October 2012 Moms
BabyCarryingVessel
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Childcare at a wedding
BabyCarryingVessel
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I'm going to a wedding next month and I got an extra little piece of paper in my invitation that says childcare will be provided for young children during the ceremony. So I take it that littles are really not wanted in the ceremony at all? And how do you respond to the RSVP? We'll need the space for four but we won't need four plates. This is the first wedding I've gone to since becoming a mom and didn't know what to do. Would you use the childcare or leave your kids at home?
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Re: Childcare at a wedding
After 7 years of no ovulation...
BFP#1 10/24/11 ~ EDD 6/29/12 ~ Natural m/c 11/2/11
BFP#2 2/3/12 ~ Alice born 9/26/12
I am so embarrassed about how we handled the issue of children at our wedding, simply because we didn't know any better.
Then, when we realised the people with difficult children wanted to bring them, we said no children. A couple of people made private arrangements with us when their babysitters fell through/ their kid was too young for a babysitter/ whatever, and that was fine. But then I felt bad about the people we'd said "No children" to - who saw that there were three children there.
And, it was a daytime wedding. A friend (who we didn't know when we got married) just commented recently about her cousin's wedding: "Who says No Children to a daytime wedding?" Oops.
Other things I was thinking of - people who arranged childcare, but assumed everyone would be okay with using babysitters they'd never met, and assuming that all kids/babies are fine as long as there are babysitters around!
I'm all for going to weddings alone, DS is very "needy" (yes, he's a baby) I know I would not enjoy myself with him there. I'd be more worried what he was getting into and wouldn't be much fun to hold a conversation with.