Kids at rehearsal dinner

Are those kids' parents going to be at the rehearsal dinner? If so, their kids need to be invited too.

Just like inviting kids to the wedding. Make it known by word of mouth that it's an adults only event

Are these kids parents in the wedding? If they are, then yes, they would be invited.

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I'm going to two rehearsal dinners in the next 3 months. For both, my husband is in the bridal party, too. We will not be bringing our infant; as far as I know she's not invited to the dinner or rehearsal. She isn't invited to either weddings (kids never are, around here), and we've arranged childcare.

My sister had a couple of kids, in her bridal party, and their parents were invited to attend the rehearsal/dinner with them. Children of the adult bridal party members were not in attendance, nor invited to the wedding.

I feel you, I had 11 nieces and nephews coming into our marriage and DH had 13. However, if people are traveling and the kids are included in the weekend generally, they should be included in the rehearsal dinner.

Fortunately, if you're having a sit-down dinner, most places have a reduced price on the kid's menu.

The kids aren't a part of the wedding. And, everybody lives in town. We are having dinner and rehearsal at the same venue. Would the kids be a distraction? I feel they would get bored and want to run around the place

Then no. ?they don't need to be invited.

My mom works for Domino's pizza and had catered to the kids of the wedding. They hire babysitters for the night and all the kids hang out at a nearby hotel waterpark/pool. If your wedding isn't at a hotel then you could probably pay as if you were having a birthday party at the pool or maybe there are already enough families staying at that hotel for the wedding no one will notice a few extra kids running around.

I do not think they need to be invited. We are having an adults only rehearsal dinner and I have 6 nieces and nephews that could technically be there. FH and I just want to keep it an adult crowd and the guest list is already pretty high with his immediate family and wedding party, dates etc. Thankfully my sister and brother are totally okay with this. I am arranging pizza, popcorn and movies for them at my house though. Also polish for the girls and other goodies.

They only need to be invited if their parents are involved in the wedding ceremony and will be attending the rehearsal dinner.

Are the parents part of the wedding though?

ETA: Oh i see that they're local. IDK I don't think it's necessary to invite the kids, especially if everyone is able to get a babysitter.

If you don't have to invite the kids of the people in the bridal party to the wedding, why would you have to invite them to the rehearsal dinner? This isn't meant to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious.

Honestly this is why I am having ours at the pizza place by our venue. People can sit back and relax and not worry. (We will be seeing up before so might be a little rumpled) my fmil is paying so I want to keep the guest list to just adults for the most part and I am guessing most won't bring their kids and some won't even bring their spouse.

My FMIL is hosting ours so our 8 nieces and nephews will be there. I have none on my side. Kids of members of the bridal party are not invited to the RD or the wedding. I would talk to your siblings in person to give the a heads up. You talk to yours and FH talk to his. If you put it out there now gently when it comes time to make arraignments it hopefully will not be a big deal.

Thanks Cassie! I actually text my FSIL, BC she's been to a lot of weddings and asked her if she brought her kids to rehearsals and she said no... And she has 4kids so yayyy, we r all on the same page

Yay! That's great!

I don't want kids at the rehearsal dinner except for my two grandchildren who are in the wedding. My son says it is their rehearsal dinner and insist on having 4 additional children there. I am a single mother hosting this dinner with a limited budget . Although it will be buffet style I still want it to be semi-formal dress. I've read it is up to the grooms parents who are paying for the dinner to include kids if their parents are invited regardless of the kids not being in the wedding to kids who are not in the wedding should not be invited nor do they have to be invited. There is already much strain involving this wedding. What should I do. Give in to make my son and his fiance happy? Or insist that no other children and add to the already growing tension with the possibility of not being able to attend my only child's wedding? HELP!!!

We are going to have a laid back rehearsal dinner and will open the invite up to children. I would prefer not to, but my thinking was that we already specified no children at the reception and we feel it's asking a lot for people to get sitters 2 nights in a row. Unfortunately this means possibly 10 very young kids (under 5) will be there causing noise and needing looked after but we don't want to ask too much of our WP.

ETA: Just realized how old this original post is. That's what the search bar will get you.