What percentage of close family and friends should I expect to RSVP yes?

I believe the statistic is that you should expect 70% to show. Don’t go off of stats that tell you who will rsvp yes and who will say no, because a lot of people will not rsvp and still come. But 70 people really isn’t too many, so I would expect closer to 90% of all you invite to come, especially if they are given enough advance notice of your wedding so they won’t make any other plans for that day.

Have fun!

i expect that family and guests will try their best but with allt he plans and everything, just expect about 40-60% to come. if your receive more than 60 and 70 percent, than you are really lucky…

good luck on your big day

xoxo talia

We invited 235 people, and 130 were able to attend our wedding:

130 / 235 = 55%

In terms of RSVPs, of the 235 people invited (these are mutually exclusive events):

a.)
18 had to be reminded via e-mail before they would RSVP ( 7.7% )

b.)
10 had to be personally called via telephone before they would RSVP ( 4.2% )

c.)
2 had to be personally visited at their home before they would RSVP! ( 0.9% )

d.)
1 couple from (b) did not receive their invite in the mail (but they were able to attend after the phone call we made)

e.)
Of the 38 out-of-town guests that we invited, 6 were able to attend ( 15.8% )
or 32 / 235 = 13.2% of the total could not attend.

My advice to you is when the date comes and you need to know the exact number, start "pulling some teeth."

Start sending e-mail reminders, make phone calls, even personal visits.

Good luck.

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We invited almost 80, and about 50 showed up. Expect about 20% of your invitees not to show up.

I’ve heard that you should expect 20% to decline, but for my wedding we had half of our invited guests decline (the economy was lousy and we were having the wedding where we live, a 2-3 hour drive for most of those people that declined).