HOw to tell parents no children at reception-Need help!

HockeyFan4

its one thing if the parents decide this (my parents decided to do it when i was a FG and my grandparents came and picked me up) its another for you to decide it.
ugh

Melanie2012

You could always just tether them to a pole outside the reception hall.  That'd keep 'em out of your way.

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CLECyclist

OP this is probably one of the most messed up/rude things I've ever heard of someone trying to do. Kudos.

Habs2Hart

OMG - Yes Mel!  Totally one of the flower girls was mad cross-eyed. 

OP - The only way you can have these kids not be there is if the parents choose to not have them there, but you cannot ask.  At all.

My niece is my flower girl, and my brother and his wife have her parents taking her and her sister (who's 5 months right now) away after pictures.  But that's because they want a night out and dinner starts pretty much at her bedtime anyway.  But they chose to do that.  The girls were more than welcome.

SparrowSong

Why on earth are you including an entire gaggle of children in your wedding party if you don't want children to be part of your wedding day? I agree with former posters, you can't treat children like disposable props that you can dismiss when you're done with them. Even though they are kids you are supposedly honoring them by giving them positions within the ceremony. They are people still deserving of respect, kidness, and good etiquette. They have to be including in the reception invitation, they just have to. There is also absolutely no way you can exclude a days-old infant either (and I would also seriously prepare for the fact that MOH may not be able to attend at all depending on when that baby is actually born).

I would check yourself because you are seriously dancing past the line and into bridezilla territory.

dragossoul84

I'm in awe of you. You are unreasonable and rude. If you dont want kids at your reception then you dont get to have every child you know in your wedding party.