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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

If your kids are in the wedding party, I imagine you’re pretty close to the bride or groom.  What they’re doing is insulting.  If they truly want child free, they shouldn’t have children in the wedding party.[/quote]

Seriously. This is awful. It's like the bride/groom don't realize children are actually people too, just there for a pretty picture. I would bow out of this wedding.

I think it's totally reasonable to have a child-free wedding (although not at all the norm in my family - weddings are for the families, the whole family) but if you do you 1) have to include any children participating in the actual wedding in all the other events and 2) not get mad at people not coming because they have childcare issues.[/quote]

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