A savvy couple saved £16.2k on their wedding - by bagging second hand outfits and buying Buck's fizz from Aldi. Amy Louise Barnes, 34, had been engaged to her partner, Rhys Pryor, 32, for 13 years before the pair finally decided to tie the knot.
3 Amy and Rhys saved a whopping £16k on their wedding day Credit: SWNS 3 Amy's dress was from eBay Credit: SWNS 3 The couple had been engaged for 13 years Credit: SWNS Up until that point the couple had decided to put their money towards a house deposit and raising their three children - Lola, 10, Mila, seven and Charlie, four. But the pair decided to finally tie the knot - setting themselves the challenge of a tight £4k budget. They hired their local church for £531, village hall for £250 and spent £550 on fish and chips for the evening meal.
Amy found a new princess style wedding dress worth £1,150 on eBay for £90 - and picked up her son and daughter's outfits for as little as £12 on Vinted. She decorated the village hall herself - finding decorations such as glow sticks and fake flowers from charity shops and bargain sites such as Shein. The couple loved their special day and estimate they saved £16,202 on the average £20k wedding in the UK.
Amy, a teaching assistant, from Ashford, Kent, said: "For me spending huge money on nine hours is not worth it. "I'd rather put it towards buying as bigger house Most read in Fabulous GORDON STRACHAN The players Scotland DON'T have is the real reason we are out of Euro 2024 SCOT TO B.
