Reply to Vent: Invited to 4 child-free weddings this summer

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Vent: Invited to 4 child-free weddings this summer"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite way to do this is to split parents. The parent who is related to the couple or knows them best goes, and the parent who doesn’t stays home with the kids. It’s great to have a solo night, it makes travel much easier and cheaper, and a wedding is a great place to go stag. You probably already know people and if not, you can always make friends at a wedding. We do this even if our kids are invited. I don’t want to wrangle my kids at a wedding unless I really have to.

I love getting away to a quick solo wedding, and so does my spouse. Try it! [/quote]

Yes! We are seeing this more and more. It makes so much more sense than airfares for a family of 5, with the kids skipping school for a parent's cousin's wedding the kids barely know.

Also feel free to say no to a wedding. We had to, eventually, at the height of weddings for our cohort. It got to be too much with taking up all our travel budget and leave time, and having to forego other fun longer trips, to dash from a wedding in a random city for the weekend, without even getting travel deals, chaotic.

[/quote]

DP. I'd be questioning why the family as a whole is fine with a convicted pedophile being at a wedding, even a childfree one, much less IN the wedding. Maybe he's done his time and is in serious therapy and is remorseful etc. and shouldn't be excluded. But the one family I know where there was a convicted pedophile cut hin out of everything, forever. No remorse in that guy's case, though, and no treatment after he got out of prison. Sorry to derail. Just noting that if the pedophile cousin is reason to exclude kids from an event where those kids would (supposedly) be watched at all times, then he's nowhere near ready to be included in any events at all.

I think, for us, the disappointing part is that there isn't one family wedding we can go to because of this. So I don't mind skipping all or most but we don't get to see family even once because they all are not allowing kids.

I totally get the one wedding where the best man is a pedophile (no joke) but the rest it just sucks.[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics