how many people were at your wishes wedding? Or how many are you inviting?

Hi

We invited and origionally had 31 people travelling with us from the UK for our wedding, we are now down to 17 guests so 19 of us in total.

I'm worried that its not enough ~ tell you what, send some of your guests to our wedding :rotfl: that way you will have less and we will have more :lmao:

Just make sure that the wedding you have is the wedding YOU BOTH want and that its not for everyone else.

Linz xxx :)
 
linzwylie Hi

We invited and origionally had 31 people travelling with us from the UK for our wedding, we are now down to 17 guests so 19 of us in total.

I'm worried that its not enough ~ tell you what, send some of your guests to our wedding that way you will have less and we will have more

Just make sure that the wedding you have is the wedding YOU BOTH want and that its not for everyone else.

Linz xxx

hahaha, I just might! If you find some crazy Cubans lurking at your wedding you know why:rotfl2:
 
how do yo know who to invite i just got engaged 4 months ago and i keep thinking that we wont have a lot of people to ask because they wont come but listening to you it seems like i should invite everyone i think of......what are you opions on who to ask and not to ask?
 
how do yo know who to invite i just got engaged 4 months ago and i keep thinking that we wont have a lot of people to ask because they wont come but listening to you it seems like i should invite everyone i think of......what are you opions on who to ask and not to ask?

I would invite anyone you want to share in your day with you. You might be surprised to see who will come. I think you need to decide if you want a large wedding or a small wedding and who the most important people are in your life.
 

UPDATE: I think we are going to cut the list to 220 and then pray.:rotfl2: . I figured then I should at least have it under 200 attendee's... and i thikn I can handle that. It's so hard to cut family, but I talked to my wedding planner at DFTW and she said our venues could hold it very comfortably and it shouldnt be a problem. Now we get to see how my nerves hold up:rotfl:

Thanks ladies for all your advice, I love the boards:cool1:
 
if your trying to think of who could come and who may not. Think about your possible guests. Are they people who travel by plane for vacations several times a year, every year a great place. Or are you guests people who do vacations to the local amusement parks, or drive to the beach, or go camping?

Depends on peoples disposable incomes, and how things are financially. For our wedding many years ago. I only had a few first cousins come. However i have a huge family and most aunts and uncles came. What a surprise was all the family on my husbands side that came to the wedding. With more disposable incomes, relatives he hadn't seen in years popped up!

In all we had around 100 people. we had a great time.

So, if your families have large discretianary amounts of money, more will come. More of budget oriented families, with less travel funds, less will come.
 
We invited 100 and we had 50 attend. We were looking for between 50 and 60 so we were right on. There were a few people we never expected to come and they did and then some we really thought would come and could not.

Linda
 
I just read this recently, and I did it with my guest list, and I thought it could help you (or someone else)

Make your list
Next to each name assign a percentage of how likely they are to come (0, 50, 100, any number really, but I used those most, and some 25's and 75's)
Add up the percentages

Example:
Tony Smith 50% or .5
Jean Smith 50% or .5
Art Smith 25% or .25
Mary Smith 25% or .25
Jane Smith 25% OR .25
Joe Smith 25% or .25
Tom Jones 100% or 1
Sally Jones 100% or 1
Mom 100% or 1
Dad 100% or 1

So from this you would get 6 guests estimated to attend!
It is supposed to work pretty well because it actually takes into account your information about how likely the people themselves are to attend. And you can think about distance, emotional closeness, etc. etc.
 
LuluLovesDisney just read this recently, and I did it with my guest list, and I thought it could help you (or someone else)

Make your list
Next to each name assign a percentage of how likely they are to come (0, 50, 100, any number really, but I used those most, and some 25's and 75's)
Add up the percentages

Example:
Tony Smith 50% or .5
Jean Smith 50% or .5
Art Smith 25% or .25
Mary Smith 25% or .25
Jane Smith 25% OR .25
Joe Smith 25% or .25
Tom Jones 100% or 1
Sally Jones 100% or 1
Mom 100% or 1
Dad 100% or 1

So from this you would get 6 guests estimated to attend!
It is supposed to work pretty well because it actually takes into account your information about how likely the people themselves are to attend. And you can think about distance, emotional closeness, etc. etc.

I'm going to try this now, Thanks :)
 
Like most have said, it's all about income and the time of year. When we announced it was going to be a WDW wedding, EVERYONE was excited and everyone screamed from the rooftops that they were coming. I was nervous at first (around July/August when the STD went out), but I talked to a friend who had his wedding in another state and he assured me not everyone who was that excited would be able to attend. And he was right. We invited over 200 people (about 97 invitations) and we are standing at about 110 guests, including ourselves. People who were ASSURING me that they would go (for months) quickly changed their tune during the holiday season after they took a closer look at their expenses. I am not upset with it at all, I was just hoping to hit my target # so I could keep my dessert party venue.

As for helping all those people....yes, I made a few reservations...and I've made tons of recommendations during all our holiday get togethers. I started a blog with updates on airfare, hotel and other pertinent info and sent out emails reminding them of their timelines with the room block (that was my most stressful thing; people don't think of reserving their hotel while xmas shopping).

But explaining the ins and outs of WDW isn't hard for me since I'm so familiar with it (having gone for years). And these boards helped me too. So really go through your list and figure out who would go and who wouldn't go...its not really necessary to cut them out of the invite list...I didn't cut out people who I knew weren't going to go...I felt that I wanted to include them in on the invitation. I wasn't expecting them to attend but I wanted them to know that I was still thinking of them.

Let's not forget that time of year matters too! Hotel costs, airfare, and rental car all add up! The more expensive the trip will be, the more will bow out and send a gift in lieu of their presence.
 
While we're not quite ready for the invites yet, we decided we wanted a small wedding. (Well, me more than him, I don't think he cares) It started small because I had issues with my large family, and figured a smaller wedding could offend everyone equally. I really want people at my wedding who I know and truly care about. We figure parents, one set of cousins we're close with, and a few friends. So around 35-40 people. My parents are going to pay for the wedding, so it's our NOW small family set (my mom's 2 brothers, one wife, 2 kids- my age and I'm close to, one grandmother, but I don't know how much longer she has left). His family is much bigger, but he's not close with his mom's half and many of his father's siblings (he's got 6) so DF wants his one Aunt and Uncle and his 2 cousins. Of course this is what he tells me, but I know his mom won't be happy. But it's my parents money, and it's what we can afford. I've had a bat mitzvah so I had a giant party when I was 13, I don't want my wedding to be like that.

You've got to figure what you and your DF will be comfortable with and what you can afford.

Good luck.
 





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