We write about what we know: budgets that run away, guests who don’t reply, timelines nobody reads. Every guide answers a question, or it doesn’t exist.
Around £20,000 for eighty guests, but the average doesn’t tell you much. What matters is knowing which levers move the bill, and which ones nobody will notice.
12 September 2026 · 6 min read
Key figure
~£20,000
for about eighty guests, with catering and drinks making up almost half.
Your guests don’t need your planning spreadsheet. They need to know where to be, when, and what happens next. That’s a different document.
3 questions
where am I going, what time, and what happens next. Everything else is for you.
28 August 2026 · 5 min
Too early and people forget to reply. Too late and they’ve made other plans. The timeline that works, and the two reminders that are enough.
3–4 months
ahead for invitations, with a reminder three weeks before the RSVP deadline.
5 August 2026 · 4 min
Almost every wedding website is free. That means you pay some other way. How each one makes money, and what that means for you.
£0
shown almost everywhere. The real question is who pays, and how.
19 July 2026 · 5 min
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