Event budgets

One of the first steps in planning an event or party is to create a budget. Every event will vary - but a realistic budget will help with the event decisions. Following is a list of possible expenses that you may incur for your event.

Accommodations
Audio-visual equipment
Baggage handling
Bartender
Brochures
Cancellation fees
Catering
Clean up
Communications
Decorations
Decorations
Deliveries
Electrical / power
Electrician
Engineer
Entertainment
Extension cords
Food and beverage
Gifts
Glasses, dishes, silverware
Goody bags
Gratuity
Insurance
Internet access
Invitations
Labor, set up
Lighting
Linens
Liquor permit / alcohol sales
Mailings
Maintenance
Marketing
Menus
Nametags
Office supplies
Parking
Parking attendants
Permits
Phone service
Photography
Placards
Portable toilets
Postage
Printing/copying
Promotion
Publicity
Registration forms
Rehearsals
Rentals
Security
Set up
Shipping & handling
Signs
Speakers
Special effects
Staff
Staffing
Stagehands
Staging
Staging equipment
Table skirts
Tablecloths
Tables and chairs
Taxes
Technology/computers
Temporary employees
Tents
Thank you gifts
Theme
Traffic control
Transportation
Trash removal
Travel
Venue / facility
Water

One of the most important decisions in planning a successful event is choosing a good location. Check out this list for location ideas:
http://www.myplanninglists.com/event-location-ideas.php

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