Drawing up your wedding guest list and confused about who gets plus ones?
But what about your friend who is in a long-term relationship?
Or a cousin who is casually dating?
Photographed by Steven Meisel,Vogue, February 2003
No need to fretfollow these tried-and-true wedding plus-ones rules.
Some of the other hidden guests you should invite on your wedding day?
(Its hard to give singles a plus-one and other others, Anne and Lizzie Post write.
it’s possible for you to risk hurt feelings.)
Your wedding isand can bedifferent from theirs, says Hopkins.
It starts on the envelope.
Very traditional wedding invitations have an outer and inner envelope.
That envelope says a lot.
If its your name alone, they are not offering a plus-one.
If it is for you and a guest, it will say so, Harrison says.
This is not always the case, particularly with more modern invitations.
If the couple is in a relationship, list both guests by their full names.
If youre allowing a guest to bring a casual date, write your friends name and then and guest.
But creating a singles-only table could give off the impression youre corralling your single pals.
Instead, place them between outgoing and friendly couples who theyll likely get along with.
Thats sure to create a more communal feel to the event, and itll help them meet people organically.
Do it over the phone or in person rather than email.
