Plan wedding budget by category with vendor cost tracking, payment timeline, guest cost analysis, and budget vs actual dashboard.
This planner splits a total wedding budget across categories such as venue, catering, photography, and attire, then lets you attach real vendor quotes, deposits, and balance-due dates to each line. It builds a payment timeline from those due dates so you can see what's owed and when, and it flags guest-count-driven costs (catering, favors, rentals) so a per-head price scales automatically if the guest list changes. A budget-vs-actual dashboard then lines up what you planned against what you've actually committed or paid, category by category. Users are most often surprised when a late guest-count increase quietly inflates several categories at once, not just catering.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
Total budget: $20,000. Guest count: 80. Catering: $95/guest. Venue: $6,000 flat. Photography: $4,500 total, deposit paid $3,000, balance due 30 days before the wedding date of 2026-10-10.
Expected output
Catering category total: 80 x $95 = $7,600. Venue + catering committed: $13,600. Photography balance due: $1,500, due date 2026-09-10. Remaining unallocated budget after venue, catering, and photography: $20,000 - $7,600 - $6,000 - $4,500 = $1,900.
The per-guest catering rate is multiplied by guest count, category totals are summed and subtracted from the overall budget, and the photography balance is the total minus the deposit already paid, due on the date 30 days before the wedding date entered.
You enter a total budget and either use a default category split or set your own amounts per category (venue, catering, photography, attire, flowers, music, and similar). Each category can hold multiple vendor entries with a quoted cost, deposit paid, and balance owed; the category total is the sum of its vendor entries and rolls up into the overall budget total.
Vendor deposits and balances are tied to due dates you enter, often as an offset from the wedding date (e.g., final balance due 30 days prior), and the tool lists these in date order as a timeline. Categories marked as guest-scaled multiply a per-head rate by the current guest count, so changing headcount updates catering, favors, or rental totals automatically.
No. It only tracks the numbers you type in yourself and has no connection to vendor pricing databases, marketplaces, or regional cost data. Every quote, deposit, and due date has to come from your own vendor contracts and conversations.
No, it only totals and organizes the figures you provide against each other; it doesn't compare your numbers to national or regional wedding cost benchmarks. Use an outside source like an industry cost survey for that kind of context, then enter your own targets here.
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