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Hello!

The fiance and I in a stroke of genius have created a REAL wedding budget calculator. I looked at a number of templates and tried theknot.com, but they don't do any math except tell you that you are over budget.

This spreadsheet uses average data from costofwedding.com (you just copy and paste), uses the average percentages from that data, and your desired budget to create a budget for you. 

Then when you actually spend money, it adjusts the amount you have available (or not available) for other things. 

You can find it linked from my blog here:

http://iwant10courses.blogspot.com/

or in the Google Docs template gallery here:

http://docs.google.com/previewtemplate?id=0AoWxllaj0w6adFN3MW1OTzZPdXJGMVp5LWYtY2ZveVE&mode=public

Cheers,

echo

Hi, you put your spending in the Actual Cost column on the 'Budget' tab (click on Budget at the bottom). 

On the first page you would copy and paste the text from http://costofwedding.com/index.cfm?action=costest.index

into cell A3 for it to generate a budget breakdown.

You don't have to use information from costofwedding.com...it's just a starting point. You could find info about typical wedding costs for weddings in other cities, then put down items (in column A) and how much you want to budget for them (in column D, hidden). 

Or you could find a place in the US that has a similar cost of living...that info is just used to make a % breakdown.

It's still useful to keep track of how much you spent and how much left you have to keep under your budget.