to be enjoying this wedding more from the hotel room?

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dh and I have come to a wedding approx 4hours from home. we had to bring the baby and toddler as it is nowhere near anyone we live and we don't want to leave them overnight (and still bf).

I don't know the bride and groom except that they came to our wedding and have only met one other couple.

it is a childfree weekend (for cost reasons we had a nice discussion about it - no mumsnet style entitlement ishoos)(although my children are the best ). they have had the grace to hold the rest of the do at a very fancy hotel where we have booked a suite.

so b&g were happy for us to all come to the church which is the main even for me, and the babies are used to church. now dh has gone to the wedding breakfast and I am sitting g reading my book while the babies sleep. dh sneaked me a bucks fizz too.

it is luxurious and relaxing.
a far cry from making small talk with strangers and from renovations at home. and dh and I will do it later

this is the life isn't it??

I'm doing my family and friends a service, because when I get married, I'm not gonna have a wedding, i cant be arsed to have one, my older brother and sister had their weddings.

I dont need to have one, I do, kiss, party, thats how I'm gonna do it, as cheap as possible.

Sounds lovely!

I love your attitude- but you have spectacularly failed in the MN Wedding Thread stakes .

I prefer your evening to my own wedding.

Really fancy a lobster burger now!

Remember a wedding DH was best man at. He had to be away for photos for an hour or so. I retreated to our room, ordered room service lunch and a bottle of champagne and watched a movie. Fab wedding!

Sounds like bliss. Lobster burger

Well this is very disappointing!!

Why are you not stropping about your children not being ushers?
Or having to pay for your own lobster?

Seriously. It sound blissful. Enjoy

C'mon OP, I think you have to try harder, there must be something that you can feel aggrieved by? . It's just not on that you are perfectly happy and that everyone is behaving reasonably. It's just not the Mumsnet way.

Gosh that sounds so lovely, enjoy!!!

Come on OP! You must be narked by something?! Please!

Mmm, I think I have worked out the shocking backstory here, the OP is clearly a stunning and lovely woman and the bride didn't want to be upstaged so she invented this whole 'we can't afford to host the kids' story. What a cow

I bet the bride and the groom had a huge row about it because it meant the groom couldn't invite his adorable 5 year old niece who's Mum (the grooms only sister) had assumed would be a flower girl. I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg and that the whole sorry story is going to come out soon in the OPs next gripping and scandalous update

DH and I very nearly forgot to go to the works dinner.
Posh hotel room with a stunning view over the city.

My sister was niece taming (DDs were too big to babysit, but far too young to spend a night on their own).

We got there early, had sex, looking at the view and fell asleep. By the time we'd enjoyed the lovely showere and got dressed. Pre meal drinks had been drunk.