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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this issue here was transparency. If you say you are having a kid free wedding, that is what guests expect. And when they have gone out of their way to accommodate that and then find out that you made an exception for 10 kids, they will be annoyed. The bride and groom decide who to invite, but if my kids aren’t invited and other people’s are, I will decline if it is a hassle for me to attend without my kids. Clearly, in that scenario, the bride and groom value other people more than me (as is their right), so I get to decide how much inconvenience I am willing to put up with for them.

Bottom line, don’t lie to your guests to get them to come to your wedding. [/quote]

My husband and I were recently invited to a wedding; my children were not. It never occurred to me to wonder or ask whether any other kids would be there. When I arrived, I didn’t sniff around to find out if that 6yo eating cake at Table 3 was the bride’s niece/the child of the sister in the wedding party. Know why? Because I was at Table 4, enjoying my own damn cake.

What is wrong with you people, honestly? Sometimes, DH and I attend wedding and have my parents stay with our kids. In some cases, the one of us directly connected to the bride or groom attends the wedding, and the other one of us stays home with the kids. If our kids are invited, great! If not, fine. An invitation is not a summons, and so we know if attending would be a hardship, we decline. Or one of us goes. Or both of us go and we eat cake and have hotel sex.

Honestly, again, what is wrong with you hall monitor types? [/quote]

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