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[quote=Anonymous]I'm now in my (early) 40s so am just past the phase of life when everyone I know is getting married.  So, this doesn't come up much for us.  Most of the weddings we're invited to now are people we're distantly related to (like cousins we barely see) and, when they invite us for a no-kids event, it usually is an out-of-state wedding I would not have shelled out the money/taken the time off work to attend anyway.  We send a gift and our best wishes and that seems like enough.

It really does not bug me in the least when a couple decides to have a no-kids wedding.  Like some PPs, I come from a big extended family so it would have felt odd to me to exclude some of the family members I feel close to (I have cousins 20 years younger than I am who were technically kids when DH and I married--but they were kids I'd known their whole lives!)  But, different strokes.

As my kids get older I'd be more likely to consider a far-away wedding in a place where we knew friends/family who could babysit.  I am not interested in leaving my kids here and flying thousands of miles away--no judgment on those who do, I just don't do it--and also not interested in taking them to a strange place to be watched by someone I don't know.  [/quote]

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