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August 24 Bride
Savvy August 2024 Kilkenny

Help!!! How to word no children under 12 at my wedding?!?

August 24 Bride, 15 May, 2023 at 10:42 Posted on Planning 0 2

Currently in the process of drafting our wedding invites and i need help!!!!!

Very controversial - but I simply don't want YOUNG children at my wedding. When i say young, i mean children who are not in control of their behaviour (such as crying, making noise) still during the most important events of our wedding day such as the ceremony and speeches.

We have a family member that is 13 years old who technically is a child, but we are inviting to our day. Along with some other family friends who have children who are around the same age. But for these 'children' I'm not worried about them because they simply are all well behaved and i know during them most exciting times they will be quiet.

I have other family members with young children from the ages of 2-5 who presume they are invited but how can i put it politely i don't want a small chance of a screaming baby or child saying mummy 3000 times during any of the speeches.

I feel a hypocrite for inviting these certain children over 12, but not my closer family members children who are under 12.

Any help would be great of how i can politely word this!



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Latest activity by RomanticGreenStationery27135, 15 May, 2023 at 15:22
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    Dedicated September 2023 Derbyshire
    Lizzie ·
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    We aren't having children at all, and have put this on our website:

    "We regret we are unable to invite children to our wedding. We hope that the advance notice means you are still able to attend."

    You could tweak it to say "We regret we are unable to invite children under 12 to our wedding" or similar. You don't need to explain specifically why. We have had to explain a few times that we aren't inviting children because we don't have room to accommodate everyone.

    Don't feel bad though - it's completely valid!

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    VIP July 2020 Monmouthshire
    RomanticGreenStationery27135 ·
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    I think @Lizzie's suggested wording is good, but since you are getting so many people assuming that they can bring those who are not named on the invitations, I wonder if you actually need to say something like "Due to venue limitations, we regret that we are only able to invite those who are mentioned by name on our invitations" or something similar - because you don't want people turning up with random extra guests who are older than 12 either!

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