We invited 167 people knowing for sure that 10-12 would decline, which put us around 155. Our venue says it can hold 200, but we've been there before for a wedding that had 175 and it was PACKED, so we didn't want to invite over 150 if possible. We could have invited 300 people easily, so the 155 we have we knew would be mostly yeses because they're all people that are family or we're close to. Both of our moms have been begging us to invite more people, saying that for sure, at least 30% will say no and we apparently need to fill those seats back up... no.
Thankfully we didn't listen to them, because right now if we include the people that we knew were going to say no anyway, we're at 85% acceptance - without counting those people we're at 92%!!! 111 people are coming so far and we're waiting to hear from 37 more, which puts us at just under 150 if they all say yes.
Both of us could've gone for 100 or less, but this is literally the smallest we could make the guest list, and still offended a ton of people. Ugh. Just 30 more days!
