Children at the wedding?

View Quoted Comment I like the idea of making a list of just the children. We're inviting children 😅

We only invited the children of our immediate family (our nieces and nephews). We thought about doing no kids, but my fiance has kids of his own and we didn't want them to be bored. It should only be 8-10 kids between the ages of 2 and 15.

We decided not to have children because the few smaller children that would be for sure attending are terrors! We wouldn't mind the older kids but then it becomes a debate, argument issue etc. Well if he can come, why can't he etc so we opted to not have any. It helps that we do not have a bridal party (flower girls, ring bearer).

View Quoted Comment We decided no too. Just seems like added stress that I don’t want. It would be one thing if I knew that the parents would be watching them the entire time but I have been to weddings where the kids are just running around like crazy. It’s not that big of a deal just something that I would rather not have at my wedding. On top of that if we did let kiddos come to the wedding our guest count would sky rocket. I am having my young cousins who I on a weekly basis see and take them places be the ring bearer, and flower girls. I even asked their mom if they would be bored being the only kids and she goes “on no they can go home after the ceremony too! They don’t need to stay” 😂 wish more of the mamas were simple like that! But I also think that the kiddos that don’t come to the wedding will totally be able to attend the bridal shower as that is something I wouldn’t mind everyone being there for.

We're having kids at ours. We have a minimum guest count we pay for and they help us get there. We're serving them the same meal as the adults and will get a small discount for them since their beverage options are limited. Our venue has a kids meal option, however, I don't thin the kids will go for it when they see what the adults are eating.

I couldn't imagine our day without them, I am so close to my nieces and nephews, and it is such an important day in our lives I want them there with us. I think it so good to expose them to a day full of love.

We have a big family with lots of kids and friends with kids...
usually kids under 12 are counted separately and you won’t be charged as much as an adult.
We chose to only invite kids who were family members. Otherwise the number of children would have outnumbered the adults.
If that’s bad I don’t really care haha. I have two of my own an understand sometimes it’s better to leave the kids home. But for my wedding they will likely steal the show ❤️❤️