Event work compresses a month of invisible labor into one day: consultations, design, prep, load-in, the event itself, and teardown at midnight. These tools price packages with every invisible hour attached, and the wedding budget allocator helps couples see what a total actually buys.

Pricing rules that protect your margin

Your package price is mostly pre-event hours. Count consults, design, emails, and site visits, or the wedding day is subsidizing them.
Peak dates are scarce inventory. A Saturday in October should not cost what a Tuesday in February costs.
Retainers protect your calendar. A date held is a date you cannot sell; price the hold into the payment schedule.
Rentals and florals carry waste and damage factors. Build them into the quote, not into your post-event regrets.

Questions, answered

Flat fee or percentage for a wedding planner?

Percentage scales with big budgets but can underpay on small, labor-heavy weddings. The planner calculator finds the budget where the two cross.

How do I price a photobooth or DJ package?

Gear payback time plus your hours plus travel and upsells. Both payback tools here show when the equipment has truly paid for itself.

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