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I invited everyone under the sun to mine, but since it involves airfare I don't expect many of them to show up. I told our venue 150 people though. So no, i don't think 100 is too much for a DW, but I guess it depends on the destination? :3
About 85 people came to ours. I think it depends on your destination and the cost of attending your wedding. If your destination is awesome to a lot of people, more ppl will come. If the cost of attending is high, then less people will come. Some destinations are also more amenable to accommodating 100+ guests than others.
If you want an intimate small wedding I would recommend working on minimizing your guest list instead of predicting who's going to come based on the cost/attraction of attending.
I don't think 100 people is too much to invite to a destination wedding at all. I'm having a destination wedding in Puerto Rico next month and I invited a little over 100 people and I've always wanted a small, more intimate wedding. Depending on how you look at it, destination weddings can be great for inviting who you want but still getting a small wedding, because depending on your destination, many people simply won't make it. Right now we have a little over 30 people showing up and that's fine with me - some people I really wanted there can't make it because it's a destination, but some people I never expected to go will be there.
But if it's important to you that most of those 100 people be there, then choose a destination that's closer/easy to get to for those people.
As a side note: when we first mentioned the destination wedding idea, a lot of extended family and friends were very encouraging/excited, but then when it became a reality, most of those people ended up deciding not to go, so you can't really predict who is going to go until you get those RSVPs.
Thanks for the tips guys. Good to know. I was looking at sites online and they were talking about ceremonies for 10-25 people, and I know no matter how much I whittle down the guest list, I'll never be that low! But so true about people not RSVPing because of it...that's definitely a really good point to keep in mind (and keeping it smaller!!)
We're going to be inviting around 100 people for our half-destination wedding (half destination because roughly half the guest list lives at the destination, in Puerto Rico, while the other half lives in the US). Not sure yet about how many people will actually attend, but we think we'll get around 85 people attending.
Any number is good for a DW! We are only inviting 40 but I have seen ones with over 200 people invited.
Our guest list is 130, orginally 70 until the parents had their 2 cents! But were expecting maybe 60 will show up! So invite as many people you want just be prepared that only about half might show up, depending where it is!
I could practically say "ditto" to tvilase comments above... very well said! We invited EVERYONE understanding that fewer would attend. It's a second wedding for us, we have 33 confirmed to Jamaica, not including us. The resort could have accommodated well over 200 though.
I've heard a wide range of attendees for DW.. but it seems maybe 30-50 is the average? I plan on inviting about 50 and if only half show - that's totally fine with me. I plan on having a blowout house party back home to celebrate with those who couldnt make it to the wedding.
we're inviting 65, but very much hoping that only about 30 will show! we originally had a guest list of 25 or so, just parents, siblings and aunts/uncles. then my parents guilted me into inviting cousins, which then snowballed into second cousins, and here we are. you know how it goes :\ it will be ok if all the invitees show up, but we would prefer a more intimate scene! For FI and I, having a small guest list was the main reason we chose a DW in the first place.
I think you can really do any amount!
We knew that no matter where we planned the wedding, lots of people would be traveling. So we just picked a place we loved, invited everyone we wanted (about 250) and 65 of our closests showed up. We also had a party at my parents house a few weeks later and a lot more people came to that.
We sent 60 invitations, so far 14 people are attending. We are still waiting for some answers but we'd be happy with 14! In our case, the price was high because it's a whole week in an all-inclusive 5* resort. Also, consider the date of your DW if you are worried of people showing up or not. We would have been happy to get married with just our parents there, so we chose a date where the weather's very nice and the price is good, but it wasn't a convenient date for some people we invited because right after Christmas holidays. That affected the attendance.
Good luck!
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I am sort of in love with the idea of a destination wedding. We want it as small as possible, but just our two families combined are 75 people! Then of course there's the "may as well be family" group, and I honestly think the wedding will be at BARE MINIMUM 100 people. Is this too many for a destination wedding?? How many people are coming to yours?