Here's an Idea: Rewrite the Plus-one Rule at Weddings

A wedding, one could argue, is the ultimate romantic evening. It’s summer, probably, and the air is soft and warm. Fairy lights twinkle, music plays, and revelers clink their glasses in toast after toast. A besotted couple stand together in front of their loved ones and several tier-two acquaintances to make a lifelong commitment to each other. It’s lovely. But … could weddings do with a slight structural tweak or two? Absolutely. I don’t mean the wedding industrial complex as a whole. And I don’t mean a quirky change, like when a bride switches it up by wearing a pair of sparkly white (or pink!) Converse under her wedding dress. No. I’m talking about overhauling a specific and deeply stressful — perhaps the most stressful, actually — element of weddings.

I’m talking about the cursed plus-one.

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