Big or small?

View Quoted Comment Same here. Plus we’re getting married on a Friday so that might minimize who all can attend.

View Quoted Comment I can agree. Originally we were only going to have like 20 a small ceremony and dinner after at a nice restaurant. Then, I had this idea that I wanted something more 🥴 so now the guest list is capped at 80 and we’re having a full on wedding ceremony and reception.

View Quoted Comment Yeah I think that’s pretty big, but most of the weddings I’ve attended have been no more than 100 guests.

View Quoted Comment We are getting married on a Sunday, so same thing - less people might come. But Halloween is the day after so who knows!

View Quoted Comment Sounds like it was a good time!

View Quoted Comment Yeah because I see big as over 100 lol. I hope it’s a wonderful day for you.

View Quoted Comment Yeah I’d consider that a big wedding lol

View Quoted Comment And ours is a week before Christmas, so I can relate.

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I didn't know if I wanted big are small. Until everybody wanted to be there, I was like I might as well give in.

We invited around 85. October 9 wedding. So far 61 said yes.

View Quoted Comment And I'm sure it will be unforgettable ! 😊
My first plan was the same as yours - I counted people who would be able to come, as I live abroad, then our friends and my husband's family... it was around 20 for me.... And then HE showed me a list of his cousins, aunts, uncles... that we never see but it was clear to him that we have to invite them... So I had to forget my lovely restaurant that became to small 😉

Small - we're expecting between 25 and 30.

We had ours pre-Covid. Our DW had 15, our local reception had 50. We splurged on both which we could do because we had a smaller guest list. I would totally do it again!

We’ve always had 70 guests. So I don’t know if people consider that big or small (or somewhere in between)

View Quoted Comment And I’m the exact opposite. I just don’t feel obligated to pay for everyone to come.

View Quoted Comment Omg October! That right around the corner, how excited are you? We capped out at 80 and invitations are going out middle of September.

View Quoted Comment That sounds great! Was this your initial plan or did COVID make you rethink things?

We’re inviting 68 and there are 6 that we don’t expect will come for various reasons. We’re getting married on Cape Cod, with all guests traveling from CT or Philly. I’ve never wanted a big wedding and we had a rule that if we hadn’t gone out of our way to speak to someone in the last few months we weren’t inviting them. Because we’re so close to those we will invite, we expect the vast majority of them will attend.

We invited 148 people and so far we have 78 "yes"! We are expecting about 100, possibly a little over

View Quoted Comment That’s another reason, I too planned a smaller wedding!