Kid friendly or Adult only wedding?

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You are not the only all adult wedding I have been to. I mean kids in the wedding party it makes sense but do not feel obligated to allow people's kids to come. It is your day and if they do not want to get a babysitter that is fine, they can decline. I would say many of my friends that allow kids it is because they have kids themselves.

My fiancé is family oriented so kids are allowed.

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Yes! I have a son and a stepson but I, as well as everyone else, plan to enjoy the night freely without having to worry about kids. My kids will be there and they will go upstairs to the hotel room with my older niece and nephew when it gets a little later!

We invited everyone except for the ceremony I asked for the children to stay in the nursery room where the venues child caretaker is.

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There ya go. To me it is not offending anyone to state that it is an adult wedding. As I am sure you know there are some events where kids are not able to go and it is not the end of the world. That's just me though.

We are having an adult (21+) only wedding and reception. We came to that decision for several reasons, the main one being we are having a Destination wedding in New Orleans, and most of the activities we have planned are definitely not child friendly. We also wanted to ensure that everybody who chose to travel could have a fun mini vacation. We want everyone to be able to both relax, and be able to go out partying late into the night, not having to stay in a hotel room with kids. We also wanted to make sure both sets of our parents were able to have a great relaxing time. Both of our siblings have children, and the grandparents tend to be the ones who get stuck watching them while their parents go out. We did NOT want that happening during our wedding weekend, or even just during the reception. Also, I have been to multiple weddings where babies or young children have been loud or caused scenes during the ceremony. I don’t have any children of my own, and I certainly don’t want somebody else’s children ruining my big day. We are also not having any children in our wedding party, so there will be absolutely no exceptions to the 21+ age requirement. We weren’t sure how people would take our decision, and we’re completely prepared for some people to be offended and a higher rates of declines. We were both really surprised that no one has taken offense to our decision, and we have only had one decline due to children not being invited! I think adult only weddings are becoming more and more popular, and a lot of parents (at least all the ones we invited!) are more than happy to have a fun adult night out!

View Quoted Comment Couldn’t agree more! There are sooooo many places & events where children are not allowed to go- I don’t understand why some people get so offended when they are not invited to a wedding.

Our wedding is kid friendly. A lot of my family and a lot of our friends have kids. If they so choose to leave them home, then I won't argue lol but we wanted to make sure that they wouldn't feel rushed or pressured to find a sitter especially if they don't have access to one. All the kids are pretty well behaved so we're not worried about it.

We did exactly the same as you--adults only with the exception of our nieces who were flower girls. It was a formal evening reception and not the appropriate place for kids, in our opinion

I did kid friendly, we have kids, our siblings have kids, most of our family & friends have kids to tbh we probably wouldn’t have many guest if we did adults only. I know my SIL isn’t going to her other brothers wedding because he’s doing no kids outside of the wedding party. If only 1 -5 of your invites have kids no kids may be fine but consider how many invitees may be left struggling to find a sitter, especially if they have more than 1.

View Quoted Comment That's one of our big things too! My fiance's sister has 5 kids that he's super close with, and most of the other families in the family have kids, so I also think if we made it adults only, not many people would actually be able to go.

We are inviting children. Everyone in the families on both sides watches each others kids, so if kids aren't invited hardly anyone will be able to come.

We did the same thing as you. Originally we were going to include children, but then we would have way more people than we could afford so due to budget we had to exclude all children except for those in the wedding.

I really think it depends on the type of vibe you are goong for with your wedding. We are having a destination wedding so we opted to have adults only. We will also be having an open bar, and with that amount of "beverages" the adults can relax and celebrate without needing to concern themselves with their children. End the end, it's a preference.

We ended up downsizing our wedding to just immediate family and my husband has 10 nieces and nephews. We had everyone present at the ceremony, including kids, and for the reception we booked a conference type room that had a projector screen for them to watch movies and asked parents to bring any toys or activities for the kids. We did have my BIL’s Au pair and a baby sitter watching all of them. We decided it to be this way so parents could have some adult time at our wedding and not watch over their kids the entire time. It worked out really well!

We’re having kids at ours because I think it’s fun to include them and they’re adorable at weddings! I’ve been to adult only weddings (without children in the wedding party too), and they were also great!

View Quoted Comment Oh okay! Did you have any preference or was either fine with you?

View Quoted Comment Yeah it’s definitely a preference thing, I’ve seen both as well!

View Quoted Comment That’s a good idea! At least it was kid friendly activities for them to do as well.

View Quoted Comment We as well will be having open bar and wanted everyone to be able to just relax!