Covid - Kid Free Wedding?

I would wrap my food up and not have it on display for people to touch, cough, sneeze, and breathe on, children or not. It would be extremely rude to send save the dates including children and then change your mind before invitations go out. Were the save the dates intended for your original wedding date, or are these new save the dates for your postponed date?

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STDs were for the original date, sent out in early March. We have informed people of the date change via text message.

The appetizers are planned to be meat, cheese, and vegetable trays, so difficult to "wrap" and portion out. The wedding we went to had the cookie table, no appetizers.

I don’t think it’s rude at all to say kids are no longer invited in this situation. All rules kinda went out the window with Covid. You could just say you had to cut yo ur guest list and kids can no longer attend

If the two of you decide together that not having children is the better option for your celebration, I would suggest ordering details cards to include in the envelope with your invitations. I would have them say something to the effect of:
Due to COVID-19 restrictions our wedding will now be an adult only affair.

I love the idea of having a cafeteria style where a worker gives the food. I'm doing buffet to and heard a lot of people had to change their buffet to a sit down dinner and I definitely don't want to do that. Normally kids are only allowed at the ceremony and the reception is adults only. We are doing a 21 and older ceremony and reception. The only kids at my wedding will be the ones in the wedding. I agree with you I don't really care for others kids. I know way too many people who don't actually parent their kids and therefore they have little trouble makers running around and they will not be allowed to bring them. I'm not having some problem child running my wedding that I paid a lot of money for because the parents don't know how to do their job. We are going to put on our invitations this is a 21 and older celebration. In your situation I'd put it down in the invitation that do to covid it will be adult only celebration.

You would be shocked at how bad rhe hygiene of many adults is. I would never have put back a cookie or touched food with my hands after the age of 6, but I have seen grown adults do that very thing. And adults seem more likely to spread the virus than small kids, according to some studies. Use servers and wrap everything, even if kids don't come.

My fiance and I are doing no kids at our big wedding, I don't think its a problem. And as you mentioned, you can always say that you had to cut your guest list and they are no longer invited. I wouldn't get offended by that at all.

View Quoted Comment I definitely agree with you. I've seen some pretty dirty habits coming from adults than I've seen with kids. I work with some people who don't know anything about good hygiene.

I was going to have kids at my wedding, but the COVID happened and we had to cut our guest list and we also decided to no have kids at all.

Im not having kids at the wedding and I’ve been set on that since day 1. Like a PP mentioned, some adults don’t supervise their kids at events and I don’t want to Deal with that. In the invitation , i simply said “adults only reception to follow” and on our wedding website, we have a q+a where one of the questions is “are children allowed?”

I think it’s completely ok to decide against kids now, just as long as you make it very clear on the invites and website. Everything else changed, so this is fine as well. We struggled with the decision for many of the same reasons and decided against them.

I was never having kids at my wedding at all. Especially when my venue is close to $200 a head. They don't behave, they get in the way of everyone's fun, and they are perpetually bored at fancy events. No thank you, COVID or not.

I'm not having kids at my wedding! I want the adults to actually enjoy themselves! Plus, this might sound bad, but I don't want to have to worry about kids ruining the venue.

I think that's a great idea - as others mentioned, make it clear on the invites/website. I've always imagined a kid-free wedding. Unfortunately, my husband has a niece and nephew he doesn't feel right not inviting. I don't have any young children on my side of the family, thank god (I hate children). Sooo, let's hope that goes well.