Wedding Budget Calculator
A 400-guest, three-day wedding in Delhi NCR with five functions costs about ₹45 lakh at standard style. Enter your guests, city, days, functions, style and catering to get your estimate, a 10% contingency and a category-by-category split, or enter the budget you have and see how to spend it.
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Budget breakdown by category
Share of the amount to allocate · contingency kept aside| Category | Share | Amount |
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Budget by function
Split by typical function weight: the wedding day and reception take the largest share.
Key insights
Ways to optimise
What affects your wedding budget?
Guest count
The biggest driver. Catering, venue size and rooms all scale with every guest you add.
City & venue
Metro venues cost more: Mumbai and Delhi NCR sit 25–30% above a typical city, smaller towns about 10% below.
Wedding style
Budget, standard, premium or luxury changes décor, food and entertainment spends across every function.
Functions & days
Each extra function adds about 10% and each extra day about 15%. Combining functions saves the most.
How this is calculated
The budget calculator starts from a typical Indian wedding cost per guest and adjusts it for your city, style, catering, number of days and functions. It then splits the amount across 12 spending categories and your selected functions, so you can brief vendors with a realistic number for each.
Estimate = guests × ₹4,500 base cost × city factor (0.90 to 1.30) × style factor (0.75 budget, 1.00 standard, 1.35 premium, 1.80 luxury) × catering factor (0.95 veg, 1.00 veg + non-veg, 1.20 premium).
Duration multiplies the estimate by 1.00 for one day up to 1.60 for five or more days, and every function after the first adds 10%.
A 10% contingency is added on top, and the indicative range is 14% either side of the estimate.
90% of the total is split across 12 categories (catering 25%, venue 20%, décor 12% and so on), nudged towards décor and photography for premium weddings and towards food and venue for budget weddings.
The function split uses typical weights: wedding 38%, reception 24%, sangeet 16%, cocktail 10%, and 6–8% for roka, haldi, mehndi and other functions.
- Totals above ₹10,000 are rounded to the nearest ₹100.
- Gold jewellery, honeymoon and pre-wedding shoots vary widely and are only partly covered by the category split.
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