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Canadian Trends and Traditions - Number of guests

Joey, on May 20, 2019 at 08:24 Posted in Plan a wedding 0 58

Canadians like a big party! The Global Wedding Report discovered that the average guest list size in Canada was 154. How many guests are you inviting?

Is your guest list smaller or larger than the national average, 154 guests?

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58 Comments

Latest activity by Alexandra, on May 28, 2019 at 02:23
  • Alexandra
    VIP November 2019 British Columbia
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    Definitely smaller! We invited 120 but since a significant number are in the uk they won’t be coming
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  • S
    Frequent user March 2021 Ontario
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    Not including vendors, it’s at 250 people right now but that’s even after trimming down a lot of people who aren’t the bare essentials! Big families on all sides!
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  • Marissa
    Frequent user October 2021 Alberta
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    I'm trying for 50, but there's a good chance I'll go over that by a bit. Guest list is going to be the most stressful and difficult thing for me planning our wedding because I don't want to exclude some of my family, yet I want to have a smaller wedding size.
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  • Michelle
    Beginner November 2022 Ontario
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    We're inviting around 60 give or take but hope at least 50 go, we want an intimate wedding but still enough guests to enjoy the party!
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  • Laurence Carrier 👰🏻
    Newbie September 2020 Quebec
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    Smaller! We’re at 92 right now
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  • Kaisha
    Super March 2019 Nova Scotia
    Kaisha ·
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    We invited around 140 people total but only had about 65 people attend. 95% of our guests were from out of province and the travel was a lot.
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  • Mandy
    Devoted July 2019 Alberta
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    So I only wanted 80 but we are sitting at just under 100
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  • S
    Newbie November 2019 Ontario
    Sarah ·
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    It was originally smaller at about 105 tops but its now at 174 and I have definitely cut it off. my venue can no longer hold anymore people. That doesn't mean its going to stay that way. We have a lot of out of town guests.

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  • Tonya
    Curious July 2019 Ontario
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    We are having between 40 - 50.
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  • Megan
    Curious November 2019 Ontario
    Megan ·
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    We will be around that number! I'm hoping for less but having a November wedding means most people are available (somewhat unfortunately, lol).
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  • Ali
    Curious October 2019 Ontario
    Ali ·
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    We've invited around 160 and are expecting around 120 to attend since most are out of province.
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  • Jenn
    Frequent user April 2019 Saskatchewan
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    Much smaller. Our guest list was 41, and we had 38 in attendance (including kids).
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  • Kathy
    Frequent user August 2019 Ontario
    Kathy ·
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    Much much smaller. We’re having 40 which is exactly what I want.
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  • Allison
    Frequent user June 2019 Ontario
    Allison ·
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    We invited 150, we have only 117 confirmed attending but if we are lucky it will bump up to 121.

    A lot of no’s to plus ones, one family of 5 couldn’t attend and some folks aren’t bringing their little ones along.
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  • Heather
    Curious September 2020 Manitoba
    Heather ·
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    Probably inviting 110-120 and will assume we will end up with 100 guests.
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  • Amanda
    Expert July 2022 Ontario
    Amanda ·
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    We have a guest count of 160 at them moment, but we have to consider that not EVERYONE will make it!

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  • A
    Devoted October 2019 Ontario
    Amanda ·
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    We have invited 164 including us, vendors and wedding party. I suspect only around 100-110 will show as FH side is from out east and are complaining about money and wishing we'd have it there.

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  • Alyssa
    Curious October 2021 Ontario
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    I am so jealous of everyone who has less than 150 guests. I would love a smaller wedding but it is impossible! My FH's family is very big! His mom's side specifically - she comes from a super traditional Italian family where everyone needs to be invited. Her side alone is around 85 people - combined with his dads side is 130 people. My mom and dad's side together is 65. Add in our friends and it gets to a total of around 230.

    BUT, after talking to my married friends, they have all had an average of 10-15% RSVP declines, so here's hoping for more than that.

    Luckily for me, my future SIL is also getting married next year - 6 months before us - and she is working on reducing the guest list as well. So whoever she ends up invited is who we will invite too.

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  • Amanda
    Super June 2019 Ontario
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    Muuuch smaller.. we have about 55 people coming.

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  • Amie
    Devoted August 2019 British Columbia
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    That’s a great idea - I haven’t considered that. We are ordering programs from vista print still so perhaps I could do that.
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  • Kelsie
    Master July 2021 Ontario
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    What if you did cheaper invites for your back up list?! They wouldn’t know the difference between their invite and someone else’s! Something from vistaprint or even a cheaper invite place?
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  • Amie
    Devoted August 2019 British Columbia
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    That’s a great idea - unfortunately we won’t have enough invitations to formally invite everyone. Every aspect of our wedding is traditional, including the paper invites and RSVPs. New invitations will cost us $300 USD (for 25) and I can’t justify that.

    I was thinking of asking people less formally but it’s not the best etiquette either!
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  • Candace
    VIP May 2019 Ontario
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    Smaller, we are having 105.

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  • Stephanie
    Master July 2018 Alberta
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    Smaller. We had 75 come
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  • Alix
    Expert June 2021 Saskatchewan
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    Ours is smaller, around 70 people.

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  • Bianca
    Master August 2019 Ontario
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    Ours is so close to that! I'm not sure what the exact number is, but it's very close.

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  • Veronica
    Super October 2021 Alberta
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    Smaller! About 100 give or take.

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  • Maegan
    Super July 2018 British Columbia
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    We had about 180 on our guest list but ended up with I think 145 guests at our wedding.
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  • Becky
    VIP September 2019 Ontario
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    We will have near 115 and then more for reception only

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  • Vinod
    Top August 2017 Ontario
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    76 total (72 guests and 4 vendors).

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  • Claire
    Frequent user September 2019 Ontario
    Claire ·
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    We will have at least 80 guests.
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  • Loi-Marie
    Curious September 2021 Ontario
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    I come from a very big family, but we are trying to keep our guest list at 250 MAX!
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