Remind me why we are getting married in London? Why don’t we just bus everyone out the middle of nowhere and then bus everyone back again. IT’LL PROBABLY BE CHEAPER!
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So, we knew the meal would be a bit pricey but that’s OK as Donny and I are both big foodies and we wanted to treat everyone to a really nice meal because, frankly, how often to you get to do that for a huge bunch of your close friends? Well, hopefully not too often or else your bank manager will be having words.
Anyway, after the meal we were thinking what would be easier and nicer then all piling down to a local bar, taking the place over and having a lovely relaxed evening of drinks, snacks and live entertainment? Except when I started to arrange this today I discovered our top contender for bar of choice wanted a minimum spend of ten thousand pounds.
TEN THOUSAND POUNDS!
OK – let’s figure this out. If their staff costs all came to a grand that would leave £9,000 split between around 150 people. That’s £60 per person. That’s enough for a really good meal and a bottle of wine each. Not an evening spent drinking beer and eating sandwiches.
So it’s back to the drawing board. The plan is to look for places within a 15 minute walk from the restaurant which are a bit more off the beaten track and have a rather more manageable minimum spend. I’m sure there’s a place out there with our name on it.
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Oof. I like your thinking, though, DIY and fun & relaxing night. Got a yard that’ll fit a big white tent in it? Wait, I do! Come on over! 🙂
Oh PS, you’ve heard about a little something called, I think, olymp-iques, happing round your way this summer? i know it’sll be over by Aug but is it messing up peoples airfares or hotel rates? poo…
The Olympics will be over by the time we do the marriage deed, but it is probably going to mess with air fares. But then we also figured if people are already in town having Olympic fun, they can stay on a few more days and see us tie all manner of knots.
you could do worse than try a local community/arts centre. You probably thought we were flash, but the whole venue hire was £750 including marriage and staff hire, there was no corkage (enabling us to get good wine at cost price from Majestic) and we used a Southall Indian caterer at a total of £6 a head…have I said too much? The only downside was having to hire every tea spoon and napkin etc from a caterer but surely being a gay you would enjoy that?