+1 Ettiquite?

[newreflections]

Hello everyone. Just a quick recap, Im getting married in October of this year. We have a lot of things already set- our venue, my dress, photographer, food and cupcakes :) But still have a lot to do.. Mainly we havent set our guest list yet. Im having a bit of a dilemma when it comes to adding +1s. There are a few of my friends that are dating

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[miauminx]

we bought Save the Dates, but never sent them in the end (our wedding had 26 people total with only my mom flying in from the states), we mostly just forgot about them though.
+1's are entirely up to you and your partner, but I'd second/third including those who are in long term relationships, married, etc. Thankfully at our wedding the +1 did not come up as those who were invited were partnered and we had a bit of a buffer, but would I want a complete stranger at my wedding? Not really.

[pnkngrnd3]

If your wedding is during a busy wedding season or around a holiday, I would send save the dates to everyone you know for sure you want to invite. If you know you want to invite people that have to travel, I would send them save the dates for sure. My fiance was kind of upset to learn that his coworker's wedding was in California, not DC/VA like he'd thought it would be, so he was unable to go when we got the invitation a month before the wedding. We weren't sure if we were inviting kids (we had decided we'd invite guests), so when we send our save the dates, we addressed them only to "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith" or "Ms. Jane Doe." No mention of kids or guests, just in case we changed our mind. Of course, I got asked about the kids, and I just told them that until we had more stuff figured out (photographer, cake, etc.), we were not inviting kids and would let them know on the invitation if our budget had freed up enough to allow us to invite them. (I should note that we sent save the dates to everyone, but everyone also has to travel