How many guests are you inviting

[genette]

With such a range of wedding sizes now days, I thought it would be interesting to see how many guests are people inviting to their weddings. My target is between 50-75 people for intimacy purposes and its nicer on the budget

 

[nicolejrx]

270 are on our list currently, I don''t expect it to change that much until October.
Nicole

 

[Selkie]

We''re inviting about 53, and hoping that we get 45, since we can only fit 49!

 

[GarysBride]

We currently have 65-75 on the list but 50 is most likely all that will make it.

 

[Mannequin]

I am worried that we are going to be that lucky couple that everyone will want to see and wish well on the big day. Just started planning and the initial guest lists I received from my mom and FMIL total about 280, not including a few kids and not including that some of these folks are not likely to attend (out of state, elderly/health issues, etc.), but we haven''t added in our friends yet. I anticipate needing to plan for about 300.

 

[regalada]

We have 24 including 4 little ones.

 

[sydneycasandra]

To our reception we invited about 150 btwn DH and I; by the reply date, only 40 or so had RSVPd so we had to call the rest of them. Just over 90 people said they''d come; about 75 showed up. (actually now that I look down the list more like 70). We had food for what my wedding planner said was 110, but actually probably closer to 175; over half of many of the items were never even taken out of their packages. We also bought more than 2x the beer and wine we needed. Hope that helps.

 

[snlee]

Nearly 200 people, including children. I''m hoping that 20-30 can''t attend. I wish I could have a small wedding - closer to 50.

 

[ChargerGrrl]

We're shooting for a medium-sized wedding of about 70-75 people. Right now, we have 80 people on our guest list, and want to keep it at that as we know from prior experience (engagement party) that almost everyone will come. And that's fine with us, as we don't have anyone on our list that we hope doesn't attend.

Both FI and I have been "good" about keeping the list manageable and also communicating our wishes to our families (no kids, co-workers or "casual" friends & family)

 

[njc]

We sent out invitations to about 280, but final numbers were somewhere between 225 and 250. Only about 10 of the guest were children under 12, everyone else were adults.

 

[AmberWaves]

We started out thinking of 100 people, now it looks like it''ll be 150. It doesn''t help that his mother has 6 brothers and sisters, and each of them have at least 3 kids, and THOSE kids have kids.

We''re really starting to get cut-throat, too. Like, if you haven''t seen us in a year, no invite. If you don''t even know my fiance''s name, no invite. Seems like it would all be very easy to understand, but we''ve got cousins coming out of the woodwork. My mom just called me to say that her sister in law (and niece and nephew) aren''t invited to our wedding because we are having a reception for my brother and his new wife in a few weeks, he''s coming from Australia and it''ll be the last time we see him for over a year, maybe more. But my aunt doesn''t want her family to go, even for a little bit, because HER mom is having her birthday. Granted, she''ll be 90, which I understand, but when my mom asked if she could just pick them up and have them see my brother for a little bit, then take them back home, she said no, and they could see Shawn at any time. My mom got totally mad, saying, um, NO, he moved across the globe! Drama! But that leaves 7 people off the list! Sweet!

 

[ephemery1]

My current list is around 150, and my BF (soon to be fiance!) will probably be adding another 100 or so. I think 200 would be nice, so hopefully we''ll be able to pare it down a bit...

 

[TravelingGal]

We have about 60 people on the list. Probably almost everyone will show up, which kind of surprised me since a decent chunk of the list are his friends from Australia. We''re thrilled that they would come all the way to L.A. to celebrate with us. Those Aussies love to party...we are probably going to have to up our drink budget because of it!

 

[Tacori E-ring]

Haha, well we *thought* it would be around 200 but you know how it goes....a little over 300 will be invited!

We''ll see how many show

 

[flutterby]

We really want 50 guests, that would be perfect! We sent out 37 (74pp) invites just over a week ago,and have mainly only got yes''s back. Heres to hoping all FI''s cousins decline this week!

 

[Tybee]

I''ve found that you usually get the yeses back first. It made us really nervous too!
We really really really wanted a small wedding. If we had it here in Atlanta, it would have probably been
about 200 people. Our destination wedding allowed us to keep it small.
We invited 157 people (fingers crossed that the location would thin the crowd.)
As it stands, we have 55 people coming and 61 who cannot.
We''re waiting for the last stragglers to RSVP, but we think we''ll be at our desired number of
60. PHEW.
The cost of airline tickets really made it hard on a lot of friends.

 

[Kaylyn]

We'll probably end up inviting about 250.

He has 102 first cousins on his dad's side alone.

50 would be much nicer. We've got a year left, though, so I'll see what happens. My entire extended family knows about this, so we can't very well start cutting people.

Like I said...

On the other hand, I just attended a wedding in March that had around 600 guests or so (and I'm pretty sure that's an underestimated guess)...that was nuts. I go to a *huge* church, and it was full except for one aisle.

 

[E B]

Ugh. Originally thought we''d keep it under 100, now it''s looking like 150, easy. We''ve both agreed on no more than 150, though.

 

[codex57]

We had 150 for wedding #1

#2 had about 300

 

[Kaylyn]

Just made the first, initial, rough guest list...

There are people to take off, people still to add, and people I know definitely won''t come.

But the guest total so far is...

293

 

[VuittonGal]

Right now we have 188 on our list, but I wouldn''t mind it being a little smaller!

 

[KimberlyH]

We''re inviting 38, expecting about 25 to show up (lots of out of towners).

 

[Scintillating]

As few as possible hehehehe

well under 65.

Scintillating...

 

[nytemist]

We''re inviting 44 adults, no kids since neither of us like them or want them at our wedding.

 

[rms]

Date: 6/6/2006 11:05:28 AM
Author: Kaylyn
We''ll probably end up inviting about 250.

He has 102 first cousins on his dad''s side alone.

50 would be much nicer. We''ve got a year left, though, so I''ll see what happens. My entire extended family knows about this, so we can''t very well start cutting people.

Like I said...

On the other hand, I just attended a wedding in March that had around 600 guests or so (and I''m pretty sure that''s an underestimated guess)...that was nuts. I go to a *huge* church, and it was full except for one aisle.

We had 2 receptions of around 100 people each. I liked that size...manageable and lots of fun!

Kaylyn...WOW, I am totally confused...

102 first cousins on his dad''s side alone? I mean, just as an example, say his dad had 15 siblings, and each sibling had 3 kids, that would be around 45 first cousins...so can you give us the math on how there are 102? I mean, I have 27 first cousins total from my mom''s and dad''s sides together, and I thought that was a pretty decent number.

 

[aljdewey]

Date: 6/4/2006 12:38:27 AM
Author: Selkie
We''re inviting about 53, and hoping that we get 45, since we can only fit 49!

Hey Selkie.......keep in mind that your 49 count has to include vendors, too.....so if you''re having a catering staff aboard, those folks are part of the 49 as well.

(I think.....double check, but I''m pretty sure that''s what we had to plan with, too).

 

[Blenheim]

At least 90, for the site''s minimum cost to make sense, but no more than 120 for space considerations.