How much did / will you spend on a wedding?

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#1 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:47 pm

From the Mail on Sunday:

( 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!

snapdragon · #2 Post by **snapdragon** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:34 pm

Thats about what mine cost

ligloo · #3 Post by **ligloo** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:41 pm

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

Gio · #4 Post by **Gio** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:43 pm

Free, do I win a prize?

BikerGran · #5 Post by **BikerGran** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:00 am

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.

oma · #6 Post by **oma** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:30 am

Gio wrote:Free, do I win a prize?

No

Someone would have to have spent some money.

Gio · #7 Post by **Gio** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:46 pm

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

Myrkk · #8 Post by **Myrkk** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:42 pm

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.

Lins · #9 Post by **Lins** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:14 pm

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