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[quote=Anonymous]It's very rude  to ask if you can bring uninvited people with you, except for the following situations:

1) the event is one where couples are invited, and the person issuing invitations was unaware you were married or engaged.     In that case it is OK to ask if your spouse or fiance can come. The host should apologize abjectly if this happens and the answer should always be "of course!"

2) The event is one where families are invited and the invitation omitted a family member who lives in your home (for example, your stepdaughter will be visiting that weekend.)   For example, the invitation to a 4th of July Cookout reads: to Tom, Mary, Jimmy and Jenny   But Tom's teen daughter Rachel will be spending July with him, and the host didn't realize that.  Perfectly acceptable to ask in that case and very rude for the host to say "no".  You don't fail to invite the whole family.

As others say, if you have other visiting family or guests, the correct way to handle it is to say you have visitors and will have to decline.  That lets the hosts decide if they want extra guests.

There is NO polite way to let the host know you think they should invite a different local family!
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