Plan your wedding using an Excel spreadsheet to track your costs. Create categories, then list items and estimated costs.
Excel makes easy work of creating, estimating and tracking costs for one of the most important events in your life. Create a simple set of worksheets to track everything. The first worksheet lists all of the expenses, estimated costs, then the actual cost. The second worksheet could list the research, for example: the bands, foods you may serve or different types of flowers. Other sheets could lists the poses for the photographer, invitation lists or events during the reception.
Worksheet #1
Column A = List each category, B = Estimated Cost, C = Actual Cost. Total both cost columns.
- Categories could be:
- Centerpieces
- Clothing – dress, shoes, veil
- Decorations – streamers
- Florists
- Foods
- Gifts for brides maids and groomsmen
- Halls
- Honeymoon – hotel, plane fare
- Invitations
- Music – band or disk jockey
- Other – items that do not need a mane category
- Pictures
- Transportation – rent limo
Worksheet #2
Column A = List each category, then enter who, what, when, where and how.
Example: Hall List
- Contact person and phone number
- Name of hall
- Hours of your usage
- What time you can get into the hall to decorate
- Location
- How many people does it hold
- How much will it cost and the amount of the deposit
(Start each worksheet around row 6 or 7 to leave space for a heading and graphics. This is your record, so make it pretty.)
A basic Excel workbook will make planning your wedding much easier. A few columns, simple calculations and a little typing will bring everything together.
