Wedding Dilemma - re kids

[YouAndMeAndThem]

Me, my husband, 6 year old and 3 year old children are invited to a family wedding. We get on with them well, but don't see them often. It's a 6 hour drive from our house. It's on a Friday so 6 year old will have to take 2 unauthorized days off school. There are no other kids going that we know.

We are debating whether we take the kids or not. One of us would have to stay home with them and the other one go to the wedding with parents and siblings (who are also not bringing their older high school kids as they don't want to missing school)

What would you do?!

I wouldn’t pull my child out of school for a boring day with distant relatives. I’d either all not go or just the one whose family is marrying go.

It's six hours away? Can you drive half the distance the night before, then the rest in the morning before the wedding?

Honestly? Make my excuses and not go, if its not a couple you're particularly close to. I find most weddings tedious though.

I wouldn’t pull my child out of school for a distant family member’s wedding.

I think your suggestion of only one of you (whoever’s side of the family it is) going is more than reasonable. I would even consider if it was worth going at all, depending on how close you are to the couple.

It's not like kids even enjoy weddings really, and one of us would have to leave early to take them back to the hotel or wherever we are staying as it's not at somewhere we can stay. So one of us wouldn't enjoy it. And the drive seems mad!

We potentially could do this but would mean an early start and a rush in the morning

You don't have to go. It's a Friday, my guess is quite a few people will have to say no.

We really like the family, and know it'll be a brilliant wedding, and I really love a good wedding but... Not with a 6 year old and a 3 year old! They really cramp my style !!

Leave both kids with DH and go by yourself 😉

Yeah luckily it's my side of the family and my husband is pretty antisocial anyway 😁😁😁

If it is a sibling, I would pull the kids out of school and make the trip. The children can even handle a bit of a late night. You don’t have to go home at 7 and make the normal bedtime.

if it is anyone else, honestly I would just decline. It’s too much hassle. If you want to go though, then just travel solo and leave the other parent home with the kids.