Wedding Budget Calculator (Shaadi Planner)

About the Wedding Budget Calculator

A shaadi is the largest single expense most Pakistani families ever plan, and the one where costs hide in plain sight: the catering quote looks reasonable until multiplied by a guest list, and the venue looks affordable until decor, photography and the contingency nobody budgets are stacked on top. This calculator lays every line out in rupees and finishes with the two numbers that matter — the grand total and the cost per guest.

Around Kasur, Pattoki and Lahore the levers are familiar. Food dominates: per-head rates run roughly Rs. 800 to Rs. 2,500 depending on menu and venue, so 300 guests swing the catering bill by lakhs before a single flower is ordered. Venues split into marquees, farmhouses and open lawns; October to March is peak season, when the same hall costs more and books out months early.

The tool runs in your browser with nothing stored or shared — useful for comparing quotes the same evening they arrive and keeping both families on one realistic page.

How to Use the Wedding Budget Calculator

Follow these simple steps — the whole process takes under a minute:

1. Enter the guest count — the single number that drives everything else; 300 is the default starting point.
2. Enter the per-head food rate — what each caterer or marquee quoted per guest; around Kasur and Lahore that is typically Rs. 800 to Rs. 2,500.
3. Add the fixed costs — venue booking, decor and flowers, photography and video, bridal and groom clothes with jewellery, and extras such as cards and transport.
4. Set the contingency — 10% is the default buffer for the unplanned; raise it for peak-season outdoor functions.
5. Press Calculate Budget — food, every fixed line, subtotal, contingency, grand total and per-guest cost appear together.

The Formula & Method Behind the Wedding Budget Calculator

Food is a multiplication: guests × per-head rate. At 300 guests and Rs. 1,200 a head the catering line alone is Rs. 360,000 — typically the biggest single number on the page, and the reason the guest list is the first thing to settle. Every extra guest repeats the full stack: one more meal, seat, card and share of the hall.

Everything else adds into a subtotal: food plus venue plus decor plus photography plus clothes and jewellery plus extras. The contingency is then a percentage of that subtotal — grand total = subtotal × (1 + rate ÷ 100) — because surprises scale with the size of the event, not with the guest count alone. At the default 10%, the worked example below adds Rs. 82,500 of breathing room to a Rs. 825,000 subtotal.

The per-guest cost — grand total ÷ guests — is the comparison number: divide any quote by its guest count and venues, menus and packages become directly comparable. In the worked example, Rs. 907,500 across 300 guests lands at Rs. 3,025 a head — the honest price of each yes on the list, since fifty extra guests at that rate add about Rs. 151,250 and trimming to 250 saves Rs. 66,000 with every other booking unchanged. Set the ceiling from the per-guest figure first, then let the guest count size the event.

Shaadi Budgets in Kasur District — What Actually Moves the Number

The guest list drives everything. Every plate, chair, card and square foot of marquee multiplies by the headcount, which is why a 300-guest walima and a 500-guest one can differ by more than the cost of the entire venue. Fix the list before visiting any hall, and hold the per-guest cost as your comparison weapon when quotes arrive — venues negotiate hardest against numbers you can already compute.

Marquee, farmhouse or lawn — book to the season. Around Kasur, Pattoki and Chunian, marquee halls quote per head or per event and fill first from October to March; lawns cost less and breathe better in spring but gamble on the weather; farmhouses charge lump sums and suit larger barat functions. Peak-season Saturdays carry a premium that an off-peak weekday quietly removes.

Clothes and jewellery are the part you keep. Budget the bridal dresses and the groom's set honestly, then treat jewellery as its own line: gold holds value in a way flowers never will, so the jewellery spend is partly an investment. Price any tola purchase at the day's rate with the gold calculator before agreeing to a jeweller's quote.

The numbers around the numbers. Venue size comes in land language — a hall quoted in marla and kanal is easier to judge after the marla-kanal converter — and out-of-town guests turn travel into a real line, which the trip fuel cost calculator estimates from Lahore, Pattoki or Chunian before the convoy is planned.