The per-plate price on a catering quote is not what you pay: the venue's service charge is added on top of it, and in many US states the sales tax is then charged on the plates and the service charge together — so a guest list priced at the quoted plate figure lands under the real bill. This workbook does that stack from the numbers on your own signed contract: 3 sheets, 8 fields you fill in, 12 live formulas, and one figure that tells you how many guests you must cut to land inside your ceiling.
| Expected attendees after declines | - |
| Catering subtotal at the quoted plate price | - |
| Venue service charge on the catering subtotal | - |
| Sales tax, charged on plates and service charge together | - |
| Catering all-in (what the caterer actually bills) | - |
| Per-guest extras across all attendees | - |
| Total wedding cost, all in | - |
| True cost of one guest, fixed vendors included | - |
| Left under your ceiling (a negative figure means you are over it) | - |
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The per-plate price on a catering quote is not what you pay: the venue's service charge is added on top of it, and in many US states the sales tax is then charged on the plates and the servi
A full-service wedding planner is retained on a percentage of your total spend or on a flat fee — that percentage is written in the planner's own contract, and this workbook takes it from there rather than from a figure we invente
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