Free wedding budget planner and calculator
Everything you pay for, in one place, by category, so at the end you know exactly where you stand. Work it out right here, or keep it in the free app next to your guest list. Below are rough prices for a wedding in Croatia too, so your budget doesn't start from zero.
Work it out right here
Enter your budget, then the amounts by category. Anything missing, add as your own item. The bottom always shows how much is left.
By category
- Ceremony and reception€
- Flowers and decoration€
- Photo and video€
- Beauty and style€
- Stationery€
- Transport and accommodation€
- Gifts and services€
Total so far
€0
You have left
€16,000
Nothing is saved and you don't need to log in
Want your numbers saved?
The same budget is in the app too, next to your guest list. There everything is saved, each item shows how much is paid, and the bottom shows how much you still have to pay. It's free, no card needed.
What's inside
The printable version has eight A4 pages, seven cost categories and a total at the end. You can download the budget (PDF). The seven categories:
- Ceremony and reception · venues, registrar, catering, drinks, cake, music
- Flowers and decoration
- Photo and video
- Beauty and style · wedding dress, suit, rings, hair, make-up
- Stationery · invitations, place cards, thank-you cards
- Transport and accommodation
- Gifts and services
What number to start from
The biggest item is the seat: the menu and the venue per person. In Zagreb it costs €70 to €130, in Split €60 to €140, in Slavonia (eastern Croatia) €47 to €60, and at popular venues in Istria it goes over €200 per person. For 100 guests, the venue with food and drinks alone comes to €8,000 to €14,000.
The rest, roughly: a band €2,500 to €5,000, a DJ €500 to €2,000, a photographer €1,000 to €2,000, and a package with video €1,500 to €3,000. Flowers and decoration €1,000 to €4,000. Renting a wedding dress €500 to €1,000, buying one €1,000 to €2,500, a suit €500 to €1,200. Rings €500 to €1,500, cake and desserts €400 to €1,000, invitations €0.50 to €5 each.
All together, for 100 guests, €20,000 to €45,000. Prices by region and item are broken down in detail in our article on how much a wedding in Croatia costs (in Croatian).
How to split the budget
Roughly half goes on the venue, food and drinks. Music, photographer and video together take another 15 to 20 percent. The rest is shared between outfits, flowers, rings, stationery and the little things.
Two rules from the planner always apply. First: leave a 10 percent buffer, because something always turns up only when the bill comes. Second: don't count on the envelopes. In Croatia guests usually give money in an envelope, but it arrives on the day, and deposits are paid months before.
Why four columns
Because a wedding isn't paid for all at once. You pay a deposit straight away and the rest later, and the due date is the easiest thing to forget. That's why in the printable budget every item has a price, a deposit, what's paid and the date it has to be paid by.
The costs people forget
One whole page of the printable budget is for the things that rarely make the first list but always make the bill: postage for invitations and thank-you cards, a trial run for hair and make-up, dry cleaning the wedding dress after the wedding, tips for the staff, lunch with your closest family the day after, parking, broken glasses.
At the end there's an overview: the total by category, how much you planned, how much it actually added up to and the difference.
Where it comes from
From the IDo wedding planner, the chapter on managing costs. The planner has 192 more pages, along with the month-by-month checklist that you can also download for free.
A budget that remembers
Every celebration in the app comes with a budget that saves everything: your budget, items by group, the price and how much of it is paid. The bottom always shows how much is left and how much you still have to pay, so you never have to copy anything over.
It sits next to the guest list and the checklist, all with the same login. See everything you get.
If you just need a number
- How much does a wedding for 100 guests cost in Croatia?
- Add up the venue with the menu, music, photographer, flowers, outfits and the little things, and the total comes to €20,000 to €45,000, depending on the region and the level of service. The biggest part is the seat: the menu and the venue per person.
- How much of a buffer should I leave in the budget?
- Ten percent of the total. Something always turns up only when the bill comes: postage, a trial hair appointment, tips, cleaning the wedding dress, lunch the day after.
- Can I count on the envelopes?
- Not to cover costs you already have to pay. In Croatia guests usually give money in an envelope, but the envelopes only arrive on the day, and the deposits for the venue, music and photographer are paid months before. Plan as if there won't be any.
- Is the budget in the app the same as the PDF?
- Same categories, same logic. The difference is that the app adds everything up for you and always shows how much is left, while the PDF you print and fill in with a pen. You can use both.
Everything else is in the planner
The guest list is one part of planning. The IDo wedding planner has 192 pages and takes you from the first ideas to what comes after the wedding. It is written in Croatian.