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If you do a bit of searching on this site you will find lots of brides with posts that basically say "HELP! I invited 200 people and can only pay for/host/fit 175. What do I do?" Unfortunately the best answer is crank up the ol' time machine and go back and fix your guest list before you sent invites.
You never know how many people are going to come and if you do not plan you can end up in a big pickle.
That said from your post it is hard to tell if you have invited people already or not. You say that you invited (past tense) much more than 200, but then say you already cut people. So did you actually invite people and then call them up and say "Sorry. Never mind, you cannot come." or did you just have them on the list and make cuts that way?
If you have already sent invites and are un-asking people to attend that is pretty rude. If someone did that to me they would never have to worry about asking me to attend another function with/for them ever again, friendship over.
If invites have been sent you need a game plan if you reach over 200. Is there another area at the venue you can rent to get more space? Is there a different venue you need to move to all together to fit your crowd? Yes those might seem like crazy ideas and could be overwhelmingly expensive between losing deposits and just spending more for space but you have backed yourself into this corner if invites are out. If this is the case I would start planning now. I guess your other option is to roll the dice and wait for RSVPs and pray only 200 come.
Also aditional information would help - can you hold 200 and invited
205? That is one thing. Or can you hold 200 and you invited 250. From
your post and the reference to 70% I am thinking it is closer to the
second option.
Plus these always are so odd to me. Like, if you can only fit 5 people in your car would you invite 8 to carpool with you to work tomorrow morning?
When we are talking about weddings why do some people think that the laws of physics no longer apply and they can somehow fit 300 people in a space meant for 200?
What in the world are you thinking?
Formerly martha1818
How much do we want to bet that OP asked someone to be a guest book attendant?
OP, why would you ask this question after sending invites? At that point, it doesn't matter what the answer is. Your RSVPs "yes" are what they are, because you can't rescind invites, and if they're higher than 200 you are SOL.
I don't even want to know how many were on our original invite list because 1) we could afford to have everyone we wanted there, and 2) We had the expandable space to accommodate.
Agree with the others - plan on 100% attendance to anyone getting a STD or Invite!!! Everyone will forever give you the side-eye when you have to call and make the "we booked a space for 200 but invited 450 and have to uninvite some people because 400 RSVP'd they'd attend, congrats you're one of them who can't come!"...