no children?

l.owenswifey

i'm getting married next march, and am the daughter of a pastor.. who is officiating my wedding. the church has already been invited which bumps my guest list up, but also means people will bring their CHILDREN. how do i word my invitations to exclude children without hurting anyone's feelings?

Tisha.

You can't add that to your invite.  Not having children at the wedding takes some (sometimes akward) leg work really.

You can't put "no children" anywhere on the invites.

You can mention something on your wedding website.  And you have to use word-of-mouth too.

The easiest way to do it, is to make sure you address EVERYTHING ONLY to the people invited.  There should be no, "and Family" type stuff anywhere.  Or no, "Smith family" or anything like that. 

And, I put specific names on my RSVP cards, and also put the number of seats held for those people.

Most everyone got the point, and I only ended up having to call 1 person to let them know.

Here's what my RSVP postcard looked like, for reference.

lilianne22

Yep, what Tisha said.  You can mention no children on your website and have your invitations only include the names of those who are invited.  If you do all of that and someone still trys to add their child on their rsvp, then you have to make the phone call to them to let them the invitation did not include their child but you hope they can make it to your wedding.