{"id":1535,"date":"2011-06-24T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/wedding-costs\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T10:34:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T10:34:24","slug":"wedding-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wedding-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding costs"},"content":{"rendered":"I am currently on my way to a hen do this weekend and as I\u00a0 rush round looking for Euros and my passport I couldn\u2019t help staggering at the news that the average wedding in the UK now costs more than \u00a315,000. Are couples seriously splashing out the equivalent of a decent deposit on a flat on what is essentially a huge party?\r\n\r\nI know how easy it is to get swept up in the moment – my friend Vix spent a very strange and stressful year playing maid of honour to the world\u2019s most high maintenance bride. Said bride saw nothing wrong, in the height of the recession, on insisting that her hard-pressed bridesmaids not only fork out for \u00a3100 shoes each, but then pay to have them dyed pale green. To this day I only have to whisper the words \u201ceau de nil\u201d for her to turn that very shade and reach for the brandy bottle.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nAnd it\u2019s not just the bride\u2019s family and those in the wedding party who have to dig deep, as hen nights have grown from a simple boozy night out into three or four day extravaganzas, often abroad, it\u2019s quite possible to blow \u00a3500 on a hen do, and that\u2019s before you\u2019ve splashed out on the compulsory pink cowboy hat.\r\n\r\nWith three weddings already lined up this summer I was starting to get a bit panicky so I was cheered to stumble across Nicola Ray\u2019s website, Cheap Wedding Success. Nicola is in an enterprising bride who decided she wanted her wedding day to be the best day of her life, but didn\u2019t want to devote the rest of her life to paying for it. So she set herself a budget of \u00a35,000 and still managed to organise a sit down meal and constant running champagne for 100 guests. Having pulled it off she decided to share the secrets of her success with the world and ended up creating a very successful business helping brides to keep it real.\r\n\r\nSo with the wedding season in full swing let me know your favourite \u201chang the budget\u201d wedding horror stories, either as a bride, bridesmaid or wedding guest and how you survived it!\r\n\r\nAmanda<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\nScary statistic of the day:<\/u>\r\nShopkeepers are feeling the pinch as sales figures revealed a 2% drop in takings in the first two weeks of June (compared to an 18% rise in April thanks to sunshine and the royal wedding) so it\u2019s a buyers\u2019 market out there – if you have something big to buy, now\u2019s the time to snap up a bargain.\r\n\r\nDeal of the Day:<\/u>\r\n\r\nBabies R Us<\/a> are marking Child Safety Week by cutting the cost of their car seats in half – visit the KidStart<\/a> home page and have a browse.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda is shocked by the price of weddings and all the extras. 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