How did you organize your guest list?

The Wedding Wire Guest List has been a Godsend to me! You don't need to invite all their kids. You just don't! At our venue, kids are $51 each (Plus grat and tax)...only $10 cheaper than adults. No, there will be very few!

I did a simple excel worksheet. After I got all my guests and addresses, I color coded family/friend groupings to make seating easier - if I do a seating chart.

we are inviting 170, hoping 150 will be max attending but allotted for 170. Ours is 21 and over only so there will be no kids. I think you should do what you and FH planned on your budget for unless she is handing over a check to cover the additional expenses involves with increasing the guest list

The guest list tool on WW is pretty helpful. You can sort guests by Bride's Family, Friends, Coworkers and Groom's Family, Friends, Coworkers. They also have a seating chart tool that's pretty neat.

My husband and I did an Excel spreadsheet together. We honestly didn't consult anyone else about it because we knew they'd want to invite people that we didn't want at the wedding, and we wanted to keep it small.

We used the WW guest list and seating chart tool. We went to the venue and told them how we would like it set up and we went from there. This was the best thing with doing the guest list and seating chart.

Oh really!? I haven't really looked at that on WW. ill take a look. but the thing about cousins kids is that some of them I want there but others im just not close to. and my FH cousins kids are horrifying! they don't listen and I can see them causing trouble. I feel like his cousins see other peoples kids, they'll get all offended!!

Also what has been the turn out? is it really true that only half will show up?!

I used the tool here on WW and it was a godsend when it came time to do a seating chart because all you have to do is create the tables and then drag and drop. It lets you sort by everyone, those who have already been seated and those who still need to be seated. It helped to keep me mostly sane.

ETA you can also sort your guest list and do custom list print outs.

Btw, out of the 157 guests who RSVPd they would show up, 16 didn't. You can't go by any one set rule on that.

And we're asking our parents because they remember people we would've forgotten! lol were both horrible this stupid guest list!! and we are letting them invite friends/co workers to the reception (after dinner)

We did an Excel Spreadsheet list. I then sent it to my parents and at the time my future-in-laws. Since my parents paid for a large portion of the wedding they were allowed to add people. They added a few friends. My in-laws didn't add anyone we didn't already have. We had an 180 person capacity. Hit that exactly.

I used an Excel spreadsheet list. I had a section for my family, his family, and our vendors who were also guests. I highlighted each person as we received their RSVPs and kept a total of the number of guests attending.

We sent out 70 invitations so my list was very manageable. We did not invite everyone that our parents suggested. We invited who we were willing to pay for. Keep in mind, though, that everyone will not show who RSVPs. I'd decrease my final count by about 10 so you're not paying for no shows.

I'm using spreadsheet on Google Drive. My mom and FMIL both have access to it and their own page within the spreadsheet so they can add/edit guests. The organization has worked so far. There's also a place to differentiate which family (bride or groom) the guest is affiliated with and what the relation of the guest is to me or my FH. Hopefully that will help when we're assigning tables. We also put in a place for the hotel block.

We're on our third draft and we're at 116 people. We began with immediate family, extended family, friends and moved on to coworkers. We're not having kids (anyone under the age of 16 for all intents and purposes). My dad made an Excel spreadsheet that had the names we chose and all the addresses he knew so that has been MAJORLY helpful.

Thank you! I am horrible at spreadsheets so I don't know how I will do this but ill mess around with a few and see what works

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I put together an Excel sheet, but I've also used the WW guest list. I also played around with the WW seating chart, which is fairly easy to use, imho.

I grouped my guest list by: my mom's side of the family, my dad's side of the family, friends, bridal party, and FI's family (we invited very few, so I didn't split it up into FI's mom's side vs FI's dad's side).

I have an Excel spreadsheet plus I use the guest list tool on here. With that many guests you are going to want a seating chart so things aren't total chaos.

Luckily for me, all of my our families lives out of state. My FH has 9 Aunts and Uncles on his mom's side and my G-ma has 9 bro's and sis's so I had to invite them and all of their immediate family. Then I went with family I love and would be rather upset if they could not make it. Long term family friends. That put my guest list at 187 with kids and S.O. all those people had to RSVP before I could invite local friends. My initial RSVP total for 187 was only 50ish. I was then able to invite my local friends and that has put my guest list to 219 people and I now have 78 people confirmed.

The address and guest list section of WW has been super helpful and so has the seating chart. I wouldn't even worry about the seating chart until people start to return their RSVP's because you never know who can come and who cant. So there is no point to stress over it until you know who is coming.

I originally started with four pieces of loose-leaf (My family, FH's family, Our Friends and one for "Extras") and then transferred it over to the WW guest list.

I got my final draft of the guest list done!!! Unless we add more friends but family is done!!! I just did it on notebook paper with names only and I'll cross them off as I get addresses and add them to with excel or WW!! Thanks everyone!!! I feel so much better!!!