Invited guest verse turn out

You should have budgeted for how many guests you invited not how many might rsvp no. What happens if the 250 do rsvp yes?

We had 98%. You're in a pickle.

We invited 125 people but due to the time of year and the location we figured only 80 would come but we are currently up to 110 people who have RSVPed yes and have only had 5 no's. Still waiting for the last 10 to send their rsvp cards back.

Luckily we budgeted enough Incase everyone be said yes

You should budget for the exact amount of people you invite!!! I've seen 100% attendance and I've seen less than 50%.

We have the money no problem if everyone shows up. We were just told to plan on 60% so was wondering others experiences

You were misinformed.

We had 80% RSVP yes

We have 200 invited and payed for 250. It is buffet style with servers. From experience from family weddings people always bring more guests than they said they would bring. My close family and I are totally okay taking food home rather than people not eating.

Who told you 60%?! That was bad advice.

You're going to find that everyone on here had wildly different percentages. Some are going to be close to 100% and other will be much less. Because it's so varied, it's impossible to predict how many of your guests will actually accept your invitation. That's why you should always plan (aka, budget) for 100% attendance.

We had 75 guests attend out of 165 invited, so 45%.

I don't really understand. If you have the money for 100% of the people, than other people's experiences shouldn't really matter because you have it covered.

You were given bad advice. There is no set algorithm for how many guests will actually be there vs how many you invite. We invited 167 and had 116 show.

I've worked weddings where 150 expected and 50 people showed all the way to 150 expected and 160 show.

Budget for every person you invite. If people say they can't make it that's when they no longer have an impact on the numbers.

LMAO... you should've come here before. I had a 96% acceptance rate.. good luck!

It depends on SO many factors. When is your date, did you include all plus ones in your numbers, are you inviting kids, are most guests are out of town, out of state, out of the country, the age and finances of guests, and how many you are inviting (likely to get a larger percentage of declines the larger the wedding is because those extra people aren't as close to you and don't feel as much of a need to make a big effort to come to your wedding).

We had 66% acceptance (77/116 invites RSVPed yes), but 20 of those declines were plus ones given to older relatives who are single and younger friends not dating anyone, our wedding is out of state for 90% of guests (more than 5 hour drive or requires flight), the wedding is the week before Christmas, etc. There is no good formula to guess what will be right for your guest list.

Be careful that your venue can COMFORTABLY fit all your guests if they all show up (ask for a configuration of tables with what you need provided). I only realized after we sent STDs that our venue setup would not be ideal with all our guests, even though we were technically under the venue MINIMUM for a Saturday night!

We had a 90% acceptance rate

I've heard 75% as the average, so even THAT isn't consistent. Plus the math is all date and location dependent too.

Best to budget for everyone.

I'm still budgeting for the 5 people I know with 99.9% certainly can't travel due to health issues. JUST INCASE idk a miracle happens or something

I read somewhere the standard rate of decline is 10% if most guests are local and 20% if it is a destination wedding or most guests are out if town. I have never heard that a 40% decline is the norm under most circumstances. I would plan for 100% attendance jist in case!

From her post I don't think they budgeted for 60%, they are just curious to see if that number reigns true. I'm sure they have enough money, food, venue, etc for 250.

Only budgeting food up to 60% was really a terrible idea. I invited 220 and we have only had 5 people decline so far. You may want to start picking up an extra job.

Only way you can be statistically 99% sure than you will get a NOT 100% acceptance rate is to have your wedding on like a random Tuesday at noon, invite 800 people (most of whom you don't know), advertise that it is a dry wedding, post a link to your Honeyfund on the invitation, and have it at least a 6 hour plane ride away. And even then you could still get a high acceptance rate because people are crazy.

All my mom's friends that are out of town that she said won't come because she hasn't seen in years and just wanted to invite because she was close to them and went to their kids weddings? THEY ARE ALL COMING AND I DON'T KNOW THEM. She had 100% acceptance rate for her friends/family. Me, I only have 3 friends coming to my own wedding (I had about 10% acceptance for my friends, no one else can come that time of year or pay to travel at this stage in life, and they live farther away- my mom's retired friends apparently have nothing better to do).

227 Invited, 215 Showed for a Friday wedding. We were really surprised on how many came to Church, we had a full house for a 4:30 mass.