Not sure how to get started planning your wedding budget? Step one is planning your wedding venue costs -
your venue choice (including food and beverages for your wedding guests), should be 50-60% of your overall wedding budget.
Below is our free wedding venue budget tool to help you estimate your wedding venue costs and help you understand how much you can spend on your wedding ceremony, wedding reception location, as well as beverage, bar and food costs.
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Estimating your wedding venue budget
Values in red are typical weddings costs - feel free to use these numbers or enter your own
How many guests will you have?
How many of these guests will be children?
What is your total ceremony and reception budget?
$
How much are you planning on spending for just the ceremony and reception? Keep in mind, this budget should be about 40-50% of your wedding spend
Wedding Venue Fees
Is there a venue fee?
$
Is there a ceremony fee?
$
What is the service fee?
%
What is the tax rate?
%
After fees and taxes, of your original budget of $10,000, you have this much remaining for food, beverage, and upgrades:
$5,100
Beverage Budget
Number of adults expected for alcohol: 85
Select and fill in a total for your alcohol package:
Total cost for alcohol package:
$
...or select a hosted bar option (typically covers 3 hours):
Beer & Wine (per person)
$
Full Bar (per person)
$
Premium Bar (per person)
$
No Hosted Bar / Cash Bar
Available Food Budget
Budget remaining for food: $4,250
Food budget per adult: $45.95
Food budget per child: $22.97
*Most venues offer a 50% discount for children
This assumes the following are included in your venue package: