I'm planning a wedding for June. My fiance and I want to invite some of our friends and family that are single or have boyfriends/girlfriends. We do not want some of the extra boyfriends/girlfriends there. Our other guests are married and them and their families would be invited. We don't want to have a scene on our wedding day about the fact that there are other couples there but we didn't invite boyfriends/girlfriends. Can we specify to those people that we are only inviting them and that we don't want any other extra guests that we didn't invite or specifically asked them not to bring? If they bring those extra guest is it proper and okay to ask them to leave because we don't want them there for whatever reason?
On the inner envelope of the wedding invitation you will write the name(s) of the person(s) invited. If you only want to invite the friend or family member without a guest then you would not include the significant other's name or the words "and guest" on the inner envelope.
Most people understand that this means only the person included on the inner envelope of the invitation is invited.
If someone were to show up with an uninvited guest it would not be proper for you to send them away. This would make you look as discourteous as your guest and we wouldn't want that for you, especially on your wedding day.
A Personal Aside: If you have room on your guest list it's nice to include a guest for your single friends, especially those who have been together a while. A good host will do everything they can to make their guests comfortable. Just imagine being invited to a party where you may not know anyone, or only know a few people. Who would you dance with? having an escort to dance, eat and travel with can make your guests time with you much more enjoyable; and it's that the idea? Top Wedding Questions Forum Moderator - "Write your sorrows in the sand, your blessings in stone".
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