This New Zealand calculator helps couples plan and control a wedding budget, an event that very often runs over because costs creep in category by category. You set a total budget and the tool helps you allocate it across the major areas, venue, catering, photography, attire, and the rest, while showing how the guest count drives many of the costs. As you adjust each area, it tracks your running total against your budget so you can see the impact of every decision. The breakdown shows the allocation and spend across categories and the remaining budget, helping couples make deliberate trade-offs and enjoy their day without starting married life in avoidable debt.
Catering is the guest count times the per-head cost, which is why the guest list is the biggest lever on the total. Adjust the categories to stay within budget. Estimate only, to support your planning.
The calculator works out catering as your guest count times the per-head cost, then adds the fixed category amounts for venue, photography, attire, flowers and other. The combined total is compared with your budget to show what is left or how far over you are. Because catering scales with guests, you can see immediately how trimming the guest list frees up budget for everything else.
An 80 guest wedding at $120 a head is $9,600 of catering. Add a $6,000 venue, $4,000 photography, $4,000 attire, $2,000 flowers and $3,000 of other, and the total is $28,600. Against a $30,000 budget, that leaves $1,400 spare, and dropping to 60 guests would free up another $2,400.
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