Australia's Cheapest Weddings

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Australia's Cheapest Weddings
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GenreReality, Wedding
Narrated by Melanie Vallejo
Country of origin Australia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Running time60 minutes
Release
Original network Seven Network
Original release22 August (2016-08-22) 
17 November 2016 (2016-11-17)

Australia's Cheapest Weddings is an Australian reality television series which premiered on the Seven Network on 22 August 2016. The program is narrated by Melanie Vallejo and follows couples who plan their wedding on a very small budget.

After three episodes, following poor ratings, Channel Seven pulled the show from its schedule indefinitely but did not confirm its cancellation. [1] Unaired episodes returned from 10 November 2016. [2]

Ratings

No.TitleAir dateTimeslotOvernight ratingsConsolidated ratingsTotal
viewers
Ref(s)
ViewersRankViewersRank
1Episode 122 August 2016Monday 8:30pm708,0001648,00015756,000 [3]
2Episode 229 August 2016Monday 8:30pm485,000485,000 [4]
3Episode 36 September 2016Monday 8:30pm391,000391,000 [5]
4Episode 410 November 2016Thursday 8:30pm455,0001538,00016492,000 [6] [7]
5Episode 517 November 2016Thursday 8:30pm538,0001137,00012575,000 [8] [9]
6Episode 617 November 2016Thursday 9:30pm461,0001535,00016496,000 [8] [7]

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