Accidentally brought a plus one to a wedding reception
I attended a friend’s wedding reception recently. We are not terribly close but have hung out a few times, and it has felt intimate. I thought I had registered a plus one on the registration form, but during the reception the fiancé/partner of my friend getting married stopped me when I leaned in to hug them and ask them how they were feeling/enjoying the night and explicitly told me that I did not have a plus one and that me bringing one did not feel good. They were stern but hurt at the same time. In the moment, I obviously apologized. But they said we’d talk about it after. I checked in with my plus one and we decided not to leave, unless the wedding planner asked us to. Later, I ran into my friend (bride) and took pictures with her and my plus one (who also knows my friend and they’ve hung out a few times too) and she didn’t seem to know her partner had told me this.
I know that weddings are expensive and head counts are an important part. I know I fucked up. How should I move forward? It’s only been a day since the incident but I’ve been thinking about it nonstop.
Additional info - the issue came to be known bc the table I was assigned to didn’t have enough seats. There was an overflow table and we pulled a seat from there. No one sat on the overflow table the whole night. Food was buffet style (we were the last table to grab food).