Do you know 350 people?

wcvsb3b5 · March 2010

Our original guest list was around 320. We were able to cut it down to 218. I would have liked to have cut it down more but there was really no way for us to cut it. My family is huge and I am really close to my aunts, uncles, and cousins. Once we added in our friends and family friends that we grew up around the guest list is still huge. We couldn't imagine not inviting these people though and we are content with our somewhat large guest list.

andyandhillary · March 2010

We are inviting 270 but our list would have easily escalated to 350 if parts of my family weren't talking to each other and I had been able to invite more friends from college and guests for the single guests. We both have big families though. I don't know about my shower on his side of the family but on my side we're having I think 60 people? That's what I've heard.

Sing2phins · March 2010

I wrote out the must list and the nice to have lists amd didn't hit 200. The must list, though, is 125 - just my family is 44 (D's is only 13).

TheSaltyPeanut · March 2010

We invited about 300 and about 210 came. If money were no object, I would go with a DW

maggyruth · March 2010

Even if I added up all the wayward cousins twice removed, I don't know that we would hit 300. Maybe if we included work people...

I'm more than happy with where we're sitting. 122 invited (and about 30 of those are kids.) I was actually given a pass on inviting most of my relatives (one of my mom's moments of sanity) and that eliminated about 40 people.

ThePinkSuperhero · March 2010

We could've easily hit 300. Being involved in our church was a big part of why our guest list was so large- we wanted our church family to be with us. Also, I have a decent number of family members.

MeaghanandMichael · March 2010

Honestly, I would have less people if I could do it again.

carrieoz_76 · March 2010

I'd guess that a lot of the Platinum Weddings couples have quite a few "business colleagues" as guests - either of the couple if they're established or of the hosts (read: bride's parents).

If we opened up our guest list to everyone my parents are related to, know, and have worked with, yea, we could get over 350. Would I want all of those folks at my wedding? Heck no.

Roxy - just move a few times, work a few more different jobs, and go to school at a few more programs, and you'll get up there (assuming you care to). Even having done all that, I find that my core group of people doesn't grow. A few people come and go (and sometimes come back), but my crew stays pretty small.

pirategal03 · March 2010

We're at 236 and counting. That's with +1 for all the single people (I think, I'll have to double check that). I think it's because of growing up in a small town. I don't have a huge family, but a lot of close family friends. FI has a tight-knit close family and hardly any extended family or family friends. We're trying to use the "would it be awkward to invite them to dinner" guideline, and we're still at that number.

JanoBean75 · March 2010

We have about 70 on the list, but I already know a few will not come due to the expense of flying out here or that they'll be out of the country.

If I invited all my cousins, that would add about 20-30 more people (if kids were included). There are also a few friends that didn't make the list. Not really close, but would have been nice to invite them if the money was there.

If money were truly no object, we'd fly everyone important out to Las Vegas.

Blueyed228 · March 2010

I am greek and he is italian so we both have huge families. He has also worked at his job for almost 15 years and is pretty close with about 40-50 people in his building. Right now the tentative list is at 250 and that was with some serious thought and cutting.

If money was no object, we would probably be around 350. (Ugh, gross). But that would be all the people who are important to both sets of parents, and ourselves.

Cutting is hard, but I do not want this wedding to be a circus. My dream would be to fly to some island and have just our parents and siblings there.......

wadingmoose · March 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_350-people?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:4e74943f-22de-41d3-8442-b3c6a23b3405Post:c148b4b9-6714-4719-8f34-9d11eb86fe7f">Do you know 350 people?</a>:
[QUOTE]All these posts will all the 350+ weddings and 100+showers have got me thinking... How many would you want to invite to your wedding if money and space weren't a problem? How many people will/ did you invite? T and I talked that we will probably invite about 75 people to our wedding. I don't even know 200 people that I would want at my wedding. Maybe I'm just a friendless loser.
Posted by nda_roxybabe[/QUOTE]

If I had it to do again? None. I'd elope.

riverjib · April 2010

My guest list is 147, not including people I don't plan to invite. I'm not inviting most of my father's side, and my mom's side is over 100 including her siblings, their kids (my cousins), and everyone's kids. My fi's side is the same. We're having a hard time including our own friends and keeping it under 250. We could easily invite 350 and one of us would personally know (and care about) every person there.

If we were to limit it to 75, it would cut out cousins and cousins' kids that we really love. So the short answer is yes, we (combined) know 350 people well enough to wish we could invite them all.

aprovencher21 · April 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_350-people?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:4e74943f-22de-41d3-8442-b3c6a23b3405Post:07cf30cf-a710-46a9-9ca8-9ffd5aa47099">Re: Do you know 350 people?</a>:
[QUOTE]See platinum weddings never makes me feel inadequate. I just like watching the show. Sometimes I think they are great weddings, sometimes I think they are awful. It always amuses me how they all want to be unique, but they end up looking so similar, especially the decor.
Posted by luckyme502[/QUOTE]

I agree......but I think they often end up looking the same especially in terms of flowers because a large majority of the people have the same floral designer (richard or ricardo luna or something) for all of their weddings. The one I really liked was in the Mayan cave for the guitarist from the Black Eyed Peas.

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