Budget

Your budget opens on Your Wedding by the Numbers: three figures, Your estimate, Committed so far and Paid so far, and one line telling you how much headroom you have left. The budget is free on every plan. The AI assistant can change it for you: it’s free for 15 questions a month, and makes it unlimited ($14.99 a month or $129 a year).

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Set your estimate

Start with the total you have in mind. Tap Edit estimate, type the amount, and save. It’s a starting point, not a limit: as the planner puts it, “An estimate, not a ceiling — it flexes as real numbers come in.” The headroom line updates the moment you save.

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Where it’s going

Under Where it’s going, every section of your wedding gets a line: venue, catering, photography, florals and the rest. A booked vendor shows its price on the line, and the bar shows how much of that section’s share it uses. Tap Edit real numbers when a quote comes in. A section with nothing yet shows Add the real numbers. Something we don’t list? Tap Add a line item at the bottom.

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Ask the assistant

Open the AI assistant and say what changed, in your own words: “Bloom & Brier came back at $8,200 — can you update them and mark them booked?” The assistant shows you the change first. Tap Allow to apply it or Not allow to skip it, and Undo puts it back. It can change a price, a status or a name, add a line (“We booked Abbey Photography for $5,000”), remove one, or set your overall budget. It can’t mark payments paid or change a payment schedule. You do those yourself, below.

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Invoices fill it in

From vendors on The Wed Thread. When a vendor sends you an invoice, it goes straight onto your budget: their line, the amount, and a payment due when they asked to be paid. You don’t type anything. The invoice is also kept in Documents & Payments, marked Sent by vendor and On your budget. Paid it? Tap I’ve paid this on the invoice and your vendor is told. It counts towards Paid so far once they confirm it. From anyone else. Got a contract or invoice by email? Open Documents & Payments, tap Upload document, choose the file and tap Save document. The planner reads it and shows what it found: the vendor, the total, and the payment dates. Fix anything that’s off, then tap Confirm & add to budget.

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Payment schedules

Tap a vendor’s line, or View schedule, to open its payments. Tap Add payment, give it a label, an amount and a due date, and tap Add payment again. The payment sits on the line as Scheduled until you pay it.

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Mark it paid

Anything due in the next 30 days appears at the top under Coming up · next 30 days. When you’ve paid it, tap Approve & mark paid. You get five seconds to tap Undo, then it’s logged and Paid so far goes up. Inside a vendor’s schedule the same button reads Mark paid. Changed your mind later? Undo paid puts it back.

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Remove a section you don’t need

Doing the flowers yourself, or skipping a videographer? Optional sections have a Remove button. Confirm with Remove section, and that section’s share of your estimate is spread across the rest. Removed sections wait under the list. Tap Bring It Back to restore one.

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Take it with you

Export Payments (CSV) downloads every payment, paid and scheduled, ready for your own spreadsheet.