Backpacker magazine lists 10 considerations before you buy. Among them:
Measure your tent. In many tight two-person tents, full-length sleeping pads overlap at the feet, which means you’re carrying some mattress that you don’t need. One solution is a mummy-shaped pad; another is Cascade Designs’ Link Rest system (see The Minimalist Bed), which has interlocking dovetail edges for linking several pads.
Initially I thought you could just go with the stated measurements of your tent but it seems you’d be far better off getting it set up and doing a real-world accounting of how much space you’ve got.
Yeah, I am in full agreement with the “trial set up” prior to purchasing. I picked up a Big Agnes Seedhouse SL2 last spring for an unreal price, but found after setting up that it’s comfortable for 1, very, very tight for two – unless one is a small pet. I love the tent, however…just figured I could get my wife in at the same time. Still looking for the Right One…MSR maybe? An update of my old faithful Eureka?