Anonymous wrote:I've been attending weddings for 20 years and this is the 2nd to 5th time I've been invited to child-free weddings. I don't get it. At least for one wedding we know we're one of only 2 people with kids in the family. It's just so off putting. I'd frankly rather not be invited.
Anonymous wrote:we are not planning a child free wedding but I expect that the parents will look after them and remove them if they are too destructive.
Anonymous wrote:Most of the weddings I go to a child-free and it is much preferable.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I've been attending weddings for 20 years and this is the 2nd to 5th time I've been invited to child-free weddings. I don't get it. At least for one wedding we know we're one of only 2 people with kids in the family. It's just so off putting. I'd frankly rather not be invited.
I’ve never been invited to that many child-free weddings. Honestly, OP, the bolded makes me wonder if one of your children is difficult. What do all of these child-free weddings have in common? Your kids. Any other connections that these weddings in common? Maybe an adult who can’t handle noise, or a different child who’s obnoxious? Maybe these are all friends who attended this one amazing child-free wedding and are copying the experience? Are they all strapped for cash and this is a way to cut corners? Look for the common thread. That will tell you the answer.
My one kid is gifted and going to TJ the other is probably about as calm as you can get, so no behavior issues. There is a pedophile (convicted) in the family that is a cousin and possibly causing all of this
Gee, ya think?!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I've been attending weddings for 20 years and this is the 2nd to 5th time I've been invited to child-free weddings. I don't get it. At least for one wedding we know we're one of only 2 people with kids in the family. It's just so off putting. I'd frankly rather not be invited.
I’ve never been invited to that many child-free weddings. Honestly, OP, the bolded makes me wonder if one of your children is difficult. What do all of these child-free weddings have in common? Your kids. Any other connections that these weddings in common? Maybe an adult who can’t handle noise, or a different child who’s obnoxious? Maybe these are all friends who attended this one amazing child-free wedding and are copying the experience? Are they all strapped for cash and this is a way to cut corners? Look for the common thread. That will tell you the answer.
My one kid is gifted and going to TJ the other is probably about as calm as you can get, so no behavior issues. There is a pedophile (convicted) in the family that is a cousin and possibly causing all of this
Anonymous wrote:Gives me a great reason not to attend. Weddings blow anyways
Anonymous wrote:My sympathies. I can beat you! Dh and I are both in a wedding. Our kids are flower girls. And they aren’t invited to the wedding. Our baby isn’t invited at all. It’s insanity trying to figure this out. We basically have a series of babysitters working long hours. And the baby is headed hours away to grandparents. It kills me that they’re invited to the rehearsal but not the rehearsal dinner. Don’t they realize how impossible this is for parents? The reason they aren’t invited to the reception is cost and because everyone has kids, which I get. But our girls are pretty devastated at not getting to go. I sit then down before every meeting and forbid them from mentioning it at all. We aren’t local to the wedding.
I too had a childfree wedding but we also didn’t know any kids. Our flower girl did come.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I've been attending weddings for 20 years and this is the 2nd to 5th time I've been invited to child-free weddings. I don't get it. At least for one wedding we know we're one of only 2 people with kids in the family. It's just so off putting. I'd frankly rather not be invited.
I’ve never been invited to that many child-free weddings. Honestly, OP, the bolded makes me wonder if one of your children is difficult. What do all of these child-free weddings have in common? Your kids. Any other connections that these weddings in common? Maybe an adult who can’t handle noise, or a different child who’s obnoxious? Maybe these are all friends who attended this one amazing child-free wedding and are copying the experience? Are they all strapped for cash and this is a way to cut corners? Look for the common thread. That will tell you the answer.
Anonymous wrote:I've been attending weddings for 20 years and this is the 2nd to 5th time I've been invited to child-free weddings. I don't get it. At least for one wedding we know we're one of only 2 people with kids in the family. It's just so off putting. I'd frankly rather not be invited.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
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.