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How many people to invite?

Original post by bluekat16

So I'm trying to finalize my guest list.

We have a 175 person min. for our RH and right now with guests we have a total of 264 people. I feel like we need to invite more to reach our min. I know many people will no bring guests even thought we are inviting them with a guest.

Am I crazy to think we should invite more?

Please give me some feedback.

TIA
cmjd Posted:

Re: How many people to invite?

I dont know if this helps, but my minimum is 165, i invited 232 and based on the responses so far, im worried i might not make the minimum. Alot of it is becuase people arent bringing dates and OOT's cant come. I think your numbers are pretty good though.

bluekat16 Posted:

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Posted by MrsK2008

Have you sat down and gone through that list to consider who definitely will not come and who may not come.

I would start there before you add more to your guest list.



I just went through my list and I think we'll be fine.

FH needs to add some co-workers for 'politics' purposes and I have a B-list going now. Plus I haven't counted my vendors in my list yet

I just freaked out because I just took 1/2 unviversally of our total and it was like 40 people under our min. I also worried because my wedding falls between Christmas and New Year's so I just freaked.

I'm being a worrisome bride today.



MrsK2008 Posted:

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Posted by bluekat16
I just freaked out because I just took 1/2 unviversally of our total and it was like 40 people under our min. I also worried because my wedding falls between Christmas and New Year's so I just freaked.

I'm being a worrisome bride today.


tomorrow you will feel relief hopefully........
Shelly9697 Posted:

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I dont know how true this is and i'm sure it's not the case for everyone but I've heard usually around 20% dont come.

snwb08 Posted:

Re: How many people to invite?

i did an invited column and an 'actual' column. Under invited, I included guests for those that were invited with a guest; under actual I got rid of the guests for people I was sure wouldn't bring one.

it worked out to 157 vs. 138, so it helps.
cbcf Posted:

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Posted by Future Mulligan

our minimum is 175 and we have 214 on ourlist as of now - we might add a few more people and invite about 225-230 - we DO NOT want to go over 175 - we rather be under - even if we are under we know exactly how much we owe the RH and we can at least try to get some more thrown in - i rather that happen then have to pay them even more money!



yeha my min is 175 and right now we have 215 on our list!!! I would rather have under our min as well because then we get things thrown in or what have you....

but i also want to ask JT if closer to the wedding if no one is in the dome room if we can switch without upping min and price pp. i wonder haha
bluekat16 Posted:

Re: How many people to invite?


Posted by cbcf


Posted by Future Mulligan

our minimum is 175 and we have 214 on ourlist as of now - we might add a few more people and invite about 225-230 - we DO NOT want to go over 175 - we rather be under - even if we are under we know exactly how much we owe the RH and we can at least try to get some more thrown in - i rather that happen then have to pay them even more money!



yeha my min is 175 and right now we have 215 on our list!!! I would rather have under our min as well because then we get things thrown in or what have you....

but i also want to ask JT if closer to the wedding if no one is in the dome room if we can switch without upping min and price pp. i wonder haha



I have the DOme room and my min. is 175. I say you ask
Mrs.C 102608 Posted:

Re: How many people to invite?


Posted by Espo22


Posted by TheFutureMrsM


Posted by Soon2beMrsC

That sounds like a good idea......how many people do you think I have to invited to reach my minimum of 225?



that is a BIG minimum, mine is 125
I think you will have to invite at least 300 to reach that



my min is 275. We invited a little over 300. We were supposed to invite more but just 2 weeks ago i was told that no 2nd cousins are going to be invited on fh's side. The thing is that fh's dad is the youngest of 7 kids, so alot of fh's cousins are older, infact fh and his brother are the youngest. So many of fh's 2nd cousins are around his age and who he hung out with. So now i was like OHHH ok, hopefully we can still make our min hahaha.

I only have about 265 on my list right now and some people I know won't come. I guess I have to see who else I might have forgotten because I although I would rather be under my min. then over I dont want to be way under.

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