How it works

How Linden builds your wedding budget

Six questions. 11 layers of pricing data. A complete budget in under two minutes.

Average setup

73s

Engine layers

Getting started

01

Answer 6 questions

City, date, guest count, rough budget target, style, and priorities. Takes about 73 seconds on average.

02

Linden builds your budget

The 11-layer engine filters ~500 line items down to the ~130 relevant to your wedding, allocates the total across 22 categories, applies local taxes and seasonal premiums, and flags hidden costs couples routinely miss.

03

Refine with the copilot

Ask "what if we skipped the band?" or "move €2,000 from flowers to food." The AI copilot reruns the engine and shows the new totals, tradeoffs, and risks.

What Linden does

Budget engine

Line-item pricing across 22 categories and 500+ items, calibrated to your city, guest count, and priorities. Every number traces to a real vendor range, not a percentage heuristic.

AI copilot

Ask plain-English questions about your budget and get answers that actually touch the numbers — the copilot has read-write access to your engine state, so its suggestions apply if you want them to.

Vendor compare

Drop in vendor quotes and Linden stacks them against the engine baseline plus every hidden fee — travel, overtime, tax, gratuity — so you see the apples-to-apples total.

Payment tracking

Every deposit, balance, and final payment tied to a timeline. You never discover a missed due date six weeks after the fact.

Partner collaboration

Both partners see the same numbers. Role-based permissions separate "the couple" from parents and the planning team without exposing budgets nobody asked to see.

Export

Complete CSV + PDF export at any time. Linden is a planning tool, not a lock-in — your data belongs to you.

The 11-layer engine

Each layer adds precision the one before it could not. The result: a budget that matches what your wedding will actually cost.

01
Resolve items
Filter the 400+ item catalog by market, overlays, and priorities.
02
Multipliers
Apply city index, season, and day-of-week cost adjustments.
03
Allocate
Distribute total budget across up to 22 categories based on priorities.
04
Calculate
Compute per-item estimates using the pricing model for each (hour, table, person, flat).
05
Service charge
Apply venue/catering service charges (US only).
06
VAT / sales tax
Apply VAT (EU) or sales tax (US) by category and state.
07
Bundles
Reconcile bundled items so you never double-count a package.
08
Intelligence
Surface hidden-cost warnings specific to your market and category mix.
09
ML pricing
Apply learned price adjustments from community data.
10
Benchmarks
Attach community benchmark percentiles so you see where you sit.
11
Risk
Compute an overall budget risk score so you know where you're stretched.

Linden vs. the alternatives

Feature	Linden	Google Sheets	Free app
Location-aware pricing	Yes — 125+ cities	You research it	Flat averages
Hidden-cost detection	Automatic	Manual	Rare
Cultural / regional overlays	20+ overlays	You build them	Generic template
AI copilot	Yes — reads + writes	None	Chatbot, no engine
Vendor quote comparison	Apples-to-apples	Side-by-side if you build	Link-out list
Partner collaboration	Role-based	Share-link chaos	Single user
Cost	€49 one-time	Free + your weekends	Free, upsell after

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