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To want to be able to take my children to my friends wedding

252 replies

sleepsforwimps · 02/04/2009 10:49

She politely told me that only children from her family are allowed at her wedding. The reason I'm given is she doesn't want the risk of anything spoiling her day..

This wouldn't be such a big deal if my ds was older, but he will be not much over a year by the time of the wedding. I am breastfeeding and I am now feel pressured into getting him drinking milk from a cup well enough that I can leave him with my parents by the time of the wedding. He has also never spent any time away from me and I don't like this pressure of having to leave him somewhere and getting him off the breast quicker than I maybe would have.

AIBU I want to take him with me, he's a very good baby, she wouldn't even know he was there.

OP posts:
Shambolic · 02/04/2009 22:20

Yes thunderduck you speak of them constantly

LilianGish · 02/04/2009 22:23

Maybe you can negotiate a discount for a side room with cockroaches (in a display case obviously!)

Thunderduck · 02/04/2009 22:25

I do, and in such loving terms too.

How wrong is it that I actually like the cockroach idea?

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 22:27

oooh oooh you could have a big chocolate fountain with edible insects to dip rather than fruit...

Eh, eh??

Thunderduck · 02/04/2009 22:31

PMSL. I'd be willing to try that.

LilianGish · 02/04/2009 22:34

Would you have catered insects or would you just eat the exhibits? They'd probably charge extra for that.

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 22:34

And you could dress up as a huge preying mantis and eat your new DH on your wedding night!

Erm no actually got a bit carried away there...

Do you know DH and I went to London Zoo for our first date and the thing we both agreed was absolutely amazing and fantasitc and not to be missed out of everything was...

The leaf insects!

Thunderduck · 02/04/2009 22:34

I don't suppose you two would care to be hired as wedding planners?

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 22:36

What do you reckon lilian?

I'm in...

Thunderduck · 02/04/2009 22:39

Ok the praying mantis thing literally made me spray my diet coke across my screen. I presume we'll be taking the cost of a new laptop from your fee.

LilianGish · 02/04/2009 22:42

Laughing too much to post.

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 22:47

Bah! Bang goes that business plan! And I have just given you all my best ideas!

Thunderduck · 02/04/2009 22:51

PMSL. It isn't often I literally LOL but I've barely stopped tonight.

LilianGish · 02/04/2009 22:53

Me too - thanks ladies.

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 22:54

Thunderduck I have a feeling we've been here before... But I was in a different incarnation... Let me have a look

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 22:56

I knew it - I used to be tumtumtetum - but don't tell anyone

We ended up last on a "no kids at weddings" thread before...

Thunderduck · 02/04/2009 22:58

We must stop meeting like this.

Sod my family I want to get married in a museum.

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 23:00

I'm not sure whether the cavorting extended family idea meshes well with glass cases and fragile displays...

Thunderduck · 02/04/2009 23:01

Hmmm. Perhaps not, but there must be a vault or two we could lock them in with a few kegs of guinness.

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 23:06

And that's just the kids eh?

LilianGish · 02/04/2009 23:06

Have you considered the Clink Prison Museum?

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 23:11

How about the horniman?

Just for a laugh on the invites?

Thunderduck · 02/04/2009 23:12

LMAO.

A prison museum? This is getting better by the minute. Does it have a working electric chair?

LilianGish · 02/04/2009 23:14

No, but there is a ball and chain you can try on - you could attach it to DH as you said your vows.

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 23:16

Ooh yes lilian that is a really romantic idea!

Much better than my "cannibalise the groom" one...