Description
The wedding budget, without the spreadsheet headache or the 2 a.m. “can we actually afford this?” spiral. The Wedding Budget Planner tracks every wedding cost three ways at once — what you estimated, what it actually costs, and what you have already paid — and always shows the honest number in the middle: committed, the forecast built from firm prices where you have them and estimates where you do not.
It starts on Start Here: your names, the date, your total budget, a contingency percentage, and your expected guest count. From there the system is already built: 36 typical wedding cost lines are listed and grouped for you, from the venue and catering down to the marriage license and vendor tips.
The 5 tabs:
• Start Here — names, wedding date, total budget, contingency %, expected guests. Everything reads from here.
• Dashboard — the whole wedding on one screen: budget, estimated, committed, paid, balance still due, contingency remaining, cost per guest, and a summary by category. Red alerts if committed costs pass the budget or eat the whole contingency.
• Budget — one row per cost in 14 categories. Type an Estimate while you plan; type the Actual when a vendor gives you a firm price. Committed Cost and Balance Due calculate themselves, and every line carries a Paid in full / Partly paid / Unpaid status.
• Payments — the calendar of money leaving the account: deposits and final balances with due dates. Type the date paid and the status flips. (This tab is timing only — costs live on the Budget tab, entered once, so nothing double-counts.)
• Per-Guest Calculator — fixed costs vs per-guest costs, priced at your guest count and across a 50–200 guest what-if table, with the true all-in cost per guest.
Contingency, handled properly. Your contingency (you set the %) is held outside the spending target, and it only starts draining when committed costs pass that target — so the Dashboard always shows what is genuinely left for surprises, not a number that quietly double-counts your cushion.
The example is a real-shaped wedding, not a fantasy. The filled example is a fictional 120-guest wedding on a $32,000 budget: $30,418 estimated, $29,986 committed, $13,250 paid in deposits, $16,736 still due, and $2,014 of the $3,200 contingency left. Its Per-Guest Calculator cross-checks the Budget tab to the dollar — $19,000 of fixed costs plus $91.55 per guest. Every number is hand-verifiable.
Planning the whole wedding? The rest of the suite:
• Guest list, RSVPs, meals and seating: the Wedding Guest List & RSVP Manager ($14.99).
• The day itself — timeline, vendors, countdown: the Wedding Day Timeline & Vendor Coordinator ($14.99).
• All three: the Wedding Bundle ($34.99) — save $14.97 vs buying them separately.
You receive 3 files:
1. The planner, BLANK — the 36 cost lines listed, ready for your numbers.
2. The planner, EXAMPLE — the complete fictional wedding filled in, so you can see exactly how everything works.
3. A Quick Start Guide (PDF) — setup in about 5 minutes, every tab explained, and a walkthrough of the example.
Good to know:
• Works in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Yellow cells are for typing, grey cells are formulas — that’s the only rule.
• No subscriptions, no macros, no add-ons. Buy once, use it for every quote, every vendor change, right up to the day.
• Instant download — files are available as soon as you check out.
• No TODAY() tricks: nothing in this workbook guesses what today’s date is or changes a number because a day passed.
About how this was made: This spreadsheet was created with the help of AI tools, then independently formula-tested (216 automated checks recalculated and verified, including blank and zero-value cases) and reviewed before listing — the same standard as every RemodelLedger product. The example couple and vendors are fictional.
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