Wedding Budget Calculator

Turning 100 guests and $75 a head into a full budget

The Wedding Budget Calculator turns a guest count and a per-head venue price into a complete spending plan, using the planner split where venue and catering take half the total. Say you're inviting 100 guests and the venue quotes $75 a head. Enter 100 and 75, leave the region multiplier on Standard. Venue plus catering lands at $7,500 — and because that's 50% of the plan, the whole budget back-solves to $15,000. The rest fills in automatically: attire and beauty $1,500, photo and video $1,800, decor and flowers $1,500, music $1,200, other plus buffer $1,500. Every line sums to $15,000, which is the point — you see trade-offs instead of one vague number.

The region multiplier only touches the venue line, and it's worth playing with. Flip the same quote to Big city (×1.3) and venue jumps to $9,750, pushing the total to $19,500. Small town (×0.8) drops it to $12,000. Two blind spots the percentages can't fix: rings and the honeymoon aren't line items here, so plan those separately, and per-head quotes usually cover catering and bar but not service charges or gratuity — read the venue contract before trusting your $75 figure.