I know a great place not to far from you, you can come try it out in about 8 weeks None of this £100+/head crap either, good food and venue at a reasonable price. Helps having an event organiser as a fiancee (and shes only 10% over budget, and within contigency!)
You didn't seriously think that the contingency wouldn't get used did you????
No I expected it to go into her contingency, but I tell her one value and save for another real value entirely. Just like when you need to go out at 7pm, you tell her she needs to be ready at 6:00-6:30pm We're now into the period where everyone needs paying and its already been save for, quite chuffed that non of it is going to be on the tick or credit card, and its too late to add anything else now. All paid for before the day
Anything thats left from the real contingency at the end is a bonus for the honeymoon/car/etc