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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, the invitation was very clear it was intended for only you and your husband per how it was addressed. As for your children, can’t your in-laws (DH’s parents or siblings?!) watch your children for the weekend at your home or theirs?  You are looking at this myopically and need to be flexible.[/quote]
Not OP, but not everyone has local family.  [b]In my case, for example, we'd have to fly in a set of grandparents[/b] (no siblings live close enough to travel to our home without taking time off of work), on top of our own travel expenses.

Also, OP *doesn't* need to be remotely flexible.  Just as a bride and groom can decide that they don't want kids, and don't need to be flexible about other people's kids or make any extra effort to accommodate people's desire to bring their kids, so, too, people with kids can decide that they don't want to travel to attend a wedding if their kids are not invited.  They don't need to be flexible or make extra effort to accommodate the couple's desire to have a kid-free wedding.  [/quote]

And I've flown in a grandma before to attend a wedding when the person meant that much to me. It's about priorities on both sides: the bride & groom's priorities to have the kind of event they want understanding some people may not attend, and the parents' priorities of money and familial favors to make it happen.

Both our moms and all our au pairs have been happy to travel with us to the wedding destination and then do some sightseeing before and after the wedding activities. As long as we are all traveling might as well enjoy Chicago/San Diego/Vermont etc. [/quote]

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