Really Useful Ideas For Saving Money On Your Wedding

You're engaged — congratulations! Now all you need to do is figure out how to deal with the small matter of providing dinner, drinks and entertainment for a number of your nearest and dearest friends and family using what minimal funds are in your typically millennial bank account.

Weddings are expensive. We know this. In fact, according to one study earlier this year, the average wedding in Australia now comes in at a mind-boggling $36,000.

Luckily, the economic masterminds in Refinery29 UK's Money Diaries Facebook group have weighed in with their help on how to keep the costs of a wedding down. From planning a (free!) alcohol-buying trip to Calais to ditching the things people will be too drunk on the day to care about (thank the above booze cruise), here are some of our favourite ideas on how to spend less, without having less fun.