The best way to save for the wedding

[puddytat]

Hey guys, me and my fiance have been engaged for just over a year and i just wondered what is the best way to save for the wedding now that we have got a new born baby? And we get paid every other tuesday and only get £250 and with that we have to get shopping, do the washing, buy electric, pay bills eg tv, water ect.

So i just wondered if anyone had any tips on how to save for the wedding.

 

[Sofiekirsten]

We bought a massive piggy bank and put all our silver and copper into it and left the pounds in our purse or wallet....

It soon mounts up!

 

[missmousemum2]

Congrats on your LO!


I'm a rubbish saver at the best of times, but I'm in the same boat as you...... we'll be saving whilst I'm on mat pay, so not really the ideal saving scenario!

The piggy bank idea is a good one - we've done this and it really does add up! I don't know who you bank with either, but I bank with Lloyds TSB and they do this thing called 'Save the change' so that if you use tyour debit card somewhere, they round up the transaction to the nearest £ and put the change in your savings account... i.e. if you spend say £9.99 somewhere, they transfer 1p into your savings or if you spend £5.67, they'd transfer 33p etc.... I think that's quite good!

Also as I'll be on mat leave, I'm planning on doing a few more bits and pieces myself to cut down costs e.g. our wedding favours.... I'm going to pick up the bits and put them together myself.

The other thing I've started doing, is doing my 'big shop'online. That way I tend to buy much less crap than i would be inclined to do when walking around the supermarket, good too for all the heavy stuff and baby stuff and I imagine much easier than shopping with a newborn!

Best of luck! When's your big day?

 

[Pinkgirl]

Maybe a standing order into a savings account.
What about giving money to parent to keep
x

 

[honeybee2]

deffo an isa account. Have a direct debit of £10 a week go in (the interest soon mounts up) and then save all your coppers and spare silver in your pockets in a jar. trust me- its does mount up. Save where ever you can- try if you can to chop the food bill by a fiver each week which is easily done if you cut something out or buy something cheaper, the £5 can then go into the ISA or something. xx

 

[sianyld]

u can get wedding pots from clintons cards etc, they're really pretty, just put a £1 or £2 coins in when u can! we have a honeymoon pot!!! It soon mounts up and to get the cash out u have to smash the pot when its full! Good idea 4 me i hate saving lol

But we also have a savings account babe, good luck! xx

 

[lynne192]

we're in the same boat hun i have decided to just stop spending soo much on food shopping this is our current out going:

£25 per month TC/Net/Phone - £7 per week
£15 per month Mobile - £4
£22 per month TV licence £5.50
£10 Gas per week
£5 electricity per week
£22 per month council tax - £5.50
£35 per week shopping
£10+ bus fair

i only get £133 roughly after paying my rent
and have £82 per week week out
hoping to get £50 per week

prob wont work out that way started saving last week and have £42 lol

 

[xMissxZoiex]

We've got two massive eggs money boxes one for the wedding and one for the honey moon, we try to put as much of our loose change in it as possible and when we have a spare £10/£20 we stick it in our savers account.

It all soon mounts up xxx

 

[Missy89]

If you start planning what you want you can buy things as you go along. I do this with the house as we're hoping to move soon and it'll be quite a bit bigger and as Im rubbish at saving when I see something for the new house I buy it and stash it under the stairs- you can't spend money thats allready spent! Works the same for the wedding Oh and congrats!

 

[QueenMummyToBe]

One of the best things to do is,

Take the time to write out a wedding budget, so you know how much you need to save up in total.

Then write a budget for each week, try to keep shopping as cheap as possible, and even if you save a small amount each week it is better than nothing.

Good luck

xXx