Does this sound like a reasonable venue price?

Hi,Welcome to hitched and congrats on your engagement

I think that's a bit expensive - obviously it depends on where you are in the country. I'm in Glasgow paying £200 more and having 75 people during the day and a buffet for 125, the only different being I don't have exclusive hire of the venue as it's a big hotel.

That does sound rather expensive for only 24 people im having a wedding in glasgow also for 80 people for that price and im also on a strict budget of 5k

Hi niknaks where in glasgow are you getting married?

I'm getting married in the Thistle Hotel, what about you?

Sounds reasonable to me.

I'm paying 7k for

Exclusive use of venue wedding and reception

37 guest bedrooms

72 x welcome drinks

3 course wedding breakfast x72

evening buffet x 72

full english breakfast x 72

I have to pay for registrar seperatley

Watch out for all the "little add ons" chair covers are costing me 280 ish upgrading alcohol to what we want £1200 (it is a lot of booze to be fair!)

Tea and Coffee charged at extra...

EDIT: I am in the southeast

But AlisonF - you are paying twice the price but getting 3 times the food! I think it is a bit pricey

For about £3000 we'll get exclusive use, dinner for 45, wine and champange toast plus a buffet for about 50 (assuming not everyone will eat that much!)

Pollokshields burgh hall so bringing in my own caterers which is great.

Yeah, we looked at doing that in Partick Burgh Hall, but we're planning from Czech Republic and relying on my mum & sister to do most things so ended up booking everything in the hotel for less fuss. Pollockshields Burgh Hall looks lovely, you will get some gorgeous photos there!

What have you got organised? I think I've got just about all the big things, just the small things (accessories, hair, make up, favours) to sort but I have a nagging feeling that I've missed something!

I think it sounds pricey, but just depends on what your after, my sister is in staffordshire and is paying 5k for alot more and a statly home.

We are paying 4.5k for 75 guests, for breakfast, 150 at night buffet, bridal suite, stationary, drinks reception, 2 guest rooms for parents and few other bits

sarah

I got married in March, at a DeVere hotel and my reception package was £5,000 for 60 guests plus £65 per head on top of that (we had 65 people in total during the day).

This included: venue hire, reception drink each, 3 course wedding breakfast, 1/2 bottle wine each, toasting wine each and evening buffet for 75% of day guests. Plus red carpet, cake stand, MC (venue manager) and bridal suite for the wedding night.

This didn't include registrar as we got married in church.

£3750 divided by 24 guests is £156.25 per head

£5000 divided by 60 guests is £84 per head... even if I add in the extra 5 guests (£325) and the cost of the church (£800) it is still only £102 per head for the day.

But having said that, it is your day and your budget so if it is the venue for you then go for it (although with a £5k budget it only leaves you £1k or so for everything else you may want...). Try not to make decisions solely with your heart... let your head do the decision making too!

Good Luck!

This is our venue

We are paying the following:

£395 for ceremony

£1,512 for 3 course meal for 36 people - this includes welcome drink of pimms or bucks fizz, wine with the meal and another glass of champagne for the toast

£600 for an evening buffet for 70 people

£250 for DJ

£60 to upgrade complimentary room to honeymoon suite

TOTAL: £2,817

Still got all the wee bits to do yet and going to get bridesmaid dresses soon. like the idea of having the whole building so looking forward to that ? still got a year to go so plenty of time to get it all sorted ?

Cheers guys, I think I am just really naive with this stuff and got all excited because I love old, quirky buildings. Seems like I need to look at some more places based on what you guys are getting for your money as it does seem a bit pricey now. This wedding stuff is way more complicated than I ever imagined! Must go back to the drawing board for North Staffordshire locations...

Sounds a bit expensive to me too.

Our basic package is £2000 for

Exclusive use of venue

3 course wedding breakfast for 50

Buffet for 100

DJ

Room for the night of the wedding.

There quite a few extras that bump it up to closer to 4k but thats just because we want extra things like wine on every table and table decoration

HTH xx

It is understandable getting excited by a venue you like but it is always best to look around, compare and haggle with them to get some money discounted. what particular area are you looking? we don't mind searching for some venues for you ?

Now there's an offer I can't refuse ?

I'm in Stoke on Trent so just looking around the whole of North Staffordshire. After some serious internal debate I've decided that I'm not entirely against doing a registry office then separate reception jobby (which I was before for some reason), so all day or reception only venues are fair game... have at it! ?

Ours cost a little more than yours and we had the main room which had its own bar for the wedding breakfast, and a small lounge area again with a bar as an extra in the evening, plus patio area and huge grounds with a lake, three course meal plus coffee/tea for 80, evening buffet for 150, welcome drinks and toast drinks and wine on the tables. It depends a bit what you want - ours wasn't a big posh building but the food was fab, we had lots of space and they were really flexable about eveything - menu, timings, bar, using the lounge etc.

Quite a few here:

http://www.staffordshirecivilweddings.co.uk/premises.htm

I've already discounted most of those venues due to price and/or location. The Old Hall is actually the one we went to see today I still need to check out Consall Gardens but they don't have accommodation so that would be an extra cost.

Thanks though, I really appreciate the input. Realistically we could afford the quote plus about £1000 for my dress/shoes and H2B's suit but he was very quiet on the way back which is never a good sign. Just doing some rough costings for a registry office/village hall combo.

Just going to Vegas is becoming very tempting!

Ay up Duck! (that will make sense to Lucifer!)

I'm another stokie and we're on a budget too.

We've chosen Wedgwood Memorial College, it's new to doing weddings but is council owned.

Venue hire is £750 peak time

Wedding breakfast 3 courses around £22

Drinks Package £10

They have a civil license and bedrooms too

https://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/education/adult-and-community-learning/wedgwood-ccc/wedding-venues.en

You have the use of both buildings on site. Ive got some pics of the inside. I'll pop them on if you want?

Some rough maths, with your numbers, venue hire ,food, drinks, evening buffet for your numbers £1968

It was the cheapest we found

Have a look at a few Cheshire and Shropshire border venues, they're only a few miles further up the road so most guests will still find it easy to get there. If you like the look of the Old Hall have a look at Haslington Hall.

Are you looking at mid-week or weekend and are you looking at summer or out of season? This will have a hige impact on how costly it is so we may not be comparing apples with apples here!

I think it sounds a little expensive.

were paying £4200 for,

the hire of 3 different room's for ceremony, wedding breakfast and evening reception

welcome drinks for 75

4 course wedding breakfast for 75

champers for toast for 75

bridal suite

disco for evening reception

buffet for 120

This also includes master of ceremonys and rooms to get ready etc

Soulmates! May your oatcakes be plentiful

That place looks really nice! I'll do a bit more investigating but you may have saved the day

Pics of inside would be fab, thanks duck [I feel a bit of a cheat typing that, I never say duck in real life lol)

x

I've sent you an email with a link to an album with the pics in.

They only got a license this year, they had a wedding fayre in June which we went to, that's when we took some of the photos. It's a lovely place, the staff were really friendly and the canapes that were out were yummy!

If you go to the bottom of this link https://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/education/adult-and-community-learning/wedgwood-ccc/wedding-venues.en all the files are there to download with the menus etc.

Give me a shout if I can be of any use!

You're a star, it looks lovely and the main room fits with my colour scheme so perhaps it was meant to be. I've had a mooch through the menus & drinks packages with H2B and he seems quite keen to go and see the place so I'm going to try and ring the on Wednesday - exciting!!

If we do book I'll mention you, see if it will get you some extras lol.

EEK! How exciting!!!

What date were you thinking of? They offered us a bouncy castle for free! lol!

We're thinking November 2012, but if it's a good price then we might be able to do a bit sooner like September in the hopes of catching a bit of nice weather. Are you taking the bouncy castle? Wonder if I could negotiate some laser quest...

Well fairly typical of my luck...phoned them this morning and was told they are no longer taking wedding bookings because the college might be closing down so they don't want to commit to bookings

Back to the drawing board for me.

OMG!!!! think I'd better give them a call!

Looks like my wedding plans are ruined

Nooo, did you speak to them? I would have thought they'd honour any existing bookings