We are getting married in six weeks, budget is €15,000, seven of which is for the honeymoon! Having 65for sit down meal in nice restaurant and big party the next day, good quality finger food, prosecco reception (rather than champagne).. Brother designed the invites, didn’t buy an expensive dress etc… Having party guests bring cake, it’s a way of including people and having lots of tasty treats (we’re cake fiends)!
It’s very doable you just have to do a lot of ebaying/etsying!

We have asked for cash as gifts, in the nicest possible way but are making sure people don’t feel under pressure to give anything – we’re all living in tough times, I just don’t want a whole HAPE of crystal!

I think that price is absolutely outrageous!

We got married in 2009. Cost under 10k for 85 guests and 5 course dinner. We had a great day. Top class hotel for the price.

$29,000 goes a long way towards a deposit on a house.

I can do better than Ronan Lyons and I’m not a professional economist . Here’s how to go about get married on a budget of €I50. If you love each other it shouldn’t matter what you spend on a formality.

http://www.groireland.ie/getting_married.htm#section2

€23,500 a pop- have to feel sorry for the Mormons.

We’re getting married in Italy next year and it’s no cheaper, but it is more picturesque and now we don’t have to bring aul aunty Biddy who remembers me when I was only a babby!

A story like that demonstrates that the ‘Celtic Chernobyl’, and the nonsense associated with it, hasn’t passed yet.

I bought our wedding invitations and a gold ink pen and wrote them all myself……didnt book a hotel for our reception. Had it at the curragh in a lovely place called Lumville House. Its own gardens. Beautiful food, beautiful views from the place. Lovely location and the homely touch….Had 80 at our wedding and brought our own wine and paid corkage…..kept things simple, but will always cherish our day in 1992 !! You can do it on a budget and still have fantastic memories…..New ideas to save money seen on a programme recently…Get your parents old china cups and saucers. Fill cups with soil and plant bulbs in them or else put some oasis in them and stick flowers into it…..beautiful centre piece for the table…….could also put candles into them….

These people deserve to get ripped off.

Keep up with the Jones’

Hence why anyone with some common sense in the country would make a holiday out of their, get married and abroad and save €1000’s but also narrow down the odds of it pissin rain on ur big day. Nothin worse than it rainin on ur wedding day.

Just starting on this process myself and I can definitely see how this figure adds up. It’s no surprise you’re seeing entire DIY sections on sites like http://onefabday.com/diy/ – people want to cut down the costs when they can, as well as get the chance to use their imagination. (Remember that?)

Couldn’t disagree more with “twkm05″ – Ireland is a fantastic place to get married, there are such amazing venues out there and in terms of the weather, I think the risk of rain is hugely over-stated. So many people come to Ireland to get married and then you have eijits here who just don’t appreciate what they’ve got. All you need is a contingency plan in case it rains and you’ll be fine.

I think this average would be really overpriced

Yeah €29000 is a big deposit towards the house but who cares about buying property anymore in this country! Its so much more important to get married and just go with it. The value of property is still going down the swanny!

The presents of cash really reduces the impact.
In fact some people actually make money; a business decision almost :)

What’s a “wedding favour”? Conjuring all sorts of things in my head here… :)

What’s a ‘standalone restaurant’?