Wedding budget calculator
Most budget sheets give you one total. This one separates the costs that move with your guest count from the ones that do not — so "what if we invite twenty fewer people" gets a real number instead of a guess.
What that adds up to
Fill in one line item and the breakdown appears here.
Still open
15 line items have no figure yet. These are the ones people forget:
- Venue and rooms
- Ceremony and registrar
- Photographer and video
- Music, DJ or band
- Dress, suit, shoes
- Hair and make-up
- Rings
- Bouquet and ceremony flowers
- Transport and accommodation
- Food
- Drinks
- Cake and dessert
- Table decoration
- Invitations and printing
- Guest favours
We do not fill in average prices
What a wedding costs depends entirely on the country, the season and the choices you make — an invented average would be a confident number that fits nobody. Every figure here is one you entered.
Why the split matters more than the total
A single total tells you whether you can afford the wedding. It does not tell you what to change. Cutting the guest list is the lever most couples reach for first, and its effect is entirely determined by how much of your budget sits in food, drinks and everything else served per person. If most of your money is in the venue, the photographer and the rings, a shorter list saves far less than you would expect — and you are better off looking at the fixed side.
What this cannot tell you
It cannot tell you what a wedding should cost. Nobody can, and pages that claim to are quoting an average across wildly different weddings. It also will not catch a quote that is too high — for that you need a second quote, not a calculator. What it does is arithmetic you would otherwise do in a spreadsheet, plus the one distinction spreadsheets almost never make.
Questions
There is no honest single answer, which is why this page does not print one. It varies by country, region, season, day of the week and above all by the guest count and what you serve. The useful version of the question is "what does OUR wedding cost", and that is what the calculator answers from your own figures.
The total you expect, for the guest count you entered. The calculator derives the per-person rate itself and uses it for the projection — that way you can enter a caterer quote exactly as it was given to you.
Because it is usually booked as a room for an evening, not per head. The same is true of the photographer, the band, the rings and the registrar. That is the whole point of the split: those costs stay put no matter how short the list gets.
No. The calculator runs in your browser and nothing you type is transmitted or stored. There is no sign-up, and closing the tab discards everything.
It sits on the fixed side, which makes it one of the costs a shorter guest list will not solve. Our own answer is on the wedding photography on a budget page, and it is not "skip the photographer" — it is about which parts of the day a professional needs to cover and which parts your guests already do.
Your guests get the whole album — and can download it.
- Photos, videos and voice messages, all on one page.
- Guests open the link and download whatever they want.
- Public, or behind a password — you decide.
From $49. Pay once, per event.
No subscription for hosts. Free to start, upgrade only when you need more.
- 60 photos, videos & voice notes
- 5 GB storage included
- Unlimited guests — no app needed
- 30 days album
- Video up to 30 sec · voice 30 sec
- Gathmo badge on shared media
- No original-quality download
- Unlimited photos, videos & voice
- 50 GB storage included
- Download all originals (ZIP)
- No Gathmo badge on your media
- 90 days album
- Video up to 5 min · voice Unlimited
- Host moderation tools
- Everything in Essential
- 100 GB storage included
- Live photo wall at the venue
- 6 months album
- Video up to 10 min · voice Unlimited
- Priority support
- Everything in Celebrate
- 250 GB storage included
- Live stream for guests who can’t attend
- Voice messages transcribed for you
- Custom link — gathmo.com/c/your-name
- 1 year album
- Video up to 15 min · voice Unlimited
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The photo line, without the photo budget
Whatever the budget ends up at, your guests will take hundreds of photos on the day. Gathmo collects them in one private album via a QR code — no app for them to install, no account to create.