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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, 62 pages on this topic!  Clearly, people have strong feelings.  I'm going to tack on my perspective as a wedding professional.

People who don't allow children at weddings are doing the right thing in terms of hosting a large event.  [b]A child or two, especially those over 12 or under 3, will not cause any problem.[/b]  However, the very worst weddings I've been to have been those with 5-6 elementary age-d children running loose like a pack of wild animals.  I don't know why weddings lead to this - for some reason, parents don't feel the need to supervise closely at a wedding venue, and think it must be fine if they with "the other kids."

It's not fine.  They are incredibly destructive - this is an elegant event where breakable property and artistic creations of a large number of vendors is out on display.  Children damage, dirty, and break things all the time.  I've been at weddings where a pack of children did so much damage that vendors returned and just cried over what had been done to their decor items.

Please, limit kids at weddings.  It isn't the appropriate setting for them.  [/quote]

I strongly disagree that a child under 3 will not cause any problem.   Years ago, my husband's brother got married.    His sister brought her son who was about 2 years old.   The kid ran around the dance floor, shrieking and screaming, while the bride's brothers were trying to make a nice speech honoring their sister and new BIL.    Dh's sister (the kid's mom) just sad and giggled and murmured that he was "so precious!"  The bride's brothers literally stopped in the middle of the speech and waited for sister-in-law to come get the kid, but of course she didn't-just continued sighing and giggling.  Finaly they asked her to come get him and she did. [/quote]

This is precisely why you don't have to invite kids, even if it's "family".  If you want an event to go like this, go for it, but if not, then you are not required to invite brats to your wedding, even if it is a close relative.  Many parents simply do not know how to handle their kids or do not expect them to behave.  Hint: if they are misbehaving you remove them from the room so everyone else doesn't have to have their evening interrupted by your brat.

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