So we put a deposit down on the small room at Cacharel in Arlington to hold our ceremony and reception. At the time, our list was 90 people (invitees and their guest). The small room holds 100 people. We have already sent out our save the dates and consulted with our parents a million times about the guest list over the phone (they live out of state). Now both of our parents are telling us people that we forgot to invite and they are telling everyone about the wedding and they will be invited. So we thought about reserving the larger room. We made a guest list to include the alternate people and those our parents wanted to invite. Well, it came to about 175. But the more we looked at the list, it was clear the number was so high just to make it worth reserving the larger room. There were people we haven't talked to in years, distance distance relatives, our parents friends, etc. We came to the decision to keep our small room and our original guest list. The extra $5000 it would cost for the room was not worth it to us. We didn't want to ask our parents for the money either. Well now my mom is really not happy and I am having second thoughts about the smaller room. What would you do? Here's the catch...90% of the guest have to travel in from the midwest and it is a holiday weekend.