Guests bringing guests?

It depends on the bride and her budget. I see no reason why your single guests have to bring a date. Unless there are no other singles there, if you choose not to include dates, nothing wrong with it. If you are so insecure that you cannot attend a wedding without an arm to hang on, then decline the invitation. I managed to attend many weddings without a date, I would expect you to do the same.

I will be having a very small wedding and NOBODY gets an 'and guest' unless they are unable to drive. Long-term significant others are included, however.

It is custom to include an 'and guest' for singles, but it is not a concern of etiquette. You are there to attend a wedding of a loved one, not go on a date.

We are only allowing guests if they are married to someone invited, engaged to someone invited, living with someone invited, or if the invited person has bothered to introduce us to the person they are in a relationship with (ex: my cousin's girlfriend has been to every family party the last 5 years). The only exception is if they will know no one else, and ONE person on our guest list fits that description. I want to invite my maid of honors mother, because MOH and I grew up together, and MOH's mom is widowed and won't have anyone to talk to but her daughter who may be busy or otherwise occupied with her boyfriend. The rest of our guests are family or very close friends who all know each other. We do not under any circumstances want more than 50 people at our wedding, we simply cannot afford it and the only way to trim the guest list would be to exclude very close relatives, which is obviously not an option-- especially only to include strangers in their place. Given that there will be no one who will be all alone I don't see why they need a date. Literally everyone but our parents and grandparents are single, so a wedding of 50 becomes a wedding for 100--more than half of which are complete strangers! No thank you, not happening. We are scrimping and saving like most people wouldn't believe to be able to have a wedding at all-- a small, fairly casual wedding for the family, and I am not about to sacrifice feeding them so my friends can bring their most recent booty calls out on a nice date. They can do that on their own dime and their own time.

For couples in long-term relationships, the couples were invited together. But we got into a situation of being almost at the capacity of the room so we needed to limit guests. Here was our rule - - If the person is a single relative, I didn't invite them "& guest" because they are family and will know alot of the other people in attendance but if the person was a friend, I did offer "& guest" because they wouldn't know that many people.

It would have been great to have a room that permitted more people so we could have given everyone a +guest invite, but we ended up only 5 below the room capacity of 225.

What it really comes down to is your budget. Ask yourself, can we afford for everyone to bring a guest. If the answer is yes, then go ahead and invite. If the answer is no, then consider having your guests bring a guest, if they have been in a long term relationship, are engaged, or are living together. Everyone else will come and mingle and meet new people.

We had a marriage in Ohio with kin in Jersey. We merely sent out an invite to the kin. We never took into attention including kin + travelers via fact we do not know everyone however the kin. i could think of it appropriate for the invited guy or woman to ask in the event that they have been allowed to hold a concentrated visitor particularly than any incorrect way around (of direction they could have been extra suitable than welcome to hold a concentrated visitor yet i don't see how the discern could enable a date being as they could might desire to sleep jointly or close by etc). For one in all those long distance i think of bringing a concentrated visitor/date could be somewhat awkward except that is an exceedingly extreme courting.

It is common to have each guest invite a guest of their choice.

If you only want the person who is invited to attend do not include the guest selection..hence do not ask them the number of guests they will be bringing on the invitation.

It's totally your choice. It's not "bad manners" at all to disinclude an "and guest" on the invitation, for the record. Some people don't want perfect strangers at their wedding.

I think the safest bet is to include it on the people you know have been in long term relationships, and for everyone else, arrange the seating and introduce them to others so they'll have fun too.

At this point in the planing proses with more then a year to go (maybe 2-3 years) you should plan for everyone to be in a relationship. Someone that is single now may not be in 1 year and so on.

Always allow them to bring one guest.

It is always good etiquette to add "and guest" to a wedding invitation addressed to any young adult (18+)/adult who is single or just started dating someone. Not doing so is considered poor manners.