Do you regret the money you spent on your wedding?

Yes as little as we spent it was a waste.

We only spent just under £500, and I still think that was far too much ?

No. I think we had a happy medium as in we spent a fair bit but no so much that we had to get into debt or let it hinder our future plans. It is a scary amount for one day though.

Goodness, no! Best £xK I ever spent!

I shall always be able to look back on a fabulous day, surrounded by my favourite people, spoiling them as I made promises I intend to keep until my dying day. We created memories that will help us through any sleepdeprived nights we may or may not encounter. We spent freely but on things that mattered to us so I shall never regret the cost.

I think we were quite thrifty. We did well money wise for all that we had. We could of spent thousands more but not really of had much more for it.

Yes and no, I don't regret the amount, but wish I had spent more on somethings (video would have been nice in hindsight) and less on others such as flowers and other crap I was never bothered about.

Well not had my wedding yet but my motto for life is 'never regret the things you do, regret the things you don't do'

I'd rather look back on an amazing wedding then looks back and think I wish we spent more money on xyz to get exactly what we want.

No not really. We had a great day plus I shopped around and budgeted well

No, but I would have done if I'd have spent alot or had to get into debt for it. I'm pretty frugal anyway so spending more wouldn't have made it any more special or have any more meaning.

No, since £10k ish was on flights/honeymoon and £4.5k was donated by parents to fund a UK reception. Which meant the actual wedding was only about 5.5k and entirely reasonable. Not a penny in debt so no dramas.

I don't even regret my horrifically expensive first wedding although I have residual guilt over what my father paid. I know that had my first marriage not failed I wouldn't have met OH and wouldn't be who I am now, so all for the best.

I am not yet married, but I'm in a half and half camp already.

On the one hand, we are not getting ourselves into debt, we're spending what I consider is a reasonably 'average' amount considering the number of guests we have and have been sensible about choosing which things to splurge on and which we can do without.

However, our venue and catering is by far the biggest cost, it was the first venue we ever saw and whilst I fricking love it and probably would still choose the same venue again, I was a little bit in the dark as to how much cheaper we could have got it. Same with a couple of other early decisions, I think I possibly jumped in too fast but then I am happy with what we have.

It sort of blows my mind in terms of moneyspent for simply one day, but do not regret it for a second.

It was a proper, full-on, fairy tale wedding and was literally the most amazing day of our lives. I wouldn't change anything about it - the venue was amazing and the people were amazing, and so I wanted to give them good food (and lots of it),nice wine (and lots of it) and a good time. Plus, I wanted everyone to have more than 3 canapes!

We bought for the first time (last month) so means our deposit could have been higher, but would not take it back for the world.

I would never regret it*

*unless we can't afford the mortgage, the the Bank of Ireland take away our place, but even then, meh, I'm still not sure I'd regret it**

**meant tongue in cheek

this is the moto we, or maybe I, took when planning our wedding. Money we can get again (overtime, 2nd job etc) but we an never go back and re-do that day

It was the best money we ever spent. We had the day we wanted and look back on it with great memories, so no regrets!

Nah it was brill! Even if we hadn't got married I don't think our lifestyle would be any different, our savings account would look happier though. If our lifestyle had to be compromised, I.e. not being able to buy our house, then I probably would regret spending so much on one day if we couldn't afford a house for all the days of our future..

We spent just under £2k and I don't regret it. It was savings we had and we chose to do it this way rather than the 8-10k we had planned to spend next year. I think I would have regretted that just because that could have gone so far towards our next house.

I don't regret the money spent one little bit. Our parents gave us £5k each; they could afford it, and it meant we were able to invite our large families. So we would always have spent at least £10k, since it wouldn't have been right to use that money on anything else. My parents then gave some extra to cover the extra guests they had and we covered the last £5k ourselves.

I don't wish to sound mercenary, and obviously we don't think of it in this way, but we were given more than £5k in cash gifts from our guests before even getting on to the monetary value of gifts from our gift list. So getting married actually improved our financial situation, adding to our house deposit and ensuring that we didn't need to spend money on certain household essentials (because people bought them for us as wedding gifts).

Absolutely. I lost over £3k on deposits and whatnot when I cancelled. What a waste.

When I think that we spent £10k on a day it does sound crazy; but then I remember how fabulous it was and no, I don't regret one penny.

AS others have said, it does blow my mind how much we spent on ONE day but we had the most amazing time and I think for the sort of day we had and the numbers of guests we had we could easily have spent double!

Not really as parents paid a lot towards it. Also, selling stuff afterwards softens the blow a bit! Plus, as I had a silk bouquet it's now in a lovely perspex case with H's buttonhole, so flower money wasn't a waste!

Not at all. Alright, nost of it was from our parents and they would have given it to us for something somewhere down the line but I still would rather have spent it on the wedding. We had a house.

This might get a few backs up but I can not stand people who put wedding before house. Some girl I know is coming off the property ladder and selling her house in order to spend thousands on the wedding! WTF?!?!?!

I don't regret a penny. Apart from my dress, which was paid from savings, everything else came from monthly disposable income. I would have only spent it on clothes anyway (and Boy, on various electronic gadgets).

And we certainly don't see that the money would have been better put towards a house deposit :p

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I don't regret it. We already had a house and didn't get into debt over it, we just worked our arses off to save for it and had a bit of help from parents. I wouldn't have wanted to spend any more money than we did though.

Sometimes I think our honeymoon was a bit extravagant but then we had an amazing 10 days and I wouldn't change that either.

I don't regret it, but it does make me wince when I think about how much money it was on one day (and we were pretty frugal). It hasn't stopped us getting a house and I think we've done pretty well to get married and buy a house in 18 months without getting into any financial trouble, apart from a family loan - but I don't count that really.

We are now back to being penniless, and this I really don't like.

No but we had a hefty contribution from my parents. I really had my fairytale day, we both loved everything about it (except the best mans speech, tosser!)

We bought a house after getting engaged so were on the property ladder 2 years before the wedding. It was tough paying bills, saving for wedding, paying off honeymoon.

If it had been a choice between a big wedding or a house I would probably have went for the house but luckily we didnt have to make a decision like that.

I thought we would be better off after the wedding but for some reason we still never have money! C'est la Vie.

I dont regret it for a second.

We saved money where we could and didnt go overboard, but having our families there, all together was priceless.

Absolutely not, we only spent what we were comfortable spending anyway and had exactly the day we wanted. We didn't end up in debt and carried on the same level of saving after for the next part of our lives together.

Not at all. We didn't go overboard or get into debt, and we truly had a perfect day.

Nope, but do you know what, I don't know what our grand total spend was.

I've never sat down and wrote down everything we bought and added up the costs. It doesnt matter to me.

my mum paid for the venue (which we got uber cheap as they had only just opened) and my nan bought my dress but this didnt make me go crazy. I didnt know she would be getting it until after I had chosen it. (same with venue too actually, once we put the deposit down, mum said she would pay the rest!)

Like others have said, we bought things as we went from our disposable income. I always had in the back of my mind that it was just one day, a dress I would wear one day etc (H's suit cost more than my dress, but then he has worn it since & will wear again)

When I look back on the day (and the photos), I remember a day full of love, family, friends, dancing, amazing food and lots of drinking! The costs of things doesnt cross my mind at all!

Nope, we are fortunate to be older than most of you and already have a great house and I have my daughter so those things are not on the horizon for our future worries.

we spent £8k on our wedding and another £8k on the honeymoon. Loved every single minute and would do it again. We were fortunate to have done this without any contributions from parents and not get into debt with doing so

if we had got into debt etc then would certainly think differently.