A LITTLE HELP GETTING STARTED

Your wedding budget,
step by step.

Watch our 19-second animated quick-start guide, then build your own wedding money plan.

With Grady narration and animated on-screen steps. Example figures only.

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Planning your wedding? Let’s make the numbers feel simpler. Start with your budget, or let us estimate one from your plans. Add your guests and celebrations, then choose the three things that matter most to you. Your personalised wedding budget is ready to explore.

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Your wedding. Your money plan.

Welcome to the Ikonic Wedding Planner. Here is how to build a budget around your wedding. The figures in this walkthrough are examples. Start by selecting Build My Wedding Budget.

A budget, or a starting point?

If you know your budget, enter the total you want to work with. If you are not sure, choose the estimate option. Both routes create a plan you can edit.

Make it your celebration.

Choose your wedding type. This helps the planner suggest relevant celebrations. There are options for Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, civil, fusion and multi-day weddings.

Where will you celebrate?

Select your wedding location, and add a town or venue area if you would like. Location changes the starting assumptions. Actual supplier quotes are always more useful than an estimate.

Start with your main guest count.

Use the slider, or type your expected number of guests. You can adjust attendance for each celebration in the event builder.

One day, or several moments?

Choose how many celebrations you are planning. Include the events you want this budget to cover, whether they happen on one day or across several days.

Every event has its place.

Review the suggested events. Rename them, change guest numbers, or use the arrows to change their order. Add a suggested or custom event, and remove anything that does not fit your plans.

Protect what matters most.

Choose up to three priorities, such as photography, film or food. The planner protects these amounts when rebalancing other categories. Then select Reveal My Wedding Plan.

See the whole picture.

Your results show your total, cost per guest, contingency and biggest budget categories. Treat suggested allowances as a starting plan. They do not guarantee a supplier price or measure affordability.

Edit amounts. Keep control.

Edit any category amount as your plans become clearer. Lock a category to preserve it during rebalancing. You can also review payments and adjust your contingency. Check any overspend message before continuing.

What would happen if…?

Use What If to explore fewer guests, another event, a different location or a change in spending. The potential difference is an estimate. Your saved plan stays unchanged, and you can save a what-if note.

What have we forgotten?

Work through forgotten costs, including VAT, supplier meals, travel and overtime. Mark each as included or not applicable, or enter an extra amount and add it to your budget. Avoid counting costs twice.

Compare your real supplier quotes.

Add a supplier name, category, budgeted amount and quoted amount to see the difference. Select Rebalance My Budget to update the remaining categories. Locked amounts stay protected; review any shortfall.

A clearer plan, one step at a time.

Your Wedding Plan Score highlights what still needs reviewing. It is a completeness score, not a financial health score. Share your wedding personality with your partner. Personality links and Story images leave out private budget figures.

Keep your plan close.

Your progress saves on this device. Download your PDF to keep or print the plan. Export an editable backup to move it to another device, then import that file there. Browser storage can be cleared.

You can Ask Diven.

For a human opinion, open Ask Diven and complete the review form after you have explored your plan. Your budget is shared only if you tick the separate optional box. You are ready to build your own wedding money plan.

How much will your wedding really cost?

Free Wedding Budget Calculator UK. Plan around your guests, celebrations and priorities, including multi-day Asian weddings.

A LITTLE GUIDANCE, A CALMER PLAN

Wedding Budget Calculator UK

Build a wedding budget planner around your guests, celebrations and priorities. Whether you’re shaping a Birmingham wedding budget, a civil ceremony or a multi-day wedding budget, replace these starting assumptions with quotes as your plans become clearer.

Keep one clear record of each cost.

Record an inclusive venue package once, then use supplier notes to explain what it covers. Track payments separately from full planned costs. Your target is a spending limit; an allocation does not establish that a supplier can deliver it.

Plan photography around the moments.

Simultaneous preparations, travel, ceremony access and coverage across different days all affect the team you may need. Confirm deliverables, overtime and travel directly with suppliers.

Your questions, answered.

How much should I budget for a wedding in the UK?

There is no single right total. Start with the guest list, location and celebrations you want, then collect quotes with clear inclusions. This wedding cost calculator UK tool offers editable planning assumptions, not a published average or a supplier quotation.

How does guest count affect wedding costs?

Meals, drinks, stationery and gifts can change with attendance. Venue minimum spends and fixed supplier fees may remain the same. For multiple celebrations, count attendance at each event rather than multiplying the main guest list blindly.

How much contingency should we keep?

This planner starts with an editable 7% contingency allowance within your total. Test different amounts against the costs and unknowns in your own plan. The reserve is not additional money outside your chosen budget.

How do multi-day wedding budgets work?

List each celebration, its attendance and location. Include repeated hire, catering, styling, travel and coverage. Event attendance informs the estimate; the category breakdown remains the single source of spending totals, so event costs are not added twice.

How should we budget for an Asian wedding?

Build your Asian wedding budget around your actual celebrations. A Sikh wedding budget might include Maiyan, Jaggo and Anand Karaj; a Hindu wedding budget might include Mehndi, Sangeet and Haldi; a Muslim wedding budget might include Nikkah and Walima. Choose only the events that matter to your families.

What wedding costs are commonly forgotten?

Check VAT, service charges, corkage, supplier meals, travel, parking, overtime, alterations, cleaning, delivery and ceremony or registrar fees. Ask whether each is included in an existing package before adding it.

Your figures stay in this browser unless you export them or deliberately share a budget summary with Ikonic. Device storage can be cleared by your browser; export a backup for safekeeping. Personality sharing excludes your figures and contact details.