07 girls who are already married!!!

I invited approximately 140 adults. I had 125 respond yes. Those that said no lived out of state and I knew they were going to say no.

Total that showed up was 119.

we had a holiday weekend which typically has a 25% no response (normal weekends have 20%)

229 people invited
167 people RSVPed yes
16 people never RSVPed at all (RUDE)
2 people called a few days before the wedding to say they could no longer come due to work & family illness (you have up to 48 hours prior at most reception halls to cancel without getting charged.)
4 people canceled the day of (my cousin went to the ER for an emergency surgery)
1 person didn't show to the reception

total at reception: 160

ETA: we also had 2 people leave after the cocktail hour. A newly preggo couple and the woman was sick. :(

invited about 180
105 RSVP'd yes
2 ppl no showed on the big day


don't forget to check out the official Yes/No ratio thread--that might help ya a little.

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Posted by MJDoc12

invited about 180
105 RSVP'd yes
2 ppl no showed on the big day


don't forget to check out the official Yes/No ratio thread--that might help ya a little.

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thanks ladies!

can someone bump that thread for me? no idea where it is!!

Found it for ya!

Official 'Yes-No Response Ratio' Thread

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Posted by AlliCatB


2 people called a few days before the wedding to say they could no longer come due to work & family illness (you have up to 48 hours prior at most reception halls to cancel without getting charged.)

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So if I have cancellations 48 hours before I can get my money back? I have to put in my final payment 2 weeks before...

Ugh considering these replies and the other thread, I'm really thinking of undercutting my final count- I can't believe how many people are no-shows! I just don't really know how to handle it.

Did any of you brides go with a lower count than you really had just to count for those no-shows? How'd you go about it?

Thanks!!

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Posted by GettinHutched

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Posted by AlliCatB


2 people called a few days before the wedding to say they could no longer come due to work & family illness (you have up to 48 hours prior at most reception halls to cancel without getting charged.)

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So if I have cancellations 48 hours before I can get my money back? I have to put in my final payment 2 weeks before...

Ugh considering these replies and the other thread, I'm really thinking of undercutting my final count- I can't believe how many people are no-shows! I just don't really know how to handle it.

Did any of you brides go with a lower count than you really had just to count for those no-shows? How'd you go about it?

Thanks!!

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No, that's not true for most reception halls. Once you give them your final count you can always add more, but they won't refund you for people who don't show up. That's why they tell you to give a number a couple below what you actually expect.

We invited 268 and we have 201 coming so that's a 25% decline rate. We also have a ton of OOT people which is why it was a little higher.

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Posted by GettinHutched

So if I have cancellations 48 hours before I can get my money back? I have to put in my final payment 2 weeks before...

Ugh considering these replies and the other thread, I'm really thinking of undercutting my final count- I can't believe how many people are no-shows! I just don't really know how to handle it.

Did any of you brides go with a lower count than you really had just to count for those no-shows? How'd you go about it?

Thanks!!

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you have to ask your hall about that. our final date for a headcount was about 3 days before the wedding....they told us 'you can always ADD to that number, but you can NOT take away' our BM kind of hinted that if we think there were any cancellations or anything coming--to low ball that number....cause they could always had a place setting if necessary the day of.

we wound up with 2 no-shows that day, and had to pay for them anyway!

invted 187
yes: 131
no: 56

3 no shows the day of, and we put the vendors towards our number to make it to our min.

Invited: 70
Yes: 51
No: 19 (I was shocked by some of these and am still a bit pissed about it)
No Shows: 4 (2 were sick, 1 had travel problems, 1 was just rude)

Final (with FH and I): 49 Guests.

Invited 255 and ended up with 175

About 6 people did not show up that day for various reasons.

We invited about 260 - 184 replied yes

We had 2 people (couple) no show and 4 people call that week and said that they couldn't make it, although it was too late b/c we already paid.

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Posted by AlliCatB


2 people called a few days before the wedding to say they could no longer come due to work & family illness (you have up to 48 hours prior at most reception halls to cancel without getting charged.)

(

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So if I have cancellations 48 hours before I can get my money back? I have to put in my final payment 2 weeks before...

Ugh considering these replies and the other thread, I'm really thinking of undercutting my final count- I can't believe how many people are no-shows! I just don't really know how to handle it.

Did any of you brides go with a lower count than you really had just to count for those no-shows? How'd you go about it?

Thanks!!

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yeah i have a similar problem.. my final head count is less than my minimum...