Ds ruining the wedding!!

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I'm here for stories of how other people's children have ruined a wedding or tried to! I have Ds (7 tomorrow) endlessly sulking, laying over the floor, being defiant and generally a nuisance, It's my best friends wedding and I haven't been able to support or enjoy as Ds has been awful. Please placate me with your tales

Some people are jokers, no Ds does not need an assessment! Nor do I need parenting courses because his uncle had failed to feed him. At the points he was laying on the floor was during the photos when no one even noticed, then whining for food at the restaurant... which again I managed without spoiling the bride and grooms time, he ruined it for me more as I couldn't enjoy my friend being married, and then I LEFT EARLY! Some of you people really are ridiculous.

The stories on here are so shocking, kids and weddings are a bad mix sometimes

DS 18m has a meltdown 5 minutes before we were due to leave for our wedding because he didn't want to wear his wedding shoes. He's in all our pictures in his little suit and bright turquoise plastic crocs 🤷🏼‍♀️

You want it all ways OP, don’t you? First you want sympathy for all the awful things he’s done then when you don’t get a load of “ha ha, isn’t he a spirited little one” you take the hump.

At the points he was laying on the floor was during the photos when no one even noticed, then whining for food at the restaurant... which again I managed without spoiling the bride and grooms time

That is poor behaviour for a 7 year old tbh. Laying on the floor really isn't acceptable at that age. Are you always so lenient on your child's behaviour at weddings OP? Perhaps YOU thought they didn't notice but they were probably politely ignoring it.

Just to add a positive story, we had nine children at our wedding, all but one of them under eight years old, and they all behaved beautifully and added a lot of laughter and fun to the reception. We wouldn't have got married without them there. Weddings are for families to celebrate together imo.

That being said, now I have my own child, I'd take her out in a heartbeat if she started being noisy/acting out at a wedding, especially during someone's bloomin' ceremony. I swear some parents are living on a different planet.

My wedding to xh, at best mans wedding where xh was their best man I toddler tamed dd in the most child unfriendly venue ever to ensure their day was perfect, even to the point of missing the meal and being stared at by the brides parents for having a plateful at the night do.
When we married his wife allowed their dd to stomp up to the front with us and laugh loudly rattling a bag of quavers drowning us out .......and neither moved her away

That quiet bit after they’ve asked if anyone knows of any reasons why the B and G shouldn’t marry.... DS, very loudly: “I’ve done a poo!” Registrar: “That’s not really a valid reason!”

As I was having my picture taken beside my wedding car (my dad's car, his prized vintage VW Beetle), my 2-year-old flower girl grabbed the end of my train and veil (great big cathedral length thing), and started polishing the car with it!

Actually didn't ruin anything at all, but made for a very hilarious photo of me being mock-cross, whilst she merrily cleans off the headlamps I'm going to make it into a card for her 18th birthday.

And then some wonder why it's common to see "no kids" weddings

Obviously toddlers find it hard to sit still for an hour or more, but that's surely what books, quiet toys - even a (silent) screen if you must - are for. Just why would anyone allow a child to stomp around the front of the church, throwing cars, shaking snacks, climbing pulpits and all the rest of it?

And before anyone says "it's better than screaming/a tantrum" ... what's wrong with simply taking them out?

And that folks is why so many people do not invite everyone's little darlings to their weddings.

Even if my 2yo DS was invited to a wedding I'd still get a babysitter. Boring, long day for a child and for me if I can't get pissed.

The crock ☺😊😀😁😂😃😄

Crocs. Sorry it's late.

DS1 was around 20 months when my Mum married her DP. She asked me to be bridesmaid which was lovely, and DS1 to be ring bearer in a little top hat and tails. I suggested that almost-two-year-olds don't make incredible wedding party guests and she scoffed, saying DS1 was going to be perfect.

To be fair, he did look lovely in his little suit, and walked down the aisle with me beautifully. But then the wordy bits started and he decided to run down to DH shouting "poo poo poo" and then as he reached DH he squatted in the middle of the aisle and released a torrent of shite that sounded like it hit the ceiling.

For the rest of the day all anyone could talk about was DS1's sonic boom shart in church.

5yo, I was the flower girl for a wedding. Only I was scared in front of the crowds & scared what to do so had to be shoved out... ended up behind the bride. Both going up & back down the aisle, I walked behind bride. We hadn't had a rehearsal, I suspect.

My mother figured out later I had a high fever, a rare time I was ill. Mexican wedding so everyone fairly relaxed, nothing ruined.

My wedding was heaving with kids from age 2months+; was super great event.

It didn’t spoil anything; it’s just quite funny -

When I was 7, I was a bridesmaid for my aunt and uncle. The bridesmaids were each presented with a special engraved wineglass as a thank you. Younger DB was watching beadily as his sister got a present and he did not.

Shortly afterwards, he was observed wrapping up one of the table wine glasses in his napkin and presenting it to himself

This thread is going to make “the sun”/“daily fail”, isn’t it??

I only wanted my nephews at our wedding as otherwise there would have been 22 kids there mostly under 4 !!

My nephew was only 2.5 years and spent the ceremony licking the door knob - in full view of everyone  it certainly didn't ruin the wedding though and it was lovely having him there - but 22 children would have been a bit much!

I was at a wedding where a child poured red wine over the cake.
Another wedding with a crying baby, the bride and groom stopped the ceremony and made a joke about not being able to hear, everyone laughed, but then they waited for the mum to take the baby out the church. It became unfunny very quickly.

I’ve been to so many weddings where all you hear at the ceremony is someone’s unhappy, wailing child. Childfree weddings all the way for me, please. Bad behaviour isn’t funny or cute!

There will probably be a thread about the mum with the loud baby at a 40th birthday dinner tomorrow. It's going to be a long night at the restaurant with a grumpy baby who will scream unless he is allowed to crawl around on the floor and annoy everyone. Who do people with three young children get invited to these things🙄.

We went to my partners friends wedding. The only children invited were the couple's 5 girls. Not a problem for us as we were child free at the time.
All of the kids behaved beautifully apart from the 4 year old, who was sat with her gran..screaming, crying and inconsolable until she was allowed to go to her mum. And as soon as her mum picked her up she was quiet, until it came to the kiss the bride bit and started screaming again saying no.
Then there was a 3 hour gap in between the ceremony and the reception while they took photos so a couple of the guests who had children ended up leaving to go see their own children. It transpired later that the 4 year old had more tantrums at photo time. She also had to get in on the action at the 1st dance and cake cutting.

I’d like to add a positive too, we had 8 children at ours, all fantastically behaved. At one point during the speeches a little one ran past with a toy trolly but it was so badly times we all just laughed. Mum apologised during and again after the speeches but we honestly didn’t mind. We invited those children because we wanted them to share our day.

I can see why people insist on child free weddings. But it is really down to poor parenting. I wish more registrars and vicars would just halt the proceedings and ask the parents of the badly behaved children to remove them. Hopefully it will embarrass them to parent their children.

On the morning of my wedding my nephew bolted out of the house in a bid to run away because he didn’t want to have a bath. I gave chase (me and his DSis 11), still don’t know why I had to leg it after him. I bribed him with my STBDH’s toiletries. Then when he was getting dressed for WHATEVER reason he wore a pair of Converse and not actual shoes. Those Converse ended up in the stream near the venue and had to be set on top of one of the ornate radiators. He wasn’t in any of the group shots - too busy up a tree.

DS 18m has a meltdown 5 minutes before we were due to leave for our wedding because he didn't want to wear his wedding shoes. He's in all our pictures in his little suit and bright turquoise plastic crocs 🤷🏼‍♀️