Guest List-not enough?

We will have about 110 invited and I expect about 80 to 85. We have a hundred person minimum but I knew we weren't likely to get to 100, but really loved the venue so I said screw it. It has (already paid) cost us 100 people, not more though.

I've definitely been a B-list invitee and I totally didn't care. Weddings are expensive! There are definitely other people I would invite if we weren't keeping the list small. Go ahead and invite them. And if you're splitting hairs about 89 or 92 guests and that cost difference you are focusing on the wrong thing. Take a breath. Let it go. I know budgets are super tight but at some point it's supposed to be this amazing day. Don't stress over things you can't control

We have a minimum to reach but it will be easy to pass our minimum even with a lot of declines. However we have budgeted for about 80-90 people and really would like to be close to that because we want a lot of people to have fun with. If we come in closer to the 70 ish range, we will invite a couple extra.

Actually, if we are below, we're planning to invite people we've met on WW lol!!

It's not splitting hairs on 89 or 92 guests. Its that FH wants to invite his co-workers and that puts us at 92 people. at that point, it actually cost more than inviting 100 people. I'm stressing because we are giving our final number to our venue this week, and it was freaking me out being on such a tight deadline and not know what number to give.

Anyways. I sent out about 12 more invites and that puts us at 110.

Wow I couldn't imagine having to have a minimum amount of people. Our venue(and lots of venues in our area) have a minimum spend. We have to spend $7000 minimum plus tax and grats. I couldn't imagine having to have a BList because too many guests declined.

I have a lot of out of state family and friends. and basically everyone is broke or busy with their kids that day.

Ours isn't with our venue but with our caterer. Under 100 is x amount, 100-150 is Y amount and over 150 is Z amount.

We invited 136 and are hoping to get at least a 100 yes's, as if we are under the 100 amount we will actually be spending $456.00 more on food than if we had all 136 people show. It's crazy!

Who even knows that they were B listed in the first place? People don't say at the wedding to each other "hey when was your RSVP date?" and not everyone will receive their invites at the same time (different locations, cities, zip codes)

I have a 100 minimum to meet also. Invited 111 because I know we have a lot of "Yes's", but I also have a B-List of 10 more people, mainly co-workers and more friends.

I already paid my cater for 100 people. We are going to have less than that. After I got FH side of the guest list we are at 82 invited. I'm not going to fill it up with people just to hit a number. I figure if around 60 people RSVP. I will tell the cater to add 20 more plates and people can just have food to take home.

Thats the other crappy thing. Our venue doesnt allow to take leftover food home for health reasons. And I havent added just random people to fill the list. These are people that were cut from our original list mostly to make room for all the family we had to invite. So they are not just "space fillers" as it might seem.

@MrsM I wasn't saying your guest were space fillers. I was talking about myself. It's a shame the cater won't let you take the food home. I'm not surprise lots of venues do that.

@Julia other people have said that it seems that way. That it's not about the money but a thing we are doing for show.

I am worried that people I invited will show up even though they declined...just to "surprise me" lol

@From mi to mo Lol. the people are from out of state, some will be offshore, others said their kids have something that day, so I am 99% sure those people will not come.