Risky Subject: Over-inviting!

Yes I totally over invited- my space fits 100 although I'd like only 75. I invited 110 because I know a bunch of people will not attend. FH and I rated everyone in how they would attend so we are estimating 73.5 will attend haha do you think everyone will actually come?

I am as well. I don't want to but my mother.. Who is paying for it insists.. So let the games begin!

I think inviting 7 over is different than inviting, say 50 over. You know 7 people will likely decline anyways. We over invited by 18, but a lot of those were people we knew likely wouldn't travel - a lot of them are elderly or 9 hours away. Out of 218 invites, 150ish are coming..which is exactly the number I wanted. Worked out great!

Hahaha @Natasha! I wonder who the .5 will be?!?

We over invited by 20 because FH failed at making his guest list properly. I'm freaking out because we have only one decline (which we knew about beforehand) and 50% of the RSVP's are back already!

I wouldn't worry about 7 people... I think the rule of thumb is to count on 2/3 of the people you invite actually coming? My acceptance rate was closer to 1/2.

I couldn't even imagine over-inviting my venue. I think it's max was like 400 people, if not more. I don't think I know that many people, much less know that many I like well enough to have invited them LOL.

Our wedding is in Georgia, where we live, and about 80% of our guest list is from out of state--my family is all in Illinois and his is throughout the country. So, we over-invited, knowing a lot of extended family wouldn't travel. We sent invites out to 112 people/families which totaled to well over 160. We originally anticipated around 75 people. We have all our RSVPs back and we have exactly 100....which is good because that's the limit for our venue. Ha!

I'm not at the invitations point yet. But my venue comfortably hold 180, but max is 200. Right now, our list has 190, which for me is over-inviting. But I guess I'm not going over the venue's max.

Our venue can hold way more than we would ever invite (something like 350), but we had the number 120 in mind - originally. Yeah we ended up inviting 144 people...not sure how that happened. Hoping for a few declines, but if not, we will make it work!

Don't count on people not coming. So far I have received more than half of my rsvp cards back and everyone has said yes. Even people I fully did not expect to come.

Our venue only holds 250 and we invited 256. We already got back 9 no's so I think we are ok. We also know of family that live far that also will not be joining! I think over inviting by 1-10 is ok. Over inviting more than that is asking for a disaster.

What proportion of the people is 7? I actually did over-invite by a few because I knew straight away there would be a few not coming. Is there a wedding here where every single invited guest shows up? I would expect not.

I didn't over-invite, but we had 30 declines for inviting 130 people. I think 7 is fine...as you sneak the number up, you're getting into sticky territory though.

I didn't over invite, but we had 30 declines, so seven over is probably fine.

We over invited 40!!!!! Luckily the venue hold 225. I only wanted 140. But FH kept adding people ugggg. My biggest issue is I already had all favors and centerpieces. Now I'm hunting for more grrr. Oh yeah and we hv 50% of RSVPs back and not one decline

We over invited 40!!!!! Luckily the venue hold 225. I only wanted 140. But FH kept adding people ugggg. My biggest issue is I already had all favors and centerpieces. Now I'm hunting for more grrr. Oh yeah and we hv 50% of RSVPs back and not one decline

I think that over inviting by 7 will be ok. You will still get some declines anyways so it will likely work out. And if they all accept then they can just squish together a bit. Over inviting can be tricky but I think you will be ok.

Our venue holds 200 comfortably, we invited 235! We estimated 175 would come and our count right now is 170 (still waiting to here from 3)! So we were pretty accurate!

Yea, I don't think this is too bad. Most likely you will have some people unable to attend and if everyone shows up, I think it would be a record for a 0% decline rate.

Our venue could hold more than what we invited but to give you an idea, we invited 150 and had 131 RSVP yes, then had 3 last-minute no-shows. So you will have plenty of space I'm sure!