Wedding Budget Calculator: Guests, Quotes, Fees and Reserve
Calculate a wedding budget from your own fixed costs, per-guest quotes, known fees and tax. Export a transparent CSV with every assumption.
All Wedding Research compiles primary government data and published wedding surveys, explains their limits, and creates original graphics and practical planning tools. Sources, observation years and methods are shown alongside each resource. Our directory benchmark measures our imported listing records; it is not a survey of the whole wedding industry.
Calculate a wedding budget from your own fixed costs, per-guest quotes, known fees and tax. Export a transparent CSV with every assumption.
Calculate planned cake portions and additional servings from guest count, staff meals, a chosen reserve and baker-confirmed display-cake yield.
Source-checked cake hiring and spending figures, including the publisher's $530/$540 discrepancy. Original graphics, CSV data and serving-planning tools.
Plan a wedding catering brief with meal counts, menu choices, staffing, rentals, dietary communication and service handoffs. Edit, print or download the CSV.
Catering hiring, per-person spending and buffet versus plated reception statistics, with primary sources, original charts and a menu-planning worksheet.
Compare sourced wedding-cost benchmarks, a $24,000 median, vendor spending and prospective budgets. Original charts, downloadable data and survey limits.
Plan ceremony and reception music with exact song versions, pronunciation, must-play and do-not-play selections, microphones and handoffs. Edit or download CSV.
Primary-source DJ hiring and spending figures, personality priorities and first-dance participation. Original charts, CSV data and a music planning template.
Compare floral proposals by pieces, quantities, scale, substitutions, vessels and installation labor. Edit the wedding flower worksheet, print it or download CSV.
Florist hiring and spending facts from the original study, with clear subgroup limits, original graphics and an itemized floral-proposal worksheet.
Build a photography brief with priority moments, portrait groups, people and delivery questions. Edit, print or download the original wedding shot-list CSV.
Photographer hiring, $3,000 category spend, portfolio priorities, second photographers and travel fees. Source-linked data, graphics and CSV downloads.
Use a flexible wedding planning checklist with task owners, real supplier deadlines, guest information and final handoffs. Edit, print or download the CSV.
Sourced planning-time, engagement, mobile activity and planner-cost statistics, with clear definitions, original graphics and a practical checklist.
Compare three wedding vendor quotes by scope, required extras, mandatory fees and confirmed tax. Edit the worksheet and download your comparison as CSV.
Plain-language definitions of 43 wedding vendor terms, from minimum spend and service charge to load-in, cake yield, music cues and floral strike. Download the CSV.
Copy specific inquiry emails for venues, photographers, planners, cakes, catering, flowers, music, video, beauty and rentals, plus follow-up and decline templates.
Which wedding vendors couples hire, what the survey actually measures, and how to compare a team. Original charts and downloadable 2025 hiring data.
Sourced venue hiring and spending statistics, with original graphics, survey caveats and a practical path to comparing venue proposals.
A practical venue tour checklist for capacity, accessibility, weather backup, complete quotes, vendor access and event-day responsibilities. Edit, print or download CSV.