Free spreadsheet
A wedding budget that still feels like your wedding
The free Muse & Marigold spreadsheet splits a real wedding into the categories that move the total, including the quiet costs couples forget. Leave your email and the file downloads immediately. It opens in Excel and Google Sheets.
See the whole wedding before the deposits start
Most budgets fail in the same place. A venue quote looks fine on its own, then food, photo, attire, and the Saturday extras arrive one email at a time.
This spreadsheet puts those pieces on one page. You start from a clear split, replace the sample numbers with your own quotes, and keep a running note of what is already paid. It is the free first step — the file couples keep open while the rest of the plans get more specific.
What changes once the numbers are on one page
- A calm starting split for a $45,000 wedding, ready for your own quotes
- Typical percentages you can overwrite for venue, food, photo, attire, and flowers
- Paid and still-due columns so deposits stop living in your inbox
- Room for guest-count swings, attire, and a real contingency
Useful if you are
- Newly engaged and setting the first number
- Comparing venue quotes
- Paying vendors in deposits
- Planning with a guest list that may change
Why couples actually use it
The point is not a perfect percentage. The point is seeing which choice moves the total before you say yes.
Change the working budget and your own percents. The estimated column follows. The paid column is yours to fill as deposits go out, so the number left is not a feeling — it is a cell.
What is inside the file
- Category split Venue, food, photo, attire, flowers, music, paper, beauty, and a real contingency.
- Your own percents Typical shares are filled in. Overwrite them when a quote comes back.
- Paid and still due A place for every deposit, so the inbox is not the budget.
- Payment log Date, vendor, amount, and a note, under the same sheet.
A budget should make the day feel more like yours, not less.
Muse & Marigold
Get the spreadsheet. Keep the number honest.
Free. One email. The file opens in Excel and Google Sheets.