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What an interesting post!
I am not sure to respond in parties or actual guest since those driving in parties would have a smaller footprint per guest (I am assuming anyways).
At any rate I will give you guest since that is what you asked for (Note this is not actual turnout this is invited only). Also I imagine that my Carbon footprint might be bigger than most as there are no airports in the city (Ocala, FL) which I am getting married, so all guest who fly will also have to drive a minimum of 90 miles!
187 Total Guest:
Yikes...So there you have it. I am afraid to even know my Carbon Footprint for this event.
Good Luck planning!
Wow - I'm not going to be quite as detailed here. We had 140 guests. Of those ~50 were from in town (drove less than 15 miles round trip). Another ~60 were from within the state (drove between 3 hours and 7 hours round trip). The remaining ~30 were from out of state. Of those, 2 drove (MI To WA); 2 rode motorcycles (CA to WA); and the rest flew (from CA, CO, NM, and NV).
I think the days when few of the guests travelled are pretty much over - along with the days when you automatically lived in the same town as your parents, and married locally as well. My husband's family is actually from the same state as mine, but we have both lived all over the western half of the country. Even though we live in my hometown, my family is strewn across the state. I think most people are in similar positions.
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Thanks guys! These are really helping, I guess our wedding carbon footprint isn't so unusual!
120 guest list (these numbers are approximate... I apologize!) to California
20 in town (no driving)
20 drove 100 miles or less
40 drove/flew approx 300 miles
30 flew 2000 miles
10 flew half way around world (from Thailand)
I guess we had a huge carbon footprint as well :(
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we had just under 100 people, and about half flew in since I'm from California and we got married in New York. That's a huge carbon footprint! 
125 guests in NYC
11 flew from San Jose, CA
10 flew from Vancouver, Canada
4 flew from Hong Kong
2 flew from Chicago
90 took the subway and/or drove from Tri-state area
In all fairness, we're having a second wedding reception in Hong Kong next week, so only we're flying back. I suppose that does keep the carbon footprint down, rather than ask dozens of people fly from HK to NY
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Wow this is interesing. So all mine is up in the air as the wedding isn't July 09 but based on what i know about certain people and only counting those who are pretty much 100% coming and knowing what they think they will be doing for travel i have 89 people flying in at least 500+ miles, 28 people driving 20+ miles, and 34 people driving less than 20 miles. I guess the only good thing is that my guests get to come to Sunny Southern California so their trip (however they get here) will be worth it.
I am having a wedding in Chicago. So far, the plan is:
25--flying from the west coast
40--driving 100-200 miles
50--driving less than 100 miles
60--driving less than 20 miles
My fiance and I are getting married in semi-rural MT, which is about a 3 hour drive from where we live. So the minimum amount people will be travelling is 3 hours by car and the maximum distance would be flying from Europe.
We're inviting about 140 people and it breaks down like this:
20~Driving 3 hours
20~Driving 8 hours
5~Flying 800 miles (CA)
80~Flying 2000 miles (most of our friends and family live on the east coast)
10~Flying 2500 miles (carribean and southern US)
10~Flying 3500 miles (europe)
Eek!
Interesting question.... because my wedding isn't until next September this is an invite list:
My total guest list is 238 - the curse of the joining of two large Italian families. I did not distinguish individual vehicle trips but just the number of people coming from a location to my wedding in Philadelphia, Pa. I left out elderly relatives we know can't make the trip but will be invited.
Driving:
from Cleveland: 34
from Bethlehem (1.5 hours to Philly) 49
from Reading, Pa: 4
from State College, Pa. : 2
From NJ: 10
From NY: 3
from Washington DC: 8
From VA:5
From Baltimore: 5
From NC: 8
From Mass. : 5
Locals Driving less than an hour: 62
Flying:
From Chicago:8
From Ohio: 2
From Texas:6
From California: 12
From Detroit: 8
From Arizona: 2
From Louisiana: 2
From Colorado: 2
Whew, that was interesting. I'm sure our carbon footprint is much larger than yours.
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We are having 36 ppl, including us, our wedding is in Vancouver BC.
17 live locally and will drive (hopefully carpooling)
2 will fly/drive from Calgary, Alberta
14 will fly from Toronto, Ontario
Hope this helps!
We chose a place that was equal distance to my mom and dad and his...
Estimates:
100 ppl driving 50-100 miles ( 1 driving just under 1000 miles...he doesn't fly)
4 flying from Cali
15 flying from South Carolina
5 flying from Florida
30 flying from North Carolina
10 fyling from Illinios
1 flying from Minnisota
Only 5 people or so are within 30 miles
We will have about 50 guests.
About 15 of those live locally.
About 25 will be driving-less than 300 miles- to attend.
Only about 5 will be flying in from other parts of the country.
Wow good question. Our weddings is in the Riviera Maya so I may throw off your totals:
Flying to cancun from:
Michigan - about 20 people
Illinios - 6 people
Wisconsin - 6 people
For our at home reception (in Michigan):
1 hour drive: about 150 people (we live inbetween our two families)
Illinios - 6 people
Wisconsin - 6 people
Arkansas - 8 people
Florida - 2 people
This is all a guesstimate, since we haven't sent out RSVPs, so we aren't sure who is or isn't coming, but if everyone were to come...
We are inviting around 150 guests. Most live fairly close to Nashville.
We have most of our guests coming who are co-workers and and close family and the parking is limited with a bit of a drive so I have a friend who owns a bus business - you know the ones you use for day trips and tours? - so we are going to have everyone meet at our office building and park here (most people are within 15 miles of work if not closer) and then we are going to have a bus take them - i hope that is less harmful then having 70 cars drive? We only have a few people who may fly in but that is still up in the air (i know - hahaha). We were going to try to save money and not hire a limo, but it will be easier to have just two vehicles bring everyone in the party then have everyone drive their own. I'm sure there will be people who won't want to use the bus, but my hope is that they will!
Thanks for reminding us all that we have a footprint and we need to leave as small of one as possible.
invited only for now... wedding is in providence, RI
- about 75 driving from Philadelphia (probably carpooling for a total of 45-50 cars)
-3 flying from London
-2 flying from Malta
16 flying from Jordan
10 flying from italy
25 driving from Massachusetts
25 driving from New York
10 flying from California
2 flying from Israel
100 driving from within RI
I don't suppose mine's normal either, small, but we have about 40 driving less than an hour round trip, 15 driving 6-12 hours round trip and one flying from East to West coast.
My wedding is kind of far away, and subject to some change. It will be held in San Diego California. At the moment, this is what our guest list looks like
1 person flying from Mexico
5 people flying in from Maryland
2 from New England
1 from Chicago
1 from Kansas City
1 from colorado
4 flying from Hawaii
18 flying from Sacramento
7 flying San Fransisco
19 will be driving approximately 100 miles (they will likely be carpooling in groups of 2)
13 driving 25-35 miles
The other 12 will be driving less than 25 miles.
Hope that helps. Don't think mine is typical either. (I am a student so all of my friends are kind of all over the place)
We had a small wedding. Of our 41 guests, we had a mix of locals and out of towners from various locales. To help minimize extra travel, we had all weekend events in one small town in California where almost everything was walking distance. For anything not within walking distance, we carpooled. :)
The breakdown:
locals - 15 (17 if you count bride & groom)
regional drives - 3 (one family in one car)
short flights (under 2 hours) - 7
long flights (cross-country) - 10
internationa flights (4 from UK, 2 from Australia) - 6
Wow! Thank you so much guys and a thank you to mrs. bee as well for featuring this! I'm begining to think there is no such thing as average, I'm so greatful for all the data and help!
It seems like there are many of us out there with larger wedding carbon footprints (and props to those of you with small ones!). It really is the travel aspect of weddings that raises the overall footprint and thats the part I've found hardest to reduce!
Good luck to everyone and happy planning!
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Hi guys,
My wedding is in august and I'm having 80 guests total, with 30 flying from the UK, 5 flying from the west coast to east coaast and the rest driving within a 20 mile radius. I'm pretty sure this isn't normal or average, because my wedding has a carbon footprint of 42 tons!
I also work for Carbonfund.org and am trying to make our wedding calculators for carbon offsets easier to use, but I'm having a hard time finding avergaes for those things.
So if you have a moment, would you mind sharing your total guest count, and how many are flying and how many driving?
Thank you so much!