Bend over and take it like a man…….

you do seem to get reamed for anything prefixed with “wedding”

Oh, and would you like us to cover our tatty worn out chairs with a cotton throw and some ribbon?? Yes. OK, then. Bend over and take it like a man…….

We found this. But the mrs is from a family business who doing furniture covers and reupholstery so we are getting 120 covers made for our do!! 😯

you do seem to get reamed for anything prefixed with “wedding”

Yep, is a very expensive business! We’re doing all the non essentials ourselves – invites, table decorations, table plans, favours, flowers, have a friend doing photography for nought (other than lending him my D4, flashes and lenses etc). Bride will arrive in her Dad’s Kia etc. Still managing to spend £15k which is truly shocking when you think about it.

Got married 7 years ago. Decided to only invite friends, family could go ‘do one’ (his side: rabid right-wingers, my side: lazy-bum Welsh). There were 15 of us all in. Went to registry office then to posh restaurant.

Had a fantastic time. Food: £650 (told you it was posh), rings < £1000, license £60 for partnership.

Even now people tell me it was the best wedding they’d been to.

cinnamon_girl – Member
So … what’s the deal with second marriages? Have received an invite from a middle-aged relly who’s getting married for the second time.

My response will be to jog on as I have no desire to attend and frankly would rather be riding my bike!

Am I being unreasonable?
Well, that all depends on how close you are surely? As above, it’s not compulsory to attend, and it being a second marriage shouldn’t really make a difference, should it?
When my bro and Tess got married, the ladies in the registry office said afterwards that it was one of the best weddings they’d had for ages, because it was a second for both, they were very relaxed, and there was a great atmosphere.
They didn’t bother with a car, they walked from their house to the RO, about half a mile or so, then Jon rode his bike to the clubhouse at Kemble, while Tess wore a crimson leather corset and long skirt and travelled over on a trike, escorted by around sixty or seventy bikes, and the owner of Kemble Airfield did a low level fly-past in his black Hunter as they all drove onto the road running alongside the runway! They then had a blessing at the clubhouse by one of the bikers who’s an RAF padre.
Now that’s cool. 8)
[edit] just found a photo at the clubhouse. Didn’t cost much…

Even now people tell me it was the best wedding they’d been to.

I tell everyone that theirs was the best wedding I attended too. 😀

I tell everyone that theirs was the best wedding I attended too.

😉

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went to a wedding on Saturday.. was prob one of the most fun weddings i can remember being at…. prob i didn’t get completely totalled and was still standing at the end of the night.

wasn’t massively expensive, 8k? i think.

Thos thread is a weird mixture of people boasting about how expensive and amazing their wedding was or boasting about how cheap and amazing their wedding was. 🙂

2retro4u
Marin County, Cali

Dropping in late here, but…

Length of the marriage is in inverse ratio to the expense. We got married 27 years ago at the courthouse for the filing fee. Took about fifteen minutes. We swore to a bureaucrat that we would be trustworthy, loyal, faithful, etc. Essentially the Boy Scout pledge.

Then we spent a bunch of money on a party.

Okay, I’ll fess up – 2009, 60 guests, 2 days in a castle including all accommodation, meals and entertainment = £23k

Paid for by me, but £7k of that was for the Honeymoon 🙂

Repack Rider – Member
…Length of the marriage is in inverse ratio to the expense…

I’ve noticed that with all my friends marriages.

Okay, I’ll fess up – 2009, 60 guests, 2 days in a castle including all accommodation, meals and entertainment = £23k
Paid for by me, but £7k of that was for the Honeymoon

Weren’t you on here moaning about being skint a little while ago? 😛

All marriages from weddings I’ve attended, bar one are still going strong. That one didn’t cost that much. I’d estimate maybe £4-5k at the very most.

All marriages from weddings I’ve attended, bar one are still going strong. That one didn’t cost that much. I’d estimate maybe £4-5k at the very most.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/my-big-fat-geek-wedding-napster-founder-and-spotify-billionaire-sean-parkers-extravagant-starstudded-ceremony-8640196.html

This is an expensive wedding!

Ok, so $10m is nothing for a billionaire but I can never understand how less well off, yet normally rational people, feel that an expensive wedding makes more sense than paying off a big chunk of a mortgage.

Me and the OH have discussed this subject a few times, it would use up all my savings so we came to a solution, registry office just a couple of witnesses, then a 2 week holiday, and just tell people when we get back.

Tbh neither of us are very social, other stuff gets in the way. Plan was to book a restuarant for an evening invite close friends and relatives 20 max for a meal to celebrate, cheapstake i know but we have been together for 15 years so no real surprises for anyone.

Our wedding cost £65 – registry office and off to the pub for lunch – all concerned were happy! ( bit of an awkward moment when the registrar asked my wife to be’s birth date and I forgot [nerves!] we have only been together 25years!)