To think you should put "No Children" on the wedding invite if they're not allowed?

[SirBoobAlot]

Yes I'm bitter and I'm upset

But we received a wedding reception (not ceremony) invite a few weeks ago. I treated myself to a new dress for it, spent more than I normally would (not particularly expensive, I just don't generally shop outside of Primark ), and was really looking forward to it.

A week after DP had RSVPed, he's told that its no children.

I don't have a problem with people not having children at a wedding, that's their choice. But it would have been helpful for it to have been obvious from the off. I was really excited about going, and wearing a pretty dress for the night. I can use the dress for another wedding at the end of the year but still feel a bit put out. The reception starts at 7.30, which is DSs bed time, so there's no way I can just pop along for a bit, either.

So AIBU? Or just over sensative? (Highly possible, that...)

"No children" usually annoys me, but we have been invited to a reception in a couple of weeks' time and the invite stated that they don't have room for kids. A simple explanation like this seems much more reasonable to me than the patronising "we want our friends to have a night off" reason. Also, when my cousin got married, they explained that the wife-to-be had 30 cousins, lots with kids, and there just wasn't room to invite all of the offspring.

If your children's names don't appear on the invitation then they are not invited. Its up to your friends who they do and do not invite. If you are really cross about children not being invited then why don't you just not go, and tell them that you couldn't because you couldn't leave your kids and they weren't invited.