Here's what you need to set aside for each vendor. Breaking down your wedding budget is one of the trickiest (but most important) wedding-planning tasks, and one of the very first ones on the docket.

“The guest list is the area where costs can really balloon,” says Jessica Bishop, founder of TheBudgetSavvyBride.com. Here, you can familiarize yourself with the typical cost of wedding ...

And slashing the guest list is the number-one way to cut the costs of a wedding. “For every guest you invite, that’s an invitation, a chair, a meal, a place setting. Or for every eight to 10 ...