Wedding Budget

[Class n Sass]

I have put together a wedding budget but I would now like to put together some type of spreadsheet showing how much I am paying to each vendor month by month. I want to do a good job of keeping track of how much money I am giving the vendors. I don''t necessarily want to wait until the due dates to pay things off, because most of the due dates are 6-8 weeks before the wedding, and I don''t want to have to hand out so much money at one time. Has anyone created anything like this? Or found a document of this type somewhere? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[basil]

I''ve seen something like that on the knot. If you make an account, it''s under budget or something. It lets you track the payments you''ve made, etc. It seems sort of clumsy, though, you might be better off just making your own excel file. You could have a column for total bill, deposit, balance, payment, etc.

 

[So_happy]

I''ve found it easiest to use the Payment Tracker on the Knot because otherwise I end up with too many spreadsheets. Between us two, we each have a work computer, a desktop at home, and a laptop so it gets so confusing to find the most updated excel sheet on 6 computers. And we don''t always remember to email the most recent to eachother or ouselves. The Knot is always accesible and by both of us and from any computer.

Also, for payments, we found it VERY helpful that the moment we hire a vendor and know thier fees, we divide that total amount due and divide by the weeks left until they are due and then have that amount automatically transferred into our Weddings Savings Account with our online banking services. It guarantees that we''ll have the money when it''s due and it breaks it up alot. So, we pretty much have like 5 different mini-payments being taken out of our accounts every Monday.

Maybe this will help you guys too! Good luck

 

[neatfreak]

I have one, but it won''t let me upload an excel file. I basically just made an excel spreadsheet with the columns:
Vendor, Item/Service, Deposits, Deposit Paid By:, Total Cost (Inc. Deposits), Paid By:, Contact Information

I also made it so that both the deposits and the total costs line up with a TOTALS row at the bottom to automatically see how much we''ve spent.

Hope that helps!