Four settings, a range, and the breakdown line by line. No sign-up, no email to leave. Nobody will call you.
£16,300 to £22,000
Total divided by 80, fixed costs included.
A meal, drinks, a little décor. A table of ten: £930.
The two figures don’t say the same thing, and that’s the point: the dress and the photographer don’t cost more because a cousin comes.
Lines ranked from heaviest to lightest.
Canapés, wedding breakfast, cake. The line that moves most with guest numbers.
Hire of the venue, often from Friday to Sunday.
The only thing you’ll still have in ten years.
Dress, suit, alterations, shoes.
Bouquets, centrepieces, arch, furniture hire.
Wine, fizz, bar. Corkage changes everything: ask the venue.
Two bands, sometimes engraved.
DJ or band, sound system, dance-floor lighting.
Transport, favours, entertainment, surprises. There are always some.
Trials included.
Printing, envelopes, stamps. Going digital cuts it by half.
This estimate is a starting point. On your Weddtap page, the budget fills in as the quotes come in: what’s planned, what’s paid, what’s left. You see the gap instead of discovering it.
Create your page, it’s freeAround £20,000 for about eighty guests, with huge differences: the same wedding costs nearly a third more on a Saturday in June in London than on a Friday in March elsewhere in the country. Catering and drinks alone make up almost half of the total.
Between £50 and £130 depending on the level of service: a meal, drinks, a slice of cake, a little décor. That’s why the guest list comes before everything else: it’s the only lever that moves half the budget.
No, it’s a separate budget, and it’s often decided later. The calculator leaves it out.
Three levers, in this order: the date (a Friday or Sunday out of season), the number of guests, and corkage. Bringing your own wine can save thousands of pounds for a hundred and twenty people. Everything else shows.