civil v church costs

Hello all,

After putting our wedding on hold we are back to planning again.  Can someone give me a rough idea of how prices compare when you get wed in a church and then have your wedding meal and evening function in a nice hotel compared to having the ceremony and the evening all in one place.  

There is one venue I love which would have a civil service and everything in the same place and I have priced up how much the service and meal/wine/evening buffet would cost for about 60 day and 80 night guests and it came to almost £7k which seems an awful lot to me.

For the same amount of people how much do hotels usually charge (roughly) for a reception and how much are churches?

£7k is an awful lot of money and I am sure if I looked at other venues I could find something cheaper but for me it has to have the wow factor and I haven't found it yet.  Plus £620 of that is registrar fees!!

Any input appreciated.

xx

Do you want to get married in a church? If you're religious there should be no question but to go for the church option.

We're having a civil ceremony followed by reception and found that just to have the reception there wasn't much cheaper as they didn't charge for the ceremony room hire, only have to pay for the registrar... Which in most cases is the same price as a church when you take into consideration paying for organist, bells, choir etc. Plus, there is the added cost of transport from the ceremony to reception.

I agree, from what I understand the prices are comparable, and I really don't think cost should be the decider when considering whether to marry in Church. Either it's important to you to marry in front of God, or it's not, in which case you shouldn't do it in church just because it's cheaper or has wow factor. If you can find a wow venue but you don't like the ceremony element cost, a register office wedding IS much cheaper, then you can go on to your nice venue for your reception. Some register offices are very pretty in their own right.