We spent more than we intended. We had a 'quickie' wedding so to speak, he proposed and we set the date for 3 months later. The venue was free and outside, we paid for a penthouse apartment to have the reception and that cost around $2000 for 3 nights. Food and alcohol I have no idea, but we catered a big bbq for 60 people and the alcohol just lasted till the end, it must have been at least $2000. Our friend is a celebrant so we got mates rates there but that was still around $500. My dress and hair etc came to around $2000 and DH hired his suit. Rings again mates rates - I've got white gold and my DH titanium, we paid cost price for those. Came to about $500 instead of a few thousand. We paid for some of our family and friends to stay in rental units in the same block as us and we paid for MIL and GMIL to fly over from NZ. (But if I remeber rightly BIL paid us half back). My MIL made my wedding cake. Photography was cheap too, again another dear dear friend whose sideline is photography. He didn't ask for any money but we gave him a gift of $500 as a thank you.

No honeymoon as we were moving to Sydney a month later and still no honeymoon nearly 3 years later! I'm OK with that and can wait.

All up about $8k ish.....