Wedding Budget Calculator
Enter your total budget and see a realistic breakdown across venue, photography, flowers, attire and more — free, instant, no sign-up.
Enter your total wedding budget and see it split across twelve real categories — venue, photography, music, flowers, attire, and the buffer everyone forgets — using conventional US percentages as the starting point. Free, instant, entirely in your browser.
Breakdown — $30,000 total (US-convention starting split)
| Venue & catering | 40% | $12,000 |
| Photography & video | 12% | $3,600 |
| Music / entertainment | 8% | $2,400 |
| Flowers & decor | 8% | $2,400 |
| Attire | 7% | $2,100 |
| Planner & misc | 5% | $1,500 |
| Invitations & stationery | 3% | $900 |
| Hair & makeup | 3% | $900 |
| Cake | 2% | $600 |
| Transport | 2% | $600 |
| Rings | 5% | $1,500 |
| Buffer | 5% | $1,500 |
| Total | 100% | $30,000 |
Percentages are the conventional US starting split — your real split should drift to match your priorities. The Genie tracks estimates against actual quotes as you book.
How it works
Enter your total
Whatever the number is — this works for a $8,000 elopement or an $80,000 celebration.
See the split
Twelve categories with dollar amounts and percentages, based on US wedding conventions.
Adjust mentally, then actually
The baseline shows you where your wedding is deliberately different. Copy or print it for the planning folder.
Make it live
The Genie seeds this same structure into a real tracked budget on your Wedding Board — estimates vs actuals, updated as you book.
About the wedding budget calculator
Every wedding budget conversation starts with the same two questions: what is the total, and where does it go? This calculator answers the second one instantly. Enter your total and it splits it across the categories every wedding actually has — venue and catering, photography, music, flowers, attire, stationery, hair and makeup, cake, transport, rings — using the percentage conventions common for US weddings, including the line item most first drafts forget: a buffer, because something will run over. The percentages are a starting point, not a rule; coastal-city venues eat a bigger share, DIY flowers a smaller one. When you are ready to make it real, the Genie turns this same split into a live budget on your Wedding Board — tracking estimates against actuals per category, updating as you book real vendors at real prices.
- ✓A realistic starting split in one second
- ✓Categories real weddings have — including the buffer
- ✓Nothing uploaded, nothing to sign up for
- ✓Graduates into a live tracked budget when you are ready
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