The number of people who attended biddings was sometimes, possibly often, very large but it is not known what proportion of these attended the wedding ceremony.
[1803] Llanwrtyd
The wedding party, including the united friends of bride and bridegroom, consisted of two hundred horsemen and horse-women. Altogether a very demonstrative wedding – and loud. They commenced their wedded life at Tynewydd, … on the western side of the Eppynt.
‘Tal-a-Hen’, ‘Williams of Llanwrtyd’ Red Dragon, (1 November 1882), p. 302
1851
I have seen, I dare say, six hundred persons in a wedding procession, and have been in one or two myself (when a child).
Spurrell, W., ‘A Bidding at Weddings in Wales’, Notes and Queries, a medium of intercommunication for literary men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc., 1st series, (London, February 15, 1851), pp. 114-115
1870
Yr oedd yna briodas fawr, cant a deg ar hugain o wŷr ceffylau yn nghwmni i Siencin, a phedwar ugain a phymtheg yn nghwmni Matti.
(There was a great wedding, one hundred and thirty horsemen with Siencin, and ninety-five in the company of Matti.)
Fictitious letters from Anna Beynon of Bargod, near Llandysul, to her sister in America, dated to 1721, Baner America, Awst 24, 1870 and other publications in Wales.
Early Tourists in Wales 