The 'Plus One' Conundrum

I've received an invite to my friend's wedding this year, in August.

Lovely time of year, it's in Devon as well, so I'm really looking forward to it!

For the first time in my life though I've had an invite with a plus 1 on it!   I know, I know, I'm 36 (nearly) so how could this possibly be the first invite with a +1 I've ever received?  Well technically it's not.  The first non-family wedding I went to was that of my best friend, I was already dating when the invites went out, so my fiancé was naturally included.  For reasons, we split up the night before and he didn't actually end up coming to the wedding anyway.

Subsequent weddings I've been invited to have been more, how would you put it, "reception only" or "just me" invites as I'm usually to be found sans-partner, so this is the first time I've really had to navigate the plus-1 gauntlet.

At the moment I'm undecided on whether to tick the plus-1 option.  I know that the likelihood of finding someone I care for enough to have a permanent record of at one of my best friends' weddings, within the next 7 months, is fairly minimal.  If I did find someone, it's a risk having only dated them for what would have been quite a short time.  On the other hand, my friend is not local to me and we don't have common connections, so it would be nice to invite a friend along to keep me company.

So that is my dilemma.  Mind you, navigating a wedding as where you don't know anyone would make for a better blog post... maybe I should suffer for my art!

Toodles!
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