· Wedding Planning · 3 min read
Try my new Wedding Budget Calculator
Bring some peace and clarity into your wedding planning process with my new Wedding Budget Calculator app right here on my website.
In 2009, when I entered the wedding industry, I was blown away to find this whole new world that operated almost outside of and differently to the normal world.
What I mean to say is that normally we want something, figure out what kind of priority it is to us, figure out how to pay for it, and proceed according to our financial ability and desire.
Weddings are different. They’re emotionally driven, massive events that the people hosting them are often not mentally or financially prepared for, burdened by decades of tradition, echoes of expectations, and a general lack of knowledge as to how they even work and what things cost.
Which basically leads to people getting married doing one or all of the following:
- freaking out over availability - making a choice of a wedding venue which then locks them into a series of other decisions (mainly availability of the rest of the wedding creation team) that might leave them high and dry or disappointed because they can’t get the team they want or can afford,
- freaking out about costs - posting in Facebook wedding planning groups seeking wedding vendors that “don’t charge an arm and a leg” as if that’s a thing that exists,
- not having priorities aligned with realities.
That’s what led me to create the Withers Wedding Method a few years ago, to help people like you re-align the process to something more enjoyable.
But tackling the financial side of weddings is a tough one.
There are so many variables that weigh into how much a wedding will cost:
- Your expectations
- The vendor’s availability
- The vendor’s product/service size/quality/quantity
- Your priorities
- When you want to get married
- Where you want to get married
- How much money you have saved already, how much anyone is contributing, and how much you can save each month
- Time of the year
- Day of the week
- How many guests are coming
So I have been working on a wedding budget calculator to help you square up all of these variables and get a sense of how priorities change price, how guest numbers affect cost, and how all those elements come together.
** 🧮 Try the Wedding Budget Calculator**
You can drag and drop vendors into a priority list, which then changes the price of that vendor, and if you know real numbers for some vendors, you can enter the actual prices, delete vendors you’re not using, and enter your savings to get an idea of how long away your wedding can be if you want to pay cash for it.
This is a work in progress, and all and any feedback is welcome. I’m extremely passionate about creating tools to help people plan their weddings with intention and joy.
So this enters the list of little things I’ve built on my website to help you plan a wedding:
