AIBU to think baby shouldn't be kept up late?

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At a wedding soon and MIL keeps telling me that my 8mo should stay for the whole shebang- it finishes at 1am with fireworks, which she also feels baby should stay for.

My boy won't sleep if he can hear us talking from two floors away, there is no way he will sleep during a band and the general noise of a wedding, and I also think he shouldn't have to. We have a cottage near the venue that I was planning to go back to with DS about 9pm so he can get some sleep. Aibu? Mil thinks that I am being really antisocial and should 'lighten up' - baby will be fine etc etc.

There is no way in hell I would keep my baby up that late just so he can see some fireworks and be passed around between relatives. It’s all very well MlL telling you to relax but she isn’t the one who will be dealing with a screaming overtired mess the next day. I went to my brothers wedding recently with my then 10 month old. We booked a room at the venue. My husband took him up to the room at 8 and I stayed at the wedding for another hour or so then came upstairs and stayed with the baby while my husband went back to the wedding for a bit.

@blueuggs we put him to bed, put the monitor on, shut the door and downstairs!