Wedding Budget & Planning Spreadsheet

Your wedding. Your budget. Your spreadsheet. Zero stress (almost).

The Wedding Budget & Planning Spreadsheet is a complete wedding planning system: 14-category budget tracker, vendor management with payment schedules, guest list with RSVP and meal tracking, a 12-month planning timeline, and a dashboard showing exactly where your money is going.

What’s Included — 7 Tabs, 113 Formulas

• Settings — Couple names, date, budget, guest estimate, meal options
• Budget — 14 categories with typical percentages: Venue 30%, Catering 25%, Photo 10%, etc. Budgeted vs. estimated vs. actual.
• Vendors — 12 vendors: contract total, deposit paid, balance due, payment dates, status
• Guest List — 28 guests: RSVP status, meal choice (6 options), plus-one, table #. Auto-calculated headcount and meal counts.
• Timeline — 31 tasks from 12 months out to wedding day with owner and status
• Dashboard — Budget vs. spent, guest count, RSVP breakdown, timeline progress, budget pie chart

Sample data: Emma & James, October 17, 2026, Charleston SC, $35,000 budget. 12 vendors booked, $11,975 paid, 20 of 28 guests confirmed, 15 of 31 tasks done.