How many guests should I allow my guests to bring?

6 people? Did she consult with you before throwing that number out there? 6 people are a lot and it will be expensive. I guess the major question is if you are willing to invite people's children. I am only inviting the kids that are in my wedding.

For starters, don't invite co-workers unless you are sure you'd be friends with them without the work connection. And a coworker who SAYS she'd reply with six?

Gone. Bye Bye. Off the list.

You invite who you want, with partners/spouses/long term partners. You invite selected kids if you want them.

Every single person on the list should be a person you pick to be their with their partner.

The last wedding invite I received was addressed to me. The invite had a place for us to mark that read: ___ of two will be attending. Idk if that's rude, but I thought it was a good idea to eliminate all confusion of the number of people invited. Technically speaking there are three in my household, with my daughter. I wouldn't bring her to this particular wedding, but it definitely clarified that only two people had spots at this reception.

ETA: One wedding I was in, a distant aunt of the groom rsvpd for 11! She had that many kids and grandkids. Since they all lived under one roof she thought she could bring them all. It was a mess. Definitely set some limits!

Finally a Date Twin!

Significant others are automatically included. if its single person but i know they will not know anyone else that will be there I allowed a plus one for them. ( especially since its a holiday and people rarely spend that day alone.) As far as children I am not blatantly saying NO dont bring them but I am addressing it only to the adults. We do not want a tremendous amount of kids there but we realize that do to the date, sitters will be limited and some may HAVE to bring their kids. This is the date dilemma we faced.

OP - on the Knot, you need to enable "secure RSVP". I mean, for now you should turn the whole thing off. But, with the "secure RSVP" option, people can only RSVP if they are on the guest list that you created.