MBL: Dream weddings on tight budgets
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Wedding planning can be stressful and expensive. Venue, catering, flowers...the list goes on. Charmaine Cozier and guests talk through the best ways to budget and negotiate on price.
Guests:
Lisa Garwood-Cross, Living Thrifty Eve Obasuyi, Money Medics Ruby Norris, Wedding Ideas Magazine Gary Rycroft, Joseph A Jones Solicitors
Email questions and experiences to moneybox@bbc.co.uk
Producer: Ben Carter Editor Emma Rippon
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? When lies are still being told to this day, |
| 0:24.0 | who do you believe? I wouldn't even know where to start and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Are you planning to get married or form a civil partnership? |
| 0:41.0 | Whether you're a couple funding it yourself or a relative picking up the bill, there are costs and hidden costs. |
| 0:47.7 | We'll be covering the major ones, finding ways to minimise your budget and maximise your spending power. |
| 0:53.5 | We'll also look at some of the legal points you might need to consider before and after the big day. |
| 0:59.5 | Call us on 03-700-100-444 or email your questions and tips to Moneybox at BBC.co.com. |
| 1:09.1 | Joining us from our Salford studio is Lisa Garwood Cross, founder of the website Living |
| 1:14.1 | Thrifty. Now Lisa, you married your partner, Steph, last year. How much did it cost? We spent |
| 1:20.7 | just over £2,500 in total. And for how many guests? Oh, just around 100. Right, so £2,000, that's the cost of the dress for most weddings. |
| 1:31.1 | Why did you want to keep costs down? |
| 1:33.7 | So we had quite a long engagement and what we found was basically a lot of life stuff happened in the middle. |
| 1:39.1 | So we were saving for and bought a house and I started a PhD all before the wedding. |
| 1:45.7 | And for us it was a big important thing that we wanted to start our married life without any wedding debt. So we decided |
| 1:51.1 | to look at what we actually had available to spend on a wedding and go from there. Thanks, Lisa. |
| 1:56.3 | Stay with us. Our next guest is co-founder of Money Medics, which provides financial information and tips online. |
| 2:02.4 | She's also a bride to be. |
| 2:04.4 | Eve Obesuya. |
| 2:05.6 | Eve, congratulations. |
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