Budget Calculator: Wedding Budget Spreadsheet, Category Budgets, Vendor Payments and Cost Tracker, Google Sheets and Excel

Budget Calculator - Wedding Budget Spreadsheet: one finished workbook that does one job really well - the wedding budget. This is a dedicated budget calculator, not a full wedding planner: there is no guest list manager and no timeline planner in this file, just the money, figured out properly.

WHAT'S INSIDE - 6 TABS

- Start Here: plain-language guide to the whole calculator

- Dashboard: total budget, total actual, remaining, percent used, vendor balances and over-budget flags on one screen

- Category Budgets: venue, catering, photo and video, attire, flowers, music, cake, decor, stationery, transport and other - budget vs actual vs remaining, with an OVER BUDGET flag the moment a category goes over

- Vendor Payments: every vendor with total owed, deposit paid, balance due, due date and a PAID / DUE status that figures itself out

- Payment Schedule: every unpaid balance in one list, sorted by due date, so no payment sneaks up on you

- Guest Cost Helper: per-guest costs times your guest count - test 100 guests against 150 before you sign a catering contract

HOW IT WORKS

Delivery is a start-here PDF (delivery.pdf) with your Google Sheets copy link, plus the same workbook as an Excel file (.xlsx) - both are included in your download. Open the Sheets link, make a copy, and start typing: totals, balances, remaining amounts and the dashboard figure themselves out. Every formula is already in place. Prefer Excel? The .xlsx file works the same way.

ABOUT THE SAMPLE DATA

The workbook arrives loaded with one fictional sample wedding so you can watch every formula work before you trust it with real numbers - the photos in this listing show that real sample data, not mock-ups. Delete the sample rows whenever you are ready; the formulas stay in place.

Sample wedding (fictional): $29,000.00 total budget, $27,370.00 total actual, $1,630.00 remaining, 94.4% of budget used, $11,620.00 paid to vendors so far, $15,750.00 balance still due, 1 category over budget - every figure recomputed and verified against the workbook's own formulas.

This is a digital product - no physical item will be shipped. You receive finished files to download and keep. If a file ever arrives damaged or something will not open, message the shop and a fixed copy will be sent - error fixes are always free.

Transparency: this product was created with AI assistance (AI-assisted) and then finished, checked and organized by hand.