Second time around help i don't know where to start

We're having a statutory ceremony at the registry office and our reception at Rudyard Lake Sailing Club, which is fairly close to you We're a bit biased as we are both members but we love the relaxed feel and the mix of indoor and outdoor spaces.


We are arriving by boat, a friend is conducting a small ceremony, we're having barbeque platters served to tables and guests will go on boat trips in the afternoon. We've arranged all the decorations ourselves, a friend is arranging a grazing platter for the evening and another friend is DJing the evening disco. We've arranged this for around £7000, not including outfits, and to be honest there are things that we could have cut back on if we had wanted to. Unlike a hotel, the bar is the only thing that we have to use, the caterers and other suppliers we arranged ourselves, which helped us with our budget.

If you have family who are keen to decorate, then maybe consider either hiring a village hall and a catering van (you can get some very up class ones for weddings) or a function room in a pretty country pub. I'm assuming you don't want a religious blessing ceremony, since you haven't mentioned church/mosque/temple etc, so if it's a secular one you want, there is nothing whatever to stop you writing your own - since the legal marriage has taken place at the registry office, anyone can officiate at a blessing ceremony and you can pretty much do whatever you want. Either do the ceremony between you or ask a close friend to be involved. Or get your kids to work something out with you.