Free tools
Tools that do the arithmetic for you
Nothing to download and nothing to sign up for. Each one opens on its own page, so you can bookmark the one you need.
Budget worksheet
Our eight-category worksheet, but it does the math for you. Enter your guests, style, budget, and priorities, and it splits every dollar and adds tips for each category. Copy or print the result.
Open the Budget BuilderFood & alcohol calculator
Turns guest count and reception length into trays, pounds, bottles, cases, and pounds of ice, plus what a beer-and-wine-only plan saves you against a full bar.
Open the calculatorDay-of timeline generator
Enter your ceremony time and format and get a printable hour-by-hour schedule, including setup, photos, food service, and teardown.
Open the generatorGuest list guide
What ten more guests actually cost, the three-question rule for cutting a list without cutting people out of your life, a three-tier builder with a live per-head number, and scripts for the conversations that follow.
Open the guideVendor email templates
Eight short emails: a photographer mini-session rate, a friend behind the camera, a park permit, a simple cake, a friend officiating, a rental self-pickup rate, confirming an end time in writing, and declining politely.
Open the templatesThe 30/60/90 checklist
Thirty tasks across three months in the order that keeps costs down. Enter your wedding date and each column fills in with deadlines, plus the license dates you can't move.
Open the checklistWant all six on paper?
The free $1,000 Wedding Starter Kit is the printable version: every tool above as a fill-in worksheet, plus four budget formats, the logistics you forget, and the week-of list. Eighteen pages, no charge.
The 18-page PDF lands in your inbox in a minute or two. A few days later you'll get one short follow-up with where to start. That's all, no list.
