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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all much operate in very different circles than us.  I’m in my mid forties, and this summer attended the first “kids invited” wedding I’d had since I was a teenager. Literally, not one of the 50+ weddings we’ve attended in 25 years has invited kids except this one. People in our circles - bride/groom or guests - don’t want kids at weddings. They suck.  This includes travel weddings, local, etc. I’ve never heard a guest complain about the policy. Sure, sometimes people aren’t able to attend because they couldn’t set up childcare, or they leave a spouse at home and attend solo/with friends.  No one frets or fumes.  We have a great time.

The kid wedding this summer was the same as those I attended in my teens - felt like a lame hoedown where the parents preened over the kids, the dancing/partying aspect was dull and shut down by 11, and there was always kid drama (t[b]his last wedding a kid fell out his of chair before dinner, sliced open his cheek, was wailing for an hour, half the room was attending to him, including the bride, and the family photos were a mess because of it[/b]).

Point of this is that there is a huge swath of society that thinks not just that it’s acceptable to have a kid free wedding, but that it’s highly unusual to have kid weddings.  Stop taking it personally.  [/quote]

The bolded is why people don't want kids at their wedding (I did not have a kid-free wedding, btw).

Why didn't his parents remove him immediately and tend to his cheek? Who TF lets their kid cry for an HOUR at someone's WEDDING? The same people who don't leave the ceremony when their baby starts crying, I suppose.[/quote]

The kind of people who can't fathom a few hours away from their kids, that's who lets their kids wail and carry on. The same people who think it's adorable when kids take over the dance floor and get in the way of the couple's first dance or father/daughter dance. Because the wedding is just an opportunity for them to dress their kids up and show them off, there is nothing else important taking place that day. These people can't imagine that other's don't like to listening to whining, crying and screaming, and would never think to remove their kids from the situation when they can't behave or inevitably get hurt.[/quote]

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