Average UK wedding budget

6 Responses to Average UK wedding budget

1. Greg Thurtle (TP Photography) says:

   May 18, 2010 at 12:39 pm

   Inter­est­ing. A LOT is spent on food — more sur­pris­ing is how much on music and flowers.

   It looks like the pho­tog­ra­phy bud­get is still quite tiny… espe­cially as it’s the only last­ing memory!

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2. gemma says:

   August 8, 2010 at 10:18 am

   I am sur­prised how lit­tle is spent on rings — the other last­ing mem­ory — we spent a fifth of our bud­get on lovely rings, as I know I will have to wear it for the rest of my life, and can keep enjoy­ing it once the party is all over!

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3. Sarah Ludden-Roughley says:

   October 28, 2010 at 10:44 am

   This is rather supris­ing, I must say!

   I wouldn’t have thought that the ‘aver­age’ spend on music would be £1,440 as a good deal of cou­ples tend to lean towards the DJ or ‘Friend’s Band’ route!

   Hav­ing said that, approx­i­mately five hours of a wed­ding day is spent with the couple’s choice of enter­tain­ment so they really need to be sure that they are get­ting what they want and, like they say, you get what you pay for!

   Our Wed­ding Big Band book­ings are up dra­mat­i­cally this year and, priced at around £3,500, this has proved that cou­ples are look­ing for that some­thing extra spe­cial and will pay what­ever is required to get it.

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4. Jean-Luc says:

   January 27, 2011 at 12:18 pm

   How about the hon­ey­moon amount in there?
   After read­ing your lit­tle list, I realise we are doing quite well our­selves. With only £7,000-ish for venue + food + drink, and £1,500 for pho­tos, and £1,000 on flow­ers and £750 on wed­ding dress…

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5. Beefy's Caricatures, Nottingham Wedding Caricaturist says:

   February 7, 2011 at 4:16 pm

   Maybe the music cal­cu­la­tion also includes other forms of enter­tain­ment such as magi­cians and sil­hou­ette artists or car­i­ca­tur­ists like me, where the guests also get a memento of the spe­cial day.
   I have to say, my own wed­ding was a frac­tion of the price quoted here, but was really spe­cial any­way — some lovely memories!

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6. Eleanor Belfrage says:

   March 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm

   The num­ber of guests of course swings the main costs and the day of the week the venue is booked. You can take 30% off those cost with­out los­ing out on beau­ti­ful venues with these two con­sid­er­a­tions and the elim­i­na­tion of over-night costs.

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