What is your guest list number?

[paris29]

How many people do you plan on inviting to your wedding?

 

[diamondbuggy]

We will probably have about 180 people. If it was up to me it would be A LOT less. But both my parents have huge families so it's difficult to leave people out (with my family it could cause World War 3 if you invite the one person and then not the other!).

Besides, my parents are paying so I guess if they want to invite the whole world and spend a fortune it's their problem. The way I look at it it's more people to admire you in your dress! I can already hear all the 'Ooh's and 'Ahh's!

 

[calibali]

Zero

 

[shihtzulover]

Probably not too many - maybe between 10 and 20? We want to have a small wedding, with just family members. We also have not completely eliminated the idea of just eloping.

 

[kagordo4]

haha, no more than 125. That's my limit

But SO's family will probably dwarf mine. His dad is one of 18 and his mother was one of like 23. 23?! Who has 23 kids?!?! Not this girl. SO will be lucky with one : D

 

[manderz]

Ideally, I'd elope, but that would really hurt a few family members. But more realistically,I would like about 6, my parents and brother, and his mother and 2 aunts. I'm sure there will be some people still insulted, but hey, it's my wedding, not theirs.

 

[vc10um]

We will be inviting 125-130, 25 of which are children under 15 years old. We expect that 100-115 will actually attend.

 

[Autumnovember]

Lets just say that I originally planned on 40 people TOPS. SO and I sat down and made a list....it is now at 80...which isn't that much but it isn't what we were expecting.

 

[dawnabee]

I really wish we could elope but it would dissappoint many family members

So our list is about 120 but we expect less to attend

 

[PrincessNatalie]

40

 

[chemgirl]

We originally wanted 9, but I just finished sending out invites to 40 people. We're hoping for no more than 30.

 

[crossmyfingers]

None. We're eloping. Our closest family members are totally supportive of it, and our other family members won't have a hard time with it. It's nice that most of our family is pretty easygoing. We'd probably still elope even if they weren't supportive, but it would be hard to deal with the negativity it would bring.

We're planning on having a reception/party/thing a few weeks after we're back as a celebration for family and friends. While we don't at all have a definite guest list, I tried to come up with a rough one at one point and figured we'd end up with around 100 people if we invited most everyone we wanted, or we could do closer family and friends and end up with around 50ish.

 

[amc80]

His dad is one of 18 and his mother was one of like 23. 23?! Who has 23 kids?!?!

Wow. Not wanting to be nosey, but any reason for this? Religious, cultural, other?

 

[Jessie702]

I would like to elope, but since thats not gonna happen, ill be looking at around 50 to 60

 

[rosetta]

About 120.

I plan on not making any more friends before next summer by scowling at passer-bys and breaking wind in public

 

[Pushin40]

We are inviting around 50 but I think only 20-25 are coming since the wedding is in Mexico.

 

[kittybean]

Wow--I am impressed by the LIWs' small guest lists! I wish I could have been more like you ladies. We invited 300 (yikes!) and had 180 come to the wedding. The economy prevented a lot of our guests from being able to afford flying in from out of town.

 

[Mashira]

Our guest list is around 80 and I believe we will have between 50-60 people come because many are from out of town and half of my list is my mum brothers and sisters from Pakistan, who I don't imagine will be coming, but need to at least be extended the invitation.

 

[nicoleben]

150!

 

[mrscushion]

Those are some pretty small guest lists!

We invited 140 and 85 are attending our destination wedding. I originally had 60 guests in mind, but am OK with the current number.

 

[kagordo4]

His dad is one of 18 and his mother was one of like 23. 23?! Who has 23 kids?!?!

Wow. Not wanting to be nosey, but any reason for this? Religious, cultural, other?

Lol they're Hispanic : ) Not much else to do on the tiny island, they always say.

They're Dominican. I think it's crazy too, oh god, holidays are THE WORST. . SO has more than 90 ( I thought it was 70 in a previous post, and I was wrong) first cousins.

ETA, nose away. : ) Just don't judge, lol.

 

[amc80]

His dad is one of 18 and his mother was one of like 23. 23?! Who has 23 kids?!?!

Wow. Not wanting to be nosey, but any reason for this? Religious, cultural, other?

Lol they're Hispanic : ) Not much else to do on the tiny island, they always say.

They're Dominican. I think it's crazy too, oh god, holidays are THE WORST. . SO has more than 90 ( I thought it was 70 in a previous post, and I was wrong) first cousins.

ETA, nose away. : ) Just don't judge, lol.

I have 4 cousins. Combined.

 

[that_someone_special]

25 or so. I WISH it could be 10.. but there are too many people I would like to go

If FI had his way it would be 15 people I know and about 150 people that he knows.. lol

 

[delia5930]

200! And most of them live within 1hr of us so we're expecting most of them to come!

 

[PavePrincess]

250 and growing.. eeks!

 

[MayFlowers]

I'm thinking we will have between 100-150. I don't really know for sure though.

 

[Callisto]

Ugh I don't want to think about it. I'm hoping to invite no more than 150 and hope that about 100 attend. All of our parents come from families of 4 kids (and my mom has additional half and step siblings) and while it may not sound like a lot compared to kagordos (WOW!) it does add up quickly. Plus almost all of my cousins are married or in very serious relationships so it pretty much doubles the number of cousins I have. Then to compound the big families, I'm also very close with all of my neighbors, closer than many of my relatives, so it's like having a whole other side of my family. We really wont even be inviting THAT many friends but we reach 3 digits just with family and very close family friends.

 

[mariewest]

Well, obviously I would have to talk to SO for exact numbers. I'm not sure how many people he expects to invite. I'm thinking around 75 people I think is a good number overall. The more guests, usually the more expensive and after a little help from our parents we're pretty much footing the rest of the bill and we're not in the best state financially right now. Of course that will probably improve by the time we actually get engaged. So yeah, anywhere from 70-80 people.

 

[kagordo4]

His dad is one of 18 and his mother was one of like 23. 23?! Who has 23 kids?!?!

Wow. Not wanting to be nosey, but any reason for this? Religious, cultural, other?

Lol they're Hispanic : ) Not much else to do on the tiny island, they always say.

They're Dominican. I think it's crazy too, oh god, holidays are THE WORST. . SO has more than 90 ( I thought it was 70 in a previous post, and I was wrong) first cousins.

ETA, nose away. : ) Just don't judge, lol.

I have 4 cousins. Combined.

I have one brother, and four cousins (too!) and SO thinks it's really strange.

 

[amc80]

I have one brother, and four cousins (too!) and SO thinks it's really strange.

Ha, same here! One brother. And my bf is an only child. Funny that both of us want 4 kids or so.