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Dukefan561

My parents want us to invite about 145 guests, although the allocation has been made for 130. They keep telling me people will cancel, and this way no one can say we left them out.

What say you ladies?

amberella.eves

Exactly. DO NOT invite more than what you can fit. No matter what your parents say, (unless they will pay for you to have a different venue so that you can seat all those people just incase they do show up) Don't invite more than you can hold. Thats just common sense.  It is true that not everyone you invite will show up, but you dont want to automatically assume they all wont show either. 

[Deleted User]

Ditto above.  I asked the same thing previously and they all had great advice about what if everyone shows?

Our invites are out and the ones we thought were for sure going to be no shows have sent back yes. 

ootmother2

99% of those we invited came.

Don't over invite!

loca4pook

Also, keep in mind when a venue says it holds 200, it usually means it holds them in a very crowded type of way...You should try to stay away from being at the highest max cuz it might lead overcrowded tables, smaller dance floor, etc

JoanE2012

Oh my, please don't over invite!  Like others, we had many that we thought for sure weren't coming but they surprised us and are!

mtrosales

All of my vedors said to invite 20-30% more....

We invited 20% more, and actually are a couple people less than we budgeted for.

kmmssg

Like oot, my oldest DD had a very large acceptance rate - 96%.  In the middle of a Michigan Winter and we didn't expect them all to attend.  I got the "budget for 100%" peptalk you get here and thank God we did!  96% - yeah, don't count on no-shows.

Sparkly - wasn't it you who posted a few months ago about your MIL promising all sorts of cousins wouldn't attend and then they did?