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Just wondering what everyone is doing.
We are not giving 1+'s to singles I have 1 good friend who is getting one for the guy shes been seeing but they dont live together.
We want a small wedding I'm hoping for 60 guests max.
We only gave a +1 to those who were married (obviously) and those who are engaged and/or dating someone for over 2 years.
I didn't vote because your poll doesn't have what we're doing. Wedding party gets one, and anyone with a long-term partner/spouse/etc. gets one, assuming we're not already inviting their SO.
We gave everyone a +1 and we only have a few people bringing a +1. Almost everyone invited to our wedding has to travel, though, so it could've been different if we got married in our hometowns.
We're giving +1s to married couples (obvi), engaged couples, couples that have been dating a significant amount of time (more than 2 or three months), or to people who won't know anyone else at the wedding. We did have two people ask us if they could bring their girlfriend so that they can introduce her to their friends--umm hello this is not a meet and greet bbq, it's a (freakin expensive) wedding. BUT we ended up with fewer ppl than we thought so we just gave in and let them bring their gfs.
For the ceremony, nobody got one. We only had 30 people there. For the reception, you had to be in a serious relationship/living together. We had 90 people.
We basically said no +1s unless living together, engaged, or married OR those 1-2 couples who arent' living together (because of religious reasons, namely) but have been dating forever and we know the other person.
But honestly, my single friends, knowing them, won't really care.
We're having a small wedding-- 45 max but hopefully closer to 40. So no, singles are not getting +1s. However, all of our singles are friends so I doubt they care.
Anyone who has a fairly long-term SO gets a plus-one, as well as the few guests who are single and will not know anyone at the wedding apart from the bride and groom...I want them to have a guest so they won't have to travel alone, stay in a hotel alone, or be lonely at the wedding.
We gave plus ones to anyone who is in a relationship (I defined that as not seeing anyone else, and have been dating for at least a couple of months. We also gave plus ones to anyone in the wedding party. Also if they aren't in a relationship, but don't really know anyone else at the wedding we gave a plus one, so that they will have someone to talk to! And anyone traveling a long distance to come to the wedding gets a plus one.
we gave everyone a +1. no exceptions. even for people we knew weren't dating anyone. It turned out well. Not a single person brought "a date". I wouldn't worry over it too much since people don't treat your wedding like a political dinner or school dance. They're just happy to be there and celebrate with you.
Married, engaged, living together/long relationship are getting +1s.
We're are already getting drama about cousins (who are in high school and college) not getting +1s and our wedding is over a year away! Oh well.
Weddings are expensive! And we just want the people we love and know around us, not the flavor of the week.
We're talking about some exceptions for friends that are coming from long distances and won't know many people. We've got time to figure it out but yikes is it tough.
we are giving a +1 to pretty much every single person, minus a 17 year old we are being forced to invite, FI's 12 year old brother, and a few adult relatives of mine that never married and haven't dated in my entire lifetime. it actually didn't come out to be a ton--i think it added maybe 15 people to our guest list and i don't expect many of them to bring a date as most of the singles are all from the same group of friends and they're the types that are just as happy to hang out with each other. in the end i think the +1's will add about 5 actual people to our total guest count, which considering we are aiming for 150 or under, isn't bad at all and seems worth it to make our friends happy.
I plan on giving +1's to pretty much everyone because it will only be close family and friends.
We are inviting spouses/fiance's. Any single friends will not get a +1. Most of our friends are either married/engaged or perpetually single....and they all know each other well enough that they won't be alone. We are capped at 80 guests, so that is why we are limiting.
We gave everyone a plus one! Mainly because we didn't really have a guest list limit and we figured it would be nice to let everyone have the option of bringing someone to have to talk to while there. Because I get very nervous if I have to go things and not be able to be with atleast one person I know and i'm in noway shy i'll talk to anyone it just makes me more comfortable to be with someone i know.
We're planning to only give +1s to people if they've been dating for awhile and we've met them. Our venue has a limit of 200 people, and i'd much rather invite friends that i'm close to than my cousin's girlfriend who i've never met.
Every person over 18 is getting "plus one", no exceptions. Even though we're having a small wedding, it was really important to me to do this - mostly because I wanted to make it super clear that people could bring their SOs. I was invited to a wedding once, without a plus one, so I didn't include my boyfriend in the RSVP. Then when the bride saw it, she said "oh good, you're not bringing anyone, I'll put you at the single's table." So that was awkward. I still had a good time at the wedding though. I just don't want to put anyone else in that situation, so everyone is getting a plus one, even if I don't know their SOs.
If they are single and either 1. traveled to be at our wedding or 2. wouldn't really know anyone, they got a +1
We're giving plus ones to people who are in serious relationships (married/living together/engaged, etc). That's it. I'm not paying for anyone to bring their "hook up" to our wedding.
The +1 drama never ends, so just be careful on how many people you invite without a date.
We invited 86 people and have 65 guests coming- many of them as singles. We've had to give into a few dates which is what pushed our invite number up so high.
I think of plus ones as in where you have one name then and guest on the invite so in that way we have only two. One is an eldery aunt who would not be able to drive herself and the other is a recently widowed family member who I thuoght would perfer to have someone with her.
We're having a pretty casual tented reception so everyone gets a plus one. The majority of our guests are married or in a LTR so they would have gotten a plus one anyway. It was just easier to give everyone a plus one than it was to find some place to draw a line. If our catering costs were higher or our venues smaller we might not have been so "generous"
We only gave plus one's to our wedding party and the single friend who had to travel a bit, and wouldn't know anyone there. In the end, I think only like two people brought plus one's (we had 73 guests).
We invited everyone with a +1. Our reason for this was that my FI and I were really hurt when his cousin didn't invite me to her wedding even though I was dating my FI for 3 years (but not engaged). We don't want other people to feel put off by not including a +1.
The only people who do not get a plus one are our grandmothers who are widowed, not seeing anyone, and we think we would offend them by inviting them +1.
We are only giving a few singles +1. If we know your significant other pretty well, then we are inviting them. We are havnig a fairly large wedding 200-250 so we have to cut it off somewhere. Also if the guest won't know anyone else there, then they can have a +1.
We're doing +1s for everyone. Almost everyone is coming from out of town for our wedding and I feel like because they are traveling they should really get to bring whoever they want. I have been invited to weddings alone when I had to stay in a hotel and it seems like such a drag to stay in a hotel alone!
We are definately doing +1's for everyone...in town and out of town...we have the budget for it and my single friends have already come up to me thanking me for that option!
We are giving "+1s" to those in serious relationships but we are addressing the invitation to them by name. I think all of our guests who have "+1s" are living together so it'll be addressed to:
Mr. Guest's Name & Ms. Plus 1's Name
Everyone gets a plus one because we don't know that many people and even with everyone getting a plus one, our guest list is only 100 people :)
Everyone is getting a +1 for our wedding. There will be people that my parents and his parents invite that I don't know and believe it's only right that they get a +1 since they probably won't know anyone at the wedding besides our parents.
We're only having 45 people at our wedding. Out of those 45, I would say we have 3 single people. They'll be given a plus one if they're in a serious relationship by the wedding...
We're only giving +1 to people that aren't in a serious relationship if they don't know many people at the wedding. Otherwise, no. I have such a large family that the guest list would be huge if everyone got a +1. I can't invite a lot of people I want to invite as it is and that's with an invite list of about 210 total. I envision pissing off a lot of people. Not looking forward to that.
No questions about it, everybody gets a +1. We'll have around 130 when it's all said and done.
I'de love 60 guests max!!! But I have a huge family and I've already cut the guest list by 1/3 just to keep the head count at 92!! I've been to plenty of wedding without a plus 1 and I have a great time. But you know the guests who will be coming stag and are ok with it versus the family/friends who might feel uncomfortable without a plus 1 not knowing anyone but the bride and/or groom. Go with your gut and stick to budget and your vision for your wedding. No need to sacrafice any of that so some boyfriend/girlfrind of a guest who neither of you have ever met can come. We're doing plus one's, but we have the space and budget for it.
Everyone is getting a plus 1 for mine. Most will have to travel to my home town so they'd probably like a travel buddy at least, if they were single at the time of invite.
We gave a +1 to anyone in a long term relationship, and a few extra to people from out of town, especially if they won't know many other guests.
I figured, if a guest is coming from the other side of the country to spend the night with me and a bunch of strangers, at least I can do is let them bring someone to talk to.
We sent e-mails to our friends about 6 months before the wedding. We asked for their postal address, and the name of their SO. Then when we sent out invitations, they were addressed to the friend and the named SO. It was an informal way of determining the "seriousness" of the relationship, because if you weren't with the same SO 6 months later, you didn't get an "and guest."
I gave +1's to my guests 18 and over who aren't married... which is basically the bridal party and a few extended family members, so I said a small number of guests.
We only gave +1's to friends who were in a relationship where one or the other of us knew their partner. Obviously all married and engaged couples got invited together. It was nice though for Mr's collegues where I know them but not their partners to be able to bring them along. We had a small guest list anyways and ended up with around 70 attending including +1s.
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