How accurate is the

5272012 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 06:49 AM

How accurate is the

budgeter on the Knot.com?

Anyone use the tool the budgeter to figure out money? If so how accurate was it? After looking at how much people are spending for each thing on here, Im not sure it is so accurate. We are really trying to stick to budget and being so early on I want to make sure I dont overspend on something.

Thanks
:)

KatiNoE Posted: Oct 04, 2010 12:02 PM

Re: How accurate is the

Truthfully, the tool is useful for weddings everywhere else except New York. It told me I could spend $40 for each person's meal. I looked at it, laughed, and got over it. It does help to use it as a starting point but I really didn't stick to it. I just used the numbers to compare my florist, dj, and photo prices.

brittndave Posted: Oct 04, 2010 12:24 PM

Re: How accurate is the

i did it and it turned out to be totally wrong

lisagail55 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 12:35 PM

Re: How accurate is the

It's kinda accurate, but keep in mind we way over spend in NY/tri-state area. Also, it break everything down, when our RHs have things packaged together. For example, they have reception, food, drinks, and cake all broken up and our RHs (for the most part) have that all in one price. I used it to keep track of everything for my over all budget and if I was over spending.

If you ever wonder how much you should spend on something just ask us!

AmyElizabeth Posted: Oct 04, 2010 01:30 PM

Re: How accurate is the

Yeah, unfortunately NY/LI is a skewed market!

MrsJPH2012 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 05:31 PM

Re: How accurate is the

yeah the fact that they group everything together really messes with the percentages. The rest of the country doesn't do weddings like us... FH has lived in Washington state for the past 10 years, and he had no idea people did weddings like they do here! He was trying to help keep us in budget and was like well, maybe instead of a full bar we just do wine and beer or something? I just looked at him and was like oh thanks for the suggestion hun, but we've got this covered!!

I did get to manipulate it so that it covered everything in one category and adjusted everything else, but I didn't find it user friendly so I gave up on it.

Lucky2010 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 06:03 PM

Re: How accurate is the

It didn't work for me for the same reasons mentioned above.

5272012 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 09:52 PM

Re: How accurate is the

Oh awesome thanks for the advice :)

on that note..anyone have a wedding between $20 and 30 that they want to share their numbers with me on?

Thanks girls!

FutureMrsCat050412 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 09:58 PM

Re: How accurate is the

Try McDonalds....you might be in that price range!

5272012 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 09:59 PM

Re: How accurate is the

Thats not very nice!

FutureMrsCat050412 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 10:00 PM

Re: How accurate is the

Posted by 5272012

Thats not very nice!

Honestly though imagine a wedding at $20-$30 a head!!! OMG

5272012 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 10:01 PM

Re: How accurate is the

HAHA..I meant 20-30,000 obv! lol

5272012 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 10:02 PM

Re: How accurate is the

but if you know a place that has a wedding for $20-30 a head, please let me know!

nic2011 Posted: Oct 04, 2010 10:24 PM

Re: How accurate is the

Posted by KatiNoE

Truthfully, the tool is useful for weddings everywhere else except New York. It told me I could spend $40 for each person's meal. I looked at it, laughed, and got over it. It does help to use it as a starting point but I really didn't stick to it. I just used the numbers to compare my florist, dj, and photo prices.

AGREED!!!

Soon2BMrsJoeBear Posted: Oct 05, 2010 07:10 AM

Re: How accurate is the

I use the wedding budgeter on WeddingWire.com. It's pretty good and let's you change/add items and numbers if you know costs.

HSsweethearts Posted: Oct 05, 2010 05:18 PM

Re: How accurate is the

I used WeddingWire's Budget tool. I put my budget in and it gave em suggestions. It's a little off, BUT what I like about it is that you can delete items and then reallocate that money elsewhere, so like you said, it lists food, and reception site, bar, etc seaprately, I deleted everything except for venue and reallocated all of that money to the RH. I also knew I wasn't going to spend a lot on certain items, so I was able to move some money from there to other items. It helps you move money around easily and I like it.