Wedding Spend Benchmark

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

3 of the 11 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 45 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the national statistics offices' counts - marriages per year, civil against religious, and the share held at approved premises rather than a register office - joined year on year, beside the industry surveys' average spend with the sample size and the year each was taken; the derivation is the comparison our own price index makes possible: the surveyed average against the sum of the category medians we read from suppliers' own pages, which is the one place a couple can see whether the quoted 'average wedding' is what the market actually charges

45 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.