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So the past two years I've gone to several weddings and every bride keeps telling me the same thing, i wish it would of been smaller. The weddings average from 100-250.
I'm planning my wedding around 50 people, is that not common? I want it to be intimate and with us pushing the date further out, it gives us time to pick who we find is more important in our lives to attend. I've mentioned the idea to several friends and they act like its the strangest thing they have heard.
Is anyone else having a small wedding?
We're having 35 guests at our wedding, but we're having a DW wedding. Honestly, if it wasn't we'd only have around 50 though. We never wanted anything huge.
We are going to have about 40 people at our wedding and we couldn't be happier! We will be able to treat our guests like kings :D
We had only a dozen guests at our wedding. Even at our at-home reception a few days later, we had only 60. I never saw the point of inviting everyone I'd ever met.
We are having 50 and really it is the perfect number. We originally thought our venue fit 60, but found out that it was only if we did not want a dance floor. Cutting it down to 50 was not that difficult at all and I am really happy with who ended up being invited. I would not want more even if I could fit them all. Well maybe like 5 more but that is it.
My husband & I had a small wedding. 20 some people being family only. We loved it just the way it was & wouldn't change a thing! We wanted it to be intimate. Having alot of people there we would have been uncomfortable, its just not us.
We are aiming for 60 (including ourselves and my maid of honour and his best lady)... so the reception will consist of the 4 of us at the head table and 8 round tables with 7 guests per table.
@Ms.BlueEyes: i love the idea of a smaller wedding. We are having a destination wedding because if we had it local I would be pressured to invite everyone. We are having around 50 people and I love the idea that everyone there I care about so much. Plus it's nice on the ol checkbook ;).
I'm so excited that we just changed our plan from a 100 person wedding in June to a 50 person wedding this February! The stress just melted away and I absolutely can't wait (wheras before I was dreading it and bogged down with planning stress). Now we just have to invite our family and best friends....and the cost has been cut down a ton! It will be so nice to be able to spend time with everyone and the room we're booking is MUCH smaller and more intimate. :)
We purposely booked a room that will only hold a max of 50 people so even if more people wanted to come, they couldnt. I think that we will probably end up with around 45 :)
FI and I are not close to our extended family and we have a pretty close knit group of friends so we didnt have a huge amount of people to invite anyway. Plus, by cutting the wedding in half, we will be able to afford a Eurotrip! Even better!
We are having a 40 ppl wedding. I wanted to have a smaller wedding but I have 5 siblings and I am the youngest so they all have their SO's. I have heard from everyone that they wished they would have had a smaller wedding so they could be able to enojy their guest more. Plus there would be less stress and be able to spend more money on your guest.
@Ms.BlueEyes: Well, we will be inviting over 150 people, but I think maybe 50 of them will actually show. Fiance's family doesn't like me because I am stealing away their son so the rest of his family doesn't like me. So I figure it will be my family and his parents, maybe grandparents, but thats it. *Score*
We invited 35 people, and 30 attended. It was the perfect size wedding weekend for us. I had real conversations with every single guest, and didn't feel rushed. And because our guest list was so small, we were able to spoil our guests, both with the food and alcohol that were served, and with lots of very personal details. Mr. LK and I were thrilled with our small wedding.
We're inviting 30 people and it's a semi-DW (it's about a 6 hour drive from our hometown). Honestly, we would invite more if we could afford it, but I think we will have a blast anyway!
I wish we were having a small wedding, but we are having 150-180 people which is "small" in our culture. waaahooooo ......
About 40 for the wedding maybe 150 for reception Im hoping for 100
We are having 26 people at our wedding. It is destination in Vegas but I wouldnt have it any other way.
We originally planned at 125. After pushing our date out we lowered it to 65-75. We thought it'd be nicer to have more space and only the people who matter most with us. Family went on the list first, and that left around 25 spots for close friends and friends of the family. I'm hoping to be able to actually interact with everyone. I guess it's still kinda big?
We had 23 people including us, our friends and family are far flung so we could get away with it. It was just perfect for us. We were able to afford better food and drink for everyone, we were able to spend time talking with every person and I didn't have to feel guilty about not having dancing :).
We invited like 140 and we ended up with about 75. It's not tiny, but it definitely was small. It was kind of amazing, because we got to spend more than a couple minutes with everyone and still had time to dance and eat.
I think we'll be inviting about 75, so I'm expecting maybe 60 to actually show? I honestly can't even imagine having it bigger than that. I'd have to start inviting acquaintances and coworkers and that's just not who I envision sharing my day with!
We are having a destination wedding with about 35 guests =]
We'll only have 12 for our (semi-destination) wedding- all family. We plan to have a backyard bbq-type reception w/ friends a month after.
We've invited 35, I'm hoping for around 25 or less. We just invited family, him more than me. I left it at my immediate family and their spouses kids, my only grandmother and 1 of my uncles (all important people to me). He's invited the grandparents and every aunt, uncle and cousin and their family. Everyone has to travel for ours, and for the space we're having dinner, the smaller the better in my mind. And I love it.
Granted, I wanted to elope and he wanted a big wedding, so this was us meeting in the middle.
Our venue holds a max of 70 for a sit down, so we are limited by that - thank god! Didn't want a huge wedding, so it's perfect and gives us the golden "the venue is very small so we're limited" excuse :-)
We have ended up with about 55 guests in total, including 5 kids (from our immediate families only).
I will probably have about 50 guests show up. I'm only inviting our immediate families (and SO/kids) and some close friends. No aunts, no cousins, no extended relatives. I am just not close with the majority of them. Those that I am, would not fly ever.
Besides who wants to feed and booze 100+ people you aren't even close to? I'm paying for it!
I am close with my grammie, but she'd never get on a plane and pretty much everyone has to fly here as we are not related to anyone in this entire time zone.
23 people, that includes me and FI, and 2 of them are children too, so 21 adults.
it made more sense to me to spoil the guests with a sumptous meal and champagne in a lovely hotel setting, and really spend time with each guest, letting them feel really special and valued.
if we had invited the word and his wife then we would not have been able to afford the luxury we can have with the smaller guest list. i was worried about the dancing, because there wont be any, so wondered if it might be a little bit awkward after we have eaten, but then we will just treat it like an exteded cocktail hour......and carry on untill the last person leaves.
i told a friend yesterday, and when i said there was only 23 people and no dancing.....she said....''oh dear thats such a shame, poor you'' (i cant believe she actually SAID that out loud to me!)
I dont feel like poor me at all i told her. when i went to her wedding last year she had 150+ people, and the decorations, food, wine, and the bride and groom themselves were spread so thinly, it was then i knew i wanted a smaller wedding.
What i mean is, her wedding cost the same as mine, shared between 150 guests, they had a buffet which was fine, but it soon dissapeared. the wine was nice but only 1 glass per person, and i spoke to her for 2 minutes.
my wedding maybe wont be her style, its tiny in comparison. but its what i want, and i am looking forward to spending more than 2 minutes with my guests.
its horses for courses.
We had our small wedding and reception at home. For the actual ceremony we only invited immediate family - about 20 people. For the open house reception afterwards we had approximately 75 people, but not all at one time. There was a steady flow throughout the evening. At any given time there were 20-35 people in our house.
We had about 40 to 50 people at our wedding. I have recieved nothing but good comments from everyone!
It was one of the best days of my life and I wouldnt have changed it for the world!
@Ms.BlueEyes: I would have loved to only have had 50 people invited... but I have three families on my side (dad, mom, stepmom) and FI is super close to all of his cousins! It got to the point where there were people we wanted to invite, but it would be rude to invite them and not "person b". So we ended up inviting 170, and 125 are showing up. O_O
we had a 17 people at my wedding including us for our DW in Jamaica and i absolutely loved it! then we had a backyard BBQ celebration with about 40 people - which was actually stressful i guess DH and i were charge of setting up and getting all the food ready. if we had hired help, it would have been less stressful i am sure. but even with 40 people, it was hard to really spend time with any one person.
We're having a small wedding also! 8 people including me and FH. Just parents and siblings. :-)
We are having a small wedding for 30 guests. Also the same budget if we had a big wedding. Splurging on a lot of things for our guests and I just love the intimacy of it.
43 and a baby is our final count! We're opening up the dancing/drinking half of the reception to all our friends.
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