Fill in the generator below and download a wedding budget tracker for Google Sheets, plus a Google Docs summary, with your numbers already in them. Funding, function-wise budget, vendor quotes and dues, guest count and the wedding loan EMI all land in a four-tab sheet with the formulas intact. Upload it to Google Drive, open it with Google Sheets, and share the link with your family.
The summary on the right updates as you type, so you see the gap between your funds and your committed vendor spend before you download anything.
Your wedding at a glance
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What the sheet contains
Four tabs plus a Start Here sheet. Everything in blue on cream is yours to type in. Everything in black is a formula.
Wedding Budget holds your funding and the function-wise table. Engagement or roka, haldi, mehendi, sangeet, the wedding day, reception, and family travel and stay. Each function shows budget, committed, paid and balance, and flags itself when vendor quotes cross the budget.
Wedding Vendors is the tab that saves money. Quote, paid so far, balance, next due date. A due date within seven days turns red, so the caterer’s balance does not arrive as a surprise.
Wedding Guests splits bride side and groom side, with RSVP status and a confirmed headcount. Cost per plate times headcount gives the catering estimate, once for confirmed guests and once for everyone invited.
Wedding Shagun logs gifts by giver and amount, with a column for thank-yous sent. Keep this tab private if you share the file.
Committed matters more than paid
A budget that only tracks what you have paid looks healthy until the balances land together in the last fortnight. The tracker adds up committed spend, meaning the full vendor quotes, and compares that with your funds.
Take the default example. Funds of ₹16 lakh against ₹6.5 lakh committed to a venue and a caterer looks like a ₹9.5 lakh cushion. But the function budgets add up to ₹15.3 lakh, so most of that cushion is already spoken for. The vendors you have not booked yet are the ones that break it.
Wedding loan EMI
If part of the wedding is on a personal loan, the generator works out the monthly EMI from the amount, rate and tenure. A ₹3 lakh loan at 11% over 36 months is ₹9,822 a month and about ₹53,578 of interest. The 11% is an example, so use your bank’s quote. For a closer look at rates and tenures, run the EMI calculator or the personal loan calculator.
Check the EMI against your monthly income before you borrow. Banks look at it as a share of salary, and the FOIR calculator shows where you stand.
Google Sheets or Google Docs
Use Google Sheets for the tracker itself. Docs cannot add, subtract or flag a vendor balance, so the Docs download is a snapshot: funding, function budgets, vendor dues, guest count and the EMI in plain tables. It suits sharing with parents or printing for the family meeting. Edit the numbers in the generator and download again when they change.
To open either file, go to Google Drive, choose New, then File upload, and pick the downloaded file. Right-click it and open with Google Sheets or Google Docs. For the Sheets file you can also open a blank sheet and use File, then Import. Then press Share and give your partner and one parent edit access. Everyone else can have view only, which keeps the shagun tab private.
Formulas, dropdowns and the EMI calculation come across. Check the red due-date formatting after the import, since Sheets can treat conditional formats differently. The file also opens in Microsoft Excel if you prefer it.
If you are still deciding between Sheets and Docs, the short answer is in Wedding Budget Tracker: Google Sheets, Docs & Excel.
Privacy
The generator runs in your browser. Vendor names, quotes and guest counts are not sent to a server, and the file is built on your device. This is a budgeting tool, not financial advice, and the starter figures are examples.