How did you clearly imply a "child-free" wedding day on your invitations?

I addressed only the invites guests on the envelopes and in the invitations by name. And RSVPs are on the website are limited to two people and it is listed in a friendly Rules section - No Kids please only those listed on the invitation. Overkill. Maybe, but it’s a destination wedding and I want everyone to party and have a great time with no stress.

We have a lot of young children in our family so we allow them, but on the website I strongly emphasized that there will be no effort make the reception a 'family friendly' event. Crying children will be asked to leave the ceremony and I openly encourage unnecessary drinking, cursing, and even recreational drug use. I hope a 6 year old sees their first non-maternal boobies at my wedding. It would be an honor greater than marriage itself.

A lot of people will say that it's tacky to indicate "adults only" on the invitation. Here's my thing. Because so many weddings nowadays seem to be skewed in that direction, I wanted to make absolutely certain everyone (even the kid-free people, who care about such things, too) knew that kids ARE invited, I put a note on my details card about it. "Children are welcome, this is a family friendly affair!" While I can see omitting that from the invitation, I think including it or its inverse ("We love your little ones, but the wedding will be an adult only affair.") on the details card is just fine.

Following for my future invites!

We had typed on our invites: "to allow all guests the night to relax and enjoy themselves, we have decided to make our day adults only, thank you for understanding"

I’m not putting it on the invitations but I am putting the names of the invitees as well as a like stating “we have reserved __ seats in your honor” to try to make it clear. Additionally we did add 21+ to the website.

I was just telling my fiancé the same thing. Only kids in the wedding will be at the reception.. I completely agree

There isnt a really nice way to put it. However, if you just add it on your RSVP website, I thin k at that point they will get it. I added it on my RSVP webite so that they will see it while they rsvp.

I think thats good enough. I dont feel like the children other than the ones apart of the ceremony need to be there. I also think that when kids are involved at a younger age they disrupt the ceremony and reception with crying, yelling, tantrums, and making messes that will need to be cleaned up.

I think a kid free wedding and reception just makes sense.

View Quoted Comment I cannot start to tell you how awesome that is!!

On the bottom of the invitation. We put . Adult reception to follow. It’s on our wedding website. I have verbally told some parents. I don’t want any blurred lines. Family members from out of town have already said they HAVE to bring their kids. I kindly let them know. They HAVE to pay for their childcare. This child free wedding policy is very touchy for some people. At the end of the day it’s your wedding. Just be straight forward.

We did our invitations saying Adult Only Dinner and Dancing for the Reception. We also have a large extended family and Everyone has been very understanding of the fact that if we added children we could almost double the amount of people and the hall can not hold that many people. We also created a Facebook Event and listed it as Adult Only. I have talked to my friends who have children and explained why we made this decision. People will understand!

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Yup! We put this phrase right on the RSVP. They have no excuse not to see it.