Separate Your Wedding Budget Into Categories
When creating your wedding budget, you will first begin with the overall amount that you can afford to spend. The average wedding today costs approximately $20,000. This is not an absolute figure, but this is what the statistics currently show.
Next, you will need to take that starting figure and separate it into categories for your wedding event. If you are not good at percentages, you can always utilize the internet to find a free or cheap wedding budget calculators allocate the funds for you.
All you have to do is plug in your total budget figure into one of these calculators and it will show you what you have to spend on each category of your wedding.
An example budget may look like this:
- wedding rings 2%- photography/videography 10%- wedding invitations 3%- reception music 6.5%- flowers 6%- wedding attire 10%- event site and rentals 10%- decoartions and favors 3%- food and catering 35%- cake 2 %
You get the idea.