Anniversary Budget
Free Anniversary Budget calculator with clear step-by-step results.
About Anniversary Budget
Adds the three things anniversaries actually cost - the meal or event, the gift and any travel - applies a contingency for the extras that always appear, and converts the total into a monthly savings target for the months you have left.
Formulas
Total budget
Total = (dinner + gift + travel) x (1 + contingency rate)
Monthly saving
Monthly = total / months remaining
Worked example
With the default values below, Anniversary Budget returns Total anniversary budget of $896.00. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Dinner or celebrationminimum 0 $
- 180 $
- Giftminimum 0 $
- 220 $
- Travel and accommodationminimum 0 $
- 400 $
- Contingency for extrasaccepts 0–60 %
- 12 %
- Months until the anniversaryaccepts 1–60
- 6
Results
- Total anniversary budget
- $896.00
- Planned line items
- $800.00
- Contingency set aside
- $96.00
- Save this much per month
- $149.33
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Total budget
- 3Monthly saving
- 4Total anniversary budget= $896.00
- 5Planned line items= $800.00
- 6Contingency set aside= $96.00
- 7Save this much per month= $149.33
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 5 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why include a contingency at all?
Flowers, a taxi home, a card, a babysitter and a bar tab are rarely in the plan and routinely add 10-15%. Budgeting for them stops the celebration going on a credit card.
Can I use this for a milestone anniversary party?
Yes - put the venue and catering into the dinner field and the invitations, cake and photographer into travel or contingency, then use the monthly figure to fund it.