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How much did / will you spend on a wedding?
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:47 pm
by Kwackerz
From the Mail on Sunday:
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http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/liv ... ge_id=1770 )
At the BBC he earned a reputation as a clinical cost-cutter - and now Lord Birt has got married for less than £150.
Just two witnesses were present at Islington register office in North London when the corporation's 61-year-old former director-general married divorcee Eithne Wallis, a former head of the National Probation Service.
The 53-year-old mother of three wore a royal-blue velvet skirt suit, while Lord Birt, famously described by playwright Dennis Potter as a 'croak-voiced Dalek', wore a pin-striped suit.
The couple paid just the registrar's fees of £103.50, plus £30 to post the notice of marriage.
When Lord Birt left wife Jane after 41 years, following a secret 12-month affair with Ms Wallis, it caused a huge family rift, and none of the couple's children from their previous marriages attended Saturday's ceremony.
Lord Birt, also an ex-adviser to Tony Blair, had a cut-price divorce, too, incurring legal costs of just £1,500 after admitting his adultery.
£150 ? That's pretty good going really! Hats off to him!
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:34 pm
by snapdragon
Thats about what mine cost
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:41 pm
by ligloo
mine was about £2k all in (very cheap nowadays) and was a fantastic day/night... that included paying for the guests to stay over as I only had 40 CLOSE family and friends there, did cause a load of ructions though that I didnt invite certain peeps to crawl from the woodwork. What a night, best man put me and hubby to bed one at a time and a valued guest 'undid' my hair for me so I could actually sleep
Hubby said it was the best wedding he'd had out of 3 of them
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:43 pm
by Gio
Free, do I win a prize?
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:00 am
by BikerGran
Dunno what the first one cost, Mum paid.
Second one cost whatever the Registry office fees were plus the catering I did at home.
And the third one was ditto as above plus the hire of the Rugby Club for a damn good party!
I'm not having any more.
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:30 am
by oma
Gio wrote:Free, do I win a prize?
No
Someone would have to have spent some money.
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:46 pm
by Gio
oma wrote:Gio wrote:Free, do I win a prize?
No
Someone would have to have spent some money.
True, but it wasn't mine
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:42 pm
by Myrkk
Probably the best part of 7k but it was on an island and that includes the fortnight we spent there and the ferry, travels costs etc.
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:14 pm
by Lins
I'm still living in sin ... we've discussed getting engaged, but his lordship's wanting to save up, so I'm waiting ...
Who says romance is dead
