WEDDING BUDGET CHECKLIST

Once youve decided to get married its time to plan and organize the big event. One of the
first things we recommend you do is to set a budget for the whole celebration. Whether
you are going to celebrate small or big there are plenty of things that add up.
Use this wedding budget checklist to help you get a general idea of all the costs implied in
a wedding.

Estimated cost
Ceremony Site Fees
Reception Site Fees
Accommodation
Caterer
Wedding Cake
Rings
Consultant
Bridal Attire
Groom's Attire
Bridal party Attire
Hairdresser
Stationery
Accessories
Photographer
Videography
Music
Flowers
Ceremony decoration
Reception decoration
Officiants - Clergy
Transportation

Final cost

Estimated cost

Final cost

Attendants Gifts
Wedding Favors
Honeymoon
Rental Equipment
(Tables/Chairs/Tents)
Legal documents
Child care
Technical equipment
Extras
Wedding Insurance
Wedding Parties
Total

Tip #1: The wedding budget checklist above is just a collection of the expenses you may
face when organizing your wedding. But if you want to monitor all of your wedding related
expenses in a way where you control everything and organize the expenses the way you
want it, there is a useful and professional tool that will help you every step of the way
managing and controlling your budget: iDo - Wedding couple edition (http://
www.elmsoftware.com/ido/index.htm)
These are some of the features of this software:
- Monitor all of your wedding related expenses.
- Group your projected expenses into categories.
- Set your wedding budget by specifying budget category estimates.
- iDo totals your expenses and calculates how much money you have remaining based on
your total wedding budget number.