My partner and I recently decided to bring our wedding forward to 2026 (as opposed to a longer engagement) due to some health issues in the family and have an overall budget of £8-10k. We are wanting a church wedding and then breakfast/party but are finding it so hard to find anything in our budget.
The wedding will need to be a Saturday but can be after September when the prices go lower. We are based near Portsmouth and potentially are looking at a church in Wickham so somewhere close by would be preferable. There seems like every thing is over £10K which just isn't achievable for us as that would be our upper limit already.
I will be doing my own flowers with my mother in law, making our own invites and have a friend doing our cake and photography so that will save us quite a bit of money. I'm just not sure where to start as feeling quite disheartened upon seeing how expensive everything is.