How many guests should you expect to come?

We invited 138 (including ourselves) and have 105 confirmed. We had 10 declines, and we're still waiting on the rest to respond.

Thanks for the input!

Ive read a few blogs that said on average except about a 25 to 30 percent decline depending on travel factors.. Which for most of the weddings ive been involved in has been pretty accurate considering there were not big travel issues for any of them.

You should expect and plan for 100%.

Most likely you won't have it, though. A lot is dependent on the event. Is it local for the majority of guests or do they need to travel? Is it a Saturday or an off day? We invited about 92 and had 86 attend, think.

Normally is around 15-20% of course that can totally be easy off. Some fields on here are getting 50% declines while other arelated getting almost no declines. You also have to factor in the travel for the people.

I would say that the wedding will be within about 2 hours for about 75% of the guests (about 10% of the guests are my immediate family -- yes, my family is that big lol, so even though they aren't local, they'll come).

You should always *plan* for 100% attendance in terms of budget and space. How many guests will come depend on sooo many factors...when your date is, for example. You're not getting married around a major holiday or anything, so that won't hurt you there. Will you be sending STDs? That will help attendance, esp. for a summer wedding (people won't make vacation plans for that weekend). Are most of your guests local, or OOT? Do your OOT guests have the means to travel? Are you inviting kids? OOT guests with kids may not be able to attend if you're not having kids. We sent STDs and even though have a lot of OOT guests, they have the means to travel. Also, family dynamics and life circumstances (pregnancy, illness) may play a role. The people who declined live 2 hours away or more and most have young children, and one couple that declined has a due date is a few days after our wedding lol. The only "local" (within 2 hours) couple that declined just had a baby 2 weeks ago. We have 87% attendance (13% decline).

Planning on STDs, pretty much only guests from my side have kids, and none of them are that young (youngest will be 2 unless one of my cousins pops out another one)...but they also live very nearby (about 45 minutes away). And kids are DEFINITELY welcome!

We invited 136 (including us and wedding party), so far we have 65% say yes, still waiting on a fair number and only go a few no's that we knew about in advance.

We invited 238, had 212 there. So roughly a 90% acceptance. The only ones who declined were out of town family that we expected to decline when we sent the invites...but because they were family and we didn't want to cause hurt feelings, we extended the invite anyway. Don't invite any more than your budget allows or than your venue allows...don't invite more hoping people will decline. Plan for 100% acceptance. When/if people decline, that is just money saved from your budget.

The smaller your list to begin with, I feel that the smaller amount of declines you will have. As your list gets shorter, it's usually the people to whom you are closest and they will usually want to come. 100 guests is not a tiny list, but much smaller than some that I've seen.

Yes I am planning on 100% acceptance. I want to know I cam afford to feed and seat my entire list before I invite. I would never go off the normal acceptance rate.

We've invited between 180-190 people and have about 100 that accepted... Sigh...

We invited 122 and 94 have said yes. There is only one couple we haven't heard back from yet. Almost all of FH's family is on the other side of the country so we knew we'd have some decline but we still planned for everyone to come. It will be nice to see the catering bill go down when we give them our final numbers!

This is an impossible question for anyone to ask.

We had 218 invited, 214 said yes, and just over 200 attended.

We invited 200, 160 said yes, 150 attended.