Weddingbee boards

We are having less than 50 people and I have no regrets! It's just family and a few friends, and it will be great. Plus, it's a morning wedding and we can leave early without feeling like we didn't talk to everyone. I'm so excited!

We are having 15 guests at our wedding, I am really looking forward to it. Only problem is that I know as soon as everyone finds out that we are only having 15 ppl (only my parents know at the moment) we are going to be dealing with everyone else freaking out about why so and so can't come too. Yay!

We had 87 guests at our wedding. Only 1 person was a no show. We really wanted people that we were close with to attend. In hindsight their were a few people i would of liked to invited but we werent that close when the invites went out but we became a bit closer as the wedding came near.

@Jenofdnile: We're having a small wedding, between 14 - 20.  Originally I'd wanted a small, but slightly larger wedding around 60.  However, due to illness and financial fallout for both our families, we're now paying for the wedding ourselves.  So we moved our wedding from a major city to a small town with a gorgeous historic inn that can accomodate a really nice wedding for a small number of people.

My family was fine with it, Mr. C's family is very large so weddings are either tiny planned elopements or many hundreds of people, so I think it's actually easier for them to accept a very small number as opposed to a moderate number.

Once in a while, a part of me wishes that we were having hundreds of people and all the showers and hoopla.  However, I feel like by keeping things a bit smaller and less expensive I can enjoy them more.  I'm not constantly having to fret about the cost and can go with the flow a bit more.  And because it's smaller, we're finding we're able to put a personal touch on every tiny detail which makes it more about us.

I think there's more flexability sometimes when you have a smaller wedding because you know the guests better and know they're all people who are super close to you.  Plus you can do little treats for your guests you might not otherwise be able to afford.  I wanted to do the Godiva chocolates done up in gold for favors and for 65 or more it would be totally out of budget.  For 20 or fewer guests, it's totally doable.  Will we have them, still considering the matter.  However having fewer people made it at least a possibility.  Just one example, other things have popped up.

I PLAN on having no more than 70 guests there, Im putting the cap on it and I dont care who has something to say about it. I went with the List A and B idea and I have no idea how Im making this work! I have 60 guests on my List A so I guess as people decline the invites, Im inviting some guests from List B. I hope this works! My total budget is 5k. The wedding is OOT (about an hr and a half away) from 6p to 10p on a Sat nite so I hoped that helped narrow down the guest list. Ive always imagined an intimate wedding. I cant stand too many eyes on me at once, I cant even walk correctly if that happens! I invited 25 ppl from my side but FI side is VERY VERY HUGE but we're trying to cut it. He required his siblings and nieces and nephews and mother and father and stepmom to come which makes that 21 on his side alone already. We are getting married at an all inclusive venue and the pkg deal is for 50 guests. Any addt guests will cost extra. We budgeted the most we could spend is $300 extra for addt guests and no more than that. I hope it all works out in the end. Any snotty remarks from family regarding my small guest list I care nothing about. Im not inviting ANY of my dad's side of the family. They are very messy and love to gossip about anything and anyone. I do not have a relationship at all with these type of people.

I'm not sure this will help, but we were originally capping our guest list at 50 people, but by the time we got done writing down my family, we were at 35, and that wasn't inviting everyone, only those I actually speak with (FI's family list was at 33!). Anyway, we have a new list of 98 (and that's including some +1s) and we're very happy with that list. It's of family and friends we talk to or see in our everyday lives. We had no idea we had so many! For us, I think we would greatly regret limiting our guest list to 50 and leaving out so many people we want to share our day with.

We are inviting 36 people to our wedding, including +1's (not even a DW) and I can't imagine wanting more, personally.  We both have small families and not too many close friends, and no pressure from parents to invite some random relative or obscure family friends :)

Our plan is to keep it less than 70 people. I have a HUGE family, so my 17 cousins plus their spouses (except for the 2 that aren't married/in a serious relationship) are unfortunately being excluded. They understand which is great. So our guest list is only consisting of some close friends, aunts/uncles, SO's grandmother, and of course the usuals (parents, my brother). And we're STILL over 60 people.