The average wedding now costs £18,000
(Picture: ES)Victoria and James Moy had originally planned a big wedding in Edinburgh, after moving there from London so James, a pilot, could take a new job with Flybe.
“We were going to have 200 people, bespoke cocktails, an external caterer and a live folk band,” says Victoria, 31, who is, helpfully, an events planner. “I wanted it to be the day of a lifetime and for me, the flowers were just as important as the venue, so they were costing a lot of money, between £3,000 and £5,000.” Then the pandemic struck. “We were sat in a pub watching Sky News and saw that Flybe had folded overnight.”
