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The £272 guest
Spend per guest rose four per cent this year while total budgets stayed flat. The maths of that is worth understanding before you write your list.
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What weddings cost and how to read the quotes.
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UK wedding budgets have barely moved in three years, and that is more interesting than it sounds
Bridebook puts the 2026 average at £20,604, from a survey of 7,000 couples. It was £20,822 last year and £20,775 the year before. Flat, in an era when nothing else is.
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How per head pricing works, and how to read a venue quote
Venue quotes are written in a dialect. Learn the four numbers that matter and the standard extras, and no quote can ambush you again.
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What wedding flowers cost, and why
The florist quote arrives and the room goes quiet. Where the money actually goes, what moves the number, and how to spend less without it showing.
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The real cost of a marquee wedding
A field, a tent and freedom sounds like the cheap option. It is the most honest quote in weddings, because you build the venue yourself.
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Where to spend and where to save: a wedding budget that works
Every budget is a set of trades. The categories that repay every pound, the ones that quietly absorb money, and how to tell them apart.
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What a UK wedding really costs in 2026
The averages, what sits underneath them, and the three numbers to decide before you book anything at all.
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What a wedding photographer actually costs
The averages, the outliers, and why the cheapest quote is usually the most expensive decision.
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How to read a venue quote
Minimum spend, corkage, and the four questions that find the real number before you fall in love with the room.