Guest List Breakdown

Probably about 15% family the rest friends and family friends. We are not very close with our extended families so it didn't make sense to invite them all. I still expect to get some antsy phone calls shortly after the invitations are mailed out though

We sent out 105 STDs (roughly "inviting" 200 people when you include couples and potential plus ones), we did not send STDs to FH's local family we are estimating that to be another 50 guest. We expect about 225 since its out of state for my entire part of the GL. It's 45 percent my family. 5 percent my friends & coworkers (inviting my boss &his wife, my coclerk & her bf, and 4 other single friends who probably won't bring a plus one). Then its roughly 30 percent FH's family, and 20 percent FH's friends & friend's SOs.

75% family (FH and I both have small immediate families), 20% close friends, 5% co-workers (I'm inviting 2 co-workers who I've worked with for 10 years). We are inviting 60 total (this total includes a +1).

Invited about 225, had 185 there, approx. I would say about 60% family, 20% people like family I or he grew up with, and 20% our friends.

We invited about 30 family members each, 10 friends each, and then about 25 mutual friends from grad school. We invited 112 total, so those are rough estimates (I think I may have invited a few more family members than him and he had a couple more friends). If I remember correctly, something like 100 rsvp'd yes and 96 came (two couples had legit week-of emergencies, so they weren't exactly no-shows, but didn't come). We were lucky that we had a similar number of family members and non-mutual friends, so the guest list was kind of naturally balanced.

ETA: Most of the declines were family members, e.g. cousins we hadn't seen in awhile but felt obligated to invite, you know the drill.

We have 120 invited (including kids and plus ones for all single guests). 50% are FH's family, 15% are my family, 20% are my friends, 15% are FH's friends.

I have 41 people on my guest list for my side. I'm thinking of adding another but idk because our relationship is ifie. The FH hasn't decided his list yet but our venue allows 150.

We are inviting roughly 200 people. Of that about 40% is my friends and family and about 60% is my FH's friends and family. I'm not sure exactly what percent is friends and what percent is family though. I have a small family and my parents don't have many friends they want to invite so as a result my FH has the majority of the guest list.

We are inviting about 75 people. Family-wise, it's much heavier on my side. I have 4 parents (counting the steps) and my FH only has his mother. He has 3 siblings, I only have one. With their spouses and children, that's 13 people total. Then he doesn't have any aunts/uncles/cousins to invite... most of his aunts and uncles have passed away and he doesn't really know his cousins. I am inviting 3 sets of aunts/uncles and most of my first cousins. No second cousins. And the rest of the guest list is friends. I don't know the percentages without having the list in front of me, but that's how we chose our guests.

I'm definitely planning not to have a bride's side/groom's side because it will be really lopsided.

We have 190 we sent save the dates to (if everyone over 18 gets a plus one). We have about 160 expected (because most cousins won't use a plus one). It's about 45% my family, 35% FH's family, 15% our friends and 5% parents friends who we added to the list (no room to let parents add more friends).

200 invited, 40% my family, 40% his family, 10% our parental guests and 10% our friends.

This is really interesting to my so I just took the time to calculate it.

42% my family

22% his family

10% my friends

8% his friends

13% my parents' friends (I put neighbors in this category)

5% his parents' friends

ETA: our guest list is 249, there are a lot of people we don't expect to come so I'll have to calculate again after the wedding to see what percentages were there

My FH and I wanted to stay around 200 guests. We can afford and seat up to 250, so we had wiggle room. My parents are divorced and remarried, however we are paying for the wedding ourselves.

That being said, my FIL's were given 85 seats to invite. My father and step mother were give. 65 seats to invite. My mother and step father were given 30 seats (she's not entirely close with her family, and I haven't seen anyone beyond my aunts and grandma on her side in over 15 years). And my FH and I are inviting 30 of our closest friends.

Total currently is 210, however we did not have to stress over picking and choosing which aunts and cousins to invite. We didn't have to make the harsh decision of who didn't make the list. All three sets of our parents understood their numbers and had no complaints. Everyone was happy with the situation.

Ooh I love this!

Total Guest List: 242

My family: 12

FH's family: 15

My family friends: 62

FH's family friends: 43

My friends: 51

FH's friends: 59

These numbers drive me nuts because it's insane that our guest list is so big with such small families!!! Also my mom refuses to acknowledge the truth and keeps saying they "barely invited anyone" when in fact they invited literally the most people!!!

Much to my dismay, we invited about 230, 194 RSVP'd yes and we ended up with about 10 or so no-shows. The majority was definitely family; if I had to guess I'd say 75-80% family (including like-family). The other 20% were close friends and co-workers. Out of the family members we had, DH and I were pretty evenly split with the count and all of the co-workers I invited knew him as well since we used to work together, so that was a plus. His few co-workers that he invited were the only "strangers" I met for the first time at the wedding Unfortunately there were ALOT of "strangers" to DH that day from my side of the family since my dad insisted on going pretty deep into the family tree with the invites. (So glad I could organize a family reunion!) I'm still trying to get over it. ::eyeroll::

We have a pretty small guest list (roughly 65). It is split pretty evenly between us (though it didn't start that way). I have 8 friends, the rest is family. FH has, I think, 8-10 friends and the rest family. I can't check the list since I'm on my phone. So that's about 30% friends, I think.

@WWlynnie that is crazy. tell your mom the numbers don't lie. LOL. My mom only asked to invite one couple (her closest friend in Georgia-where she lives-they are also from our wedding city). So we got off easy with my side. FH's grandma had her own guest list of about 75 ppl LOL. Luckily FH realized that grandma's friends don't feel the same. His grandma's BEST friend of like 50 years daughter got married and she didn't even invite his grandma. He was like these people don't care about us (me and him) his grandma just wanted to show off to her friends.

We have 131 guests. I did not count my wedding planner, photographer, etc. even though I do plan on feeding them and do include them in my final count to the venue. Both FH and I have 32% a piece that are family (64% total), 19% are friends, and 17% are SOs or spouses to family/friends.

We are inviting 140 guests. I guess percentage wise it's about 50% family, another 20% friends, 20% family friends/almost family, and the remaining 10% are from our parents invites.

FH and I each have 50 people to invite. Mine is all family except 4, his is all family. We are closer to family than to any friends.