No children?

Not at all! it's your day. Most parents are pretty understanding as long as it's spelled out ahead of time so they can get a sitter.

Address it to the parents only and you can also put adults only wedding on a wedding website or spread it by word of mouth. I had a friend put __ of __ adults attending on the rsvp card which I thought was a good way to give people the hint.

It is your day.. absolutely not wrong that you don't want kids there. Hell, we are getting married at a summer camp we rented out and we aren't inviting any kids haha I've read here it is rude to put it on the invitations and only on the website, but not sure everyone will get the idea especially if they don't look at the website.

Oh.. When btw.. We sent out our save the dates and were very specific about who was invited on the front. No ( ___ family) just all specific names and at least one couple thought their 3 children were invited.. So that's why we're not sure if the website wording will be sufficient.

Nothing wrong with not wanting kids at the wedding! We aren't either. Address the invites to the adults only. On the RSVP card you can out a line that says ___ seats have been reserved in your honor and write the number in BEFORE you send out invites. You can also put the info on your website if you have one and spread it through word of mouth. When we were asked about it, we said straight out, "no kids, adults only." And so far everyone has been cool with it. Invites go out in a few weeks so I guess we will see once rsvps start coming in.

We started off with word of mouth....for anyone who asked at the time of the Save the Dates, we just let them know that no children would be allowed (sans the kids in the wedding party). We then also put it on our wedding website information AND we put "Adult Affair Only" on our RSVP cards right under the "We have ___ of ___ seats reserved for you".

We, unfortunately, are still getting told that children are coming, and we have reached back out to those people with very strict/firm responses. If children are brought, we will ask the person to leave as they disregarded our request. I am no longer being nice....

I would add it to the details card and address the invite just to the adults and not the family. If anyone returns the RSVP with children's names, reach out to them and let them know that it's an adult only affair.

I would put on the invitation that for safety concerns, it will be adults only. That should be a relief to parents.

Word of mouth, wedding website and I also put it on the RSVP (This is an adults only affair) we are in the same boat, no kids here🙅🏻‍♀️

Put it on the invite... period. My sister did "word of mouth" and a lot of people didn't take it seriously. Because of that, there were several groups of family who were quite peeved and it caused a lot of rifts in the family. I decided to put "we ask that you please respect our wishes for a child free event" on our invites, RSVP card and our website. My grandma actually told me that she appreciated it so that there was no confusion. I had friends who called and said "thank you for having no kids!". Be explicit about it so there is no confusion or people trying to change your mind.

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Good for you! You get the wedding you want. Ultimately, they would be looked at poorly by other guests for "not following directions".

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I really like how you worded that!