Normal yes/no rsvp rates

When was your rsvp deadline?

When I was meeting with our event cordinator, she said the average is a 20% loss of guests

Rsvp deadline was 3 weeks ago - 1st nov

I guess 20% is about what we have Jenny

Jenny is pretty much right. Figure if you invite 125 you will probably end up with 75-90. It's rude that some don't rsvp, especially since return postage is included, but it's just something that people do. You could always send out emails saying something along the lines of how you would really appreciate their presence and you would like to know if they will be attending.

I understand that you still have a few people that you would like to invite, however with the wedding only a couple of weeks away have you considered that how it might make them feel? They will know that they were on the B or C list.

YOu only have 2 weeks left, I'm not sure what your deadline was but I plan on giving everybody 4 weeks before the wedding so I can call them on the third week to confirm with the ones that didn't RSVP, my venue requires a final list at least 10 days prior to the wedding.

If your deadline has passed, I'd say start calling now to get the final yes/no so you can invite your backup guests asap, but don't count on all of them attending because it's the holidays and people make plans early around those times.

We've already contacted all the last rsvps - just pissed off about this one that doesn't answer any form of contact - so that's it, we assume they aren't coming. It wasn't that we were chasing many still, just that we'd not added up the "no"'s until now.

I dont think the work mates will mind being a last minute invite. My old work is a group of 12 people, and it was an all or none invite thing, and I wanted to wait to know I could invite all, which I now can - they will understand me not wanting to choose between them.

My new work I've only been at 7 weeks, they will understand not having been invited earlier too.

The other "extra" invites, are telling people that they can bring a date if they wish.

I'm emailing the work colleagues one out now.

And for final numbers, out daytime guest numbers for the sit down meal we have to give in tomorrow, and those are fixed, that's fine, these are evening guests

our evening food feeds 110 people, at a set cost, so we can invite up to that many, and any less and it's no cheaper, the caterer only need to know final number of vegetarians etc one week before

Sorry for the language in that previous post, only just realised I didn't censor as I typed - whoops