Panic attack

sarahgirl2

Im freaking out....our list is WAY to big. Bigger than I ever wanted. Ive tried to cut people but seems impossible. I booked platinum kilawat which holds 100 people and our list is worst case scenario 200 people. Now I know everyone wont come, theres a few I know for sure. But still.....panic is setting in. I havent sent save the dates, or signed contract with Platinum yet. What should I do?

mizutamababy

Cut your guest list more or find a bigger venue... not much else you can do.

xtanne12386

Maybe you shouldn't be so popular

nycheryl

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[QUOTE]Maybe you shouldn't be so popular
Posted by xtanne12386[/QUOTE]


LOLz.

sarahgirl2

Thank you. I'm calmer now. I think last night was my first mini meltdown. This stuff is way more stressful than I thought!!!

Vegas2012

I had a similar meltdown! Definitely cut your guest list. I didn't do this and I have regretted it. We didn't invite more than the venue could handle, but we invited a lot of people who looking at the list, I couldn't care less if they were there.

lsvensson

I would try to cut before you try searching for a new venue-- IMHO, having 200 people at my destination wedding and trying to spend time with everyone throughout the week would stress me out in a major way!  But totally up to you, I have weird stress issues around trying to spend time with all of my guests anyway so that might just be some weird fixation of mine, haha.

nycheryl

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[QUOTE]I would try to cut before you try searching for a new venue-- IMHO, having 200 people at my destination wedding and trying to spend time with everyone throughout the week would stress me out in a major way!  But totally up to you, I have weird stress issues around trying to spend time with all of my guests anyway so that might just be some weird fixation of mine, haha.
Posted by lsvensson[/QUOTE]

Not just you.  It's very important to me that each of our guests feel appreciated for their time and travel - especially by getting to spend time beyond just a quick "hello" at the reception.

fattytoro

We were very accommodating with our parents and had a lot of their guests which we never met before attend.  Our head count ended up at 209 people and we spent a lot of time getting introduced to these people on the night of the reception and didn't really get much time with our friends.

Our reception was only 4 hours long so if you are going to be having 200 people at your wedding, consider the amount of time you will have to spend.  Time is very precious on this day.

If you are looking for a larger venue, we had our reception in the Versailles Ballroom inside Paris.  Our reviews are here:

http://www.sherylandart.com/2012/02/17/versailles-ballroom-paris-las-vega/

If you need to get a hold of a sales rep, you can send an email to Angela Dorman adorman@harrahs.com

She was our sales rep and was very helpful.

vegasgroom

Once we made the decision that our wedding and all the money we put into it was going to be for only the people closest to us, that made cutting the list easy.  We went from 240+ down to the 120 or so we invited quickly.  Just prepare yourself for the family member cuts; there will be the inevitable whining from one family member or the other about how can you not invite so and so uncle that you haven't seen in 20 years.

Natrasha

Cut your list! We had 80 guests at Kil@Wat at the Platinum, and I felt that over 100 would just be too crowded. 80 was a pretty good number for getting to visit and spend time with everyone, though I still felt rushed.

We invited 140 (originally had over 200 on our list), and I would say learn from my mistake and DO NOT invite more than your venue can hold. It was SO stressful hearing how many people were planning on coming. We very easily could have had over 100. We got lucky. Don't assume you will get lucky, especially if your guestlist is DOUBLE what the venue can hold.

We asked ourselves two questions when cutting our original guestlist.
1- Would we be really sad or upset if this person wasn't at our wedding?
2- Would I go visit this person and take them out to dinner and spend $100 on them?

There were quite a few people we were able to cut with those questions. It's a destination wedding. People will understand.