Wedding Budget: High School Financial Literacy and Budgeting Project

Do you need a new personal financial literacy or applied math life skills project? Have your high school students research and create a personalized Wedding Budget with fourteen categories of items, a two-page spreadsheet, and written reflection questions to help them think about how they can pay for it all!

Classes to Use With: High school students in a variety of classes

• Family & Consumer Sciences

• Applied Math or Consumer Math

• Career & Personal Planning

• Personal Financial Literacy

• High School Life Skills

Students will create a detailed wedding budget and think about how much money they really want to spend on one day!

The included discussion questions will help them learn about borrowing money for a wedding and how that option can make it cost even more because of interest payments!

How to Use:

1. Print a 3-page budget project that includes a spreadsheet and reflection questions for each of your students.

2. Go over page one as a class. Students can share a variety of wedding sizes they have gone to personally. Discuss the wide range of wedding budgets people typically spend.

3. Give students time to pick their number of guests and their budget. Remind them they must figure out a way to pay for the budget they choose.

4. Give students one to two work periods to research real wedding items for each of the fourteen categories. They will need to have access to technology to do this.

5. Make sure students multiply items that are guest dependent and add up their wedding grand total carefully. Have them trade sheets with a friend to double check.

6. Go over the written reflection questions and then give students time to answer them.

7. To wrap up, have a discussion about realistic wedding costs, borrowing money, and whether your students think it is a smart idea to do that.

What's Included: 4-Page PDF: Ready to Print and Use!

1. Teacher Instructions & Lesson Ideas

2. 2-Page Wedding Budget Spreadsheet

3. Reflection Questions

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