It would be nice for RE to give us the opportunity to match any and all registrants that come in on one registration form instead of expecting that each person attending an event/workshop, etc. who might possibly be a constituent will submit their own registration. People naturally have one person in their group fill in a registration for everyone in the group attending together.

related: Provide a shortcut to add a spouse Add an easy way to "add spouse as guest" from Party Information tile

I agree this would be helpful on both the donor-side registration forms and the backend registration. Currently if somebody new adds a guest via the web registration form, you cannot be certain it is their spouse/same household unless they are established constituents. The spouse registration is always treat as a new/duplicate nonconstituent record (unless you load the form with additional, tedious registration questions). That leaves data holes or dangerous assumptions. (I've had to correct multiple old records where staff incorrectly assumed spouse but it was a parent/child or brother/sister registration or alternatively, different last names so they were not linked in any way). On the backend when adding a guest to a host registration, staff always miss that the "Spouse" option is hidden underneath the "Add new"/search box dropdown, so they create duplicate records, causing SO MUCH data cleanup.

Currently, it is a multi-step process.

• Add one spouse as a participant

• search for the participant that was just added

• click on ellipsis by participant name to add guest

• click on a blank space in 'add guest dialog box' to expose the spouse's name

• click on the spouses' name

• click save

• rinse and repeat for each couple.