Until now we had been planning not to invite +1s to the wedding for budgetary reasons. We're having a small wedding - 55-60 people. I just got an email from FMIL asking if my FI's sister can bring a guest. She's 30 years old and wants to bring a girl she went to school with.
I don't have a real problem with this, except that then I need to extend +1s to everyone who's single, right? Every unattached person there will know a whole bunch of other people that they regularly hang out with, except my brother and FI's sister. Would it be justifiable to extend +1s to our siblings, but nobody else?
I'm hesitant to extend +1s to a couple of our friends because two of them are sensitive about the fact that they're the only single people in their respective social circles. I worry a bit that extending a +1 would make them feel obligated to scramble and find someone to bring, particularly since everyone they normally hang out with will already be at the wedding. I know, they're adults and can make their own decisions, but I'm not sure these particular individuals can be treated as normal adults. :-) If I can avoid putting them in an awkward situation, I'd rather do so.
If giving FI's sister a +1 means inviting 15 other people to a wedding of 60 people, I'm not sure what to do..
