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8 Best Free Wedding Budget Spreadsheets (Updated for 2023)

Here are 8 of the best wedding spreadsheets to help you plan, budget, and organize one of your most memorable, beautiful, and joyous days.

When you’re getting married, there’s so much to budget and keep track of.

From guest lists to seating arrangements to vendors to actually sticking to your budget, there’s so much stress throughout the wedding planning process.

Luckily, there’s no shortage of helpful wedding planning spreadsheets! Whether you need an overarching view of your big day or really want to dive into the nitty-gritty of your numbers, we’ve compiled eight of the best wedding budget spreadsheets to help you plan a perfect day.

To get started here’s a simple spreadsheet of common wedding expense categories. Use this in your planning, or to inspire categories and tags for your Tiller-powered budget tracker spreadsheet.

Wedding Budget and Planning Spreadsheet from Tiller Community Solutions

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free Wedding Budget and Planner template

The free Wedding Budget and Planner template for Google Sheets includes five primary sheets:

  • Summary Sheet, with a wedding countdown, a quick budget summary, a to-do checklist, and a pie chart visualizing expenses by category (this chart updates automatically with Tiller). 
  • Guest List Organizer for tracking Guest Counts, Budget Estimates per Guest, Rehearsal Dinner Guests, Wedding & Reception Guests, Gifts for Guests, Invite and RSVP status, and more.
  • Table Seating Planner – so your divorced aunt and uncle don’t get seated at the same table.
  • Expense Categories – Create your own custom expense categories so you can track your budget, your way. 
  • Transactions Sheet – If you use Tiller, this automatically tracks all your wedding spending. Otherwise, you can manually input your transactions. 
  • Balances Sheet – Showing how much you have in each linked bank account and the balance on each linked credit card.

This is the only template ready to be supercharged by Tiller, meaning it doesn’t require tedious data entry. Instead, it automatically imports your latest spending so your wedding budget spreadsheet is always current and ready for review. Learn more and get it here.

Free Wedding Budget Template by Katie Jakub for Google Sheets

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When she was a bride-to-be, Katie Jakub was extremely budget-conscious. She knew that sticking to a budget didn’t mean she had to sacrifice a beautiful wedding, though. So she created a spreadsheet that logged everything as she prepped for matrimony:

  • Wedding budget
  • Addresses for invitations
  • Seating chart
  • Vendor contact sheet
  • List of photos she wanted on the big day
  • Day-of timeline
  • Music plans for the DJ
  • Items that needed transport on the wedding day or before
  • A cute countdown clock 

The best part of this spreadsheet genius? Jakub decided to share her wedding budget template for free with Femme Frugality audiences. (Requires email to download.)

Free Wedding Budget Template by Offbeat Bride for Google Sheets

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Offbeat Bride also offers a fantastic, free wedding budget template. While you won’t get Jakub’s DJ page, countdown clock or transport list page, you will get the addition of a hotel block comparison page, a point-of-contact list, a venue comparison chart and a packing list. Under the “File” menu, make a copy in order to edit your own version.

Both spreadsheets are comprehensive; which you end up using will ultimately depend on your personal wedding planning goals.

Open Wedding Spreadsheet in Google Docs

Free, Interactive Wedding Planning Spreadsheet for Microsoft Excel

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After the Wedding provides a free, interactive wedding planning spreadsheet that features some of the same highlights as the Jakub and Offbeat Bride Spreadsheets. If you’re the kind of spreadsheet user who would appreciate in-document linking, eliminating the need to scroll through all your pages every time you need to look at a new data set, you’ll appreciate the ease of use of this spreadsheet. 

If your wedding is happening after 2020, though, its calendar function may need to be rewritten, which will require some Excel skills.

Wedding Budget by a Professional Wedding Planner

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Bridal Musings’ wedding expert also runs her own wedding planning company: Always Andri Wedding Design. If you want to see which budget line items a professional thinks are important, you’ll want to check out the free wedding budgeting spreadsheet Andri shares on the wedding platform. 

All the Wedding Planning Spreadsheets

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A Practical Wedding doesn’t just hook you up with a wedding budget spreadsheet; it presents you with an entire suite of free wedding planning spreadsheets including:

  • Complete Wedding Workbook for Formal Weddings
  • Complete Wedding Workbook for DIY Weddings
  • Wedding Checklist
  • Wedding Budget 
  • Vendor Contact List 
  • Guest List
  • Day-Of Timeline
  • Photography Shot List
  • And more!

You can check out all the options in the suite here. (Requires email to download)

Bridal Checklist Spreadsheet for Excel

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If you have no idea where to start with your wedding planning, you’ll want to check out the free bridal checklist spreadsheet from Castle Hall Creative.

It gives you helpful tips about your timeline as far as a year out to as close as a week out. It will keep you on track as far as tasks go, but you’ll need a separate spreadsheet if you want to create an in-depth budget. 

You can find the bridal checklist spreadsheet here, along with a spreadsheet for your day-of schedule and a vendor comparison list spreadsheet.

Wedding Venue Comparison Spreadsheet

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The venue will be one of your largest wedding expenses, so making a careful comparison of costs can save you a lot of money. The Budget Savvy Bride has you covered with a free venue comparison spreadsheet which she used herself as she planned her own wedding.

Everything but the Budget

If you’ve already found your dream wedding budget spreadsheet by this point in the list, but still want to plan all the other little details, the Wedding Planning Spreadsheet from My Spreadsheet Lab may be a good fit for you.

It is basic in its suggestions but is easily customized. You’ll be able to set your own parameters for the various events you have to plan and the tasks you’ll have to complete to make everything happen. You’ll also be able to log all contact info for your guests and get them set up in your seating chart. 

You can get this planning spreadsheet here

Bonus: Manage Your Wedding Budget with Tiller

How to Make a Household Budget - Plus Free Spreadsheet Template

If you already use Tiller, you know it’s the fastest and easiest way to manage your financial life with the flexibility of a spreadsheet.

That’s because Tiller automatically updates Google Sheets and Excel with your daily financial transactions each day.

Tiller can help you keep your wedding budget updated, organized, and easy to understand – all without data entry, logging into multiple accounts, or dealing with receipts and CSV files.

Tiller offers a completely free 30-day trial, flexible budget templates, customer support, and a vibrant Community to help you along the way. Sign up free!

Brynne Conroy

Brynne Conroy

Motivation for women in business & on the homefront. Smart money management for success & true wealth. Author of The Feminist Financial Handbook.

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