Going to a wedding as a single guest can be a blast: You're free to mingle with all the sexy single groomsmen and tear up the dance floor with your friends without having to worry about appeasing your date. But on the flip side, it's a situation that can become a breeding ground for rude, invasive questions and socially awkward moments you'd rather forget (i.e. being the only one at the table during a slow song, trying to make your mediocre steak last as long as humanly possible). Pro tip for coupled folks trying to make small talk with single people? Avoid these eleven phrases.

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1. "Always a bridesmaid, never the bride."

This person deserves to have their eyeballs scooped out with a spoon. What are you, pray tell, a fortune teller who can look into my sad and lonely future?

2. "Better make sure you catch the bouquet!"

This is essentially the wedding tradition version of an Internet chain letter ("If you don't send this to 30 people you'll die at midnight!"). I don't subscribe to wedding mythology, plus, wrestling with seventy other women over a bouquet at my best friend's nuptials is not exactly how I want to spend my evening.

3. "Where's your date?"

Seriously: This one is super rude and forces the single guest to defend her (non)marital status. It is literally the equivalent of the guy who asks, "Why don't you have a boyfriend right now?" (Also, how do you know he isn't peeing right this very second? Okay, fine, he doesn't exist, but whatever.)

4. "It's a dry wedding."

Dear god. No. Help. When you're without a date to a wedding (whether by relationship status or by choice) alcohol automatically becomes your +1. Jim Beam, I need you. And if not you, Jim Beam, then Jack Daniels. Be my knight in shining armor.

5. "You and my [insert random relative here] would be so cute together."

Probably not, and I'm willing to bet that he doesn't appreciate his grandma setting him up either.

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