Weddingbee

I’ve mentioned a few times that both Mr. Butterfly and I are huge Excel geeks. Seriously - we do everything in Excel. My personal budget is on Excel, our guest list is on Excel, our school and work is in Excel, etc. In fact, the only other program that I use as much (aside from the Internet and email of course) is PowerPoint.

Anyway, back to Excel. On Sunday, after we finished our registry, we updated our budget spreadsheet. The one we have is slightly complex, consisting of actual costs, payments made to date, payments due, when the expenses go out on a weekly basis, whether it’s cash, credit or check, and the balances of each type of money on a weekly basis. Ok - that made it sound way too complicated.

This is an image of what my budget looks like. (Mouse over the bottom righthand corner and click on the arrows to expand the image to original size.) The next page groups all of the expenses together into cash, credit and check to see how much cash I will need vs. what is being charged on the credit card. Then I can see how much cash I have to pay off the wedding charges on the credit card.

I’ve blanked out all of the amounts on here for now. But I promise to post this complete version, with formulas and amounts, and make it downloadable after my wedding.

I will say this though. Once I finished adding up my expenses, I realized that I went about 15% over my original budget. It’s not that much considering that I added other expenses that were not included in my original budget (i.e. personal trainer). But I’m starting to think that no matter how much you try, you’re going to go over.

What do you think?