My brother and SIL are graciously enough to have offered to throw us an engagement party, and we happily accepted. Now the party won't be until Sept, but we are trying to get a-hold of the date and a few plans now since I have a few siblings that live out of state that need to book tickets, and a cousin that will be coming in from Germany as well since they won't be able to make the wedding.
Anyways, we are able to have up to 50 people, they will be ordering tents, chairs, etc. Well my question is would it be completely rude to ask guests to not bring kids? We are already having a no kid wedding/reception, but since this party is being held in someone else's house, i feel it would be kind of rude on our part to allow guests to bring all of their kids. FI is very close with his distant family, and each of his cousins have about 2 kids each. Which again if it was my house, i wouldn't mind it so much, but not every child is perfect, and not every parent will be able to keep a full watch on where they are and if they have gotten into something, and neither will FI and I. FI's argument was, "well I don't see how they will be able to come without their kids"...but wouldn't it be the same with the wedding? I ran a quick list last night, with adding children, it was already up to 45 people, not including any of our wedding party (only reason WP has been chosen so soon is because they have all been friends since childhood, or family). Thoughts?
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