Getting married on a tight budget...help?

emsy g

So we are planning on getting married in or around August/September.
I am not a fan of big weddings and at the moment we have a list of 31 people which I am still trying to shorten!
We'll have the wedding with a registrar,no big white dresses or anything and only a couple of people are to be there although I still haven't decided on who they will be.I think I'll ask either my sister in law or our close friend to make the cake as a wedding gift seen as we wouldn't want anything too fancy anyway and we wouldn't want to do a dinner as such but maybe a buffet?

My questions are,does anyone have any good idea's for locations and how to go about making this as cheap as possible without taking away from the wedding idea completely.
We're expecting our first born son....yesterday actually but no sign yet and although we've been talking about getting hitched for years we've only just decided for the sake of making us a real family legally that we should do it as soon as we can.I would like for him to be with us and for all his cousins also to come along so yes,there will be babies about thus making it a little more awkward on the location and everything.

Anyone want to offer advice?

Sundew

Okay I don't have any ideas for location. I'm presuming you are based in Balrothery on the Northside as oposed to the southside!

I wil give you a personal experience of a wedding I attended in the UK last August. My first cousin got married.Fantastic big wedding cermony however they had their reception in a local hall! I had my reservations but on the night before many of her friends (some artistic, some not) all gave a hand in setting the hall up and decorating the place, laying tables etc. It was actually great fun as people got to meet each other and have a laugh.
There was a beautiful garden attached to the hall and they hired catererers the following day who set up a barbeque grill in the garden. You helped yourself to drinks after arriving and queued up for your food, then sat where you wanted . No formaility and it worked out very well. Later on in the evening candles were lit and a disco was put on. In the ajoining room there was some comfy couches and comfy seats for people to lounge in.
It was cheap as chips but it was actually a wonderful party and everybody really enjoyed it including the priests :eek:
After attending it, and comparing it to much more formal big and small wedding parties which I have attended, I would say it beat them all hands down. Good caterers and good music and all your friends & family, thats all the ingredents you need for a wedding party to remember.
Good luck with it

emsy g

Haven't updated my profile in a long time.We're not in Balrothery anymore but it doesn't really matter anyway as we'd like to go somewhere like Cork or Galway to be closer to friends and family as most of us are either pregnant or have babies and young kids and it makes things easier all around

Another thing I didn't mention is that there is no religion envolved,so no churches of ANY kind and if we decide not to do it in a registry office then we would like to do it somewhere a registrar can actually legally marry us.

What else did I not mention?We're all very into cooking but for this occasion I will settle for a buffet....no dinner as it really isn't going to be that kind of occasion.Doubt there'll even be much alcohol at this point what with young kids,pregnant women and breastfeeding mums hehe

So just a nice day out for a group of close friends and family members I think

Borderfox

I shot a wedding last year and they were married in the Unitarian church in Stephens green and walked across the green to a restaraunt, flowers were bought that day and the seller made up two really nice boquets for her. They finished having drinks in the Morrison hotel, I would say it came in at a very low budget.