Bachelorette party cost per person calculator

When to use this calculator

Use it when a group is splitting a bachelorette or bachelor weekend and the guests are covering the honoree. Whether to cover the honoree is the group’s call, and who pays for a bachelorette party looks at that question. The calculator does the arithmetic for either choice, including the choice that everyone pays equally.

How the cost per guest is worked out

1. Add every cost into one group total. That is lodging, transport, food and drink, activities and anything that exists only for the honoree.
2. Count the paying guests. That is the people in the group minus the honorees covered by the others.
3. Divide. The group total divided by the paying guests is what each guest pays.

The box for costs only for the honoree is for items that exist because of them: their meals at a dinner the group pays for, their outfit, the group gift. They count in the total like any other line. If the honoree pays their own way, enter 0 there and set honorees covered to 0, and the result is an equal split.

A worked example

Say nine people go away for a weekend and the bride is covered. Lodging is $1,200, transport $450, food and drink $900 and activities $450, plus $150 of costs only for the bride.

The group total is $3,150. Eight guests pay, so each pays $3,150 ÷ 8 = $393.75. If all nine split it equally, each would pay $350.00. Covering the bride costs each guest $43.75 more.

What changes with 0, 1 or 2 honorees covered

The same $3,150 costs $350.00 each when nobody is covered, $393.75 when one honoree is covered and $450.00 when two are.

Honorees covered	Paying guests	Each pays
0	9	$350.00
1	8	$393.75
2	7	$450.00

A joint bachelor and bachelorette party, or any party where both honorees are covered, uses the setting of 2. Count both honorees in the people box.

Costs that only some guests share

Every paying guest shares every box, so an activity that only some people join needs its own run. Say 6 of the 9 people, the bride included, take a $450 boat day. Enter $450 under activities and 0 in the other cost boxes, with 6 people and 1 covered: five paying guests share it, so each pays $90.

Run the rest ($1,200 lodging, $450 transport, $900 food and drink and $150 for the bride, which is $2,700) for all nine people with 1 covered. Each of the eight guests pays $337.50. A guest on the boat day pays $337.50 + $90.00 = $427.50, and one who skips it pays $337.50.

What the calculator leaves out

It gives each guest’s share, not who has paid what. The share is the same whoever put the card down. A guest who fronted the lodging is simply owed more, and each expense should record who paid it so the balances come out right.

In EvenOut, one expense for the group total with Split equally and the honoree tapped out (their row reads Not in) gives each guest the same share as the calculator. A guest who is not on EvenOut yet can be added to the group with Add a guest.

Common mistakes

• Leaving the honoree out of the people count. The box says honoree included. Enter 8 instead of 9 with one honoree covered and each guest is charged $450.00 instead of $393.75.
• Entering a cost twice. A gift in the honoree-only box does not also belong under activities.
• Counting what guests pay for themselves. Each person’s own flight or an extra drink on their own tab stays out of the totals.

To plan the amounts before you ask anyone for money, use the bachelorette party budget template. To find out what the guests can afford first, the bachelorette budget survey has the questions. The full method for sharing the costs is in how to split bachelor and bachelorette party costs.