Answer six questions. Vow builds the budget, then tells you when it stops working.
Free, no card. The six questions take about two minutes.
These are still starting estimates, and they're already at 97% of budget. That leaves a 3% cushion; most couples keep 5–10%.
Why Vow flags this: seven selected estimates project to $29,002 against a $30,000 budget. Nothing is booked yet, so that number can only go up.
Committed is what you've signed for. Projected is what it would cost if you booked everything you've currently got selected.
The flag sentences below are real output, word for word. The notes under them explain the rule that produced each one.
These starting estimates cover about 47% of your budget. Catering & Bar and Music aren't in the number yet.
Why Vow flags this: two major categories have no estimate yet. Until they do, the projection is lower than your real cost.
Booking your current picks would put you at 105%. That's about $1,900 over your $35,000 budget.
Why Vow flags this: enough of these are real quotes now rather than starting estimates. This is where you're actually heading.
These starting estimates put Photography at $4,688 (16% of budget). That's above the ~15% typical ceiling.
Why Vow flags this: photography is taking space from everything else. Vow checks each line against typical spend for your budget and market. Whether that's a priority or a mistake is your call.
When the numbers are fine, Vow stays quiet. A plan sitting at 73% with a 27% cushion doesn't need a warning, so it doesn't get one.
Vow's numbers move with your market and your guest count. Below are two couples who answered the same six questions and got back almost nothing in common.
Sonoma · October · outdoor ceremony
Catering and bar benchmarked at $95 a head for this market.
Projected $27,377 · 73% of budget
No flags. A 27% cushion, which is roughly where you want to be.
Columbus · standard market · indoor
Same categories, different rates and headcount.
Projected $29,002 · 97% of budget
Two flags. The cushion is thin and photography is taking too much of it.
Both sets of numbers came straight out of Vow.
So the difference isn't price, and it isn't how many tools you get. It's whether anything in there is doing math on your actual wedding and speaking up when it stops working.
Set a budget. Enter what you spend. Watch a bar fill up.
Projects what your current picks will cost before you commit, and flags the cushion when it gets thin.
A checklist personalized by wedding size and date.
Category rates that move with your market. The same wedding costs a different amount in Sonoma than in Columbus, and your plan says so.
A chatbot trained on wedding articles.
Answers built from your own data, which tell you when they don't know something instead of inventing it.
Nothing important is locked behind the paid tier. You get the roadmap, the budget engine and every flag without paying.
the whole wedding, not just the spreadsheet
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