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Ally-C Aug 2023 2:19pm, 22 Aug 2023 3,992 posts	0 Ally-C That’s a fair dunt in yer mortgage which would be money better spent imho.
Ness Aug 2023 2:20pm, 22 Aug 2023 33,636 posts	0 Ness That is a huge amount of money!
cathrobinson Aug 2023 2:25pm, 22 Aug 2023 11,653 posts	0 cathrobinson I can't remember what my ex-wife and I spent on our civil partnership, but it wasn't loads and we still had a really good day. I think it was circa £5k-ish at most. At the time I was "wealthy and broke" (i.e. I had a good job that paid well, but we ended up living so far beyond our means that I was living paycheck to paycheck), so we spent the wedding money frugally.
Velociraptor Aug 2023 2:28pm, 22 Aug 2023 65,025 posts	0 Velociraptor My father has just dropped around £4,500 on a fairly standard funeral, no wake.
Hanneke Aug 2023 2:43pm, 22 Aug 2023 108,917 posts	0 Hanneke My mum's was €13.000 😱 But we had people coming from very faraway so the service and cremation was followed by a high tea for about 200 people... We had a more intimate get-together for close friends and family after that.
EvilPixie Aug 2023 2:45pm, 22 Aug 2023 45,948 posts	0 EvilPixie I dread to think what mum spent on dad's funeral funeral car was a Rolls Royce, then she paid for our flowers too, and the wake and then the gravestone (plus weekly + flowers for 4years of visits)
Ally-C Aug 2023 2:47pm, 22 Aug 2023 3,993 posts	0 Ally-C I’m going down the road of a private funeral for my mum. If I out live her. She’s 83 and all her remaining siblings are getting on a bit too. She’s not got many friends due to her mental health condition and we’ve no grandchildren in the family anyway.
Flatlander Aug 2023 2:53pm, 22 Aug 2023 2,878 posts	0 Flatlander Both my parents had taken out pre-paid funeral plans so all I had to do was choose the celebrant and service details. No wake as such, just people gathering back at their house for tea and cakes.
Garfield Aug 2023 3:01pm, 22 Aug 2023 17,445 posts	0 Garfield Hmmm, we paid for the registry fee, and supper for our friends that evening...after they had surprised us with the wedding breakfast on the Glassboat in Bristol...they brought the cake separately but we ate it there. And corsages arrived at our neighbour's door at 8am...another thing our friends knew hubby wouldn't think of!
cathrobinson Aug 2023 3:03pm, 22 Aug 2023 11,654 posts	0 cathrobinson My mum was pleasantly surprised by the funeral costs for dad. She transferred the money out of his account just before he died so he effectively paid for his own funeral. If it had been too expensive we knew he’d be “turning in his box”.

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