Grim news for those looking to tie the knot: the average cost of a UK wedding has ballooned to over £20,000.

That’s over £3,500 more than the UK’s typical yearly rent.

Understandably, frugal and frustrated fiancées have turned to online groups to try and help keep those costs down. That includes Reddit’s r/WeddingsUnder10k , in which posters share how they stuck, or plan to stick to, a $10,000 (£7,464) budget.

Here are some of the tips members swear by:

How to get married for less than £10,000

1) Skip professional flowers

Flowers cost the average British bride anywhere from £350 to £4,000. But multiple members of the group say their guests didn’t notice their DIY or outright omitted versions.

“We hit a wholesale market the morning before the rehearsal... and had my aunt help put everything together that night.…