Destination wedding - to invite kids or not?

I think kid free weddings are much harder to pull off when guests have to travel for them. That means either going out of town and leaving their kids behind, or hiring someone (probably a stranger) to watch them local to the venue. It's still well within your right to request that guests don't bring children, but I would be prepared for a few more declines than usual if you go this route. You could also consider other options like limiting the number of children by only inviting kids of family.

Yeah, you make a good point! I never thought of it like that. Thank you!

We had kids at our wedding, it was a destination for more than half our guests. I was worried about kids ruining things like crying during ceremonies, etc. but it ended up going really great. We had a kids room with a professional nanny service and most guests opted to use that for the ceremony, and the kids that hung out with their parents behaved super well. We still had plenty of a party atmosphere!

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It's funny because I have been to so many weddings but I never really focused on the kids until now as I am planning my wedding. I'm am also worried that kids might be running around or crying during ceremonies but I never thought of having a professional nanny service! I think I'm going to have to look into those services. Thanks!

When you have a destination wedding with no kids, you need to be prepared to a lot of declines. We were invited to a destination wedding in North Carolina, we live in Maryland. If our kids were not invited we would not have gone, solely for the fact that we wouldn’t have had a babysitter that we felt comfortable leaving out kids with that long.