How Many Guests?

missmo14 · November 2013

I have been bored trawling through destination wedding forums and it seems like the trend is to only invite a really small number of guests to DW. Ive even come across posts claiming that its rude???!! to invite a large number of guests to a destination wedding.

We have invited 90 and that was after cutting the original guest list down from 130. How many guests have/did you invite to your Vegas weddings?

KikiMira · November 2013

We had 55 originally but we now sit at 89. I dont think its rude. Im not even sure how they consider it rude.

missmo14 · November 2013

@kikimira I agree with you. How did your guest list nearly double though? ;-)

KikiMira · November 2013

Ha! Some one kept inviting people... and id find out later... mostly when I tried to order invites and wouldn't have had enough.

J9lawrence · November 2013

We had about 120 people on our invite list and we ended up with 58 people. That was our families (siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins) and our closest friends. They would have been the same people that we would have invited had we gotten married at home. In my opinion, it would have been rude to not invite them!

vegasgroom · November 2013

We started at close to 200 and whittled it down to 130 for venue reasons. About 125 came.

ninjawombat · November 2013

We've invited around 240, hoping to end up around 175 - 200.

Technically it's a destination for us, about a four hour drive, but not nearly as far as most people on this board are traveling.

aweathers13 · November 2013

We invited 106 and we had 90 people show up. About one third of the guests were from the UK, from various different states and from Australia, another third were vegas locals and the rest were from California.

ktbabe530 · November 2013

We have 77 on our current list that we'll send invites to, down from our initial list of about 115.

I don't think it's rude at all to have a destination wedding. If we people want to come they can otherwise they have the option to decline.

seniorprincesslnhs · November 2013

We invited about 80 and so far have around 60-65 coming....we were limited on our budget, so we had to take our list down from like 120 to 80 (couldn't invite any of my cousins)- while this makes me sad, I hope they understand we only have so much money to spend hence the Vegas wedding!

kiraregnier · November 2013

J9lawrence said:

We had about 120 people on our invite list and we ended up with 58 people. That was our families (siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins) and our closest friends. They would have been the same people that we would have invited had we gotten married at home. In my opinion, it would have been rude to not invite them!

That's so funny! We invited 120 people and had 58 come as well! Totally agree though. It would have been rude not to invite them.

spoon1984 · November 2013

I don't think its rude everyone then has the choice and many will take the opportunity to go somewhere that perhaps they wouldn't normally. One of the reasons we choose to travel to Vegas from the UK was so we didn't need to have a traditional wedding, we wanted to spend the money on a great holiday. With that in mind we didn't formally invite anyone but obviously parents and very close family came. We didn't want friends that would have turned the day into something else and meant we didn't need to make a fuss of anything.

Jiimanie · November 2013

I don't think it's rude either I think it's down to personal opinion and circumstance.

Like @spoon1984 we wanted a small non-traditional ceremony and a fantastic holiday (we were already planning a Vegas-San Fran road trip before FI proposed), so we have only invited 34, which is partially because our reception room will only hold 36, but that is still way more than we originally planned/expected to have. We're currently on 26 attendees (20 have booked so far, 6 are planning to come but haven't booked yet), I'm hoping it will stick at that!

missmo14 · November 2013

Thanks for sharing ladies. Wow some of you had REALLY high attendance.

wallacje · November 2013

Definitely not rude!! We invited 120 and 90 people came. They were the same people that would have come to our in town wedding. Maybe those thinking that it's rude, they're guests have to pay more in certain areas. I was a MOH in a wedding in Jamaica (All - inclusive) and attending that was significantly higher than attending our wedding. JMO

Valeriecruz82 · November 2013

We only invited 40. But I don't think having a large number is guests is rude, that's just crazy. We both have pretty small families so I knew we wouldn't have a problem narrowing our numbers down lol

wrigleyville · November 2013

I don't think it's rude at all. It's an invitation, not a summons.

We invited 63 guests and ended up with 42, but our original list was around 160. About a year into the planning, we realized we wanted a smaller wedding (we hadn't sent STDs yet, thankfully).

jennyjuice09 · November 2013

We invited 83 and are having 60 attend. Getting married THIS SATURDAY!

missmo14 · November 2013

Aaaaaaaarrrrgggghhhh Jenny thats too exciting! !!

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