married ladies - final count question....

pjc92980 Posted: Jul 11, 2011 01:38 PM

married ladies - final count question....

we have our final count.....
212 (guaranteed 200)

My mom & grandmother insist that you tell the venue less than your count bc people dont show up....i think they are crazy!

did any of you do this??? does anyone plan on doing this???

those that are married....how many no-shows did you have???

if you do give less of a count, how do you do that? my RH requires me to fill out a seating chart with the number of people at each table. do i just randomly select who i think wont show and make their table size smaller??? and then have someone tracking to see who comes and doesnt come so that the table sizes are accurate???
seems like a confusing nightmare that i dont want to deal with on the day of my wedding

adelz Posted: Jul 11, 2011 01:39 PM

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We had 4 no show's on the day of...we were already under our minimum before then, so we just told them the number we thought were all yes'.

chilly313 Posted: Jul 11, 2011 01:40 PM

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I am planning on doing this - I think probably by about 2-3 people

DANAnPATRICK Posted: Jul 11, 2011 01:41 PM

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Posted by adelz

We had 4 no show's on the day of...we were already under our minimum before then, so we just told them the number we thought were all yes'.

Sorry crashing...but I know you had a small guest size what was the count if you dont mind me asking?

JuneBride14 Posted: Jul 11, 2011 01:41 PM

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my mom wanted to give them 3 people under what we were guaranteed because she says there are always emergencies at the last minute.. my sister told me i shouldn't do it for understandable reasons in our situation... we had 3 no show

mybabylovesmoi Posted: Jul 11, 2011 01:41 PM

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i did do this but it didn't help me because when i didn't get any cancellations the week of, i paid for the 'extra' people on friday (my wedding was on sunday).

we got a cancellation THAT NIGHT I paid and then 2 more the day of.

adelz Posted: Jul 11, 2011 01:44 PM

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Posted by DANAnPATRICK

Posted by adelz

We had 4 no show's on the day of...we were already under our minimum before then, so we just told them the number we thought were all yes'.

Sorry crashing...but I know you had a small guest size what was the count if you dont mind me asking?

Final count on day of was either 51 or 53, and then we counted our vendors (6 in total) towards our final count - so like 57 or 59 in total were at the wedding, after the last minute cancellations and no-shows. Our guarantee was 70. Nice way to throw money down the trash, especially since we didn't get reimbursed in any way at all...good times

FutureJOC Posted: Jul 11, 2011 01:53 PM

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We didn't need to do this only because we were actually below our minimum and they just gave us vendors for free. But, if were above the min we def. would have because we did have some no's after we gave our final count. We were going to tell them about 6 less than our actual number and then have that money on hand the day of to pay for the 6 if they did show up.

BigDsGirl Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:09 PM

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I am def going to do this. I am going to tell them at least 2-3 people less.

leesah85 Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:09 PM

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im planning on doing this - probably by about 5 people because my family is ridiculous and probably will cancel the day before

we had 8 no shows to our engagement party

Cataverri Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:11 PM

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We didnt do it. 5 people didnt show up the day of.

If your final count is 212 I would pay for like 208.

BlushandBashful Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:14 PM

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I had 3 cancellations after I put my final count in.

FutureMrsJC Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:14 PM

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I'm not married yet, but will be soon! We told our hall a few less than our final head count, and planned to ask them to add a few seats the day before. We already have two people who were supposed to come tell us they now can't make it, so I am glad we told them less!

CantWaitMrsH Posted: Jul 11, 2011 02:21 PM

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I didnt have any 'no shows' the day of my wedding ... and we were a party of 120 guests. We had one cancellation the week of that did come in too late which we had to pay for. Its such a sin what venues do ... you should pay for whoever is there end of story!

If I were you with such a large wedding I would undershoot. Then you can call two days before or so when you do the drop off and say the number went up. Its easier to add on then to take off. You can pay the difference that day!

DANAnPATRICK Posted: Jul 11, 2011 06:38 PM

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Posted by adelz

Posted by DANAnPATRICK

Posted by adelz

We had 4 no show's on the day of...we were already under our minimum before then, so we just told them the number we thought were all yes'.

Sorry crashing...but I know you had a small guest size what was the count if you dont mind me asking?

Final count on day of was either 51 or 53, and then we counted our vendors (6 in total) towards our final count - so like 57 or 59 in total were at the wedding, after the last minute cancellations and no-shows. Our guarantee was 70. Nice way to throw money down the trash, especially since we didn't get reimbursed in any way at all...good times

My RH let me have a guarantee of 65 and I really don't want to pay for many more than 75....was just wondering how it all was having a smaller guest list.

Im getting Married Posted: Jul 11, 2011 10:34 PM

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We said 5 under (the total that said yes) and we had 2 last minute cancellations so it was fine for us

adelz Posted: Jul 11, 2011 10:38 PM

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Posted by DANAnPATRICK

Posted by adelz

Posted by DANAnPATRICK

Posted by adelz

We had 4 no show's on the day of...we were already under our minimum before then, so we just told them the number we thought were all yes'.

Sorry crashing...but I know you had a small guest size what was the count if you dont mind me asking?

Final count on day of was either 51 or 53, and then we counted our vendors (6 in total) towards our final count - so like 57 or 59 in total were at the wedding, after the last minute cancellations and no-shows. Our guarantee was 70. Nice way to throw money down the trash, especially since we didn't get reimbursed in any way at all...good times

My RH let me have a guarantee of 65 and I really don't want to pay for many more than 75....was just wondering how it all was having a smaller guest list.

I would stick to a smaller guarantee, things just change end of day, and it's weird because in smaller weddings having 2-4 people not show up on day of isn't as noticeable as when you only have 50-60 people there, you know?