Seating for the "smaller" guests

This is one of the questions i still have to ask my venue actually! I don't think it is rude if there is nothing else you can do but maybe if there isn't many little ones you could get some booster seats in the sales after xmas? You can get them from mothercar, toys r us etc and they are padded bottoms that sit on top of the normal chairs and attach onto them with clips. Think they are usually around £20 each but if you can pick some up in the sales you might get them for £10 each or have a look around online?

TBH I don't think you have a choice, I would be annoyed to turn up to an event with my LO and find that I can't put her anywhere other than my lap at the risk of getting food on me when I try to feed her. If I knew I had to provide something I would buy something like this

Definatlely let them know it's not your fault but you didn't want them to be in an awkward situation on the day. The will appreciate it

HTH

Ruth

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We will be asking our guests as our venue only has 3 highchairs and we have around 10 or so under 2s coming. There is no way we cud supply highchairs for all the children and I think our friends realise this as there are so many coming. Most have booster seats and we have 2 that we are bringing as well. Maybe see if you can pick a couple up cheap 2nd hand on netmums or freecycle that you can take, but I wudnt be annoyed if someone asked us to take a seat for DD, just warning first.

Thanks for the advice, my best friend/Bridesmaid is one of the ones who'll be affected as she had her baby only 2 weeks ago, so I may ask how she'll feel about having to bring a highchair along.

We're getting marriend on the Isle of Wight where a lot of my family live and some of them have contacts with other local hoteliers, so I may also as a long shot see if anyone would be willing to lend us some highchairs for the day, worth an ask I guess.

If people can't fit their high chair in their car, they could just use their pushchair for feeding. Some highchairs are really bulky.

Or maybe you could contact a local nursery to see if they would lend you the highchairs (Even for a donation) for the day (If it's a weekend wedding)

Ah, now there's an idea, it is a weekend wedding. That could well work, thanks for that seed, I'll see what I can find out.

No problem, I did do a quick google search to see if there were any baby equipment hire companies over there but didn't look like it, everything's based over this side.

You could try and bribe them with ELC vouchers for new equipment or something if they aren't willing to just lend them out.

Its a great idea of contacting a local nursery for the day (if the wedding is on weekend) with some fixed money as contribution.

Whilst contacting a nursery is a good idea in theory, how much do u think you will have to offer without sounding cheeky? £50?

How many children will you need highchairs for and will they all be little babies? As u have a while, asdas have their baby event on a few times a year, and on the last day they normally have booster seats with a little tray that strap onto the dinning chairs for £7.50

https://direct.asda.com/Swing-Tray-Booster-Seat/002650580,default,pd.html

similar to this. Wud it be a better idea, to maybe buy a few of these, say if u only need 5 as they compact pretty small, keep the boxes then u can sell them on after the wedding and prob make back at least what u spent, or is that too much hassle? Not idea for small babies but good for older babies and toddlers.

Thanks for the idea, I'm going to save that page as a favourite in my wedding research folder, so I can consider it at a later date. I might sound a few of my guests out, maybe the ones with tiny babies to see what they'd like to do, and then once I have my confirmed guest list sorted I can look at how many I need and for what ages and start preparing something like this. And like you said, I can sell them on as nearly new after the wedding.

What would I do without you guys for inspiration and advice ?