Less guests than expected?

So I had about 20% of invited guests say no when they RSVPd but at my reception I had maybe about a handful of no shows.

Wow that’s a bit high. As Melle said about 20 to 25% say no when RSVP but not 25% no show. If you have 100 people at your wedding that means 25 don’t show. Seems like a lot. I didn’t have no shows but I had a destination wedding so that’s different. As far as the weddings I have being too and help plan I have seeing about a handful of people as well. Maybe a large family, a couple or two here and there but not enough people to remove a full table.

Daughter had an 80% positive response rate for RSVPs (and pretty much knew before the invitations went out who wouldn't be able to come and why), and ZERO no shows.... I think a lot of no shows is very specific to certain families/social groups -- at least I hope it is.

No. Fairly often, everyone who received an invitation replies, and all the people who accepted show up. My only last minute cancellations were a husband and wife with a due date days after our wedding, baby early. And someone just out of the hospital, relapse. We had known they were maybes from the start. All other yeses came. 98 percent of the 170 invited (167). All my brothers and sisters ecept 1, no no shows. Over 90 percent yeses. The exception, just over 30 of her husband's 50plus friends and SO's accepted then no shows. No notice.

We had about that decline, some were kids that their parents didn’t bring. I don’t remember the exact percent.
We had 3 rsvp yes but not show and we knew about those before wedding day. 2 were before final numbers were turned in.
Then we had one uninvited guest show up, so the number we paid for was the number that was there.

That was not the case for our wedding. Out of the 67 guests who RSVP'd yes, 1 backed out the day before and 1 was a no show. We also had 2 adults and 2 kids that showed up for the ceremony and left before dinner even though we paid for all of them. I think every wedding is different, but 25% of guests being a no show sounds really high.

We invited around 100 for a wedding on a holiday weekend and I think we had around 20-25% invited guests rsvp no (or refused to rsvp at all 🙄, so they became declines). Then a handful who had rsvped yes but on the day of did not show. A couple couldn’t make it (and let us know before day of but after final #s due date) due to a death in the family. One person never explained why and just sent a substitute guest, without asking, who was not initially invited (still gets my blood boiling a bit). And the others who knows what came up. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I'm not sure. A friend of mine said that about 100 out of the 150 that RSVP'd yes to her wedding showed up. So in her case, there were quite a bit of no shows. My wedding is in a week, and there is a handful of people (like 6-8) that I expect not to show, but other than them I'm really thinking that we will have most of our yes RSVPs show.

Not true at all for my wedding or weddings I've attended. We had 1 person who said they were coming and didn't (medical reason) out of 118 people. The most no-shows I've ever seen was 8 (they had a whole table/family no-show), and that was at a wedding with 175 people in attendance.

When I married my first husband, 110 out of 150 people invited RSVPd yes and all 110 attended.

I think it all depends. Our venue is basically a "destination" for everyone attending. We have literally 3 groups of couples not staying in a hotel. We invited full families, all significant others, etc. And more than 100 people were out of state (1,000+ miles away). We invited 225, and 120 are attending. We anticipated 150, but are happy with 120 since we can now have a full open bar & nicer flowers!

We had 102 people say yes. Three of them didn't show up. Five extra people were brought (without a word to us, of course).

My husband and I invited 103 people, 101 rsvp'd Yes and 97 showed up. The 4 that did not did tell us int he day leading up that they had something that came up.