stupid question about guest list

ok so i have a stupid question.....

When you have your target number of guests for your RH....lets say '200' (and you want to stay at that number)
When you compile your guest list and say I invited 275 ppl in order to get my target number.....are you counting the number of guests x the RSVP # (2)
or
are you counting the estimated RSVPs based on the overall count. I hope I'm making sense...

so for instance, I'm inviting 100ppl in order to get 200 guests assuming that I have 100% yes response rate.

What are your thoughts???

I wanna help but I am lil confused

Is your question, how do you come up with the number of people to invite in order to stay within your target number?


For instance: We guaranteed 150. We would ideally like to have 170 the most. We have invited 200 in order to reach that 170 mark.


That said and If i understand what you mean, I will reach my target number by over inviting and assuming a specific number of no's

I hope this helped and I didnt confuse you more!

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Posted by 9509Bride

I wanna help but I am lil confused

Is your question, how do you come up with the number of people to invite in order to stay within your target number?


For instance: We guaranteed 150. We would ideally like to have 170 the most. We have invited 200 in order to reach that 170 mark.


That said and If i understand what you mean, I will reach my target number by over inviting and assuming a specific number of no's

I hope this helped and I didnt confuse you more!

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That's right.
Where I'm trying to get at is this....how many paper invitaions do i have to send in order to get 200 people total......100, 120? etc.

I think if i invite 200 people I'm going to end up with 400 guests...right?

The BM at my RH hall said to figure 20% of your guest list will decline if most of your guests are local and about 30% will decline if you have a lot of OOT guests.

so if 20% of your guests are likely to decline you would have to invite 250 people to have 200 at your wedding. 250 x 0.2 = 50 so, 250 - 50 = 200

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Posted by cedesnyc

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Posted by 9509Bride

I wanna help but I am lil confused

Is your question, how do you come up with the number of people to invite in order to stay within your target number?


For instance: We guaranteed 150. We would ideally like to have 170 the most. We have invited 200 in order to reach that 170 mark.


That said and If i understand what you mean, I will reach my target number by over inviting and assuming a specific number of no's

I hope this helped and I didnt confuse you more!

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That's right.
Where I'm trying to get at is this....how many paper invitaions do i have to send in order to get 200 people total......100, 120? etc.

I think if i invite 200 people I'm going to end up with 400 guests...right?

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If you invite 200 people how can you end up with 400 guests?? Unless you send 200 invitations each inviting 2 people.

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Posted by FutureMrsG

The BM at my RH hall said to figure 20% of your guest list will decline if most of your guests are local and about 30% will decline if you have a lot of OOT guests.

so if 20% of your guests are likely to decline you would have to invite 250 people to have 200 at your wedding. 250 x 0.2 = 50 so, 250 - 50 = 200

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Perfect! there ya go.

they always say to be sure you can accommodate and afford everyone you invite in the crazy chance all 250 say yes!

Thank you ladies....this is clearer now.

I'm putting together my guestlist and now have a better idea about how many paper invitations i will send out.

if you used and excel list you can make a list of guests down in a row..then the next column can be the actual number invited...then the third can be the actual number that are coming..thats what i did....so it will look like this...


Mr& Mrs zyx 2 2
Jen Smith 2 1 (if she rsvps without a guest)
John Doe 2 2 (if he brings a guest)


and so on...that way...the first column of names will be the amount of actual paper invites you need. :)