A couple have revealed how they managed to spend less than £300 on their dream wedding. Instead of an elaborate ceremony, Eleanor Hawthorne and her husband Feisal opted for a more relaxed version - marrying in a £15 vintage slip dress and enjoying a spontaneous wedding reception at Wetherspoons.
The couple. from Liverpool, say they didn't want to "spend an obscene amount of money" on their October 2022 wedding and instead chose to use the cash they had saved to go traveling. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link Eleanor, 29, told ethical jewellery brand Sacet: “Feisal and I have been together for three years now, and when we were planning the wedding, all we wanted was to be married. "We didn’t want all of that attention on us, and we didn’t want to spend an obscene amount of money when we could use that money to travel the world instead.
The day itself was really relaxed. "We woke up around 6am, Feisal and his best friend went to the gym and brought me back a coffee from town whilst I got ready before we got a taxi to St George's Hall, where we met our guests.
We only had 20 guests in total, and it was only our parents who came into the actual ceremony with us.” Actor and publicist Eleanor has shared how they kept the cost of their wedding down, revealing that she wore a £15 dress to the ceremony at St George’s Hall because she could wear it multiple times.
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