The Wedding Math
The arithmetic of a wedding
Short, numerate pieces on what a wedding actually costs and where the money really goes. No listicles, no "have a Tuesday wedding," no vendor advertising.
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What each wedding guest actually costs you
The average is $292 a head. The real marginal cost is closer to $173, and the gap is worth thousands when you cut the list.
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What to cut first, ranked by what you lose
Four tiers of wedding cuts with real dollar figures — and the 24% service charge that quietly reorders all of them.
Run this against your own numbers
The free calculator gives you the total and the ceiling on what you can cut — enter your guest count and it does the arithmetic above for your wedding, not the average one.
The full spreadsheet goes further: 25 cuts, each one ranked by what it saves and what you give up, scored against your actual guest count.
Get the spreadsheet Open the free calculator