<p>so i was invited to a wedding for the first time without my family. It says me and a guest are invited but i’m single and am having a tough time finding someone. </p>
<p>how bad is it if i can’t find someone?
can i bring my sister or cousin if it comes down to it?</p>
<p>Does it matter which gender?</p>
<p>You can bring anyone you want if you’ve been invited to bring a guest, but it’s perfectly fine to go on your own, too.</p>
<p>I would go alone. Just think how your “guest” will feel throughout the reception. It doesn’t sound like you are in a committed relationship, so why bring someone who probably knows no one there and will probably get bored? Nothing wrong with going alone. Go with a positive attitude and have fun.</p>
<p>go alone! A wedding can be a great place to meet people.</p>
<p>I second emeraldkity4! Go! Mingle! (My mother would have said the same thing.)</p>
<p>The bride’s family, or whoever’s setting out the invitations, probably made a big group decision to let all the people of a certain category (cousins of a certain age, or friends of the couple, whatever) bring a guest. It’s an option. </p>
<p>Not everyone can extend invitations out to unnamed guests-of-guests, so you can understand they were being generous to allow you a “plus-one” as they’re called. When we had to cut back on S-1’s wedding guest list, that was the first category the couple and we parents all decided to cut. We only made exceptions for a handful of significant others (“almost a fiance”) and live-togethers among the couple’s friends. </p>
<p>Likely, not everyone from this wedding’s invited guests will activate their option to invite a guest. With any luck, you’ll be seated at a table with a few other singles. It’s possible.</p>
<p>YOu asked here about bringing a sister or cousin. You know, that choice is entirely yours. If you think you’d feel happier with that company, go right ahead. They can mingle, too. But don’t invite them just because you feel you have to.</p>
<p>If you are unsure, I think you can ask the groom or whoever you know best from the couple, “I’m deciding on this; would I be the only one there without a guest?” If that were so, I’d more likely add on the sister or cousin.</p>