Guide

How to find a plus-one — without using a dating app.

You need someone for a wedding or an event, not a relationship. Dating apps are the wrong tool, and escort sites are the wrong category entirely. Here's the honest middle ground, and how to choose well.

Why the usual routes don't fit

You want company, not chemistry.


A dating app is built to find you a partner — the small performance of being interested, the follow-up, the hoping it goes somewhere. That's the opposite of what a plus-one needs to be. And escort services are a different thing altogether, which most people looking for a wedding companion want nothing to do with. What you actually want is narrow and specific: good company for one evening, appropriate to the occasion, with no complication afterwards.

Your options

Where people actually turn.

  • A trusted friend. Simplest, free, and fine for a one-off — if they're available and would enjoy it.
  • Ask around discreetly. Sometimes a friend-of-a-friend is glad of the outing. Harder to rely on, and awkward to arrange.
  • A dedicated platonic plus-one service. Built for exactly this — vetted company for public events, with none of the dating-app or escort-site baggage.
Choosing well

What to look for — and what to avoid.

Good signs: ID verification on both sides, public-venues-only bookings, a written code of conduct, a proper application process, and plain, non-suggestive language throughout.

Walk away if: it meets at private homes or hotel rooms, hints at anything sexual, uses "girlfriend experience" or similar wording, or takes anyone instantly with no checks. That's a different category, and not what you're looking for.

How April fits

A plus-one, done properly.


April is a women-run, private plus-one service. We match approved clients with a vetted, strictly platonic plus-one for weddings, dinners, the theatre and work events. Both clients and plus-ones are ID-checked and video-screened; every booking is in a public venue; boundaries are clear from the start. It is not a dating service, and not an adult service.

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The right tool for the job.

If what you want is calm, appropriate company for one specific occasion — nothing more, nothing after — a platonic plus-one service is the honest answer. That's exactly what April is.

For weddings and formal occasions, arranged in advance, in public venues.

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