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[Keenfish]

Hi girls, I'm hoping some of you may be able to help with a little query.
Myself and h2b are attempting to cultivate our guestlist and, as is always the way, it's proving a wee bit stressful!! Deep breaths!!
My question is, on average, what was your percentage drop off? In other words how many did you invite and how many couldn't come or were no shows? We're trying to gage what numbers we will realistically end up with. I know it's probably a fools errand to invite a particular amount of people in the hope that a certin amount won't turn up, but you know what it's like, you don't want to leave people out and yet numbers and budgets are tight etc., etc.. God it's a minefiled isn't it?!

Anywhoo... any advice suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Keenfish

[letmeeatcake]

It is usually about 10% for a drop out rate. However, keep in mind where your guests are coming from or what time of year the wedding is at. We had invited 150 people, but 42 from the USA alone turned down the invite, as none of them could make it! We had another maybe 15-20% drop out rate from others, as some from from the UK or gone away at that time of year. So it really depends on your guests themselves. We sent out our foreign invites 6 months before the wedding, and we had our Irish RSVP date set for 6 weeks in advance, so we had plenty of time to invites other people we wanted there, but hadn't the space before.

[Dec2012]

we have been told by friends who have got married and our venue to expect around a 20% drop off. Were going to send out save the date cards to try and help judge the numbers.

[Keenfish]

Thanks ladies! Gonna send out our save the dates just after Christmas (alot of our guests will be travelling from the UK), so hopefully we'll have an idea of numbers then.

Cheers!

Keenfish

[fionab1385]

we had about 20% of a drop out

[sam-4-bob]

Ive heard around 10/20% drop out. I know of people who over-invited incase of drop outs to keep numbers up, and nobody dropped out , and they ended up over budget!

[TanyaBranning]

We invited 176 and 17 20 17 declined.

[Skittles]

on average about 20% drop off.