Inviting friends partners to wedding

If we don't know the partner all that well and the friend has other friends at the wedding then we don't, I have one or two friends who won't know anyone else at the wedding at all, and they all get a plus one whether they have a partner or not - it's abroad, so they'll want someone to holiday with.

If they've been together a long time I would find it rude not to personally but i'm sure others would disagree!

We have only invited partners we know / socialise with. I have 5 friends whos partners are invited to the evening only, i didnt actaully think they would come but so happy that they all are.

One of our friends got married last year and basically gave our group of girls the option of bringing our partners all day and we were seated on different tables or just the girls all day and partners at night meaning we were all together - we all chose the latter.

For me it meant my OH wasnt "bored" not knowing anyone that well and i could go off with the girls guilt free ha.

I have 12 very close mates ... All have partners , some are married. , some have kids - we know them and we do see them etc but numbers where tight and we decided no partners to day but evening !

went down fine x

Most of our friends who are invited to the day will be getting their partners invited, but the majority are married or been together a number of years. For friends not in a long term relationship, they didn't necessarily get a plus one, but it depends on their circumstance - for example, one friend would probably not have been getting a plus one, but the only people she would know have now emigrated to America, so are unlikely to make it to the wedding, so she will now get a plus one.

To be honest, I can't imagine not inviting my friend's partners but they are all married and have been for many years so it would feel very wrong not to invite them. Having said that, all the friends coming to our wedding are our very closest friends and so we know their partners - even if not that well in some cases. All our other friends who are not so close are only coming to the evening anyway so the solution seemed obvious to us ?

Hmm it's difficult, think it depends on the situation, but I think if you've got a particular group of friends, you either invite all their partners or none. My close friends from school, all their partners are invited, even though one or two I've barely spoken to. Then a few less close friends who are coming in the day (e.g. people from work/uni) I'm not inviting their partners, but they will all know at least one other person at the wedding so they won't be on their own.