Wedding decor, costed per table before anyone orders anything
Wedding decor is quoted per item and paid per table, and the two numbers are wildly different. Plan it as a board with the quantity and the per-table cost on each thing, and see the real total early.
The short version
Wedding decor budgets go wrong on multiplication. A centrepiece is quoted at one price and needed twelve times, and the per-item figure is what sticks in your head. Keep the quantity, the per-table cost and whether it is hired or bought on the item, and total it before committing to anything.
A sample board
The barn, in June
Twelve tables, ninety people. Everything costed by the table rather than by the item.
- Items
- 6
- Booked
- 1 of 6
- Total
- $421
- Budget
- $2,779 left of $3,200
Open any item for its details.
$65DecidedQuantity · 12Per table · 65Hire or buy · Buy
$220BookedQuantity · 1Hire or buy · BuySet up by · Us, Friday
$18MaybeQuantity · 12Per table · 18Hire or buy · Hire
$24MaybeQuantity · 12Per table · 24Hire or buy · Buy
$4MaybeQuantity · 90Per table · 30Hire or buy · Hire
$90MaybeQuantity · 1Hire or buy · Buy
Board photos from Unsplash, by Kadarius Seegars, Giorgio Trovato, Kier in Sight Archives, Claudio Schwarz, Cinematic Imagery and Photos by Lanty.
Who it's for
Anyone planning the look of a wedding themselves rather than handing it to a planner.
What people use today
Zola and The Knot own the wedding: the guest list, the registry, the vendors, the timeline. What they leave alone is the visual, per-table decision making, which is where a surprising share of the budget quietly goes.
What a board tracks here
Fields you name yourself, on the item they belong to. These are the ones that decide a purchase and have nowhere else to live.
- Quantity
- Twelve tables is the number that turns a reasonable centrepiece into a line item.
- Per table
- The only figure that compares two options honestly.
- Hire or buy
- Hired things come back, bought things sit in a garage. It changes the real cost.
- Who sets it up
- Decor that needs two hours on the morning needs a person named in advance.
Start one of your own.
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