When I buy wedding invitations, and send them out, how do I make it clear that children are not invited?
Is the following question one that you can relate to?
There are a lot of children in
our extended families and as much as we love them, we really want our
wedding to be a formal event and having children there, we feel would
spoil the mood. How can we indicate that children are not invited?
If the children’s names are not included on the envelope of the
wedding invitation, the recipients should know that the children are not
invited. It seems a bit cruel to include “No children please” as corner
copy. The best thing you can do is to simply talk to those family
members and just tell them that you would love to include the children
but because of space, expenses (or whatever reason) have prevented you from
doing so.
What some couples have done is title their reception card,
“Adult Reception.” It is not totally proper but should get the job
done. If the children are not invited to the reception, logistically it
would be difficult to get them somewhere else after the ceremony and
get back to the reception, so in most cases your guests with children
would make other arrangements for childcare.
If you don’t mind having
the children at the wedding ceremony but want an adult reception, you could
arrange for the use of a room and hire a babysitter to care for the
children during the reception. You of course would have to provide
meals for them as well, so you would incur more expense trying to
please everybody. You really are better off just talking with the
families involved.
- When I buy wedding invitations, and send them out, how do I make it clear that children are not invited? How to handle wedding invitations - not to include children
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