Enter your total wedding budget and guest count to get a suggested category-by-category spending breakdown.
Planners commonly recommend splitting a wedding budget across a standard set of categories. This calculator applies typical industry percentages to your total budget so you have a realistic starting point to adjust from.
Category Amount = Total Budget × Category Percentage
Cost per Guest = Total Budget ÷ Number of Guests
With a $25,000 budget for 100 guests, venue & catering gets about $11,250, and the average cost per guest is $250.
It breaks total budget into typical categories based on common percentage allocations.
Venue and catering combined, often 40-50% of the total.
Unexpected costs are common, so reserving 5-10% as a buffer helps avoid overruns.