If you are in the process of planning your wedding please do not make the same mistake I did! I'm getting married this Saturday and really wish I had done the rsvps different! In the response cards I just had a line for people to write in the name then _number of guests attending. Though I had the names of the specific people invited on the invitation many people are still inviting extra guests! I was not too worried about how many people were attending since our venue could accommodate 200 and we are having an informal wedding with a buffet. However, it is less than a week before the wedding and people have been contacting me saying that they are coming even though the rsvp date was dec. 20th! Not only that but it seems my fiance has been inviting friends by word of mouth and giving them our website info! I'm going a little crazy thinking we are not going to have enough room for everyone! My official list is at 186 right now but I have a feeling more people are going to show up! And to put the cherry on the top one of our family friends who we invited along with his parents just messaged me saying he is bringing his girlfriend and his two daughters from his previous marriage that he doesn't even live with! I want to tell him not to bring the daughters but I would feel rude because I have invited other friends with their children! I'm just feeling so helpless like I can't control who is coming to my wedding! I would recommend everyone to be very strict on who is invited and very clear with your family and fiance so that you only have people in your wedding that you want there instead of people you don't even know!
Any words of advice or encouragement are appreciated. Thanks
