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Wedding Planning by the Numbers: What 75+ Real Calculator Sessions Taught Us in 2026
Wedding Planning by the Numbers: What 75+ Real Calculator Sessions Taught Us in 2026 Across six wedding and event calculators, we logged more than 75 compute events in a single 30-day window ending 2026-04-22. The data shows a remarkably consistent planner profile: guest counts cluster at 40, 120, and 200, ceremonies use 5-foot aisles with two-sided seating, reception tables default to 60-inch rounds, and couples dramatically underestimate ice. This is not a wedding industry survey. It is what couples actually typed into calculators when they were sitting down to plan. The six calculators in this analysis: - ceremony-seating-calculator — rows, aisle width, total square footage - wedding-seating-calculator — reception tables, chair counts - ice-calculator — ice per cooler, total pounds for the duration - charcuterie-board-calculator — meat, cheese, accompaniment quantities - graduation-party-calculator — the close cousin used for smaller events - sound-system-calculator — speaker power sizing for the venue Use...