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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I LOVE kid-free events, and I'm from the NYC area where almost all weddings are kid-free affairs with lots of food and have an open bar.  However, for us, it comes down to expense.

Additionally, over the years, I have spent thousands attending out of state weddings that didn't work out.  So, therefore I no longer view a wedding as something I want to spend a bunch of money on, especially when the couple gets divorced within five years.  If it is a local wedding for a close friend, sure.  If it is an out of town wedding for a close friend, we usually "send a delegate".  I'm not hiring a weekend sitter to go to a wedding.

For what it is worth, I never understood the whole "just make a weekend out of it!" argument.  I don't want to spend my vacation time and money, both of which are finite resources, attending a wedding.  If I'm going to invest the time and money to enjoy a weekend away with my spouse, we are going to do exactly what we want to do.  But all that is kind of a hypothetical anyway, as we no longer have someone to watch our kids for a weekend (grandparents in ill health).[/quote]

I disagree with that last paragraph mainly because, even though I might bitch and moan a little bit to DH about having to go to a wedding in the middle of nowhere, if it's going to be a big reunion of friends, it will be fun no matter where it is.  At this stage in our lives, we rarely get to see friends from high school, friends from college, and friends from grad school UNLESS it's at someone's wedding, and if that means leaving our kid once or twice a year with grandma to schlep to Schitt's Creek for a wedding, so be it.  (Again, if you don't have the money or the trusted childcare, that is different).[/quote]

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