Did/does anyone else not have ENOUGH guests?

60 that's ALOT! lol. I will be lucky to dig up that many.

Man, that is quite a shortage. I do believe there have been some brides on here who had a minimum to meet, don't think it was quite such a large disparity, but it has happened. We had a guest list of 104 and have 73 accepted -- if I was in your shoes, I'd be upset!! Oh, well, bygones for you right?

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My list is at 240. But I really don't think that many people are actually going to be coming. But to be honest our list is primarily family. We both have big families. Also are you inviting kids? that makes a difference too!

I fell in love with the site, which included catering with this 100 minimum. I thought we'd hit it, easy-breezy, but I forgot my husband's crowd is VERY geeky, so no one took us up on the 'plus ones' and my sister decided to bring another guest as *her* 'plus one', thus negating two POs! i didn't mind at all-- it is certainly a much nicer problem to have then stressing over who *else* wants to be invited!

Same happened to me...I only found out my venue had a 80ppl minimum policy 5 days before my wedding, while I only had 60 guest coming! I had to pay for 80ppl...but we did have so much food, I was mad at first, but it was worth it!!

All you really need is you , him and the officiant : ) relax! honestly im a tid envious of you, I hope im so lucky that I get that many regrets, i have super bad stage fright and social anxiety so id be thrilled if less came! Right now im at about 150 and thats mostly family beside a handful of friends. . . except I just read that you have a min , that super sucks ive never heard of that before!

Wow that sucks you had to pay for so much extra. I was careful to avoid any place with a minimum guest count. We had 130 on our dream guest list- but I have looked it over and could easily see us have only 90 show up. So i knew I couldnt do that. I would be more pissed if people didnt show up than if I knew ahead of time I will have to pay for this amount!

I am so glad our venue allowed us to pick all of our own vendors and do the catering ourselves. We're having a very simple buffet menu and no guest requirements. We invited 198 people and have 60 accepted with 52 days to go. We're expecting like 120 to come but call me crazy, I'm hoping less do - I want less tables and more dance floor ;o)

I am having a huge shortage. I was expecting about 100. Will be lucky to have 60. My fault for doing a Wednesday, but it couldn't be helped. I am hoping I can talk the caterer into packing up the left over food and we can take it to a local homeless shelter.

I am only planning 50-60..and found it very hard to find a venue. There was a few I was in love with, but didn't have 125+ people to fill it nor did I want to. A lot of places would allow the smaller wedding but wanted a 7k food minimum. Thats my whole budget..lmao

Luckily I found a nice country club, that has pretty grounds and a room perfect for my ceremony and another for my reception. I'm very happy with it.

Fortunately, we weren't using any traditional wedding venues (well, other than our ceremony venue, which was a synagogue). We had only a dozen for the ceremony, and had a luncheon afterward in the private dining room of a restaurant. For our at-home reception, we invited 100, 70 RSVPed yes, and 60 actually showed. But it was at a private club where we just paid one fee to rent the whole place, not a per person charge.

Jolene, I hope you're successful but most of the time laws prohibit that- drives me a little crazy.

I worry about this so much! My biggest nightmare is to walk in the church and find only my family of 20 people there!

Arzel... that's my biggest fear too. We have a minimum of 100, and so far have 137 on the list. FH wants to beef the list up to make sure we're at 120. I know of several family members on my side who won't come because of various stupid reasons, so that puts us at like 100 right now. Our venue needs 100 adults confirmed, as they don't count kids as seats, although they still charge $35/pp for each kid and vendor fed.

This is my worst fear, we are inviting (so far) 108 including kids and im scared we wont end up with but about 25

Arzel and Angel-- just remember, as long as the people you love are there, the empty seats don't matter. The only person I noticed wasn't there was my mom, who got very ill the night before. Other than that, it was all about who *was* there, and there sure wasn't enough time to really see all my favorite people!