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Post by Patter on Jun 22, 2015 12:25:22 GMT
All of this talk about wedding dresses made me wonder how many people attended your wedding. I saw several people mention that they had a small wedding. We did too. We only had 9 people at our wedding, and it was the most intimate, wonderful wedding I could have ever imagined. It was perfect, and I would not change a thing! That was 26 years ago. So, what was your wedding size like, and looking back, would you change how many people attended?
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 22, 2015 12:27:55 GMT
We invited 100 and 75 attended. I still regret that I didn't spend time with my family that came - I spent more time with friends and of course, many of the family have passed away now and the friends drifted away.
I do think it is important for the bride and groom to make sure their guests are treated as special as well. I wish I had let each of them know how much it meant to me that they were there.
First time I got married in Las Vegas and had about 5 people from my family and about 7 from husband's family. In the evening we went to dinner and a show and DH's family didn't come because they thought they had to pay and couldn't afford it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 12:28:23 GMT
About 200 I think. I had a small "official" list of family but it was a small community where more informal invitations were socially acceptable so an open invitation went out via the community newspaper and the church bulletin. The church held about 250. It was a full house but not overly crowded.
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Post by pierkiss on Jun 22, 2015 12:28:47 GMT
About 230.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Jun 22, 2015 12:29:18 GMT
I had about 200. I would say at least 100 were family.
So once you get that big I can't imagine at that point in my life going smaller.
If I were to get remarried, I"m single now, I would probably invite just immediate family and few very close friends.. but my immediate family, brother, sisters, spouses, nieces and nephews is over 30! No way could I do 9!
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Post by grinningcat on Jun 22, 2015 12:31:47 GMT
Our venue max is 92... I'm guessing that's how many people will come. We point blank refused to do the big wedding because we'd have to water down the quality to pay for everyone. 300 was the expected amount for us... no way jose. Way too big.
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Post by littlemama on Jun 22, 2015 12:34:54 GMT
I think we invited 90 and about 70 came.
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Post by cakediva on Jun 22, 2015 12:37:56 GMT
I want to say we invited about 150, and the final total was around 120?
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Post by brina on Jun 22, 2015 12:39:36 GMT
125. We got married in NY (my home town) and dh's family lives near Chicago. His mother's invitation list was a mile long but most did not make the trip. Had we gotten married in Chicago it probably would have been much larger.
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Post by tallgirl on Jun 22, 2015 12:39:36 GMT
We invited about 112, 106 RSVP'd yes and 102 came. We got married 4 days after 9/11 and there were still some flights cancelled etc. At that point we cared very little what colour the flowers were and were just glad to have everyone alive and well to celebrate with us, you know? Our venue required a minimum of 100 so we just squeaked through.
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Post by akathy on Jun 22, 2015 12:46:26 GMT
I had a small morning wedding with just immediate family. I'd say there were about 30 people there.
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Post by KikiPea on Jun 22, 2015 12:47:05 GMT
100. It was a good number.
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Post by khaleesi on Jun 22, 2015 12:50:35 GMT
I think we invited around 125 and had about 100 in attendance. My family is tiny, his is large, and we both have lots of friends. It was a good number for us since we wanted our reception to be a party.
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Post by STBC on Jun 22, 2015 12:50:44 GMT
I think we were close to 200 (planned for up to 250). That was 20 years ago next month
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 12:53:25 GMT
We had about 150. Our reception was punch, cake, and finger foods, so we didn't really need an accurate head count for feeding purposes.
ETA: Looking back, I wish we'd gone off somewhere to get married, then had a reception when we returned from our honeymoon.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 12:56:52 GMT
First time - 100+ but a good chunk of those people were people my Mom wanted there, not me.
Second time - 20 and that included us and my kids. I would've liked it to be even smaller but somehow got guilted into including two sets of aunts and uncles that neither one of us really wanted there.
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Post by andy on Jun 22, 2015 12:57:38 GMT
We had about 250, almost no rsvps declined. It was 4th of July weekend 12 years ago and it was a great party!
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Post by Linda on Jun 22, 2015 13:00:19 GMT
our wedding (civil) had three - my MIL, my BIL and my oldest son...just enough people to sign as witnesses our Convalidation (religious - 5 years later) had 10 - our two witnesses; the wife and 3 kids of one witness; my mum; my best friend and our two oldest children
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Post by scrapsotime on Jun 22, 2015 13:03:53 GMT
25 and that was just our parents, grandparents and siblings on both sides. We got married in my parents living room. I've never I missed out by not having a big wedding.
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Post by librarylady on Jun 22, 2015 13:04:13 GMT
First wedding ==?? probably around 100. Our family is large and with a few friends in the mix, that is the size.
Second wedding: We planned to make it our parents and the minister...but my siblings all wanted to come and we ended up with about 25-30 there.
When our son was married, 10 years ago, about 110 came.
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Post by seikashaven on Jun 22, 2015 13:04:45 GMT
About 120 and it was perfect.
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Jun 22, 2015 13:12:41 GMT
Thank you again for your kind thoughts on the other thread, kind Pea. I am one of the small, second wedding lot; we had 23 guests, mostly family including my husband's parents and cousins. His sister is terrified of flying and her second husband almost came without her . We had a blessing on our next trip to Wales to include the rest of the family and at the celebration of that the entire village came to the service and for eats- it was amazing! They came to celebrate with us to honour my FIL and MIL, who were at the centre of village life . We loved it.
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Post by moveablefeast on Jun 22, 2015 13:13:23 GMT
Large weddings are traditional where I grew up in small town rural Virginia. Big wedding, church supper reception, honeymoon in Gatlinburg. It's just very traditional. We didn't have hotels with ballrooms and we didn't have wedding venues. You got married in a park or a church pretty much.
So when we got married we had a big church wedding and a barbecue at home. It was so fun. Maybe 150 or a little more? I can't recall other than the church was packed. It was great. I loved having a zillion people there. I got to see lots of friends and family and I did get to talk to everybody. If i had it to do over again I would probably spend less on the trappings (the dress, the flowers) and just throw a giant party. That was without a doubt the best part.
I will encourage my daughter to do what's right for her - but I loved what we did. It was super fun.
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Post by auntkelly on Jun 22, 2015 13:18:09 GMT
We had about 350 guests at our wedding and reception. I loved having a big wedding and have no regrets.
Having said that, I think small intimate weddings are beautiful also. I'm secretly hoping that one of my kids will opt for a small wedding.
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Post by Woobster on Jun 22, 2015 13:20:15 GMT
About 130, give or take a couple.
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Post by peabay on Jun 22, 2015 13:23:30 GMT
We invited 250 and 222 came.
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Post by kelly8875 on Jun 22, 2015 13:32:32 GMT
We had close to 500 at ours. So, yeah, it was a big wedding. I'm pretty sure that between DH and I, we knew almost everyone that came. We tried our hardest to get around to talk to everyone, and I think we did get to most people. My family isn't big, but my parents invited a lot of friends, and my husband has a big family, so most of his guests were family.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 13:33:40 GMT
We invited 120 and about 105 people came.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 13:40:35 GMT
I don't remember how many we invited, but we had 125 there.
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Post by moodyblue on Jun 22, 2015 13:42:45 GMT
Our wedding was small and private, so there were about 25 of us counting us and three others in the wedding party. Our reception was informal, open house style, and there were about 150-175 there.
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