Wedding Cost Poll

Aili · by **Aili** » Thu Feb 02, 2022 2:45 pm

We are only having 55 guests, I have a friend who is a florist( Michael Costello CHECK HIM OUT) another friend is making cake. Alan Mooney Photographer, making the invites myself paper from Daintree in Camden St. Suits and dresses in Sale and best of all Great wedding package from Leixlip House Hotel. :o)ll

NYEBride2012 · by **NYEBride2012** » Fri Feb 03, 2022 8:06 am

Our wedding is coming in around €22k excluding honeymoon. Almost half is going on the venue and that includes me bargaining them down on price. We Are having music for the arrivals reception, more music during the meal and a band and DJ which all adds up. We have a photographer in the family as well as a videographer, my dress was paid for by my mother and my BM dresses were €165 for 3! We got our mass booklets for half price through a deal and my veil is my something borrowed. I really dread to think what it would be costing if I was paying full whack for everything :(

the farmer wants a wife · by **the farmer wants a wife** » Fri Feb 03, 2022 11:12 am

errigal08 wrote:we've said 5k-6k max
were having an evening wedding 4pm so having a buffet dinner that has cut the cost greatly,not getting a band now going for a wedding dj
doing my own flowers and bouquets
got my invites online
going to hire cars from rental car hire company you can get a really nice car for 50-70 a day,stick a few ribbons on and hay presto you have a wedding car
mum is getting my dress and flower girl dresses as a gift
and iv family who can do the cake and pictures
i wanted a candy buffet for the reception and that could be my favors,but the price was unreal,so i went looking and found some big glass jars and fish bowls,iv just ordered my giant martini class,i'll start buying my sweets later on in the year,but id say i'll get the candy buffet for half price doing it myself!

so were getting there,have no idea for honeymoon as yet,but with all the saving im sure we can go mad on the honeymoon,i'll need a break by the time the wedding is finished
im loving it tho,loving all the planning and shopping for bargins and all the diy

Where did you buy your giant martini glass?? thanks :wv

Nonah · by **Nonah** » Mon Feb 13, 2022 3:29 pm

We're currently looking at about €9k for a civil wedding on a Saturday with about 150/160 guests. Lucky to have a lot of talented friends that are providing the band, photography, wedding cake and bride's dress and while we haven't had to do much haggling yet, contacted pretty much every decent hotel in the country to get quotes.

AwkwardAnnie · by **AwkwardAnnie** » Mon Feb 13, 2022 7:22 pm

We'd roughly budgeted €35,000 excluding honeymoon for a wedding with 300 guests.

Ohnoshedidnt · by **Ohnoshedidnt** » Mon Feb 27, 2022 10:01 am

We originally said 20k max for our budget including honeymoon but after booking hotel and getting quotes for everything else that went up to 25k not including honeymoon :eek

Iv made quite a few savings. Managed to get all the dresses for half what i had budgeted but for every saving i make we remember something else we hadnt budgeted for O:|

The list seems to get bigger every week :weep

We are paying for all our parents, grandparents, bms and gms rooms tho as most cant afford them with recession.
We are only planning on doing this once :lvs

so we want to make it a day to remember and we have booked all our first choices rather than going with who had the best price.
Cant wait for it now :compress

Wish it would hurry up and get here :hyper:

sarahstrikes · by **sarahstrikes** » Wed Mar 07, 2022 7:44 pm

AwkwardAnnie wrote:We'd roughly budgeted €35,000 excluding honeymoon for a wedding with 300 guests.

Can I ask for a rough breakdown of your costs. If its too nosy dont worry about it but Im just interested to compare costs with mine. TMI

garfield2012 · by **garfield2012** » Thu Mar 08, 2022 7:29 pm

We are working out at 36k with about 250 guests that's including our honeymoon of 4k aswell! We really thought we would be able to do everything for 30k but we are lucky we have it all saved now at this stage, I am just hoping I have not forgot anything and it goes up again!!

mrsSM2b · by **mrsSM2b** » Sat Mar 17, 2022 11:25 pm

I am having approx 220 guests and 3000 euro fully inclusive 5 star honeymoon... Works out at between 24000 and 25000 euro.

AtTheRaces · by **AtTheRaces** » Tue Mar 27, 2022 8:18 pm

We are working out at 42k for 200 guests!! :hic

Although that does include a 10k honeymoon. Thank god this only happens once!!

How much are you spending on your wedding and honeymoon?

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