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Jocelyn
Expert August 2018 Ontario

Bridal party +1s?

Jocelyn, on February 18, 2018 at 20:27 Posted in Plan a wedding 0 20
Are you letting your bridesmaids/groomsmen bring a date even if they're single? my FH and i chose to only let those in our bridal party bring a date...

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Latest activity by Jocelyn, on February 20, 2018 at 20:04
  • Jocelyn
    Expert August 2018 Ontario
    Jocelyn ·
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    Yah. i just have two significant others to accomodate at the Bridal Party King's table
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  • Michelle
    Super September 2018 Alberta
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    We are allowing it as most of our wedding party has been in long term relationships (2+years) or are married. It's up to them whether to bring them or not.

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  • Brittany
    British Columbia
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    My wedding is 11 months away.... my rule is... if I don't know the name of your significant other now, they aren't coming. We may adapt for my sisters (I currently have 3 of my 4 sisters are single), but we have already cut people from the guest list we know, I'm not inviting people I don't. I don't need the first time I meet some random person to be at my wedding reception. It may be a little harsh, but if you don't put the restrictions on, your guest list can grow like crazy overnight, and that's big $$$.

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  • Kris
    Frequent user June 2018 British Columbia
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    Another good question to think about...most are married in our party so we will do plus one's for those that don't and want to have somebody.

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  • Maureen
    Curious October 2018 Ontario
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    If they have been dating someone for a while and you have met this person before, i would say sure bring a +1 however i would not want a stranger i haven't met at my wedding!

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  • Ap2017
    Super September 2017 Ontario
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    We only had one single bridal party member, so we gave a plus 1. our wedding was small and most people attending were married or in relationships, so the few single people automatically got plus 1's. No one actually used the plus 1.

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  • Surina
    Frequent user March 2018 Ontario
    Surina ·
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    Since we are having just family all single parties got a plus one. not many of them used the plus one.

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  • Candace
    VIP May 2019 Ontario
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    We are giving all of our wedding party a plus one even though only half of them have a plus one to bring. All other single guests don’t get one though
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  • Courtney
    Super July 2018 Ontario
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    We are giving all of our wedding party plus ones. We have a couple people who are engaged, some who are in very long term relationships and three people who are single. I asked them to not bring some person they JUST met, but they can bring someone.

    We'll also be sitting the bridal party +1s at the head table with us.

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  • Erin
    Master September 2017 Ontario
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    Most of our guests, including the wedding party, were long term couples already. We allowed a few people plus ones.

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  • Rosalyn
    Devoted August 2018 Alberta
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    We are only allowing +1’s for people in serious relationships- which is tricky right now as a friend feels like he “met the one” but buddy you’ve only known her a month (sorry). Plus the wedding party is going to be so busy - they don’t want to bring +1’s!
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  • Lucy
    Frequent user July 2019 Ontario
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    We're not inviting +1s for our local guests unless it's a serious relationship but I am going to allow our international guests bring someone along if they want since they're coming from Australia and may want to make a bit of a holiday out of it.

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  • Meghan
    Frequent user August 2018 Newfoundland and Labrador
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    We have only given plus ones to guests in serious relationships. Our bridal party won’t be bringing plus ones. A few of the groomsmen are in relationships but we don’t know them so we decided to talk to our friends and let them know that because they’ll be so busy that day and won’t even be sitting at the same table as their date that they’ll just be invited to join us later at the dance. I have a big family and In order to include everyone that we want there we have to make some cuts. We can only fit 120 at the venue and our list was at over 150
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  • R
    Newbie June 2018 Alberta
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    Heck no!! Even our non-married brothers don’t get +1’s! Wedding party will be so busy during the day they won’t have much time to spend with a +1 until the dance. If they’re persistent on bringing somebody say they can have somebody come during the dance, doesn’t cost you any!
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  • Vinod
    Top August 2017 Ontario
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    We didn't have plus 1 at all
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  • Bianca
    Master August 2019 Ontario
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    We’re giving everyone a plus-one. The limit on this would be our deadlines (which we have not yet established) that we need the final headcount to the venue. With that being said, our bridal party would be the only ones who could give us a last-minute wedding date that we could add.
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  • Jocelyn
    Expert August 2018 Ontario
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    Same in my bridal party- it's only my sis & one of the groomsmen who have SO's, though i have a feeling my sister's husband will take their kids home after the ceremony (they're young and they'll be tired), so im gonna have the groomsman's fiancée sit with my bridesmaids & the groomsmen at the "king's table"
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  • Holly
    VIP June 2019 Ontario
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    We are only allowing couples married/engaged/in serious relationships to bring their significant others. Including our wedding party, currently the only one that is single is the best man and he said from the beginning he doesn't want/need a plus one.
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  • Jocelyn
    Expert August 2018 Ontario
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    Im only giving plus ones for those who are engaged/married etc, and keeping the same principle for my bridal party.
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  • Maegan
    Super July 2018 British Columbia
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    We didnt give any single guests plus ones. We decided it was better to be able to invite all of our friends but not give plus ones than to cut some friends out to allow for single guests plus ones.
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