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Enter your total budget and guest count. See a typical split across 14 categories, your cost per guest, and what catering can cost per guest if it gets its usual share.
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Typical shares, not rules. A big guest list mostly grows catering, rentals, stationery, cake and favors.
Venue and catering usually take about half of a wedding budget between them. The shares here are a common starting point; your quotes will move them. Keep a contingency of a few percent, because final headcounts and overtime charges rarely go down.