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[quote=Anonymous]I had a no kids wedding almost 20 years ago, as did all of my friends who married around the same time frame, as did my cousins before me, and even friends and relatives who got married long after we already had kids. So I hardly think this is a new concept or because of instagram.

For us to have invited kids, the closest in relation to my side would have been my mother’s first cousin’s daughter’s children who were 3 and 1 at the time of the wedding. There were none on my husband’s side at all, no matter how convoluted of a connection. And none of our friends had children then either.

Over the years we’ve either attended as a couple if we could get sitters, one of us has attended solo, or we haven’t gone, which I think only happened once for a destination wedding at an international adults only resort, where we had no one who could keep our children for a long weekend and sending one of us solo would have been a huge $$ burden since you pay for dual occupancy at those places.

I also recall when the first wave of my mom’s first cousins’ children were getting married and my sibling and I were sub 10 years old, we were not invited and were left with sitters. My parents even went to Ireland to a wedding of one of my mom’s first cousins (not a destination wedding) when I was 12 and we were left home with a relative on the other side of the family. I didn’t attend a wedding until I was nearly 18. [/quote]

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