Vent: Invited to 4 child-free weddings this summer

[Anonymous]

I've been attending weddings for 20 years and this is the 2nd to 5th time I've been invited to child-free weddings. I don't get it. At least for one wedding we know we're one of only 2 people with kids in the family. It's just so off putting. I'd frankly rather not be invited.

[Anonymous]

I prefer child free weddings but we also have a great support system nearby so getting help to watch DS is never an issue.

[Anonymous]

Gives me a great reason not to attend. Weddings blow anyways

[Anonymous]

Most of the weddings I go to a child-free and it is much preferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I prefer child free weddings but we also have a great support system nearby so getting help to watch DS is never an issue.

Most people in the DC area don't have this.

[Anonymous]

You're blessed to have an excuse not to go.

[Anonymous]

Just say no?

[Anonymous]

Get a sitter or send in your regrets. This is not hard.

[Anonymous]

My sympathies. I can beat you! Dh and I are both in a wedding. Our kids are flower girls. And they aren’t invited to the wedding. Our baby isn’t invited at all. It’s insanity trying to figure this out. We basically have a series of babysitters working long hours. And the baby is headed hours away to grandparents. It kills me that they’re invited to the rehearsal but not the rehearsal dinner. Don’t they realize how impossible this is for parents? The reason they aren’t invited to the reception is cost and because everyone has kids, which I get. But our girls are pretty devastated at not getting to go. I sit then down before every meeting and forbid them from mentioning it at all. We aren’t local to the wedding.

I too had a childfree wedding but we also didn’t know any kids. Our flower girl did come.

[Anonymous]

Just don't go, then. Would you rather have been not invited?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just don't go, then. Would you rather have been not invited?

I'm this poster. Wow, so you would have been rather not invited. You sound like a miserable person.

[Anonymous]

The kids take over the dance floor, spill things, cry, etc. Just not cute. IMO weddings are for adults.

[Anonymous]

Btw, I would love to be invited to multiple weddings!

[Anonymous]

I love kid free weddings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sympathies. I can beat you! Dh and I are both in a wedding. Our kids are flower girls. And they aren’t invited to the wedding. Our baby isn’t invited at all. It’s insanity trying to figure this out. We basically have a series of babysitters working long hours. And the baby is headed hours away to grandparents. It kills me that they’re invited to the rehearsal but not the rehearsal dinner. Don’t they realize how impossible this is for parents? The reason they aren’t invited to the reception is cost and because everyone has kids, which I get. But our girls are pretty devastated at not getting to go. I sit then down before every meeting and forbid them from mentioning it at all. We aren’t local to the wedding.

I too had a childfree wedding but we also didn’t know any kids. Our flower girl did come.

My spouse and I would not accommodate this. Just say no.