Daughters getting married tommorow..........If we boys went out and bought a" TOOL or fancy TOY costing" 2-3 thousand pounds and used it for one day....then threw it all away after taking umteen photos....
what would swimbo say

wtf?! what toy costs 2-3 grand?!

Nevermind that. What wedding costs 2 or three grand.? I reckon Mango got off very lightly if that's the cost.

oh, right, i suddenly understand what you mean
i thought you mean you were gonna buy something for 2-3 grand, to be used in a few photos tomorrow for a laugh, and thought the wife was gonna be pissed off with you lol

awww, but its a girls biggest day etc etc, all that nutsack
have a good time. hope the weather holds out

^ lol, how does that work?! i didn't write nutsack! i wrote something that rhymes with rollocks! ha ha ha
does this site automatically replace rude words?

just to test, what if i wrote f**k? i'll edit it out in a sec

no... it didn't lol

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2100 posts and you've only just noticed ??

What a clean - minded person you are

Have a great day Mango - wedding eh ? How posh



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Originally posted by RichieW
Nevermind that. What wedding costs 2 or three grand.? I reckon Mango got off very lightly if that's the cost.

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2 or 3 grand is a serious bargain in wedding terms!!!! ours cost nearly 10 a couple of years ago (including 2 for the the honeymoon admittedly) and it was a fairly low key event. Stupid money I agree especially when I'm sat here with a ring on my finger worth a very decent engine when all I wanted to do was marry the woman so symbolically a curtain ring would have done the job as far as I'm concerned!! - obviously that wasn't the point and I never said that

Have a great day

enjoy the day for what it is. Money means f all in the long run anyway.
Have a good one and savour it.

2-3000 GBP is a steal. I have no idea what mine cost, but I was smart enough to have it several thousand kms from my home, so I didn't even have to invite a large number of my family.

Money means a lot when you haven't got any. People building cars generally have enough.

I think to be fair, that might just be the Mango contribution. In Scotland it tends to be Bride's half pay for this bit, Groom's half pay for that bit, whilst the two idiots, sorry, the happy couple pay the rest.

I'm sure it's way more than that.

I have 'a friend' (cough cough) who plays in a wedding band and they can expect the thick end of a grand for a wedding. Not that I'm saying I agree with it, but there you go.

Its amazing how much a wedding cost and how much you can save, if you can put the time in.

Our wedding in Feb cost about 6K, which was pretty cheap. My wife is amazing at organising and saving, so i gave her all the money i could over the past year and she looked after it all. She also earnt most of that 6K too.

She made all the invitations, people were amazed she had made them, they were that good. My mum made us our wedding cake, it was very good!

Where we spent money was on food and drink, 2.5K just for that!

It went really well, people were saying it was the best wedding they had been too, though i am not sure if they were just saying that?

There was a prog on channel 4 called don't tell the bride where they gave them 12K, plenty of money though they always overspent!

But the groom had to oragnise it all! even picking out a dress and everything!

Is amazing how is you say the W word how the price can double. Our band only wanted £110 for the whole night, there were 7 of them! they just loved doing it in there spare time, though we did make sure they were well supplied by the bar.

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£16k ours cost - I finished paying for it 4 years after getting married.

That was with me designing the invites and the co. I worked for at the time doing the printing at a massive discount, my aunt doing the flowers at virtually nothing, and my mum doing the wedding cake (who'd have thought their professions would be handy eh?!)

The cost is all in how many guests you can get away with - if you've got a large family like both me and my wife, kiss your arse goodbye.

Unfortunately the donkeys at the reception forgot to announce that the buffet had been served, so when the lights went up at 2am there was a table with about £1k worth of food all beautifully presented, and totally untouched

Only 4 weeks 'til the big day for me- and its us thats paying, with a contribution from parents Well skint

yeah parents did help quite abit, we weren't going to have a honeymoon until later on this year as we couldn't afford one. But my dad booked us somewhere a few weeks before the wedding and wouldn't say where until a few days before.

We had 4 days in Venice, in a hotel right by san marko's square, is an amazing place!

I assumed it was just the wedding dress from reading the initial post?

could have bought an Ultima for the cost of my wedding!! luckily her parents payed.

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The average wedding now costs £15k. Of course we didn't have an average wedding

Oh the toys I could have bought!!!

Still, it was the best day of my life so far so I don't regret it!!!

I was determined to have the Se7en parked outside the castle when everyone turned up, when they decided with an hour to go that I couldn't I wasn't best pleased. Soon persuaded them Forget bridezilla, meet groomzilla!!!!

We got to about 10k in 2004 ( assisted by both sets of parents ) it a lot of money for one day. ( that flyes past at 100 miles an hour ) our main problem was the too big families

Regards

Agriv8

Last wedding I went to was hosted in some country house that got the brides father £35000 (yes, 3 zeros) for the day just for the house. His speach lasted 45 minutes with about 20 references to the hole in his wallet

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It's one single day in your entire life, I fail to see the point of crippling yourself financialy for it. Fortunately my wife had the same views so we went to Austria and got married in a tiny chappel in a rather nice resort in the Alps, and spent another week there on our honeymoon.

When we got back we threw a reception for friends and familly (150 ish people) in a local Fort (Crownhill Fort for anyone down this way) and it was a really great evening. Total cost was probably around 4k including her wedding dress, the wedding in Austria and the reception.

Mine cost £60

We've both bin through it before and the full blown white wedding didn't make either marriage any better.
So we just put the word about we were getting hitched and went to the registry office.
All back to the pub afterwards for the afternoon.

Granny wasn't too impressed, but everybody else has commented that it was the most relaxed wedding they've been to.

I suspect that most blokes are quite envious that we did that way.

Three years on and I'm still as happy as a pig in muck.

Neil

My dad used to say it was the worst HP agreement he ever took out seven and six down and paying for the rest of his life . Cant say how much ours cost but a lot more than I wanted to pay, still she was happy.

Mrs Coose & I were married last August and the whole thing came in at about £2800! We were married in a lovely little hotel in the countryside, fed 40 people and got blind drunk in the eve! We laid on no entertainment as the guests covered that ok.....

It was a splendid day and neither of us would have wanted anything else!

The big day photos


Nope we did it all in the mango workshop cars stationary invites food and photos for the cash

I'm still trying to keep quiet from the mrs the fact that i've spent more on the Indy so far than the wedding cost, I think I got off lightly. As has been mentioned, the wedding mags she insisted on buying put the average somewhere around 15-18k.

I'm so glad it's over now and she's stopped watching Wedding TV, there's only so much I can take of having to watch Peter&Jordan wannabes spunking 40k on tasteless pink crap

We at the MGW did every bit of the wedding ourselves. One bit that I would like to make a special announcement for is the kindness of
a member beppesignori who hired a big brand new audi sport to use as a wedding car as a wedding present.
Cleas thank you for your generosity and kindness.
Chevy will thank you in person when she next sees you.

I will do a round up on how the cost was kept in check.........later



The other member who I will thank is MACSPEEDY who kindly loaned his pentax SLR to me so I could shoot the wedding.

My SLR died from a fungus that destroyed the lens coating a few years back, so I shot the wedding with this pentax straight from the box with only a sessions practice

Mac I know its been a dreadfull week for ya mate but thanks.


Cut the photo man out the picture..... 800 quid saved


Still birthdays coming up and a ten meg pentax will be mine






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My son told me today that his best friend got so fed up with all the kerfuffle about their imminent wedding that he and his fiancée went out and got married - just them and 2 friends as witnesses.

I wonder if I could persuade my son and his fiancée to do that...

One of my favorite pictures

I have yet to tweak the files with Photoshop to take out that low energy lamp cast..


Tip one All flowers 150 quid........

fresh flowers from tesco £48 the rest silk ones 100 quid. mrs mango did all the arrangements

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Anybody going to Venice should rent an apartment over by Giardini/Biennale. Way better deal than a hotel, and you get to live where the locals live. 15 mins walk to San Marcos.

Anyone who spends more than a grand in this day and age wants their nut felt....I'm too tight to even spend that!! 14 years in, 3 kids and still not nailed down yet

you think 15k is the average cost to get shackled ? thats still cheap when compared to the cost of the divorce! now thats what you call expensive! ! mind you if I had a wooden leg I'd risk married life with a beetle for a year or two! some even get a percentage of all future earnings

anyway good luck!

Top tip from the Mr & Mrs Guinness wedding was to use a florist who didn't have a shop, but does contract work for offices, hotels etc.

Normal florist buys the gear, then hopes to sell it, meaning they have to cover the cost of the unsold stock in what they sell you. The guy we used buys exactly what he needs, so he protects his margin and passes the saving on to me.

Only thing is, several local offices and hotels all had displays made up from our left over flowers the next week!

Cheers

Mike

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Anyone who spends more than a grand in this day and age wants their nut felt....I'm too tight to even spend that!! 14 years in, 3 kids and still not nailed down yet

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