How we count

Effective August 20, 2026

We read your documents before any money is discussed. Then we show you what is in your plan and what it costs, and you decide with your own numbers in front of you rather than a claim about averages. Nothing on this page depends on trusting us — it is the method, written out, so you can check the figure against the rules that produced it.

This page once carried a promise — “at least $79 back or you pay nothing”. We withdrew it, and we are not replacing it with a claim about how often paperwork contains an error, because we have not measured that. What we can say is that we will not sell a plan on money we cannot promise to find.

Withdrawing it was worth more to you than keeping it. It means the thing worth buying was never the refund — it is the plan itself, which holds the commitment we found across your vendors, the dated deadlines we found in the order they close, and your wedding day as your vendors have actually contracted for it. None of that is a saving and all of it is what the plan is for.

The order things happen in

1. You upload your contracts, invoices, quotes, and budget. Free. No card, no account with a payment method sitting on it.
2. We read them and analyse them at our cost. However long that takes us, and however many documents you send, that part is ours to pay for.
3. We show you what your plan contains and what we found, with the money split into what your paperwork proves, what a vendor still has to agree to, and what is simply your choice. Three figures, never added together.
4. Only then do we ask for $79. What we find never changes what you pay. You see the exact figure you will be charged before you press anything.
5. You read the plan. If a figure does not match the line it cites, tell us and we correct it.

Not built yet. Wedding Remedy has not launched. Nobody has yet been through the steps above end to end, so this page describes how we count rather than reporting on how it has gone. If a step is not reachable when you look for it, that is why. Everything here is written to be judged before you hand us anything, and the effective date above moves whenever it changes. The full list of what is and is not live is on one page, so you can see the bottom of it.

What you see before you pay, and what the $79 unlocks

The figure we show you is a total and its categories. That is the honest maximum we can give away: enough for you to decide whether $79 is worth it, using your own numbers rather than a claim about averages.

What it does not include is the plan. Which line, in which document, on which page. The sentence quoted from your own paperwork that makes the case. The message to send that vendor, in words you can paste. That is what you are buying, and we would rather say so on this page than let you discover it after paying.

If your paperwork is clean

You still get a plan. We have not measured how often wedding paperwork contains a billing error, so this page does not tell you how common it is. What a plan gives you either way is your own commitments and dates in one place, assembled from documents that are otherwise scattered across inboxes.

Your plan adds up what we found you have committed across your vendors, once, from each document’s own most authoritative figure. It lists the dated deadlines we found in your contracts in the order they close. It lays your wedding day out as your vendors have contracted for it, side by side, and names anywhere two of them do not fit together — which is the thing nobody catches, because neither contract is wrong on its own and you would have to hold both open at once to see it.

This is the ordinary result rather than the disappointing one, and it is why the price is the same either way: you are buying a document that holds what we found, in one place, not a lottery ticket on your vendors having made mistakes.

The published methodology

A figure is only worth the method that produced it. This is that method, including the parts that cost us money. It is the same arithmetic the software runs, and it is written to be inconvenient for us in every place where a looser rule would produce a bigger number.

1. Every counted amount is tied to a document

A figure counts only when we can point at the line it came from: the document, the page, and the quoted words. An opportunity we cannot trace that way is dropped from the total before you ever see it — not footnoted, not discounted, dropped. If your paperwork does not support a number, that number is not ours to count.

2. Nothing is counted twice

The same dollars often show up in two places — a duplicated rental line that appears on both the contract and the invoice, for instance. Those are collapsed into one item before anything is added up, and when the two versions disagree we keep the smaller figure. One underlying amount, counted once, at its most conservative reading.

3. Money already spent is not counted just because you regret it

A deposit you have paid under terms that do not provide for its return is not an opportunity, however much you would rather have it back. An amount counts only when it falls into one of the classes below — which is to say, only when there is something specific you can actually do about it.

4. A saving is what you keep, after everything it costs

An amount counts only when it survives its own consequences. Before any figure reaches your plan we subtract what you would spend instead, any deposit you would forfeit, any cancellation fee, any contract minimum you would still owe, the tax and service charge that ride on it, any service that depends on the one you are cutting, and anything you have already paid. If two options exclude each other, only one of them can be counted. What is left has to be greater than zero.

This is also why moving a payment date is not in this product. It changes when money leaves your account and not how much of it leaves, so it never survives that subtraction. We do not report it, we do not count it, and we do not print it beside a figure we do count.

5. Three kinds of saving, three figures, never added together

Some opportunities are yours under the terms you already signed. Some only happen if your vendor chooses to agree. Some are simply correct charges you could decide not to make. Those are three different claims about who has to do what, and one number cannot carry three meanings.

So you are shown three, each with its own label, and we never sum them anywhere — not on the page where you decide, not in your plan, not in an email. Adding them would produce a bigger number and a worse one, because it would quote you money that a vendor has not agreed to as though your paperwork had already proved it. There is an assertion in the software that refuses to render a total which is secretly two of these added up.

Vendor-approval findings are never called “recoverable”; that word is reserved for amounts you control. They are labelled Possible, not guaranteed, which is what they are.

6. The low end of the range is what we state

Findings are reported as a range, and every figure we put in front of you is the low end — not the high end, not the midpoint. Dollar amounts are floored to whole dollars in your favour for the same reason: our side of the arithmetic never rounds toward us.

7. What we are responsible for, and what we are not

What we control is whether the analysis is specific, evidence-linked, and arithmetically sound. What we do not control is how a vendor answers the message you send. Nothing here is insurance against a no, and no figure on any page of this product is a prediction of what a vendor will agree to.

Which findings carry money

Every finding is filed under one of nine classes. Three of them are things your own paperwork proves. The rest are real and are reported separately, and the note under each says why.

What your own paperwork proves

Billing correction

Strongest evidence

Adjustment your contract already allows

Available under the document, subject to confirmation

Future cost you can still avoid

Before you sign

Reported separately, and never added to the figure above

Request requiring vendor approval

Possible, not guaranteed. In your plan it gets its own section and its own subtotal, kept apart from the figure your paperwork proves.

Worth asking — we cannot put a figure on it

Real, and not something we will pretend to size. In your plan it gets its own section and no dollar figure at all — not zero, none. It is never added to any of the three figures, because there is no amount there to add.

Spend you could choose to cut

Your choice — nothing is wrong with this charge. In your plan it gets its own section and its own subtotal, kept apart from the figure your paperwork proves.

Action needed — no money involved

Something to do, not something to save. In your plan it gets its own section and no dollar figure at all — not zero, none. It is never added to any of the three figures, because there is no amount there to add.

Your budget disagrees with your contracts

Corrects your numbers — changes nothing you owe. In your plan it gets its own section and no dollar figure at all — not zero, none. It is never added to any of the three figures, because there is no amount there to add.

Question for a professional

We flag it; we do not answer it. In your plan it gets its own section and no dollar figure at all — not zero, none. It is never added to any of the three figures, because there is no amount there to add.

Two more things never reach either table: an amount we cannot trace to a line in one of your documents, and the second copy of an amount that appears in two places. Both are removed before any of this is added up.

When you are not charged

There is no money-back guarantee on this product, and this page does not offer one. What there is instead is a purchase you make with the summary, the totals behind it and the full list of what your plan contains already in front of you — and two cases where we return money on our own initiative, without you having to ask.

We cannot produce the plan after you have paid

Every plan goes through a deliberately hostile review: is each figure traceable to a document, does the arithmetic hold, do the scripts sound like a person wrote them. Most of that happens before we ever quote you, so an analysis we cannot stand behind is one you are never asked to pay for. If the plan itself fails review after payment, the rebuild is automatic and capped at 1. If the rebuild fails too, we refund rather than send you something we do not stand behind.

The plan does not support the figure we quoted

The number in your quote and the number in your plan are the same number, produced by the same arithmetic on the same documents. If the delivered plan does not hold it up, that is our error and not your problem: the refund is issued without a request from you.

What this is not

Figures shown are estimates of qualifying document-backed opportunities we identified in your documents, not savings achieved. Some of them require a vendor to agree, and those are shown separately. Outcomes depend on your own negotiation and your vendors' willingness.

The Rescue Potential shown at the end of the scan is a qualification result, not a dollar estimate. It is read from the answers you typed — your budget, what is already signed, how long is left, and what paperwork you hold. It is not a prediction of savings, and no figure is calculated until we have read your documents.

Two different things, and it matters which is which. Rescue Potential is a band — worth reviewing, or not — read from the answers you typed before we have seen a single one of your contracts. It carries no dollar figure at all. The figure in your quote is measured only in your own documents, under the rules above, and it is the only number anyone here will ever ask you to act on.

Common questions

Is there a money-back guarantee?

No, and we would rather say so plainly than bury it. There is something we think is better: the analysis is free, and you see a summary of what we found, the totals behind it, and a complete list of what your plan contains, before you decide. There is no blind purchase here for a refund to undo. If we cannot produce your plan after you have paid, or the delivered plan does not support the figure we quoted, we return your money without you having to ask — but those are us not charging for work we failed to deliver, not a guarantee.

What if my vendors turn out to have billed correctly?

This is not sold as a savings product. We once promised "at least $1,500 or you pay nothing" and withdrew it, because we will not sell a plan on money we cannot promise to find. What you are buying is the plan — what we found you have committed across your vendors added up once, the dated deadlines we found in the order they close, your wedding day as your vendors have contracted for it, and anywhere two of them do not fit together.

How are the figures in my plan counted?

On the low end of the range, every one traced to a line in a document you uploaded, with duplicates collapsed to a single amount first. We never count a saving that a replacement cost, a forfeited deposit, a cancellation fee or a contract minimum would cancel out — the figure is what you keep, after all of that.

Why do you show three separate figures instead of one total?

Because they are three different things and one number cannot carry three meanings. What your paperwork PROVES is not the same as what a vendor still has to agree to, and neither is the same as a correct charge you could simply decide not to make. Adding them together would produce a bigger number and a worse one, and we would be quoting you money nobody has agreed to yet.

Do I have to give you a card before you look at my documents?

No. Uploading is free, the analysis is at our cost, and no card details are collected to reach the figure. There is no trial, no authorisation hold, and nothing to cancel — the first time payment comes up at all is after we have shown you what we found.

What if my paperwork turns out to be completely clean?

You still get a plan. We have not measured how often wedding paperwork contains a billing error, so we do not tell you how common it is — what we can say is that a plan is worth having whether or not there is one, because your commitments and dates are scattered across documents and inboxes and nobody has held them open at once. Your plan adds up what we found you have committed across your vendors, lists the dated deadlines we found in the order they close, and lays your wedding day out as your vendors have contracted for it, including anywhere two of them do not fit together. You see all of that described before you decide whether it is worth the price.

Does the price change?

No. There is one price, $79. What we find never changes what you pay. You see the exact figure you will be charged on the page where you decide, and it cannot change after that — it is frozen with the analysis it came from.

Do you count moving a payment date as a saving?

We do not find them at all any more. Rescheduling a payment changes when money leaves your account, not how much of it leaves, and a service that reported five figures of rescheduled payments beside a four-figure promise was inviting you to add them together. Payment timing, instalment restructuring and budget reclassification are not part of this product. There is no section for them and no figure to exclude.

What has to be true before you call something a saving?

That you end up paying less, after everything the change drags with it. We subtract replacement spend, deposits you would forfeit, cancellation fees, contract minimums you would still owe, taxes and service charges, services that depend on the one you are cutting, and anything you have already paid. What survives all of that is a real saving. What does not survive it never appears as one.

Do items that need my vendor to approve them count?

No. An amount that only materialises if a vendor voluntarily agrees is not something we can stand behind, so it is never added into the figure your own paperwork proves. It is shown as its own number, with its own label, on the page where you decide and in the plan itself — so you can see how much is worth asking about without being told you already have it. It is never described as recoverable, because that word implies you control the outcome and here you do not.

Is the figure you show me a promise of what I will get back?

No. It is what your own documents support, measured under the rules on this page. What actually comes back depends on the messages you send and on how your vendors answer, and some of them say no.

Is this a promise about how my vendors respond?

No. It is a promise about the analysis: whether it substantiates specific, evidence-linked opportunities in the documents you gave us. You send the scripts yourself, and some vendors say no.

Timing

Within 48 hours of the moment we have your documents — often sooner — you get one of two things: the figure and the categories behind it, or an honest note that there is not enough here to be worth your $79. Your plan follows once you decide to buy it.

If you think we got it wrong

Write to help@weddingremedy.com. If the arithmetic missed something that is plainly in your documents, or a figure does not match the line it cites, tell us and we will re-read them and correct the plan. We would rather do that than be quietly wrong, and a correction is worth more to you than an apology.

Full terms are on the Terms of Service page, and the limits of what any of this can tell you are on the Disclaimer page.

See what can still changeThe scan is five questions and costs nothing. The figure comes later, from your documents, under the rules above.