How many guests?

We have 100. Half of them are estranged family members that we never see which makes me a bit sad, but I would much rather keep the harmony amongst the families.

We have between 60 & 80 but its not the number of people going to your wedding thats inmportant Hun, its that they are important to you and you want them to share you very special day Dont be sad its a happy day?

We are the same as you, not many friends and small families. We are having 40 guests.

H2B's family is quite small but I have a HUGE family, my dad is one of 14 and my mum one of 5 so add aunts, uncles, cousins and their kids we are looking at 200 for the evening, But we managed to get it down to around 60 for the wedding breakfast!

We're having 82 in the day (were aiming for 80!) and up to about 120 in the night, although I've only got about an extra 10-15 people I want to invite in the night, h2b has loads though! H2b has got lots of aunties and uncles, and I've got quite a few on my mum's side too. I very rarely see my aunties and uncles as none live nearby, but I would never have a wedding without inviting them, it will be fab to see them ? there are some friends who I wish I could've invited in the day, but can only ask them to the evening due to numbers, but when you factor in people's partners it's hard to draw the line.

It's not about how many people you have, it's about having the people you and your h2b want there.

We're the same, only 35-40 guests for the ceremony, and wedding breakfast, and then going up to around 60-70 for the evening.

We only have small family's so nothing we can do about it, but its nice that the people that are seeing us get married are very close to us. The long lost cousins, 2nds cousins, and family etc are coming to the evening.

Do you have extra people coming in the evening?

Sam x

Just under 140 to the day then about another 40 in the evening.

We have 51 in the day and around another 15 evening guests, so not a huge weddign wither. Don;t worry about numbers, it's about having the people who mean something to you around you on the day, it's not a popularity contest or something you should feel you have to invit all your extended family to, we haven;t invited any of my extended family to ours!

We've got 50 for the day and an extra 50 for the evening. That's mainly cos OH has a massive family. My family is tiny and we don't really have a lot of friends anymore, just a select few close ones.

Completely agree that it doesn't matter a jot how many guests you have - we just happen to have big families we're close to.

The point is to be surrounded by your favourite people for the day - there's nothing better than looking around the room and feeling so much love for everyone there. If someone invited people just for the sake of having more people there - it would dilute that feeling.

We are expecting anywhere between 45-65 guests to our wedding, waiting for RSVPS at the moment. Our wedding is in France though, so this has meant lower numbers.

As long as you have the people you love and cherish with you, the number of people won't make a difference. You will also be able to spend time with most of your guests which will be lovely xxx

You are all right of course.

It's about the people, not about the numbers.

It's just, sometimes I have table plan envy and things like that ?

We have 119 for the day ( although we have only booked for 100 atm! ) and then afurther 150 people in the evening xx

We would like to invite 100 to 150 people for my wedding

We have 127 people (including children) on the list at the moment and told to save the dates.

I also have another 25 on the "reserve" list that will be invited only if the people on the main list turn the invite down. And I am sure some of them will.

Akrigg - I envy you! I would've loved to have a small wedding but it feels a bit weird in a way as I have a huge, catholic family and weddings are a big deal. OH and I are paying for the wedding ourselves and have a small budget so it has been difficult narrowing it down to 100ish and another 20ish in the evening. Catering is our biggest expense. Consider yourself lucky!

I would have liked a small intimate wedding of 50, + a few evening guests...but we're up to 85 for the full day with an additional 20 or so for the the evening - invites still to go out so who knows end numbers!! x

I love the idea of a small wedding but we both have huge families and varied social circles so we would have to leave out people we love. We are likely to end up between 150-200. We won't be inviting the relatives we never see or speak to - I have cousins in the same city I have never met, but am close to some 2nd cousins once removed, and also am in touch with a third cousin who lives in Eire. If we invited all our families we'd have to hire a football stadium and whats the point of having people you don't love at your wedding. however many people you have, they should all be people who matter to you.

I would look at it nice and intimate, at least the people you have there you want to have there and they want to be there.

We are aiming for 80 in the day (40 each of family and close friends) then maybe 120 on the night

We are only having 50 guests and that's for day and night ;-)

That's through choice though; I have a big family and could of invited loads more guests but didn't fancy being the centre of attention with loads and loads of guests, I'd rather it was small and intimate.

We're having a small wedding too - just one big table which to me is perfect. We have around 28 for the day (including us) and another 20-30 for the evening.

We're only having about 25 guests, was meant to be 20 originally but creeping up, but that could change down again.

Quality not quantity n all that

Me too lol

We had 28 day guests and between 50 and 60 in evening.

Out of that we only invited our immediate families and close friends, OH has a small family and mine are not particularly close so didn't fancy inviting aunts uncles and cousins that I have not seen in years would rather spend my money on my friends.

Was planning to stick to 80 but it's looking like it's gone slightly over. So it's something like 85 now.

Numbers don't really matter as are aren't really constricted but we do have to pay for extra people.

We have 70 for the day and 140 for the evening.

x

I think I have the least amount of guests lol .......there'll be just 18 of us in total ?

Under 30 here, current count is about 26. No additional evening guests either. :-)

96 exactly. Family of my h2b is far to big!!!! ?

We're having about 27 for the day and maybe a few more for the evening ?

We have 59 to the day and then we have a further 75 people coming to the evening.

Both our families are pretty big but for the day we didnt want everyone there just who we were closest to. I dont think it matters if there is 100 people or 10 people, as long as you spend it with the people you want to thats all that counts.