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Kellie Martinez
Super October 2019

Final Guest Counts?(i'm curious :p )

Kellie Martinez, on September 20, 2019 at 4:02 PM Posted in Community Conversations 1 30

How many guests did you invite / how many RSVP'd / how many actually came to the wedding?

I can't answer the last question yet but we invited 120 and 100 RSVP'd YES Smiley smile

I just told our caterer the final guest count and I'm ordering my seating chart today.

I don't think our yes/no ratio is bad considering I wanted 40-60 originally lol. sometimes I was happy when they said no..

30 Comments

Latest activity by Rita-Jean, on September 24, 2019 at 9:26 PM
  • Z
    Devoted November 2019
    Zoe ·
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    Following this because decline rates fascinate me.


    We invited 233 and so far have 145 yes and 11 no but our RSVP date isnt until October.

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  • M
    Legend June 2019
    Melle ·
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    I invited... I want to say around 300 and got end count of around 250. So I def had about 20% decline
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  • Mcskipper
    Master July 2018
    Mcskipper ·
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    We invited something like 147 and had 123 accept
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  • Michelle
    Devoted October 2019
    Michelle ·
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    We invited 92 and have 12 declines. The ones that FH thought were going decline actually rsvp yes lol

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  • Cyndy
    Master May 2019
    Cyndy ·
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    We invited 60 and had 52. It was a destination wedding so I thought that was a good turn out. Your numbers are really good too.
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  • Mary
    Expert July 2019
    Mary ·
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    Destination wedding. We invited 146 guests (including unnamed plus ones extended to the wedding party and guests who didn't know anyone else attending). Total of 95 guests when we completed the seating chart. Ended up at 89 on the day-of (all the no-shows gave a few days notice).
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  • Michelle
    Devoted October 2019
    Michelle ·
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    We invited 92 guest and 80 rsvp yes with 12 no's. The ones my Fh thought were going to say no actually rsvp yes lol. We have to give our final headcount next friday.

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  • Frankie19
    Dedicated August 2019
    Frankie19 ·
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    We invited 110 (114 with plus ones) and had 71 I think including husband and I. We had one person miss the ceremony, and then get there after lunch was served.

    Contributing factors:
    - my family all lives in the US and we got married in Australia
    - no kids invited
    - Friday morning wedding
    - two couples we had planned to invite in person, but then didn’t see them! So ended up only giving them like a weeks notice, between babysitters and annual leave they couldn’t make it, if we had given more notice they probably could have. One couple did get to the after party.
    - we only sent save the dates to overseas guests and bridal party
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  • Mrs. Bubba
    VIP September 2019
    Mrs. Bubba ·
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    Idk how many said “Not attending”.

    I have food and \_s for 200.

    Not planning to have that many people, but I rather have too much then not enough.
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  • Kelly
    Super October 2019
    Kelly ·
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    We invited 215 & 79 declined & 136 are attending. We were expecting a lot of declines as FH dad side lives across the country & its really expensive to get to us ($500 round trip for airfare alone).
    We actually thought we were going to get more declines.
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  • ASMini914
    Super September 2019
    ASMini914 ·
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    We invited 154, which included guests (plus ones) that we knew would not be filled) and many were also out of town we anticipated 125 people, and had 115 rsvp. Had 1 back out a day before ( from out of twin and kid was sick). We had2 straight no shows that we know of. One our of town guest (parent friend who was probably upset they couldn’t bring their young grandchild to ourstrictly no kid event), and a friends husband 🙄
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  • Devin
    Super October 2019
    Devin ·
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    We invited 144 and we have 144 yes. 8 no’s. The rest make up people who are bringing a plus 1 or 2 without asking. 🤦🏼‍♀️
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  • B
    Dedicated October 2019
    Brittany ·
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    Invited 118, will have 95! By the end of it, I was thankful for some 'no' RSVPs- I was worried everyone would come and we would be extremely over budget! haha

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  • Martha
    Devoted September 2019
    Martha ·
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    Invited 135 ish. We didn’t know if some of my parents friends adult kids would come so it’s an estimated number. We ended up with about 110. We had a handful of people say yes, then say no a week or less before the wedding .. bummer.
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  • EmAbrams
    Devoted August 2019
    EmAbrams ·
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    We invited 230, had 198 yes RSVP's and probably about 170 people actually showed up. We had a lot of leftover food but our caterer took it to a local food bank and donated for us. (brunch wedding, so lots of egg puffs, muffins, bacon, fruit and yogurt parfaits)

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  • Kat_
    Super October 2019
    Kat_ ·
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    We invited 208 and have 133. It’s a great number and I love all the people who are able to come 💗
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  • Shireen
    Devoted September 2020
    Shireen ·
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    Our original number to invite was 85 but I am sure it will end up at 110. I really want it to stay under 90 just because I want it to be more intimate. This is the 2nd time for both of us and I really want the people we invite to me something to us and not just be filler people.
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  • Aleaj
    Expert October 2019
    Aleaj ·
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    I sent out 160 invitations, we now have a guest count of 219. A lot of ppl didn’t send them back, they either called or word of mouth...very irritating lol
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  • Misty
    Super October 2019
    Misty ·
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    212 invited
    164 attending
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  • L
    Devoted August 2019
    Leaves232 ·
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    Of the 225 people invited:
    169 RSVPed Yes
    56 RSVPed No

    Of the 169 that RSVPed Yes:
    6 cancelled the week before
    10 were no shows
    153 attended
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