Venue?

I would maybe consider working on cutting the guest list. We cut ours down from 300 to 90. It's totally doable. We're having a destination wedding in the OBX so a few categories were easier to get through than others. Here's how we deliberated who to cut:

-Friends or family that have met either one of us only a handful of times.

-Great Aunts & Uncles etc., were not invited. We knew they couldn't make the trip.

-Friends or family that have not been supportive of us.

-Friends we haven't had steady communication with in over a year.

-Family our parents don't get along with (out of respect for our parents, we didn't want our them to feel uncomfortable at our wedding)

-Co-workers and past co-workers. Unless you socialize outside of work or work events.

-Anyone we felt would create drama, drink too much or possibly bring drugs into the picture. (not our thing but we have a few acquaintances that have medical cards)

-We did not give plus ones to anyone that isn't married or in a long-term relationship. That included our wedding party. If we receive any "no" RSVP's back, then we will begin giving plus one's to the individuals in the wedding party that didn't have one. So far, we have 75% of our RSVP's and they have all been "yes"....

This is just the way my FH and I went about doing things. I know some may see it as be rude or non-traditional but this is what worked for us and we are sooo incredibly happy with the way we did things.