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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousin got married several years ago and it was a "no kid" wedding.  I had a two month old nursing infant and two older kids.  She kept saying that she was looking forward to seeing me, etc, etc.  What an adventure it would be for the older kids to babysit their baby brother in the hotel room while we celebrated downstairs.  I told her there was no way I'd leave a 12 and 9 year old with their baby brother with no way to feed him.  Her big concern was adding 3 more guests to the "expense list" for meals.  I finally told it wouldn't be possible for baby and I to attend (the older two never had planned on wanting to come).
My parents went to the wedding/reception.  Guess what?  A buttload of kids everywhere!  My kids ARE well behaved (I know everybody says this) and she hadn't even met 2 of the three.  Of course it got back to me and the other cousins that didn't go b/c of kids that she straight up lied to us about it being a "no kid" wedding.
Fast forward 3 years when her brother got married.  Again, we're told its kid free with certain exceptions---I was now nursing another newborn.  My Aunt was all over the cousins begging them to come, she was trying to right the wrong of 3 years earlier.  Um, no thanks.  I sent a card and gift from the registry with my parents instead.
What I'm saying is, make your wedding kid-free if you want, don't be pissed when you have effectively excluded some of your guests and for fecks sake, don't invite kids from some families and not others if you don't want family to find out that you really didn't mean kid free[/quote]

Ugh.. Totally agree. I am fine with a no kid wedding. And fine with no kid except immediate family, nursing babies, or some obvious rule. But nothing annoys me more than going through leaps and bounds to abide by the rules without being a PITA guest (which has involved flying in a family memnver to warch the kids so we can attend the event), only to find that there were many many exceptions made. If im shelling out a few hundred dollars for extended childcare, i dont want to sit at a table full of kids whose parents dient bother to do the same. Either invite kids or dont. But make up your mind. [/quote]

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