Offbeat Credit crunch couple's £600 wedding

**Mike** · 10-08-2008, 01:28 PM

A young couple are beating the credit crunch by getting married for just £597.29.

With the average cost of a wedding recently reported to have topped £20,000, Odette Fenwick and Chris May were determined not to let theirs break the bank.

Odette,19, told the Daily Mirror: "I would've liked a big wedding but it's too expensive. It's better like this as we've enjoyed the bargain hunting."

She bought her dress online from eBay for £52, while second-hand rings for the pair cost £19.

Odette and Chris, 21, are laying on £40 worth of Iceland food for close family at the reception - in the garage door showroom where Chris works - but other guests have been asked to bring their own.

Instead of champagne to toast the newlyweds, they will be drinking 89p-a-bottle Chardonnay.

The couple, from Ilfracombe in Devon, have even persuaded a radio station to loan them a car for their 16 August register office ceremony and a local newspaper photographer will take pictures.

Odette said: "I am looking forward to the big day. Then with the money we save we are hoping to move into our first home in October. I'd consider a posh second wedding one day if we can afford it but it wouldn't be half as much fun.

"The best bargain is my dress. It has never been worn and a perfect fit. It's as if it was made for me."

I think that is ace

Marriage is about Love and Devotion its a pitty that Weddings cost so much these days

Chris added: "I'm so happy I don't mind what sort of wedding it is."

**kazthorn** · 11-08-2008, 02:49 AM

That's fantastic, they have certainly been creative.

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Originally Posted by Mike

Instead of champagne to toast the newlyweds, they will be drinking 89p-a-bottle Chardonnay.

Although this is bound to be the cause of some sore heads the following morning

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**madcat** · 11-08-2008, 10:11 AM

Yeah!! The cheap stuff always gives you worse hangovers doesn't it!!

MadCat

**Waldo** · 11-08-2008, 11:02 AM

Adding up what they say they paid for things, there seems to be an awful lot of money left over for that 89p chardonnay - there will definitely be sore heads!

**Cookie** · 11-08-2008, 11:29 AM

**Nutty_ZA** · 11-08-2008, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike

With the average cost of a wedding recently reported to have topped £20,000

Ouch... does it really cost that much to get married in the UK these days?

Good on them for saving some money BUT doesn't anyone think they're a little too young to be getting married? (Or am I just being an old Fart again)

**fifi2004** · 11-08-2008, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Nutty_ZA

Good on them for saving some money BUT doesn't anyone think they're a little too young to be getting married? (Or am I just being an old Fart again)

No Nutty. I think the younger you are, the less you have a sense of reality about marriage and life.

Our wedding is going to cost us about 20K (AUD), and I told my boyfriend that he can't pull out now. Too much has been organised already.

Now it's til death. Forever or never I say.

**Waldo** · 11-08-2008, 01:44 PM

It's painful how much weddings cost now. I can't remember how much mine cost (it was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay long ago!), but as it was only at 3 weeks notice, probably not much. I remember the registry office, a bar in a hotel for the reception and that's it. I was 18 at the time. And in case you are wondering - NO, not still together, but did last 7 years, so not bad, considering. I've been with my current partner for 14 years now, not married, and happily so - and think it will stay that way if that's what it might cost to tie the knot!

**Nutty_ZA** · 11-08-2008, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by fifi2004

No Nutty. I think the younger you are, the less you have a sense of reality about marriage and life.

That's my point exactly... I didn't get married until I was 37....

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Originally Posted by fifi2004

Our wedding is going to cost us about 20K (AUD), and I told my boyfriend

Ours cost +-R50 000-00 which is a lot of money but that's nothing compared to £20,000-00

**Cookie** · 13-08-2008, 06:10 AM

Yeah - getting married today is far too expensive for my liking - just go on holiday to one of the islands and get married there - no fuss not mess - and you are already on honeymoon.

I think far too many women try and compete with each other in wanting a better wedding - just think, take that R50,000 and place it on a deposit for a nice house - money invested - spend it on a wedding - money not invested.

I have been married for 15 years - and still very happy - and we did not have anything fancy at the time.

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Cookie Junior Poster My Mood: Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 18 Credits: 187 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Yeah - getting married today is far too expensive for my liking - just go on holiday to one of the islands and get married there - no fuss not mess - and you are already on honeymoon. I think far too many women try and compete with each other in wanting a better wedding - just think, take that R50,000 and place it on a deposit for a nice house - money invested - spend it on a wedding - money not invested. I have been married for 15 years - and still very happy - and we did not have anything fancy at the time.

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