Rehearsal Dinner Plus Ones?

Is the "plus one" just someone they are bringing as a date to the wedding, or are they their girlfriends? If they are their girlfriends, I would say you have to invite them to the rehearsal dinner. If they are just "dates" (meaning, they aren't in a relationship with them) I don't think you have to.

Significant others need to be invited. If it’s just a friend that they’re bringing to the wedding I would say it’s a judgement call.

View Quoted Comment Agree with this.

If they’re already bringing them as dates to the wedding, then yes. One of our groomsmen is coming from out of town and it would be rude to tell his wife to wait in the car.

View Quoted Comment I wouldn't consider a spouse a plus one though. A committed couple is considered a social unit. A plus one is for someone who is unattached but wants to bring a date.

View Quoted Comment Yes this we gave everyone college age and up
a plus one to the wedding. But my nephew who’s is doing a reading and the two grooms women are not in Relationship so no plus one to rehearsal dinner. But everyone else is married or in a relationship,

View Quoted Comment A wife is not a plus one.

If they are not in a relationship with the person they are bringing you don’t have to extend a plus one. Significant others do not count as a plus one, they should be invited by name rather than “and guest”

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I agree! We're instilling this rule for our rehearsal dinner unless you're from out of town.

I would invite their significant others. I probably wouldn't attend a rehearsal dinner regardless how close to my house it was, if my fiance/boyfriend/husband wasn't invited.

You need to invite them. I would be very offended if I wasn't invited to a rehearsal dinner my FH needed to go to. And if it was the other way around I would ask my friend if they were invited if it wasn't explicitly written on the invite.