I've never attended an open bar wedding since turning drinking age, since most people that get married in their early 20's are dirt poor, so I'm excited about it haha.
Appropriate? Yes. Advisable? No, in my opinion.
As mentioned earlier, you will presumably know basically everyone at the wedding, and she will likely know no one but you. Can be awkward, unless she is super comfortable being left alone while you declare your man-love with your buddies (open bar, it will happen).
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My wife was a bridesmaid one time at a wedding and that would leave me sitting all alone in the crowd with people I don't know. So, I brought a date. I called up a girl in the city where the wedding was at and brought her along. Okay, so it wasn't just any old girl, it was a girl I had known since I was 2 years old. Anyway, it was a bit awkward for her since she didn't know anybody other than me and my wife. It wasn't so bad though because I didn't know anybody either and we've known each other all our lives.
So I would heavily weigh into how well you know her now, and if she knows anybody else attending the wedding. It could make for an uncomfortable situation for her. You may just want to invite a friend (either gender) who you know better and who also may know somebody else at the wedding.
Ask the groom if there was someone that he wanted to invite, but wasn't able to because of invite limitations?
Because of the size of our reception hall, we could only invite 100 people. So there were people that we would have invited had there been more room.
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Umm if Wedding Crashers taught us all anything... Go solo! LOL
This.
Any chance I have ever had to go to a wedding solo, I take it, but not for the obvious reasons. Every single wedding I have been to with a girlfriend has spiralled into a fight about, "When are we going to get married?" and "How come you are unable to commit long term." You can conveniently go take a dump when the trendy and oh so unique 'slide show of the big day' with stupid sappy music with all the women going "Wooooooooooooh! at every picture. (You're day isn't special, and neither is your crappy powerpoint slide show... it's as predictable as Homer saying Woohooo!). Plus it gives you the ability to do a quick unannounced back door escape the second the Chicken Dance or Jesse's Girl starts.
Conventional weddings are so lame.
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To the OP, is there any female relative you can bring with you? I do think it is a bit awkward to invite a somewhat random girl (at least to the hosts' eyes) to attend a wedding, don't you think?
Absolutely its appropriate. I've been to 3 weddings already this summer and have 3 more to go and theres always a few people who bring a friend or coworker for a 'date/not-date.'
The thing is that the vast majority of weddings are planned and paid for so far in advance that the +1 plate is already paid for and sitting next to you so you damned well better use it.
Its a slap in the face to make them pay for a dinner and then waste it. That would be less appropriate.
And at the end of the day the wedding couple gets about 2-3 minutes to talk to everyone so they likely dont care who the hell you bring.
The caveat to this is pictures/events, the random +1 shouldnt be in any of the formal photos or anything like that.
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Absolutely its appropriate. I've been to 3 weddings already this summer and have 3 more to go and theres always a few people who bring a friend or coworker for a 'date/not-date.'
The thing is that the vast majority of weddings are planned and paid for so far in advance that the +1 plate is already paid for and sitting next to you so you damned well better use it.
Its a slap in the face to make them pay for a dinner and then waste it. That would be less appropriate.
And at the end of the day the wedding couple gets about 2-3 minutes to talk to everyone so they likely dont care who the hell you bring.
The caveat to this is pictures/events, the random +1 shouldnt be in any of the formal photos or anything like that.
Unless you are the unknown +1, in which case you have a responsibility to be in as many photos as possible. Random guy FTW.
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Any chance I have ever had to go to a wedding solo, I take it, but not for the obvious reasons. Every single wedding I have been to with a girlfriend has spiralled into a fight about, "When are we going to get married?" and "How come you are unable to commit long term." You can conveniently go take a dump when the trendy and oh so unique 'slide show of the big day' with stupid sappy music with all the women going "Wooooooooooooh! at every picture. (You're day isn't special, and neither is your crappy powerpoint slide show... it's as predictable as Homer saying Woohooo!). Plus it gives you the ability to do a quick unannounced back door escape the second the Chicken Dance or Jesse's Girl starts.
Conventional weddings are so lame.
Sometimes, just sometimes, you come across as pessimistic and well a downer.
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Ask the groom if there was someone that he wanted to invite, but wasn't able to because of invite limitations?
Because of the size of our reception hall, we could only invite 100 people. So there were people that we would have invited had there been more room.
This is such a considerate thing to do.
Typically guests are seated with people that they'd already know or get along with anyway so it won't be awkward. As well, it is great karma from the couple to open up a spot.
Bonus points to the groom/bride if they can do OP a solid for mutual benefit.
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