After much research and a fair bit of wasted time visiting unsuitable venues (I'll let you know where we looked in another post), we can now officially get married.
We have given our marriage notices (who knew you had to do that!), booked the ceremony venue and hired the reception hall.
Firstly, we decided on the gorgeous Tin Tabernacle ( www.tintabernacle.com ) for our reception. It actually goes against everything i thought I wanted!
When we got engaged we each wrote a list of 5 things that were really important to us for our big day. Top of both lists was just to have all of our loved ones and friends in one place....tick, hopefully. Second on mine was to have the ceremony and reception in one place (I thought this would be less hassle and as we have a young son I don't really have the time or inclination to let this wedding take over my life). Third was an aisle I could walk down with my dad (we aren't religious so have never considered a church ceremony, but I am quite traditional so I wanted the moment of pride I'll have walking on my dads arm in front of everyone). I wanted a bar in situ so people could buy their own drinks in the evening.
The Tin Tabernacle ticks none of these boxes. It is, however a gorgeous and quirky space that we can make our own. Plus it is under £500 to hire for the weekend. A lovely lady named Hope showed us round and has been in regular email contact.
With this sorted we needed a place to actually get married. I have never really fancied a registry office and we wanted Brighton to feature in our day somehow so we have booked the bandstand on the seafront, again at a cost of around £500, ( keep everything crossed for decent weather!) If it rains we have to move the ceremony indoors downstiars, which meant we had to pay for two marriage notices (one for each venue).
So, at the moment my total spend is:
Ceremony venue £500
Reception venue £453.75
Marriage notices £140
Total £1093.75
It adds up so quickly!!
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