As with the above chart, when creating your actual budget, you should use the chart information as a guided starting point. From this chart, you will next have to create your actual dollar budgeted amount.

 

When creating your budget, you will first begin with the overall amount that you can afford to spend. The average wedding today costs approximately $19,000. This is not a definite, but this is what the figures currently show.

         

Now you will need to take that starting amount and apply it to an actual separate dollar amount. If you are not good at percentages, you can always utilize the internet and check with the various websites that offer you free or cheap wedding budget calculators that will do it for you.

 

With these calculators, all that you have to do is give it the total budget amount and then it will calculate for you how much money in dollars that you will have to spend on each aspect of your wedding.

         

Once you have figured out the dollar amount that you can spend on each aspect of the wedding, you can then begin to create a chart that will itemize the list for you. I have included a quick table to help you out in this area.

 

Category(what must be done)	Goal (what you want for what must be done)
Reception
Ceremony
Photography/Videography
Catering
Rings
Attire
Music
Flowers