So as percentages of your budget go, this is one to make sure you keep nice and high.

Hungry guests are not happy guests so it’s really important to make sure your friends and family are well fed and have plenty of drink (both alcoholic and non). Spreadsheet at the ready? Let’s get budgeting… Of course, if some areas of your wedding are more important to you, for example you want to go big on live music, or food is your passion, then you can dial up or dial down the wedding costs to suit your day. In the below wedding budget checklist, we’ve put together the average percentages that most couples spend on each aspect of their wedding day to help you work out how much of your money you should be parting with. Whatever your budget, from £3,000 up to £300,000, approaching your spending in this organised way will really help you keep on track and ensure you have enough money to cover everything you want on your wedding day. The key to ensuring this doesn’t happen is to separate your wedding budget into smaller manageable amounts and to allocate specific percentages to each element of your wedding day.

What if you overspend on one key element and then don’t have money left over to feed your guests? Once you’ve worked out how much money you’ve got to play with when it comes to your wedding day, it can be a bit scary to start spending it.