The guest list is killing me.

My parents are paying for the reception at Flowerfield. My mom said they'd pay for 125 guests. She saw a draft of the guest list and her and my dad decided 140-150 guests was a more realistic number and they are still willing to pay for the reception. (AND they paid for my gown!!)

My FH's parents contributed a very generous amount of $, but not nearly what my parents are giving, which is totally fine... BUT they still have a massive guest list.

They don't want to cut people off the list and said that the money they gave us towards the wedding (and my parents $) should more than cover all of the guests.

BUT in OUR MINDS, we were using THEIR money towards *Flowers, *photographer/videographer, *DJ and *limo.

We were going to try & stretch it out so that FH and I have to pay for: *ceremony, *ceremony music, *invitations, *rings, *honeymoon, *gifts, and *hair/makeup.

With the current guest list, that is 40 people OVER BUDGET, my FH and I would need to come up with an addtional $6400.00 for the reception ALONE!

WHAT DO I DO???

Not everyone will say yes, so hopefully you won't have an additional 40 people. And maybe you can move some of those people to the B list.

That's exactly what I was thinking, but then I realized we already factored in quite a few of the 'NO's' and the future inlaws aren't understanding the concept of a 'B LIST'. ugh!!

you may be surprised by the number of no's..i feel like lately many girls have had no percentages in the mid 20's..so like 25% of the guests invited decline