How many people did you invite

You should expect around 75% to come. So I'd say yes, invite 20 more if you want 60. Or you'll only have about 45.

Not everyone will come. People make other arrangements and things like that. I would invite more people if you think someone wouldn't show.

Yes I would invite the extra 20 people, because all of your guest will not be able to attend or show up at least if you invite the extra 20 you will more than likely have 60 guest that will attend the wedding. We are invtiting 150 but sending out 200 invitations.

I am inviting 118 but really want to keep it around 100 i already know about 12 people wont be attending tho.

It all depends on the people you are inviting, their financial situation, where they live compared to the location of the wedding, etc. The higher % that are from out of town the higher the % that will not be able to make it. Also just knowing your guests - are they the kinda people that will be there if any way possible? I have read that on average from 75% to 85% will attend.

FS and I have invited 152 people (a high percentage of them not only out of town but all over the country). Right now 70 people have RSVPed. 64 = yes and 6 = no.

(The rest still have a week & a half to RSVP before our deadline.) Due to the distance, I expected a lot more than 8.5% to decline.

IMO, expect that some won't be able to come for varying reasons. However, do not over invite to the extent that IF by some chance all (or most) do end up coming, you can accommodate all of them. Make sure that you can afford and the venue can handle chairs, tables, food, favors, etc. for ALL guests invit

We have 72 people on our guest list. That includes EVERYONE (including us!). I know off hand that about 8-10 wont make it b/c of distance.

I have 180 people invited adn its good to estimate that 70-75% show up but remember variables.. for example, i work i retail and lord knows no one who works in retail gets weekends off unless they beg! (lol jk) so with me having a sunday wedding i know that people that i work with are less likely to get off so im considering a larger chunk not being able to come.. just keep the variables in mind.. but more than 50% should come for sure

Are you inviting people just to get to 60 guests? Why wouldn't 30 or 40 be good enough? You should invite those that mean the most to you regardless of how many that turns out to be.

Our wedding was technically a destination wedding since it wasn't where we or most of our friends lived. We invited about 130 people. 60 RSVP'd yes. 50 showed up. And if I had it all to do again, I would have cut about 10-15 of those 50 to make it more intimate and spend less money.

I would only invite the amount you can afford based on the assumption that everyone will attend. I know it seems silly. But you jus might have more RSVP yes then axpected. And what happens if you can only afford to pay for 60, you invite 80, and 70-75 RSVP yes?

We invited 280, and set for 240.

We're inviting around 300, but expecting about 260ish due to a lot being out of state. It really depends on location I think.

Completely agree with Christine on this one. The general rule is to overcompensate but you should really sit and think about your GL and the breakdown of OOT vs in town, people's financial situations, who had kids or demanding jobs that would keep them from coming, etc.

We want 40 guests so we're sending out about 50 invites. Most of our guests (really almost all of them) are OOT so I know some people won't be able to travel. I expect the 40 people I want to show will be able to make it but there are a few people I know may not have the finances but I want to at least send them an invite. There's an old etiquette rule of inviting people you know won't show just to not be rude -_- but I think nowadays people aren't wasting the stationary.

Im only inviting 100 & we'll see how many will show up lol

We are inviting 250, I'm hoping only 200 show, but it's mostly family, our families always show up for big events like weddings, baby showers, graduations etc..We both have huge families. My family alone is over 120 of the guest, a lot of his family are out state, so that helps, because we were thinking our guest list was going to be 350, glad it's not! LOL!

We are inviting 200 and hoping 150 will show. Most of the people are here in town, so probably a little more then 150 will show.

We invited 143 (including us), we are hoping for around 100-110. So far we have 15 declines.

We officially invited 105 people with an open invite to my unit.

Our guest list is 138 (including us) and were hoping to have 100. We thought we'd have just our 100 but because we are the last of our group of friends to get married and no one ever thought EITHER of us would EVER settle down.... most people are coming just to see this historical day

We are inviting 180, 10 of which I already know won't be able to make it. Hoping only about 150 accept but prepared if 170 come.

It really depends on your budget and space..let's say everyone came (which is unlikely as mentioned above) would it cause bigger financial stress and not have room for them? If you can swing that, then I'd say there is no harm in inviting more people. :-)

Our venue can only hold 220 people ... so we're inviting 220 people ... it'd be just my luck everyone would want to show up ... so I strictly had to limit my guest list to just family and FS had a bit more leeway because he has a small family.