Posted by JLWSJC
LOL, I'm telling everyone, if you have guests who just want to go to A wedding, not necessarily YOUR wedding, I Think WE are going to need seat fillers, lol, send em on over to me!
Posted by jenn_eric
Posted by jilliibabii
Posted by Notwedyet08
Posted by jenn_eric
Create a B list and keep in mind about 20% of your invitees likely won't come.
Is this really true?? I really have to limit my guest list; there are people that i 'Have' to invite; i feel like everyone I invite will be there...i don't know if i can count on 20% not coming. It would be good for the head count; but i don't know if that's realistic??
I don't know- 20% sounds like a lot. I feel like it really depends on your family and your situation. This might hold true if you have a lot of OOT guests, which thankfully FH does, but I'd rather assume everyone is coming rather than get a nasty surprise later on and have TOO many guests and not be able to afford it or have space for them.
20% does sound like a lot....various halls told us to plan for 15-20% no-show - and when we went through our list of likely to show up it went from invited 148 to 125, so close to that 20% mark. Another suggestion is you invite the exact # of people from your A list as you can fit, and for every 'no' you get back send out an invite to someone on your B list.
Also i wanted to add...how do you handle questions from people who are on your 'B' list?? FH & I keep getting a TON of questions from people like when's the big day; where are you having it. And even though we say we're having something small i think they still assume they're getting an invite (i'm not talking about close friends; i'm talking about people we see once every couple of months or weeks). Once we start to finalize these plans how do you keep them at bay if they're on the 'B' list until they posisbly get bumped to the 'A' list??
Posted by FutureJOC
Posted by JessNicole7EM
Posted by JLWSJC
LOL, I'm telling everyone, if you have guests who just want to go to A wedding, not necessarily YOUR wedding, I Think WE are going to need seat fillers, lol, send em on over to me!
I'll be a seat filler! I LOVE weddings!!!
and Jessie- my minimum is at 125. Our list is at 201 without co-workers which will add another 25ish. We were hoping to keep the list to 150.. soo not happening. I feel your pain.
How did you end up cutting the list? lol I can't figure out how to cut anyone. It's awful.
I had a lot of of people that I didn't necessarily put them down as a B List, but they were a B list compared to the others, so I just cut. Plus I had some family members with guests (like my 2 aunts and a couple of older cousins) that when I spoke to my mom she said there was no need to invite with a guest because they are not with anyone, so I took away their guest. I really don't want to do it but I am up in the air about inviting co-workers with guests - as of right now they have a guest but if it comes down to it, I may have to do some more cutting.
