How to Determine Whether or Not to Invite Children to Your Wedding

Making a guest list for your wedding can be an exercise in agony. You don’t want to leave anyone out, but you also can’t have the entire world there. One of the most difficult choices is when you determine whether or not to invite children to your wedding.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

1. Realize that if you tell your guests not to bring their children, you are requiring them to find a sitter or make other arrangements. Some of your guests may not attend based on that extra burden.
2. Realize that some of your guests may regard this request as a personal attack, even if it’s not. You may generate ill-feeling among friends and family members without meaning to.
3. Pinpoint a reason for not having children at your wedding. Is this a personal choice, or is something about the setting or ceremony inappropriate for children?
4. Determine how strongly you feel about not having children at your wedding. Is this a deep-seated and long-term desire, or just a passing thought?
   
   
5. Weigh the strength and source of your desire to not have children at the wedding against the feelings and inconvenience of your guests.

Tips & Warnings

• If you decide not to invite children to your wedding, you have to apply that decision equally, no exceptions.
• The etiquette is even more muddled if you want to invite children without their parents. Although rare, this does happen from time to time.
• If you decide to invite children to your wedding, you are somewhat expected to provide entertainment and a certain amount of supervision for them. If you decide to invite children to your wedding, you are somewhat expected to provide entertainment and a certain amount of supervision for them.

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