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Devoted April 2018

Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large, and Event Sized Weddings

LovroftheArts, on August 18, 2017 at 7:14 PM

Posted in Etiquette and Advice 45

I've been pondering this recently as I sometimes read members posting about their "small" weddings of 100 or more guests. I'd be curious to hear everyone's opinions are on what their total guest count definitions are for: extra small, small, medium, large, extra-large, and finally what I'd...

I've been pondering this recently as I sometimes read members posting about their "small" weddings of 100 or more guests. I'd be curious to hear everyone's opinions are on what their total guest count definitions are for: extra small, small, medium, large, extra-large, and finally what I'd personally call "event" sized weddings. (I've also added elopements in as well, just because I see so many people or even venues get this one totally wrong.)

To start, here are my own (rough) definitions:

Elopement: 3 or fewer (officiant and up to 2 legal witnesses, in some states. Arguably an officiant may or may not be considered a "guest" by some in which case this would be only 2)

Extra Small / Intimate Wedding: 4 - 20 (I didn't choose 20 arbitrarily but because most restaurants won't let you make reservations for more than 22 so after adding in the couple you've reached your limit for an informal lunch/dinner wedding reception)

(continued in comments) -ETA for typo and title*

45 Comments

  • AprilR
    VIP May 2018
    AprilR ·
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    I agree it depends on the person. We have a 150 guest list and to me that's medium/potentially lower end of large because I come from a large family. To FH its large, but he comes from a small family. My roommate is Indian and their weddings usually go from 300-600 people so she would consider ours small

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  • Shai
    VIP August 2018
    Shai ·
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    I would say ours is small we're having 60 guest anything less is very small.

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  • Vivian
    Dedicated July 2018
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    I would say we're having a small wedding with about 50 guests.

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  • Madison
    Savvy June 2018
    Madison ·
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    We have 93 on our guest list and I think maybe only half of them will come so id call under 80-150 medium

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  • Heather
    VIP September 2017
    Heather ·
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    I guess it depends on the couple. From your standards mine would be considered medium . Even though Most would consider mine small with 60 people at destination wedding.

    Honestly I didn't expect so many to want to come to our wedding.

    I finally just had to say we are having a small family wedding. Which 90% are FH family . The 10% we consider our friends we hang out with. Which are family to us!

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