Guest List-not enough?

I chose not to go with a vendor because of their 100 person minimum, so I don't have advice per say. I'm just wondering why would it be *more* expensive if you didn't hit the mark? Wouldn't they just charge you for the 100 person requirement? Or do they really charge more for *not* hitting that 100 person?

I don't know if I'd do a B list if you've already sent out invites and got RSVPs. Those people might know that they're on the "B list" especially if the RSVP deadline is past. I'm assuming you've already budgeted for the 100 people? if so, could you live with just the people who said they'd attend attending, or do you want more people to come?

Our venue has a per person amount that decreases at certain intervals. up to 75 people = $35/pp, 100-199 $30/person, 200 = $28 pp. So if we have 90 people it will be the same price as 100 people. 91-99 people actually cost MORE than 100 people.

FH feels that we planned for 100 people, so we should invite more people to hit that number. we had cut some originally, so no he is pretty insistent he wants to include his co-workers. which would us in that weird place where it costs more. The people I have added to include will not now they are b-list. Plus it's still six weeks to the wedding so it doesnt look like a late invite. I just printed up new RSVP cards.

Yes, if you want 100 guests you should invite a little more 110-120ish.

ETA: read your posts again and see that you have already sent your invites. Just send out your B-List. Who cares what others think on here. You said its still 6 weeks out so I don't think that that will be weird.

We invited 130, and ended up with 83. So I am sending out about 24 more invites. and telling a few people to bring a +1

I hear your pain! We need at least 75 guests, but no more than 115. My perfect number is 90. We invited 110, so I think we will be okay, but if we get like 76 rsvps, we're going to have trouble meeting our F/B minimum.

I booked the larger room which needs a 300 minimum. With plus ones, kids, vendors, clergy and us we are at 491. Yes big, but we know some of our single friends will not bring plus ones, some friends will not bring kids, not everyone from my large OOT family will come, some are too ill but would be offended by not receiving an invitation. So, we are expecting about 300-330.

We have also had 4 invitees pass away.

We have a 150 person minimum. If we don't have that many we are still charged that amount. We really don't want to have to pay for 150 people if there isn't. I feel like we are paying for them to do nothing. So if we can't get 150 rsvps then we are adding invisible children to the count. Our venue doesn't have an adult minimum, just a person minimum. Adults cost us about $130, while children only cost us $30. When the "children" never show, we will just write it off as the parents must have decided to leave their kids at home.

I think you could have fh discreetly hand deliver the invites to his work asap. If they all get them on the same day, no one will know theyre B listed. I know I will catch hell on here but, but I dont think coworkers will feel bad they were b listed anyway, most only invite a select few because of budget, not because you didnt want to invite them. Personally, I never invited any of my coworkers to my past wedding, though, I didnt feel like it was necessary to invite people I would consider acquaintances. I just feel like your reasoning for inviting them is only because you want more people...any people... to fill the spots to save money and/or to show you have more friends. It just sits funny with me. The difference in price isnt that much. $325 to be exact. Idk ............not trying to be mean......If it were me I would go with what you have chosen as your nearest and dearest. But its your deal, and I do agree that you could get away with the B list if you hurry.

It's more than that. I didnt include the tax, gratuity and alcohol. I fought for us to have a smaller wedding. FH says he had people he wanted to include and feels that we should include those people if there is room in what we had already budgeted for. But it kinda was about the money for me, no matter the amount, it could go towards something else. Like our honeymoon. Not to mention i hate the idea of paying for something that wouldnt get used.

We need 100 minimum too, if we don't have it we are still paying for it. I thought we would have an issue hitting this but then when everything went out we were at 168. Then FH parents and his pussy whipped brother (by his mother) decided they just wouldn't come. So, that's takes down numbers. RSVPS are rolling in and I hope I hit it. FH said (jokingly) if we get the RSVPs back and under the 100 to put a craiglist add out, 'first come first serve 5 seats to the hottest party tonight in ___town___'. Obviously this isn't real, but I thought it was funny.

@jillian LMAO! I love that. WE said we could invite homeless people.

We have the opposite problem! We have a 100-120 person max and over 135 invited. Hoping for lots of no's! I'll come to yours :-)

We don't have a required minimum for our venue, but I was a little disappointed that we will only have around 86 guests at our wedding. We invited 125.

Why not offer everyone a plus one? That would be nice/not rude at all- you can just tell them by the way, i know you didn't specify a plus one and I may not have been clear, do you have a guest or date you'd like to bring? and leave it at that.

Otherwise if its actually cheaper to have 100- just tell the venue you have 100 people coming

Our guest list is pretty much already married couples, really almost all family. So plus ones really wouldnt do much. FH is now insisting he invite his co-workers, so that puts us at 89 or 92 people. So that means 89 is the same cost as inviting 100, 92 people actually cost more than inviting 100 people. It's not much, my my cheap ass feel twichy about paying more for less people.

Ah okay makes sense, yea co-workers are good additions then, and I don't think they'd be "offended" and probably don't even know they were b-listed if they don't know when others received their invites. Good reminder though to brides, most of the time you have brides who over-booked

Where are you located? I will come! :-)

Do you have neighbors or Facebook friends from High school you might like to add? College friends or friends you talk to from old jobs?

We invited 172 and are having 105 guests. Just to give you an idea how many to invite ..

The whole planning time we were saying we would have 100, we did pretty good I'd say

If you're close to Atlanta , I'll come too

I wish I had that problem, our venue has a max of 75 people, and we have 110 guests... Can't wait for the RSVPs and see if B list will make it...

Maybe you should invite us!

PS> Love Jillian's idea!