Hello! My name is Katie... and this is my first post! Though I've been avidly checking out every other section of the knot for over a year... never needed help until now!
My fiance and I are getting married in less than a month (July 30th-so excited!). For the reception we'll have assigned seats and plated meals. We need to let our reception venue know the exact count for food, children, and drinkers in the coming week, so we've been frantically calling all those non-repliers to get some answers.
My big question is though: what do we do if people show up that have said they were not attending? (My fiance's mother warned me that her family will absolutely do this---frustrating!) How many extra seats should we have? The meal and open bar are looking to be almost $50/guest, so we don't want to reserve a ton of extra seats for people who couldn't bother to call in the first place... but that sounds a little bride-zilla-ish.
Help!