General Chat

This is the receipt for my in law weeding reception
7/8/1957 at the Esplanade Hotel Whitley Bay

the wedding reception 23 pounds 12 &6
Drinks 12 pounds 15 shilling
tips 7 shilling
Total 38 pounds 14 &6

Like to do a wedding recpition for that money now

Hi Sandra,

Mine was 11/6 ahead........in a posh hotel. 40 guests

No disco , never had them then. 1966.......just sat around and talked maybe a drink of babycham or two LOL

Then off for 2 days honeymoon ....Wow, we only had £5 left in our possession

How did we do it ??????

Marilyn

Was that expensive in comparrison to wages etc at the time?

I married in 1990 and we paid ourselves My dress was £100 and ma-in-law made the bridesmaid dresses.
We had the reception in the local village hall with a disco after.I think aprox 80 relatives etc in the day and 50 more in evening

Cant remember the exact price apox £2000 with honeymoon in cornwall
Just after that I think weddings started to get very expensive. My friend had a "posh" do and it cost an arm and a leg with only 50 guests and no disco after.

Teresa

Ours cost fifty pounds, reception at home, 20 guests in 1955. I made my own wedding dress and OH had the first new suit he had ever had. Come to that, he has only ever had one more! The tea and sugar were courtesy of the cookhouse boys where I was stationed at the hospital.

Mother-in -law has just said that they when to Bournemouth for there honeymoon and someone had to push there car to get it start.

Good lord,youre lucky if you can get half decent reception for less then £38 per head now..!

Mother -in- law and myself have just been talking over our first cup of tea of the day.Can not remember how much my wedding cost in 1983 but we both remember that we were late getting married because my father -in -law when and played golf that morning and before anyone ask he still put his golf first.