The Wedding Cost Cutter

Every free wedding budget tool is run by a company that earns a commission when you book a vendor. Their incentive is a bigger budget. This one has nothing to refer you to.

Type in your guest count and it gives you the real number — including the 24% service charge and tax that gets added to your food, bar and rentals at the bottom of the contract, which almost no free template accounts for. At 120 guests that line alone is $4,202.

Then it shows you what to do about it. 25 specific cuts, each with what it saves at YOUR guest count and — the part nobody else does — what you actually give up, written plainly. "Nothing" for some. "Some couples regret this" for videography. You decide which ones you'd live with; the sheet does the math.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Cost Engine — all 16 categories, editable. Swap in real quotes as they arrive.

Cut List — 25 cuts with the honest tradeoff next to each one.

Guest List — 300 rows. RSVPs, meal counts, table assignments.

Seating — capacity checker across 20 tables, flags anyone unseated.

Payments — deposits, balances, what's due in the next 30 days.

Price Data — national ranges so you know when a quote is out of line.

Start Here — a one-page guide so you're running in 90 seconds.

Works in Google Sheets and Excel. Yours forever. No subscription, no account.

Defaults are US national averages for 2026 — your city isn't average, and every one of them is a cell you can overwrite.

If it doesn't save you more than $39, email me and I'll refund it. No form to fill in.