Anyone having a large destination wedding?

Those 2 people aren't coming...If they do show up they just won't eat lol. How rude!

We are up to 67 so far. My biggest challenge has been trying to figure out who is coming. We are doing a destination wedding/week cruise. Within the STDs was my travel agents information, unfortunately, some guests felt that they could find better rates on their own (not true) and just found out that they are joining us. We now have to fax release forms to them to have our travel agent access their room # to take care of seating arrangements for dinner on the cruise as well as access to their cabin to drop off the OOT bags. So have I have 5 guests who have booked this way and that has been the biggest stress so far.

I am worried about people booking on their own, but I figure, if they don't tell me they are coming, it's not my fault if they don't eat lol.

We sent out 135 STD's, so counting kids, we've invited over 300 people!! FI has a huge Polish family, and I have divorced parents, hence my stepmom's and stepdad's families had to be invited as well, total snowball effect.

We KNOW that the majority will not come, but nobody can say they weren't invited, right?

We estimate that we'll probably end up with about 75. But hey if we get 150, the more the merrier!

The biggest thing stressing me is that only 14 have booked so far; most of our bridal party has not even booked yet.

I've been kindly reminding people that the price of airfare will only go up the closer we get to the time of departure.

Ah well, You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink, right?

Hi!

I am getting married at Iberostar Grand Hotel Rose Hall. We invited over 150 people but expect possibly 50 to attend. My biggest challenge has been just finding out who is really coming and getting them to book through our travel agent. We had wanted to book all together so we can be in the same area of the hotel and because we get some comps if we hit a certain number of rooms booked. We ended up taking an initial "survey" of our friends and family to find out about how many people to expect and then actually put down the deposit for this number (on the low side, in case some people backed out, though we knew we would probably also get a few surprise yesses). Now, we just have to hope we hit this number so we don't lose any of the deposit money.

The other thing was deciding when to send out invites. According to our contract, people had to book several months prior to the wedding, so we didn't want to send out invitations long after the cut off date for booking (since we would essentially be sending to people who already said they couldn't come), so we just decided to send the invites out way early, about 5 months out. That way, everyone got the invites, and then could tell us though the RSVP/booking with agent, whether or not they were coming.

I am getting married next August at either Rockhouse in Negril or Tensing Pen. I want to have 80 guests. No more. Less would be okay, too...my problem? I probably have to invite about 150, and I'm scared that at least 100 will confirm. I don't want 100! I've heard horror stories of people inviting the world, expecting only about 60 guests, but being forced to accomodate for well over 100. When I went through my list I felt pretty confident that between us, we'll have 65 guests at the minimum. I know I'm blabbering, but if you have any good ideas, I'm open! I was thinking of having 2 rounds of invitations. Since the wedding is in August, the first round willl go out in February, and the second in April. This issue with this of course, means to whom do I send the Save The Dates ( I'm new and can't yet bear to use the acronym )?

My problem the resort I want to get married at (Half Moon Rosehall) is an expensive luxury resort. I'm a little concerned that some people wont be able to afford staying there but I'm not willing to change my dream resort just bc some people wont be able to come. Hopefully, the most important people will be there.