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I would say ours is 50% his family 10% my family 10% my friends and 20% his friends and 10% our friends!
He has a big family and I have a really small one.
We are between 80 and 85% family (mostly mine) and the rest friends (an equal number for each of us).
Ours is about 2/3 family 1/3 friends with just over 100 pple total. We share a lot of friends, and we have nearly equal family/family friends in that 2/3rds. We'd like to make it 1/2 family 1/2 friends, but it's really not possible.
My FH and I both have large families. However, we also know a LOT of people (at our church) so I think it comes out to about even.
Ours is at least 50% family, probably a lot more. I know I'm only inviting about 4 friends (plus guests, so 8). He's got a few more, but not a ton. I'm shy, so don't have many friends, and he's much more social but has few friends he's close enough to to invite. The balance of the list (we've somehow managed to make it over 400 people being invited, how?) are family friends. I'm not sure how to classify those, since some of these people I literally have never heard of, so they're not OUR friends. (We are providing very little food, and my FH's dad is over 4 restaurants, so there's little additional cost with extra guests, so we're pretty much inviting anyone my parents want, since they're paying anyway.)
Ours would be about 60% his family, 15% my family, and 25% friends/close coworkers.
65 percent are family. His family is huge mine is somewhat large but they are scattered across the country. So, I have faux family that is another 25 percen that we spend holidays with etc. that I've known since the day I was bord. So, 75 percent. Our list is 225 - 65 are shared friends between my FI and I. Rest family and parents friends. It can be frustrating at times
Oh- about thirty percent of our guests are family. My fi and I have small families, and we are having a small wedding of about 60 people. Obviously, the rest of our guests are family friends, college buddies, & a few select co-workers.
Ugh. I would say probably about 75% of or 240 person guest list is family, almost all of it mine...and sadly most of whom I am either not that close to, or see once a year if I'm lucky! My parents insisted on inviting them all. I am hoping (since many of them are out of town) that many decide not to make the trip.
85%, yo! I get incensed when the #1 buget tip is to cut the guest list, or when people say "if you can't afford x, you're having a bigger wedding than you can afford". Uhhh... okay. You tell Aunt Maude she can't come after she's made her travel plans...
Defintely about 85% family out of a 100-120 person wedding. Mr. Powder Puff has an enormous family (his dad is one of 14 children!), so most of them are his relatives. The rest is made up of my family and a few close friends.
We are having a pretty small ceremony with 50 people max. I would say family is a good 1/2 of that.
85% of our maximum guest list is family. It's 79 people total (including us), and only 14 people on the list are not family (2 of whom are in the wedding party: my MOH and his BM). Of the family portion, the largest portion are the cousins (there's 24 of them) plus their spouses/fiance(e)s, and babies, coming to a whopping total of 32 people (compared to 35 immediate family plus (great-)grandparents plus aunts and uncles). We're hoping to cut the guest list further, but it's pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to cut it past about 17 people without A) excluding people we want to be there, or B) majorly stepping on some toes (or both!).
I would say about 50% of our list is family, 30% is family friends and 20% are our friends or coworkers. We are having a large wedding (320 invited, hoping for less than 275!) and the majority of our friends are in the bridal party.
I say 60% are family, 10% are old family friends and 30% are my friends here in the city, I move a lot so I lose teh closeness with old friends and make new ones where I go (he's coming from england so his side is small) we only have 50 guests; makes the guestlist simple since it's mostly my side
Out of about 300 invited guests: 75% family, 25% guests. Our families are huge!
We are having about 98% family and 2% friends combined! Family family family.
Family is almost 50% of our guest list (mostly my family -- it's rather large :-P). But we have several groups that we consider family, too, that aren't biological family (his house church family, our ministry family, our church family, our campus ministry family) so if you count those "families" it's more like 95% :-).
Well, lets see:
My family=35%
His family=5% (no joke)
Rest=60%
I think it's about 50% his family, 25% mine, and 25% our friends. I'm only inviting my paternal side relatives (don't really know the other side) otherwise my family % would be higher.
Probably a good 85 - 90% is family with just a few friends sprinkled in.
At the ceremony in MA, over half will be family and their SOs. Then again, the ceremony will only be about 15 people.
At the reception back home, we will not have any family, just friends.
I'd say we're probably at about 90% family, 10% friends. Most of our non family are actually my parents' friends... and all of our friends that will be there are in the wedding party.
We only had 16 family members attend out of our 97 guests. That 16 includes third-cousins, so -- it's a stretch. For a lot of our family, a wedding is a pretty routine occurrence that doesn't warrant a lot of fuss, so we weren't too surprised. We were happy to have so many friends around us. :)
Probably about 70 percent. FI has a HUGE family and although my fam size is average, my people are coming in from all over the country.
90% of my guest are family
probabaly 20% of his guest are family
so with all our guest together it is prob almost 50/50 maybe a little more friends then family with his side
I would say roughly 75-80% of our guest list is family. We are inviting 165 people and although I wanted a smaller wedding that's impossible with the size of both of our families! My dad is one of six kids which means that I am one of 11 grandchildren on my dad's side! FI's dad is one of five children and that group is large too. Basically, there is a lot of family all around!
I would say 85% is family and the rest are our friends. His mom is 1 of 8 and he has over 30 cousins on that side. My mom is 1 of 10 and I have over 50 cousins on her side. My dad is 1 of 5 and I have about 15 cousins on that side. Yes, its a little ridiculous
It's about 85% right now sadly. There are a lot of family members that are invited more out of "courtesy" and to avoid the family drama, so I'm not too thrilled about it. So I know this might sound mean but I hope it shifts a bit.
@bluegreenjean I totally get what you're saying. As much as I try to cut, it's almost impossible since it's mostly family.
Ours is really high - I would guess about 80% family, 10% parents' friends, and 10% our friends. We'd love to have more of our friends, but already the guest list is going to be 175 or more - and this after we wanted an intimate wedding. Damn.
I'm not sure what the percentages were but my family guests totalled like 70 people. Dh's family was only 10 :( I felt bad
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I had dinner with an engaged friend this evening, and we got to talking about families and weddings. She and her FI both have huge families with 50 cousins on each side.
Mr. Bee and I both have very small families. I had 7 relatives on my side, and he had 10 on his side. 17 family members for our almost 100 person wedding, and the rest of our guests were friends.
What percentage of your guest list is family vs friends?