It will cost you £640 on average according to The Daily Fail.
The average guest now spends £114 on hotel accommodation, £112 on gifts, £105 on their outfit, £96 on travel and £84 on the hen or stag do.
Gone are the days when the wedding was held in a church, the reception in mam's front room or the upstairs room of a pub and you all waved off the happy couple as they left for a honeymoon when everyone had finished eating.
It's nice to splash out a bit to look nice, but you don't have to go mad to find the right thing. £50 would be my limit for a gift. If the wedding was within a reasonable distant I would get a taxi home and pick the car up the next day.
I'm surprised on just £84 for the hen/stag do, trips abroad seem to be thing you have to do nowadays.
I know several people who had multiple hen and stag do's at home and abroad personally I don't see the sense or need to go over the top, were it me I'd rather spend the money having a fabulous honeymoon
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The first wedding I went to I was a bridesmaid. They were 8 of us in all & Aunty N ran up our dresses on her Singer sewing machine. The net, because that's what it was, was bought in Cardiff Market. Her daughter had her dress made out of gallons of white net & something white and shiny underneath & Aunty N patiently hand sewed lots of pearls on the bodice. The reception was in Aunty N's front room in shifts. As soon as guests had finished eating their chicken dinner they went across the road to the pub & the sherry & Brains Dark flowed all night. There was a jolly old sing song in the pub led by Uncle A on the piano. At the end of the evening the happy couple went to their new home - the downstairs back room in Aunty N's house. There have been many weddings since but that one sticks in my mind as being the best.
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Jun 13, 2015 20:09:18 GMT
I didn't have to spend that much - I have to admit that I had two outfits at the ready in case I didn't like the one I had chosen on the day. Both were Chesca which Tinks has written about. Handbag and hat were both from the HOF sales and shoes were from Hotter. As I wore the same outfit for 32's wedding as the one today I think I did well. Both Chesca outfits can be worn again.
We went to our friends son's wedding in Feb. I got my outfit from EBay, all new and fabulous bargains, think I spent about £45 in total, full prices would've been about £400. They had recently bought a house, so we gave them the money for a fridge freezer which was the last big item they needed. Our friends paid for our accommodation at the venue, and we all took food and drink for the evening before the wedding, and the mornings of the wedding and day after.