[AGDee]

I had 350 at my first wedding. We cut it at first cousins. It was a huge scandal in my family that I didn't invite my cousins' children. We did invite my parents' cousins. I knew every single one of them as they'd been at every family event my whole life and we were invited to all of their functions. Even the ones who came from Pennsylvania. There were some people our parents invited who we didn't know well.. friends of theirs from work. However, I even knew most of my dad's work/golf buddies because they'd been around for so many years. Then there were the neighbors from the neighborhood where I lived for 23 years. Yes, it was huge and overwhelming. My second was much smaller, only 125 and only 14 of them were my family. I did invite some work friends, but not many. Most of them there were for him. That whole wedding was for him. I had much more fun at that wedding because I didn't really care about the wedding process at that point. I'd had my "Big Fat Italian Wedding" already. So, the details were unimportant and it was a lot more fun because there was so much less to go wrong. That didn't really have to do with how many people were there. It had more to do with me having perspective about what was important that day.

ETA: My first wedding was one of the smallest in my family, believe it or not! I went to one that had 650. Unreal.