Single guests allowed to bring dates?

We are allowing plus ones for significant others...meaning that if you are in a relationship, live with the person, married, engaged, dating for a long time etc we will allow a plus one. Someone you met the month before- not so much.

I'm sure many people will disagree with me (and it's easy for me to say this because we have a very small guest list) but I think it's nice to allow singles to bring a guest. It's not fun going to a wedding alone, especially if you don't know a lot of people there.

Since the groomsmen is in the wedding party I think it would be nice to let him bring a date even if you don't let any other singles have one. I would also consider letting those that don't know anyone else but the B&G to also bring someone.

Yes I am allowing single guests to bring one guest with them

I'm being a jerk and only letting people I trust with good taste to bring a date. Call it tacky, tasteless, bad manners , whatever but fh aunt that started a fight at a funeral is not bringing a date, I just don't want to meet the type of man she's into dating.

Hi Paola,

We are doing as Jamila W. Significant relationships of a significant time will allow a plus one.

I am allowing singles to bring a date. If they want.

I'd prefer it if it was someone they'd been in a long term relationship with and wasn't just some random person but I want everyone to have a good time.

I'm not counting S.O. As a plus one, we are putting their name on the invitation.

We are allowing plus ones for ppl with significant others. The only exception we are making is if they live far away and/or won't know anyone else a the reception, we are allowing dates so that they know someone there. If they're single and know tons of other ppl at the reception, they will not get a date as they will know people there that they can mingle with, etc.

I would word it by saying it's not allowed in your budget. That's what we're doing. Our wedding will consist of about 200 guests as well, and also a large bridal party. I wish i could give everyone a plus 1, but it would put a major dent in our finances for people who don't play a significant role in our or our guests lives.

We are doing the same thing as Marjorie P. Most of the people we are inviting have significant others, only about 6-8 people are single and a few are getting plus ones because they are from out of town/don't really know anyone.

We allowed our singles to bring dates, all except for my brothers which actually sounds rude now that I'm thinking about it ... lol The reason is because some of our singles knew no one but us or they were in long term relationships. My brothers were not in relationships at the time and since they knew everyone I didn't see the point. Not to mention one of my brothers is a ladys man so it was hard to tell who'd he end up with.

We are having a small wedding and have room in the budget for the single people to bring a guest. It's also a DW and I think will be a great opportunity for new romances to blossom. But maybe that's just the romantic in me.

Well, just like Sami B, if it's a serious/long-term deal, then they're going to be on the invitation itself. Mainly it was for someone who is just bringing a date.....to have a date. My cousin's wife said they allowed only bridal party to bring someone, but then I feel that could be uncomfortable for the date? Alone during the ceremony...alone during cocktail hour (while we do pictures).

I'm pre-panicking really. A lot could change over the year, but it is already so many people, that I don't feel it's completely out of line to rule out dates.

Labake O., my cousin said I should encourage bridal party to come alone to see who they can meet

Standard rule; If they are in your bridal party they are allowed a guest. If they are married/engaged/living together allowed a guest.

Otherwise it's up to you. Our friends always hangout with us in groups without dates, and so if they are still single 3 months prior to the wedding a date is not invited with them, and if they are related and I havn't met their bf/gf a and they don't fit into the first paragraph of this, than they are not invited.

We are allowing guests. It's no fun to sit at a wedding alone. We want everyone to dance, drink, and just have fun. We're having a large wedding as well, and a fairly large wedding party, but hey the more the merrier. =)

But it is completely up to you.

We are and we aren't there is certain people that would bring people that FH and I dont like but are very close with the person invited.

We're unfortunatly not allowing singles to bring a date, i really wanted to, but with our budget we really cannot afford it. We have budgeted in the wedding party so they can bring dates, but cousins and friends not in the WP who are single, we just can't afford it. I feel really bad about it, but i don't want to go into debt to feed people i do not know. Most everybody i'm inviting will know multiple people at the wedding though, i have many different circles of friends from where i used to live and where i currently live. So i hope people won't be too bored. Most of the couples we know that have been together or live together are both invited, because we are friends with both people, although my brothers(a GM) choice in women scares me since he tells me he's "gunna bring any random sl** he can find just to $%**@#." Those were his exact words......Yikes.

All our guests get a plus one. We built and budgeted our guest list to accommodate that. I was single through most of my 20s and it really, really sucked going to every single wedding alone for a friggin decade, even though I almost always had friends around me. Most people won't bring a totally random date, it's just nice to have the option.

Also the standard rule is "social unit" - not limited to married/engaged/living together. FH and I dated 3 years before moving in or getting engaged, we were more of a social unit than some of my friends who had just shacked up.

Re: the WP it's really up to you. I wouldn't worry about it yet. Just don't say anything either way, and see how the months play out for your single buddies. With that amount of time, they could be married and divorced with a baby on the way by the time your invites go out. Weirder things have happened.

Only the wedding party, engaged, living with, or married persons are allowed a plus 1. This is not so fun to explain to distant relatives. -_- just stick to your guns.