Wedding reception invitees

[NellyX]

When doing your wedding reception invites, did everyone get a plus one option? My fiancé and I were discussing this and we have slightly different opinions.

Not necessarily. If they are in a relationship I'd name both people on the invite. If they're single I'd just name them. If they asked for a guest then I'd allow it. I would also probably write plus 1 if it was someone who didn't know anyone else at the wedding. But if it was someone from work or family who knew a lot of people I don't think I would.

No, we didn't do any +1s. We invited everyone we wanted as specifically named guests.
But we did order our invites in groups, so everyone knew several people coming.

I think it depends on the invitee. If you have a group of girl friends then they will come together. I was my daughters plus one at a wedding of a friend of her’s and she would have been very lonely had I not been there as she knew no one else and the trip of women on our table ignored us.

No. But there wasn’t anyone at our wedding who didn’t know anyone else. If there had been, I might have made an exception. One cousin was funny about this because she wanted to bring her boyfriend, but they hadn’t been going out long and I hadn’t seen her for years, let alone met the boyfriend. She chose not to come in the end.