Category Archives: wedding budget

Saving ideas for your wedding — an infographic

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Claire

Please feel free to share this help­ful, tongue-in-cheek wed­ding info­graphic  — tell your face­book friends, or share this on your wed­ding web­site or blog! A link back to this page on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog would be mar­vel­lous, thank you kindly. Click on the info­graphic to see it in all its big friendly glory — and enjoy the read.

How to save for your wedding Infographic Smil­ing? Then please do share with your friends, or embed the graphic on your own wed­ding web­site or blog if you have one. Its url is

http://english-wedding.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/how-to-save-creatively-for-your-wedding.jpg  Read more…

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How much a wedding costs for guests

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Claire

Let’s jump straight in: £686. The lat­est research into the price of a wed­ding takes an out­side view of bud­gets. You might be spend­ing £10k on your wed­ding, but your 50 guests will be spend­ing a whop­ping total of £34k between them.

How much a wed­ding costs — for guests

How much a wedding costs the guest

The guys at Chill­isauce have put together this sur­pris­ing info­graphic with infor­ma­tion from the Tele­graph and Lloyds.

Are you going to a wed­ding this year? (Not yours, silly — a friend’s maybe?) What will you be spend­ing on their big day?

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New on English Wedding blog — wedding planning tools

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Claire

Brides, grooms, born organ­is­ers and those of you who are ‘wing­ing it’ — I can now offer you a set of inter­ac­tive wed­ding plan­ning tools to help you plan your wedding.

Pro­fes­sional wed­ding plan­ning tools

I have been look­ing for great wed­ding plan­ning tools for a long time. I really wanted to find you some really expert tools to help you plan and I’m so pleased to have found the per­fect thing. Who’d design the best wed­ding plan­ning tools, I’ve been think­ing. Who really knows what they’re talk­ing about? A pro­fes­sional…  Read more…

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How much should you spend on your wedding?

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Claire

Ladies, (gents, hope­fully!) we have a moral dilemma on our hands. There’s more to this ques­tion than you might think: and the answer isn’t “what you can afford”. It goes a bit deeper.

Let’s get the stock answers out of the way first.

How much should you spend on your wedding?

how much should you spend on your wedding blog photo

Credit: Ali Lovegrove

Stock answer 1. It’s your day, do it your way, spend as much as you can afford.

OK — bit of a cop out answer. You’re about to spend a LOT of money (whichever way you see it, wed­dings aren’t cheap!) and you can’t sum the whole thing up in a sen­tence.  Read more…

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Is your wedding at risk?

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Claire

I’ve always been a big believer in wed­ding insur­ance. For a few pounds — a tiny frac­tion of any wed­ding bud­get — you can insure the lot. A few years ago when I worked in the land of office blocks and suits, my boss very nearly had to can­cel her entire wed­ding due to ill­ness in the fam­ily. It was a heart­break­ing time.

It goes to show just how impor­tant wed­ding insur­ance is. I rec­om­mend it to every bride who asks me — and before you ask, this isn’t a spon­sored post, this is me on my soap­box! Here’s the low down on wed­ding insur­ance from www.compareweddinginsurance.org.uk  Read more…

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Banned from the dictionary: budget weddings!

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Claire

I can’t stand the phrase “bud­get wed­ding” — it makes my toes curl and my teeth itch. Brides and grooms: if you’re plan­ning a wed­ding for less than £5,000 we need to think of a new word to get across your cre­ativ­ity and independence!

“Bud­get wed­ding” is a dreary phrase, a wed­ding indus­try stan­dard that every­one uses to describe less expen­sive weddings.

Hip and Funky Wedding Photographer LondonIt sounds awful though doesn’t it… we need a more upbeat phrase for every­one out there who is think­ing cre­atively and spend­ing less on their wed­ding day. Some­thing that doesn’t sound faintly dis­ap­point­ing, but inspir­ing and clever!  Read more…

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Some revelations for wedding planners? UKAWP Survey results

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Claire

I always won­der who hires wed­ding plan­ners: is it the brides with lim­it­less bud­gets or is every mod­ern bride hir­ing a wed­ding plan­ner? Here we have the answers — and some great insights into the world of the wed­ding plan­ner, from the First Annual UKAWP Sur­vey. Read on for some very inter­est­ing wed­ding indus­try stats from one of Eng­lish Wedding’s rec­om­mended wed­ding sup­pli­ers.

UK Wed­ding Plan­ning Trends 2011

The UK Alliance of Wed­ding Plan­ners (UKAWP) has under­taken its first annual online sur­vey amongst UK plan­ners, look­ing into the wed­dings they plan.  Read more…

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Couples Get Wedding Saving Savvy

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Claire

Here’s an inter­est­ing bit of research for you: did you know there’s a dif­fer­ence of over £8,000 between aver­age wed­ding bud­gets in dif­fer­ent UK cities? It seems some of us really know how to spend our pen­nies wisely. Where’s your city on the spend­ing map? This guest post reveals where the savvi­est brides hang out…  Read more…

Cou­ples Get Wed­ding Sav­ing Savvy

  • Two thirds of engaged cou­ples set a £10,000 wed­ding budget
  • Cou­ples in Lon­don and Liv­er­pool are the high­est wed­ding spenders
  • Aver­age cou­ple plans to save £5,200 for their wedding
  • One in five cou­ples save for a min­i­mum of two years
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Retro milk bottles, too many vases and creepy clay mementoes

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Sally

I’d been keep­ing a secret from my husband-to-be.. It’s not ter­ri­ble but it’s become a lit­tle out of hand. I think I’ve become a lit­tle over exu­ber­ant (pos­si­bly har­bour­ing a slight addic­tion) to buy­ing vases. I’ve been envis­ag­ing this sort of look for the recep­tion tables:

Cour­tesy of Rock­n­Roll­Bride  Read more…

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Wild Flower Seed Favours

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Sally

Fortunately/unfortuntely, we’re reach­ing the point of wed­ding plan­ning where most things have been done, but what’s remain­ing isn’t fun, colour­ful or excit­ing! The dresses have been bought, the cake is arranged, I’ve met with the florists, we’ve organ­ised the food, most of the drink and 99% of the dec­o­ra­tions. It’s get­ting down to the nitty gritty; work­ing out whether we’ll need a gen­er­a­tor for the band, where the cater­ers can organ­ise them­selves, how much space the DJ’s kit will take up… So, instead of bor­ing you with stress and details I’ve decided to share some­thing a lit­tle less taxing!

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