My venue for wedding in 2008 .. everything from flights, venue, flowers, accomodation, honeymoon, dress, even a couple rounds of golf ....€12K-15K. Irl is crazy with their prices.!
Thought it was mad to spend that much money on one day. However, I did think that Franc certainly stretched their money and gave them real bang for their buck.
And so he should, after all by agreeing to be on the programme they enabled Franc to get 100,000's in free advertising. And going by some of the comments here it worked; plenty of self-important bridzillas to flash the cash in his direction next year.
Well done RTE; public service broadcasting at its best!