Your wedding total, allocated by the shares you type, with the remainder printed in both directions

Type one total, then your own categories: a share in percent for each one and the amount already committed to it. That is 3 columns, and this page fills in none of them - it names no category, proposes no split and holds no figure of its own. What it works out is each share as money, what the shares foot to, what the committed amounts foot to, and the remainder of your total, telling twelve entries apart: shares footing beneath a whole total, shares footing on it, shares footing past it, a category committed beneath its own share, a category committed on it, a category committed past it, a total part-committed, a total committed to the cent, a total committed past, the share column part-typed while the committed column is whole, the committed column part-typed while the share column is whole, and no total typed yet.

No wedding total over zero is typed yet, so neither side of this foot prints a figure.

Every category you have listed has no share typed inside the range this page offers, so the plan side of this foot prints no figure.

Every category you have listed has no allocation typed inside the range this page offers, so the committed side of this foot prints no figure.

AThe total, and the categories you have written down

Your wedding total, in dollars the one figure you have been handed or have settled on; this page never supplies it How many categories you have written down one to twelve; the rest of the rows stay out of the way

Category 1 What you call it your words; the box ships empty and stays empty until you fill it Its share of the total, in percent Committed to it so far, in dollars

Category 2 What you call it Its share of the total, in percent Committed to it so far, in dollars

Category 3 What you call it Its share of the total, in percent Committed to it so far, in dollars

BThe foot, in two parts

Two readings sit here, and each one waits on its own column. The plan is what the shares you typed come to; the committed part is what the quotes, deposits and invoices in hand come to. A list can be wholly shared and barely committed, or wholly committed and barely shared, so this page prints both instead of folding them into one figure.

The plan, out of the share column

The shares footed, down the percent column--

Unassigned by the shares, down the percent column--

Unassigned by the shares, down the dollar column--

What is committed, out of the dollar column

The allocated total--

Of the total allocated--

Left of the total--

CCategory by category

The first cell of a row is your own wording, or the row's number while the box is still empty. A cell prints only where the figures it needs are in: with a total typed at the top of the page, a category with a share and no dollar amount gets its share in money and nothing beside it.

DThe arithmetic, printed

Each side of this foot reads one column and ignores the other. A share column with every cell in gives the plan; a dollar column with every cell in gives what is committed. A total of nothing is treated here as a total nobody has typed.

A blank cell is never read as a zero, and a typed zero is a figure like any other: a category with a zero share has a share of no money against it, while a category with an empty share box has no plan yet.

The shares you type are never rescaled. They can add to less than a whole total, to a whole total, or to more; the page says which and leaves the figures as typed, because a page that quietly scaled them down would be choosing a split for you.

The dollars in the unassigned row foot the share column as it prints, cent by cent, and the percent in the row above it foots the percents as they print. Those are two readings of one plan and a cent of rounding can separate them.

EWhat this page does not do

It suggests nothing. There is no category list, no starting split, no share for any category, and no figure for what anything costs - no average, no regional number, no per-guest number and no sentence about what couples spend. It names no venue, caterer, photographer, florist, planner, registry, marketplace or supplier, no category of supplier, and it carries no affiliate link, fee or commission. It offers no view on what to cut, to book first or to drop, nothing about credit, loans, savings or payment plans, and nothing about guests or dates. Every figure it prints is the arithmetic of numbers you typed.

Nothing is kept between visits, and no figure you type leaves your browser. The page does report up to four counts of its own use to events.otherworldlabs.com, one when it opens, one when either half of this foot first prints a figure, one when the workbook block is reached and one when the buy link is clicked. Each one carries this page's address and a one-visit id, and the first also carries the host you came from if you came from one. Not one of them carries a figure or a word you typed. This arithmetic is also published as JSON, with the formulas, the entries it tells apart and two worked budgets, at api.json.

Printed from otherworldlabs.com/wedding-budget-shares-and-remaining/ — every figure above is computed from the total, the shares and the amounts typed on the page.

FThe allocation workbook

The workbook is this arithmetic in a file that holds your list: forty category lines against a total you type on the line, every share a cell you type and every share amount a live formula with no pasted value, and the foot re-footing the moment a share or a dollar changes. It is what a page cannot be - the list itself, saved, reopened, added to and sent to whoever is paying - and a Check sheet works every footed figure a second way out of the cells you typed, printing the difference, which should be nothing. Beside it comes a short PDF of the rules the workbook follows, each with a worked example whose arithmetic is executed before the document is printed.

Take the allocation workbook — $19

Two files, yours to keep. No account, no subscription.