Regret Rate

It depends on who you are inviting... My minimum is 130 and we are inviting maybe 140 or so... I assume we will end up at 140 cause it's all very close friends and family

25% sounds pretty standard to me...

We're all over the map with who we are inviting. We don't have a minimum, but with my luck the weird cousins that never had a date in their life will scrounge one up for the wedding.

We have 180 invites going out, which is 250 people on our list. We need a lot of declines since we're 100 people over what we told the venue we wanted. ha ha. I know a lot of FH's elderly family won't come. And his frat brother's wives aren't coming so who knows what's bound to happen as far as my count goes.

That's what I've heard was pretty standard as well. I'm hoping for that amount of declines myself, lol.

I hope its 25!!! we are at about 10% I wanted to invite 130 we ended up inviting 170...We already have 123 going...*face to palm* I need to have half of the remaining rsvps to come back no! I'm hoping its mostly people I didnt' want coming anyways

Ours is destination but our regret rate is about 33% - for every 2 yes, we get 1 no it seems.

It's working out pretty well because I wanted to have around 100-110 people and so far we have 70 yes and 42 no. We have more nos right now because I knew ahead of time from several people that they wouldn't be able to make it due to being pregnant or unable to travel for some reason.

About 90% of local guests and 60% of OOT will attend. We invited 108 and got 91.

I've heard the rate to be closer to 10-15% on average. That being said, ours was about 21% but we both have a lot of family out of state that can not attend.

Our regret rate is only at about 5%

Our guest list was 86. So far I have FOUR declines. I'm waiting on about 10 back.

Edited: I realize you increased your list size, so I'd plan about 10%.

I hope ours is higher. We originally planned for 75 people, but we just sent invites and it was 130. All but 10 are oot and out of those we know 3 can't come and hoping their wives won't either. About a third are military and some won't be able to make it because of deployments.

Our list is 130 and we are inviting 130. If we get a lot of declines, then we will open up room to add dates to single attendees or our co-workers who originally did not make the list.

Edited to add this: so far we have gotten A LOT of accepts, which is great. So far the decline % is around 5%.

Also, one thing to consider is the size of your wedding - for a smaller wedding, fewer people decline because all of the guests tend to be close to the couple. Larger weddings get more declines.

20% from out of town guests and distante family in other states...

We seem to find final #'s are closer to 10% lower than the original amount we work with. That being said, we have had some weddings with very high guest declines and some with almost no declines. I think if you really know those people, you will have a better idea of your decline rate.

25% sounds high to me. 15-20% seems a little more accurate...

It's hard to tell and you should never count on people declining. They may surprise you! It's probably wiser to send out the most important ones and then have a B List for people you'll invite if you get regrets from your A List.

We have about 175 on the guest list (including ourselves and bridal party). Everything we budget for includes 150, so hopefully we'll be there or lower. No minimum at our venue

We invited 178 ended up with 133, so that is about 25% decline rate. But most our guests were from OOT with a minimum travel distance of 2 hours, most had 5 hours. All of our in-town guests came.