Inviting Children To Your Wedding - Yes or No?
Kids just love a wedding. It’s probably more to do with the dressing up than anything else, but even the most cherubic loses interest fairly quickly, so you need to come up with a sure-fired remedy to keep them sweet. Professional crèches are the perfect solution. Trained individuals will arrange everything needed to keep the little darlings happy, and you’ll know they’re in a safe and secure environment, while you party on.
Planning a wedding is all about decisions, and one of the trickiest is whether or not to invite children. You have to decide on this one fairly early in the planning, since the presence of children might affect your choice of venue, and will definitely affect your numbers and budget.
If you’ve got a clutch of child attendants to accompany you down the aisle, have young children of your own or the day wouldn’t be complete without the sound of children - both happy and unhappy - then you’ve already made the decision.
If, on the other hand, you’re apprehensive at the thought of children’s voices possibly interrupting your ceremony, and you don’t much like the idea of them frolicking around at your reception, you have to run the risk of upsetting some of your friends by excluding children from the guest list.
Hopefully everyone will understand that it’s your day, and not take offence. It will probably be the case that many of your guests - and even some parents - will be pleased rather than upset, though you may lose a few who can’t arrange suitable care or are nursing young babies.
If children are to be included on the guest list, you can minimise possible problems. It’s quite acceptable for ushers to have a quiet word with guests with young children, requesting they sit at the back of the church or civil venue and take their child out if it becomes noisy. This should decrease the risk that you’ll have to listen to little Emily or Jack’s crying every time you listen to your wedding video over the following 50 years.
