Canadian Trends and Traditions - Number of guests

Definitely smaller! We invited 120 but since a significant number are in the uk they won’t be coming

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!

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.

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!

Smaller! We’re at 92 right now

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.

So I only wanted 80 but we are sitting at just under 100

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.

We are having between 40 - 50.

We will be around that number! I'm hoping for less but having a November wedding means most people are available (somewhat unfortunately, lol).

We've invited around 160 and are expecting around 120 to attend since most are out of province.

Much smaller. Our guest list was 41, and we had 38 in attendance (including kids).

Much much smaller. We’re having 40 which is exactly what I want.

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.

Probably inviting 110-120 and will assume we will end up with 100 guests.

We have a guest count of 160 at them moment, but we have to consider that not EVERYONE will make it!

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.

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.

Muuuch smaller.. we have about 55 people coming.

View quoted message That’s a great idea - I haven’t considered that. We are ordering programs from vista print still so perhaps I could do that.

View quoted message 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?

View quoted message 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!

Smaller, we are having 105.

Smaller. We had 75 come

Ours is smaller, around 70 people.

Ours is so close to that! I'm not sure what the exact number is, but it's very close.

Smaller! About 100 give or take.

We had about 180 on our guest list but ended up with I think 145 guests at our wedding.

We will have near 115 and then more for reception only

76 total (72 guests and 4 vendors).

We will have at least 80 guests.

I come from a very big family, but we are trying to keep our guest list at 250 MAX!