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TheMadRatter · 04/06/2021 20:31

www.quora.com/If-a-wedding-invitation-says-no-children-would-it-be-reasonable-if-I-show-up-with-a-newborn-baby-as-they-don-t-make-any-fuss-nor-eat-or-need-seating-arrangements

It's just a hunch I'm getting, anyone else? Grin The replies are as blunt as to be expected on AIBU.

Something similar at my friends wedding, one of her friends (probably ex-friend by now!) turned up with her baby and said "the invitation said no kids, I didn't know that meant no babies either" Hmm

What are some of your inconsiderate wedding guest stories?

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Nocutenamesleft · 04/06/2021 20:31

Yes!!!!!

FTEngineerM · 04/06/2021 20:34

Not happened yet but we’re being as relaxed as can be with our wedding plans and have chosen a venue accordingly; bring your kid.. dog.. whatever. More the merrier.

We will have our 5 month old and 2 year old, along with an 11 year old rottwelier Smile so we can’t really complain if someone rocks up with their kids.

Fernando072020 · 04/06/2021 20:46

Was the opposite for me. At the time we got married, i had 3 friends with a combined 5 children. I invited all the children. Friends wanted to enjoy themselves instead and only 1/5 of the is l kids came 🤣 Fair enough!

Changeythenamey · 04/06/2021 21:13

Our invite didn’t say ‘no children’ but we didn’t invite children and told friends with kids it wasn’t a child friendly venue. We got married in a place of the country where we live, which was quiet far from family and friends so may have made any exception if someone had asked. No one asked but DH friends still brought their 10 year old. He was bored out of his mind, poor thing.

AreyouthereGoditsme · 04/06/2021 21:47

Received an evening only invite that didn't include our child for a close friend who also had children. It took a lot to organise a babysitter due to the wedding location and arrived to find loads of children running riot, including those of the bride and groom. We had a lovely, relaxed evening Smile

FirstNameSurname · 04/06/2021 21:58

Every "no kids" wedding I have been to has one or two kids rock up and parents innocently presuming their child is a non-kid and isn't included in the no kids rule.

Often the bride acts frosty towards non-kids parents or goes around apologising to the actual-kid parents who abided by the rule making it all the more awkward. Non-kids don't have assigned chairs so hop around parents laps and have cobbled together food and water. Why any parent would ruin a perfectly good child-free get pissed and swear event by bringing a non-kid is beyond me.

One wedding I went to the wedding flowed from ceremony to cocktail hour to sit down meal to disco by going deeper each time into a country house. Bride clocked the non-kid while walking down the aisle sent best man and maid of honour to intercept them walking through the first door into cocktail hour, sending parents and non-kid home. By the time parents had sorted babysitter etc the wedding had moved right through the house and was locked from the entrance. Parents both missed out on the wedding but still rocked up to next wedding with non-kid. Hmm
Best man ate a second main course (non-kids parents) and maid of honour got the desserts as reward for stopping non-kid.

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