I have been invited to a wedding in August. On the bottom of the invitation it says "no children allowed". Have you ever heard of such a thing?

I was actually a little taken back by this. I know her daughters are in the wedding and so isn't her 3 year old niece and 5 year old nephew. Other than that, no other kids are allowed.

It just seems weird to me. I would think you would want everybody celebrating with you on your wedding day. I guess her decision was based on how much the food cost at the reception all.

What do you think? Ever been to a wedding where children were not allowed?

I have been invited to one wedding. They had on the bottom of the invitation "Adults Only". It was a very expensive sit down dinner reception, so I can see why they didnt' want children at the reception.

At my sons wedding they don't want any children at the actual wedding ceremony. It has already caused some hard feelings. They want a very small wedding ceremony~ at first it was just their parents and siblings. They decided to invite my sisters and their husbands/ and her moms siblings and spouses. This leaves off their children and their children, but seeing how they wanted it small you have to cut off somewhere.

I was once and it was awful, the bride just kept saying she didn't want a load of kids running around and upsetting the adults, they had no kids themselves then, but now they have and we have all been invited to a wedding during the summer and there is no kids allowed and she is the 1st one complaining saying it's silly and trying to get a childminder for a whole day and night is impossible, I felt like telling her that's how we all were at her wedding.

Although I dont have any kids yet, I haven't been to any wedding where children weren't allowed, and if it was the case it would be really odd. Even when I was small there was nothing like that sort where kids were not allowed. However in Indian or I can say Asian society when people come and give wedding invitation cards they generally address it on the card if they want the whole family to come or not. If they just want one person or the couple to come to the wedding then they address the wedding card as Mr and Mr XXXXX are invited..............., and if they want the whole family to come then its addressed as Mr and Mrs XXXXX with family. So in a way its said in an indirect way.
Personally I don't think its a good idea to write such things on wedding initiations, I mean its always nice to go to weddings as a family including the kids, and kids are not from the jungle that they will ruin the wedding or something. Sometimes people make special arrangements for kids on the side like a bouncy castle, so they can stay busy in their own things, that way they get to come to wedding and the bride and grooms family don't have the fear of the wedding being ruined or in Mommy2's case the kids upsetting the adults.

@ Mommy2 - well least she knows how it feels about not having the kids being invited to a wedding.

I actually attended a wedding wherein no kids were allowed, other than the ones part of the entourage of course. Her reason was to keep the ceremony solemn and we know, sometimes kids are uncontrollable, right? However she held a party the next day wherein everybody was invited.

My mums wedding was a no kids allowed affair. The simple reason was that there would have been more children than adults at the wedding and it would have been more like a rowdy childrens party than a wedding celebration.

I have to admit that a few of the adults didn't like it because they had to pay out for a baby sitter.

My son was just married and they didn't want children at the wedding ceremony, but they were invited to the reception. My sister was one to complain. She asked what she was suppose to do with her daughter? I said, get a sitter for an hour! She wasn't too happy about it, but it is what the bride wanted.

It is quite different invitation. But without children we cannot enjoy more in functions and parties. I think they thought that the children are disturbance to them, without child life is nothing.