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I'm with ya! We just tallied up our total guest count this morning and we are at 49 and holding. Woohoo! We are having an intimate garden wedding followed by a reception at the same historic home. We were able to splurge on flowers and food because our guest list is so small. We are trying to keep it casual with an acoustic singer for the reception and a buffet dinner rather than a sit down meal. As a bonus, since our guest list is so small everyone will also be invited to a BBQ the night before the wedding. I'm hoping everyone will get to know each other and the wedding night will be a relaxed atmosphere.
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We're not under 50, but our goal was 60 and our offical count is 61!! Just like you guys we wanted something small and intimate. Hopefully it will all go off without a hitch!! I'll let ya know after this weekend!
ours was somewhere between 50-60 guests and it was perfect. Already you spend all night saying hello to everyone and i just can't imagine fluttering between 100+ people.
I was able to really enjoy our reception and our guests!
me too I only wanted 50 but somehow my list has climbed to 68---hope not everyone shows up :P
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We are at 38 definite and may hit about 44 max! I'm so very happy about that, even though initially I wanted even less. T-minus 4 days and counting and I hope it's every bit the intimate fun time I've been dreaming about!
our original count was about 60 but i think that's ballooned to 75. everyone we tell says its a perfect size!
I long for a small and intimate wedding. We're going to be falling somewhere around 150-160.. we both have huge extended families and excluding anyone in that group would've equalled very hurt feelings. But if it would've been possible, I would've loved to cut our guest list in half!!
I'm just curious if any of you come from small enough families that you're able to include everyone in that count. If you lucked out having two parents that were only children, for example, I could see that working out.
I'm not inviting every cousin or relative that I haven't seen in years. They might get an invite if we're on each other's Christmas card list lol!
I'm just happy it's going to be small. Elegant and small is what I want. No stress. It will be easy and again, one thing I love about this and many of you have seconded this, is the fact there's lots of wiggle room for floral stuff and reception. That is what ROCKS imho!
Hey...if any of you smaller fifty and under brides have pics from you weddings, post it here!
Hooray for small yet fabulous!!!
@MissEdamame we had to invite immediate family only to get to our number of 50. I am one of 5 kids so just my immediate family is 21 people. I just explained to my aunts,uncles, and cousins, that we wanted a very simple ceremony and they were all very undertanding. I understand how in some familys hurt feelings could arise but that was not the case for me.
We're hoping to have right around 50 people too! We're having a desintation/vacation wedding, so its nice to have such a small number of people so we can really spend time with everyone. We've got all kinds of events planned for the weekend and are planning on spoiling our 50 guests!
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I would have been happy with a small wedding, but Mr. Bunny wanted to invite the world to share our joy. I've resigned myself to it and will definitely have a blast, but I'm still a little jealous of you girls with "intimate" weddings!
We set out max at 75 but secretly hoped for around 50. Currently we are at 60 (2 weeks out) so I'm pretty happy with that size. I started thinking of our wedding as a glorified back yard bbq and who would we invite to something of that nature and the list worked itself out. I'll let you know in 18 days if it all goes as smoothly as I'm hoping :) However, in order to exclude distant cousins, etc. we finally agreed to let my parents host a church reception in my hometown later in July....for around 175 people.
We're inviting about 68 and expecting somewhere around 40, since a lot of them are out of town. The less the better as we're both pretty shy people.
Our wedding ended up at 45 people, including ourselves. We're super glad we decided to have an intimate wedding and our guests really enjoyed themselves. I think the smaller the wedding, the more infectious the wedding-y lovefest!
Link to pics in my profile, since @bellenga asked.
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We're at 46 (could be 48) and most of those are our friends. We didn't invite anyone we didn't want to...including my fiances nasty vindictive sister 
I wish I could add myself to the list. I can only dream of an intimate wedding with just our family and closest friends.
We having a a destination wedding; essentially, we're eloping, and so far the guest list (for our elopement, which I just find funny...) is at 10. Seems folks need an excuse to go to Vegas! I was just on the phone with my dad explaining that I am only ordering 25 invites. Anyone else gets a post-wedding announcement. Done.
wow i have 60+ people for just my engagement party... how do you guys keep it so low?
my wedding will probably be 200-250 people... argh!
Raindrops, we just don't like that many people! Seriously! And being that it's kind of a DW, anyone wanting to attend has to be able to fund the trip; we're buying a house, and have a negative wedding budget. We hope people can come, but even if not, we'll be there, getting hitched and catching a show.
We had 57 at ours, and I seriously couldn't imagine a bigger wedding. It was busy enough trying to visit and spend time with everyone! And I loved the intimacy and closeness of our ceremony and reception. It was really special!
@ Raindrops - Two words: destination wedding. Our location is definitely not easy to get to or cheap, which has eliminated 2/3 of our guest list. We kind of knew that money and travel might be a problem for many of our friends and family, so we invited everyone (just under 150 people) and emphasized that we were very understanding about people not being able to make it to Wyoming and it was OK. We have tried not to make anyone feel guilty about not coming and we are definitely trying to make it worthwhile for everyone that is spending the time and money to come (i.e. great welcome bags, lots of activities and parties, great discounts on accommodations, etc.). At one point we thought that we might get around 80 people, but it's looking much closer to 50 right now. It's perfect!
How do we keep it low? Easy. Like I said earlier, I'm not inviting every relative that I only see at a reunion once ever other decade or so..people that I don't know really. Or am I inviting distant friends. Just people we love and know.
I once had the huge, big fat, gorgeous wedding and I invited everybody..I mean EVERYBODY when I married my x. And I realized after that in the years to come, that I wish it HAD been smaller. More time to mingle, No real reason to spend $$ on people I didn't know all that well. And definitely LESS stress imho.
I truly wanted (T does too) an elegant, intimate wedding where it will have loads of meaning and we will share it with those who we know. As far as the family rule of thumb with me goes, if we don't exchange Christmas cards every year or have a phone call once a year, then they DON'T know me..or really care that much imho.
I went to a wedding recently (not the one this last weekend) where I asked a guest there "how do you know the bride or groom?" The answer I got was..."Well I am a coworker of the Mother of the Bride and really don't know the bride or groom at all. " That kinda cinched alot for me. Now our IMMEDIATE and close business contacts will be invited as our closest friends and relatives. But not what I call and pardon my Atlanta analogy"Outside of the perimeter friends or relatives". OTP's.
But either choice is AWESOME imho. If you want a biggie wedding...go for it. If you want smaller and more intimate, then go for it! I always deep down wanted (even when I married my x) a gorgeous garden wedding with the altar either overlooking mountains, lake, river, or ocean. About 6 mos ago I saw in a magazine the most FABULOUS wedding in Italy..attended by around 50 people. They had the most amazing intimate dinner reception and everybody was laughing and interacting..and the last weekend, when my coworker married and had a "50 or less" wedding with the SAME feel to it just blew me away.
Here's a pic from my friends' "50 or less" wedding last weekend! The mingling was fantastic and the interaction of the guests was amazing. I met probably 3 new people and T made a new business contact and friend there too!
Yes! 50 and possibly under :-) Only people who know us, like us, and whom we like; we want to feel loved and comfortable. We felt kind of weird at the idea of saying intimate, personal vows in front of strangers (or coworkers of FMIL).
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Who's with me? It's our wish to have a lovely, intimate wedding and reception and since there will be less guests, we can have our way with the flowers and food and cocktails!
I'm loving a wedding where the reception will be fun, intimate, and seeing the wedding of my friends yestersday (also a "50 and under") and all the positive flow and camraderie of the guests and the sheer feel of it has me stoked!
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