To invite or to not invite children?

What are you doing for your reception? I am torn between inviting kids and not inviting them. It's a Sunday night wedding. Please vote and tell me why either way.

thanks

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I also am having a Sunday evening wedding, and I am not having any children at my wedding.

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Depends on how many kids you are going to invite. I would only invite children who are family.

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I am getting married on a Saturday night and we decided not to invite children. It would have added another 40 people or so to our guest list and the list is already over 275. We made exceptions for a few close family members like my two cousins who are under 18( both 16), my brother who is nine and FH's sister who is 12. After consulting a few of our friends with kids, their general thought that was that it was better not to invite them, that it is actually more fun for the parents that way.

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I'm having a Saturday night wedding and not inviting kids.

I've been to a few weddings with kids and they always seem to follow the bride and groom around in a big heard, tugging on her dress, wanting to dance, etc. I just don't think kids understand the importance of the day for the bride. Also, I have friends that are parents, and they too agree that it's more fun to leave the kids at home this way they can have an adults night out.

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We're only having the children that are in our BP ( 3 FGs and 2 RBs)

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we're inviting kids from the immediate family only

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We aren't having any kids in the wedding party, but immediate family will be invited. Two of my cousins have kids, and my family would be upset if they weren't there to participate.

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We are not having any kids.

I have two sisters each with kids (at the time of the wedding one niece will be 14 months and the other 17 months) and with friends we would have 18 kid between the ages of 7 and 14 months.

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We are inviting kids. Our guest list is pretty small and I don't get to see my cousins very often. We are only inviting children of our family members though. :)

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I love kids at a wedding! Since we have 5 between us the more the better.

NO WAY!! LOL

My family thinks Im being mean, but at over $80pp and Id say about 50 of them are under 20 years old - no way. Im inviting 20 and older... Im having 2 ringbearers, 1 flowergirl, 1 junior bridesmaid and 1 little usher.... thats all the kids for me LOL

I should add Im a elementary specials teacher and have about.. 200 per week. I need to get away!!!! :)

If I had the money I honestly would do it, but weddings today are just too expensive.

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Posted by littlebookworm4

we're inviting kids from the immediate family only

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Same here - FI's son, my 7 nieces and nephews (age 9 - 16) & his nieces and nephews (age 7 - 27). I have two infants on the list too (FI's great niece and great nephew) but I'm not sure they'd really bring them out.

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We didn't have too many kids in the family, so we invited them. If we had many young children in the family I would not have. We only had 2 kids in the BP: my niece (FG, 6) and DH's cousin (RB, 4.) Then we had his other cousin (9), and then then we did have a couple of teenagers (only 2 under 18.)

Re: To invite or to not invite children?

we are still torn about this also.. but leaning towards inviting them.