Using a wedding budget spreadsheet to help you plan your wedding is always a good idea. In fact using and kind of wedding planning tool or even a budget tracking software is a good idea when planning any kind of event. Your special day should be perfect and without any problems causing more stress on top of all the other things you have to worry about. You can easily create a spreadsheet tailored to fit your wedding in no time at all that will save you time, money and headaches.
You will need pen and paper, a text editor or Microsoft excel if you have it. For the sake of this article I will show you how to make your wedding budget spreadsheet using a text editor, simply because every computer has one.
- Create a new document and name it “Wedding spreadsheet.”
- On the first line, type Vendors, Estimated cost, Actual cost, Phone number and Completed.
- Skip the second line an move to the third. Under vendors type every service you plan to use to put your wedding together such as transportation, printer, flowers, entertainment and so on. Try to keep your list organized so you will be able to easily scan an find what you need.
- Next to each vendor on your list put the prices your were quoted when you call and their phone numbers, when you go and actually make your payments, put the amount you under the “Actual cost.” Once everything is delivered and approved by you, mark it off as completed.
It is that simple to make a wedding budget spreadsheet. Try not to forget to put anything new that comes up later on your spreadsheet. This one will be tailored to your wedding, but you can find some already made if you do a search in Google. Congratulations and do not forget to practice you vows.