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So especially now that my wedding is coming up soon, people keep asking me things like "how big is it", "how many people are you expecting", etc? I think that my wedding is on the larger end of what I'd consider a "medium-sized" wedding but most people who hear how many we're expecting say things like "wow - that's huge", "that's a ton of people", "so you're having a really large wedding", etc.
So my question to you Bees is what do you consider to be a "large wedding"? Please vote in the poll and explain below since I can only provide ranges for the poll. At what guest cutoff would you say a wedding is "large"?
I think over 200 is large. I only had 80 people and generally referred to that as a small wedding.
I kept telling people we were having around 200 people and people kept saying "omg thats huge" I was like no it's not it's only family lol but I have been doing my guest counts and its actually under 150 hahaha I totally miscalculated so I guess 200 is a BIG wedding.
For me, anything over 100 would be a large wedding. We are keeping our guest list to 50 and that is big enough for us.
I think anything under 100 is small
100-175 is medium
+175 is large
+300 is insane LOL - I just don't know how those brides do it!
200 plus I would call large. Under a hundred is called small. Somewhere in between in is pretty usual. At least that's my feelings.
My sister had 700 people at her wedding...
Seriously, we are aiming for 125-150, and I consider that to be quite a small wedding.
To me, more than 150 is large. I originally wanted to stay at 150 or under, but our guest list is now at 197. Oh well...
@plantains: wowzers!! How did they all fit into one building?! 
@plantains: 700?? I couldn't come up with that many people if I tried really hard. Lol. Wow.
I consider 175+ to be large :)
We had an overflow tent set up outside the banquet hall. She is the first child in our family so it is typical to see that with a lot of Nigerian weddings. It happens with Indian wedding a lot as well. A large number of the guests were business associates that my parents had to invite.
I went to a wedding last month that had 54 tables of 10. That was a 'freakin' HUGE' wedding.
Large to me is 250+
Medium is 150-250
Small is up to 150.
We are expecting just a smidge over 150 - and I'm telling people (and feel like) it's a small wedding.
My best friend is a full-blooded Greek girl and she had a 425 person wedding. She says envies my 'much more manageable' 235 person guest list, lol. So I really think large depends on the culture you come from, but anything over 200 seems huge to me.
I think anything larger than your own wedding (or imaginary wedding) is "large" to most people. My wedding is only 50ish, which my parents think is huge (they got married in a tiny ceremony with like, two witnesses). But I tend to think of anything over 100 as 'holy crap that's huge!' just because it's way bigger than mine.
Yeah, it differs a lot. We had 120 people and I thought of it kinda medium/smaller side. Since like 80 of those people were family I thought of it in terms of non-family members we could invite and so that left it feeling on the smaller side to me. But I guess for me when I think large I think over 200 people.
I think over 200 is large. 100-200 is medium. When people ask me, I usually tell them that we're having a fairly small wedding (about 100 guests), and they they turn to me and say "100 people is considered small?". Maybe I need to re-adjust my standards, but I think in the wedding world, 100 and under is considered small...
More than 200.
So anything bigger than mine. : ) I see 200 as the high side of the middle.
I know that most weddings are over 100 people, but to me that is a HUGE amount of people, and therefore a "large" wedding. To me, a "medium" group of people (and therefore a medium wedding) is around 50-75 people, and "small" is under 25 (yes, I know that leaves out 26-49, but I couldn't think of a word for that).
I know there are weddings way bigger than 100, but it just boggles my mind, honestly. To me, anything nearing 200 is FRIGGIN' HUGE. @.@
We're trying to keep ours 100-120 (total head count invited is 163, lol) which I think of as being on the smaller side. I consider 200+ large, haahaahaa
I remember when I was younger I thought I would have 300+ people at my wedding, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH - - Oh how the times have changed 
I think it all depends on perspective. A lot of the Chinese weddings I've gone to have had 300-500 people and that's considered a normal size for them! Personally, I think anything less than 100 is small, and anything over 250 is big. We're planning to have 125-140 people at our wedding and I have had comments from some people saying that it will be a large wedding, while others think it will be small.
Under 100 is small, 100-140ish is medium-large, over 150 is "holy crap," over 200 is "DAMN."
To me.
When a couple in our marriage prep class said their guest list was 400+ ... I just about couldn't even imagine planning, executing, or experiencing that. This was a fairly standard American wedding, too, nothing involving cultures where you invite the whole world. I would just think so many DIY projects would be a non-possibility - how do you make that many invitations and escort cards and ceremony programs etc by hand?
well for me, having anything uner 200 is out of the question. both my dad and my FI's mom are one of 6 kids! and each of their siblings has 3-6 kids. So, JUST including our families (aunts, uncles, cousins and their spouses) we have 160 people. We are both very close with our families, so it's not like we could invite some and not invite others. SO we are at 160 before even inviting any of our friends, old high school pals, co-workers, or even any of our parents' friends. this wedding is going to be huge!
p.s. i went to a wedding 2 months ago that had 6500 people!!!!!
Oops I accidentally voted anything over 100, but I meant something more like this - Under 100 is small, 100-150 is medium, and over 150 is large...especially the closer you get to 200. So I probably should have with anything over 180 is definitely large.
To me anything under 100 is a small wedding, 100-180 is a medium wedding and anything over 180 is a large wedding.
@heatherrobyn:How in the world was there 6500 people at a wedding!? I dont even know that many people!
It was funny... our wedding was about 225 people. To me it was pretty big, but I got reactions from people from both ends of the spectrum. I got "Oh, so not too big" and "OMG! That's a big wedding!"
We're expecting to have about 170 people at our wedding.
I think anything under 100 people is small.
I'd say that 100 to about 200 is medium.
Once you're over 200 your wedding is starting to get pretty big.
Over 275 or so and you're getting huge in my mind.
So at 170, I'd consider my FI and I to be having a wedding on the large side of medium-sized.
Personally, I think anything over 100. We're only expecting about 60 at mine.
I live in an area that's primarily South Asian and part of my job is processing special occassion liquor licenses for banquet halls, so I see lots of wedding guest lists. It's not uncommon for my friends to have 700-1200 people at their weddings, so my that comparison, my 90 person wedding is TINY.
its relative in relation to your... relatives LOL
if you have a big family - 150 is a small wedding. if your family is very small (couple of aunts and uncles) then 150 is HUGE.
for me, i have 174 aunts uncles and first cousins alone on my side. so when i said i wanted i small wedding, for us, thats 120 tops. might sound like alot but thats only 60 per side, which after mandatory aunts and uncles only leaves me with about 20 slots for friends.
smaaaaaallllll (its all relative)
In my experience, everyone has different ideas on this. I know a guy who had 400, which is unfathomable to me, but is common in his community. We had 110 and people said, "Oh, big!" and also, "oh, small!" In general, I think about it like this:
100 or less: small
100 - 150: average
150+: large
If I invited all of my family that would be about 200-300 people. Add up my FHs relatives, and thats relatively the same amount, not to mention friends & friends of the family etc. If the parents had it their way we would invite absolutely everyone which would probably be around 700 people.
Which to me is mind blowingly, riduclously huge. (Not to mention way ot of our budget or sanity range).
I think 200+ is on the larger side, -100 on the smaller side.
We are aiming for the smaller side.
I think it's hard to really define a specific number for what's considered "large" just because everyone has a different family size.
For example, we invited right around 130, and for us that's actually REALLY small. We had a lot of extended family that we didn't get to include, and a lot of friends that we didn't invite. My family alone makes up about 75 people, and that's just our very close family!
Some people have smaller families, though, and can invite 150 people and that's like everyone they know! So, I guess I would consider anything over about 200 "large", but I think a lot of it is relative to how big your family is.
Wow..I thought anything over 100 was a large wedding. I've only been to one wedding though and it had like 40 people.
I think If I wanted 200 or more i'd have to invite everyone on myspace and facebook too.
I think anything over 200 is large...but then again we had around 240 at our wedding and everyone talked about how small it was because a lot of people weren't invited...
@plantains: 700! I can't even imagine that!
@heatherrobyn: Please tell me you meant 650.
To me a small wedding is 30 - 40 people. above 70 is a medium and over 100 is large. I can't even imagine a 200 person wedding......ok, well I can, I have been to one that was 200 people, and I thought it was just insane!!! I could never fill a guest list that big. That said I don't have a large family, and my FI pretty much has no family at all. So when I hear of the woes of others because with all the 5th and 6th cousins they can't get their guest list down....I just can't relate.
The average wedding size I tend to be invited to is 40 - 50. Mine will be less than 40.
Following the same sentiments, as most, 100 or less is a small wedding, 100 - 200 is a medium sized wedding, and 200+ is a large wedding.
With that being said, I probably will end up with no more than 250 people, which would be considered on the medium side of a wedding in my culture. Most of the weddings I've been to have been 300+.
I can understand what everyone is saying with the whole family thing. I have a relatively large family (it was somewhere between 70-80 for just my family alone - and that's not super extended family - that's close relatives). Add in FI's family and a handful of friends and you already have a decent chunk of people.
Maybe that's partly why I have a hard time feeling like my wedding is "large" - I know how many people we had ot cut to get the list to size.
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