Small wedding brides (less than 50 guests)?

Also having a small wedding. umm location it two hours away, its a beach cermony. We do not having a wedding pary just flower girl maid and best man. oh my guest list somewhere betwween 40-50 and not all will show. Reception on terrace of the hotel. Besides don't care if many don't show. its my day!

Can i just say i am TOTALLY envious of you brides! i would have loved to have a small, intimate wedding!

I've had this up for a few days now, hoping to get a chance to read it. I am in TX, he is in CA. Originally, I was supposed to move to Cali, and therefore the wedding would be there. Well I lived there for 6 years, and he is from there. So with old friends, and all his family, we were at 90 guests. I was excited to meet his family and see all my old friends. But since he came out to see me in July, he doesn't want to be apart any longr then necessary, and apparently he likes it here. We have much more to do around us then where he is in Northern CA. So he is hoping to move here in 2 months, instead of waiting till Feb, like we originally planned. Wherever one of us moved, would be where the wedding was. It made no sense to move and then have to go across 1/2 the country to get married and pay $$. So, with it being here, all of my family spread all over and older, his family and friends there, we are going to have 22 people, and about 1/2 of that is kids.

I don't mind the smaller wedding. The wedding itself is $100, plus the cost of my dress, which is about $400, bouquet, etc... My biggest challenge right now is finding a place for all of us to hang out and celebrate after. I want to keep it at about $20 a head, including kids- which if you think about it will be less, so it leaves a little extra for adults. The next biggest expenses will be the photographer... I wanna cry thinking about it, and the honeymoon, which will be about $2-2400- Vegas, baby!! LOL

I chose to have an intimate wedding because that's just the way it worked out. The FH doesn't have extended family and mine lives too far away to make the trip. At first I was upset that there would not be many people attending my wedding. But then the idea grew on me and now I know an intimate guest list is what I would chose even if I had a choice. We will have 30 guests including our immediant family members and close friends. We will each have one attendant. At the reception everyone will sit at one long banquet table. It will give a very close-knit intimate feel. I hope to be able to enjoy each guest's company at my wedding.

My fiance & I only have about 40-50 people, including the wedding party which is about 18-20 people. The place holds both the ceremony & reception, at a full package deal for only about $700, plus our cake, catering, flowers, & photography. Can't fit the DJ set up in there, so have to go Ipod style or cds with certain songs for certain dances & tossings. Overall, I really do not see the point in inviting the entire neighborhood, half the people are there just for free drinks, & showing they don't care? ...Nnnnno. In my opinion, you spend your big day with family & friends who have been there for you, you keep in contact with on a regular basis. Have a decent sized wedding, then go all out for the honeymoon

Hi! Im having a small wedding for only 50 people. I have 2 months and a half to plan. Can somebody help me with ideas? Such as the first dance of husbands ( i litterally translated the term from spanish) , should i have a bridal party or just 2, ect

I'm considering a wedding with 50 guest max... I saw a wedding venue that goes so perfectly with the theme of the wedding... my FH and I both love botanical gardens. We both want to keep it to very close family and friends. To make it easy 25 on his side and 25 on mine. I'm still considering how many people to have in our wedding party...

Our wedding will be 52 people and we invited 62. The reason for that is I knew I could not handle the stress of having the 150-200 person wedding we would have had if we invited all of our family members. I can barely handle the stress of this one! We live in WA, but he's from VA and most of my fam is from CO. So we're going all out for a wedding and reception in WA, then doing a backyard BBQ reception in VA and a brunch reception in CO that is doubling as my grandpa's 96th birthday party. It's a compromise to make all sides happy. Basically we separated it into 3 parties with no more than 60 people at each gathering. Luckily budget wasn't a huge issue but we still kept it fairly modest compared to the national average.

I am planning a wedding that will mostly turn out small because my fiance's family lives in IA, IL, AZ etc and we live in NJ. He has most seen his extended family in over 16 years. He hasn't seen his mother and sister in over 10. It is gonna cost those out of state guests money just to get here. My father-in-law to-be encourages us to send invites because at very least people that can't make it will send money. We can guarantee 40-50 people will show. The venues we are looking at want at least 80. I have my heart set on a barn though.

Hello Everyone, Congrats on your upcoming wedding. I am getting married next year in August. I never planned a wedding before so its a little nerve racking lol. My wedding is going to be small and sweet. Roughly about 50 people max. We only wanted people we know really well and talk to on a daily basis attending the wedding. So for my wedding party (its going to small) probably just have 4 not including myself or FH.

Any other small wedding brides besides me?

We had 45 guests including ourselves, and it was perfect.

Why did you choose a small wedding?

My brothers' weddings helped me figure out the size of what I wanted. One had a 250-guest blowout that we definitely knew we didn't want. The other had a black tie affair for 25 that felt just a little too small to me as a guest. We didn't want to spend our wedding day saying hi to every second cousin and his date - we wanted to spend real time with the people we are closest to. And I can't stress how much you will save by keeping numbers low!

How many people are in your wedding party?

Six - three bridesmaids and three groomsmen.

Are you having a party later for all the rest of your family and friends?

And what a party it was! I still need to do a BAM post for y'all.

We are having a DW in Mexico and 16 people are coming. We only invited 20-22 so this is perfect to us. We have no wedding party, my sister will just pull my dress around after I walk across the sand.

We are planning on having a party over the summer at a brewery or other non-wedding place.

I would want a simple and intimate wedding because planning a wedding with over 100 guest is just overwhelming and stressful and I don't want to be overwhelmed and stressed on one of the most life changing day of my life. I want it to be a celebration of life and love with my family and fiancé's family and our closest friends. I want to be able to enjoy the moment without getting bankrupt at the end of the event, I want to still have enough money for us to get started as husband and wife and not to think of the wedding suppliers we have yet to pay in full; that is not how I wanted to start married life. I want to focus more on the life as a married couple and not just the wedding day.

This is the reason I want a small and intimate wedding.

Planning a small wedding of 55ish. FH and I both have very small families and decided to only invite our closest friends. It was that or elope we are splurging on the menu, food, and entertainment since the guest count is so small. It’s going to be intimate and romantic.

We are looking to have 50-55 people total at our wedding. We have our guest list worked up but have not sent invites or anything as we are 09/19/20. Our wedding party is 3 on each side. It's the Maid of Honor/Best Man and two bridesmaids/groomsmen. We really wanted to keep things low key and simple. We are having a short and sweet ceremony then a few hour reception.

I’m having a small destination beach wedding. It will be 40-50 guests. I don’t like big crowds and I have invited all the family and friends I need. Plus it’s so expensive to have a lot of guests lol.

I am inviting 65 but I am thinking it will actually be 55-60 who will come. I didn't want a large wedding at all. I think that smaller weddings are more personal.

Hi Peony, we had a 21 guests wedding (including ourselves). We wanted an intimate wedding only with the people that needed to be there. We didn't have a wedding party, just a "bubbles girl". And we didn't have another party for the rest of our family. We had so much fun!

View Quoted Comment I must be the only one so far that's having a total of 2 people. We live in Calif. and we are going to renew our vows it's our 25th anniversary in Maui Hawaii. I had the big one wedding reception it was very nice but this time around we wanted a beach sunset cermony. I love all my family but I'm having my sister as my maid of honor like the first one and my Granddaughter as a Bridemaid because she Didn't get to be apart of our first wedding . That's it. I'm sure alot of people would love to attend but don't have that kind of money to fly and stay for a week. But we are having the cermony where you can tune in and watch live as we renew our vows.