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The £56 figure in council fee tables is real, but it is rarely the whole wedding. I asked three couples in different UK council areas to open their register office receipts and tell me what they wish they had asked before booking.
Tents are the easy answer. The harder work happens in the 48 hours before. Fourteen couples on layout swaps, umbrella piles, supplier calls and the small decisions that kept guests dry.
Three couples, three nations, one stubbornly tight budget. We asked them to open the spreadsheet — every hire fee, marquee quote, catering invoice and the odd extra nobody warns you about. Here is where the money genuinely went.