How many guests?

Enchantica

How many guests will you invite to your meal and how many to your reception? Just wondered, I know everyone is different. We may be going for a smaller venue, which would mean 50 guests each (100 in total) maximum for the reception. It's proving a bit difficult because I have around 100 people myself that I would love to invite. Going to have to tally it down!

floss2

10 including us for the ceremony and celebration meal, then probably about 100 for the party at a later date.

aimee21j

35 in total (not having a seperate evening do).

Dave101t

im planning on 15 or 20 in total

SmlSave

Hi, I'm having 30 to the main bit and an extra 50 to the evening.

I'm being 'orrible and not inviting my uncles

rlm_3

We're inviting 90 for the whole thing - ceremony, meal and evening. We're having it in a different area from where our friends and families live so having people just for the evening isn't an option. The reception venue could fit in double our numbers if we wanted it to but 90 will be more than enough!

Edited to say: As you'd imagine, this has had quite an impact on out budget. Having all our friends and family there is one of the most important things to us so we are happy to cut our budget elsewhere (e.g., no favours, serving cupcake wedding cake as dessert, borrowing friend's car for transport, mum making bridesmaids dresses, uncle who's a printer doing invitations as a wedding present, chosing a venue that allows us to provide own wine for meal with no corkage fees).

MsChazzer

About 55 during the day, up to around 70 in the evening. More were invited but because of the Heineken Cup taking place in Edinburgh the same weekend hotel costs have gone up and there isn't much availability. Plus we invited a fair few people with small children from the south of England and understandably they don't want to make such a long journey.

IWantToBeFree_2

We are only having one 'reception' getting married in the afternoon and then one party all the way through until the early hours, the guest list is currently standing at 168 and growing daily!!!

*BigBird*

40 in the daytime and probably another 30 or so in the evening. Fairly small and intimate (hopefully!)

*Louise*

38 plus us - 40 in total for the reception and the evening do.

Nice small wedding. It's 80 miles from home which is why I'm not inviting loads of people for night time.

rinroo

There will be 42 at the church & wedding breakfast, then upto now, an extra 60 in the evening, but this list hasnt been run past both sets of parents so I know they will want to add on extra. Cant be too many more though as the venue we want only has a capacity of 130.