So my venue holds 155 at the MOST. When I booked it originally I knew it would be tight but I didn't want a huge wedding so I was totally ok with that number. I checked with all of my VIPs and got a guest list together with 160 on it.
Since then our parents have bullied us into adding 65 more people to the list and I have had to cut off 20 friends just to keep the numbers manageable. Well now the list is at 197 and we won't know about 40 of those invited to the wedding.
I want to cry.
I didn't want this huge wedding in the first place. Now we are way over budget, over capacity and won't know a ton of people who are invited. I have pleaded this case to my mom and she keeps saying to find people to cut out from my list or FI's list or we will just figure it out. Argh. I'm just all set today.