long as we are keeping within our means, not starting married life with more debt then we are ok. It is all going to be worth it!

I have a spreadsheet that totals as we go along.. so as I add the actual cost of things in it is gradually building... we're at £11423.95

We couldnt budget in the first place, cos I had no idea how much anything cost, so between us, we decide on something we like/need, I have shopped around for the best price I could find for said wedding related thing, then bought it. I don't know any other way of doing it!

What do they need to mount them on???

Hahahaha..

Thanks, JJCKB.. That's given me a much needed laugh.. xx

A thong as in 'a leather necklace strap' commonly worn by men (although are unisex)

example:

Well I never knew that's what they were called..

I'd got visions of fellas walking round with rings dangling from their under crackers!

Forgive me, I got up very early for work this morning and I'm completely knackered so the mind is going astray a little..

I started out with a budget. I still have a budget. The two figures do not bear any meaningful resemblence to each other though!!

I have just found out that ebay is not blocked from my work PC as I had previously thought.....hence much danger in wintry lunchbreaks.....I have just ordered table confetti and gift bags for the wedding party. As I was looking through at "things other people have looked at" and was thinking....oooh, oooh, I did have this thread in the back of my mind whispering to me that I will be having to have a "secret spreadsheet"....you know the sort, the one that you have to keep on your work PC so that H2B doesn't stumble across it by mistake.

The "not so secret" spreadsheet, based on those seemingly realistic initial budgets, can, of course, be printed out and left lying about the house for discussions that go along the lines of...."see, told you we could afford it"......!!!

Our 10k budget went up to 12.5k which includes EVERYTHING. That's just cause we wanted loads of guests. Really looking at what we have saved on it could just as easily been an 18k wedding so I don't feel like I've gone over but more that I've saved and we haven't gotten into debt with it so I'm happy x

The would be interesting then the Best Man had to hand the ring over...Not sure i would want one which was still warm from being kept in someone else's undercarriage!

Our budget was fairly loose - 8-10k and we are coming in at about £500 over which i'm ok. The food is ALOT more than i thought and there were things i hadn't anticipated wanting/needing but we are managing ok! I am not an OTT person so it is easy for me to rationalise whereas my boss started at 25k absolute maximum and ended up spending more than 50k! ?

We have a wedding savings account with £6,000 in it. I've paid deposits of £1,200 on top of that and I estimate we'll need to save £1000 more between now and the wedding or we'll just buy the rest as we go along. Hoping that's going to be enough.

We didnt really set a budget and stil havnt really, we are buying bits every month as well as saving for the big things.

Trying to do as much diy as possible on decorations to save money.

My mum and uncle are helping towards the cost as is oh mum and dad (seperately)

My speadsheet tells me were at around £7000 for everything except the honeymoon. Alot are estimates. so not too bad hoping to get this down abit with some looking around.

Food is costing a fortune! we do have about 90 day guests though (big famillies + forces = too many people lol)

My spread sheet is showing £3,100 exc. dress and honeymoon - my mum & dad are buying my dress and our honeymoon was a holiday we already had planned that is now turning into a honeymoon so we would have been paying for this anyway.

Parents are giving us £1,000 so we will be paying £2,100 ourselves. We are having a small wedding though 30 people during the day with 55 more at night time. No bridesmaids, flower girls or ushers. Just our 3 year old son and us in the wedding party.

I hate fuss so wanted to keep it as simple as possible and my sister didn't want to have to walk down the isle again so is happy im not asking her to be bridesmaid!

My and OH's groups of friends are all about 7 people so we couldn't ask 1 to be included without the other so again that made the decision easier to have no one else in the wedding party.

We started at 12k, topped 20k.

Hell of a day though and never second guessed it.