How many guests didn't show to your wedding?

It depends on the wedding. If you're hosting a wedding of 300 people with many acquaintances, likely you'll have more declines than a wedding with 15 people of immediately family. Whoever you invite, plan for 100% attendance. You can't ever assume people will decline, even if they live far away.

It is so dependent on the wedding. We had a 35% decline rate after inviting 300 people, but if you break it down by family -- my side has a 5-10% decline rate and FH's is much, much higher.

We invited 310, 14 declined, 4 no showed. so 292 out of 310 showed.

We have a huge decline rate. Like 60%. Most of FH's family are in their 80s/90s at this point and a 7 hour drive. Our wedding is 80 people now.

We invited 103 people and had to pay for 100 minimum, when it was all said and done there were 94 people that attended

We invited 150, 102 RSVPed yes. That's around a 1/3 decline rate. You have to plan for 100% attendance. There's really no way to predict who will or won't come.

We invited 140, had 81 RSVP yes and around 65-70 actually show. Most people who dropped out called and explained. But we had a couple who actually lived in town no show. Mind you it was a destination wedding for everyone else. That made me a little salty.

We invited 102, had 77 rsvp yes, 72 in attendance. But I planned for all 102, just in case.

We invited 145 and have 116 coming. We will probably have people not show up, but I am trying to stay positive!

We had 6 people no show to the wedding not including the last minute changes in RSVP from Yes to No.

You need to plan for 100% acceptance, just in case! I do believe the "typical" decline rate is 20% (I could be wrong) but we're anticipating about 1/3 of our guest list will decline...

We invited 210. 176 showed up. Our final count for the venue was 180. We weren't out too much money.

We invited 248 and had about 140 RSVP yes (most guests were from out of state and the wedding was on a Friday in the fall, in the midwest). My mother started some shenanigans so we ended up having over 30 no shows day of. At the end of the day the people who came had an amazing time and we loved being with them.

We went small. If we have not personally seen you or don't talk to you on a regular basis? Let's do lunch some time, but not at our wedding. We invited 76 and have not had one decline yet, but 3 RSVPs are still outstanding. Our RSVP deadline isn't until 5/28. We have paid all vendors as if 76 are coming. We only want those we really love and see often there with us. If some don't show? We are not doing plated meals so that may benefit the ones that do if something comes up for others.

We had 130/150 attend. We had 3 guests unable to attend at the last minute. One was the "plus one" of a friend, the other was a couple who lived out of state and who's 2 young sons were both sick. But they told us (the day before) - they didn't just no-show!

Plan for 100% attendance! Sometimes 100% of the people show up!

I would say about 15 people that didn't show out of 200

This is making me nervous. We're going to invite about 75 (still finalizing) and we have a 65 person minimum. We are hoping to have at least 60 (75 is fine budget and space-wise but I already know a few won't come because of family drama). I'm afraid we'll end up with like 40 people (or less!). We can't invite more people because we'd be over budget and we don't have anyone beyond the current guest list that we want there anyway.

We invited 125. 109 RSVP'd as attending. (8 later explained why they wouldn't be able to attend a month before the ceremony) so we thought the other 101 would be there...NOT! 62 attended and I haven't heard from the rest. Either way, the LOVE of each other and those in attendance kept us lifted on our day.


For the better part...The absence of the rest helped us to weed out who's not going to be invited to any other events in our future.