Friend is having a child-free wedding - what do we do with DS??

[itsahardknocklife]

A good friend of mine is getting married in a few months. We live a couple of hundred miles away from them but would love to go to the wedding.
They have specified no young children and DS is a year old.
What would people recommend we do with regard to childcare? No grandparents available to look after DS.

we have decided that an unknown sitter/minder is a no-go. We haven't really got any friends up here that we know well enough to ask such a big favour of (only moved up here recently) but we will ask a relative that is in Kent. She may be able to have DS for the afternoon and then we could collect him at his bedtime and stay at hotel with him.
Oh I dunno, it's getting complicated!

In answer to why someone would choose to have a childfree wedding

(1) because it is a black tie party in a country hotel which is not particularly suitable to small children

(2) because I am fed up of going to weddings where the ceremony and speeches are inaudible because of the chatter of little people whose parents refuse to take them outside.

(3) because we would need to cater for over 20 under 2's (out of a total of 100)

(4) because number are limited and I want to invite as many friends as possible.

I understand that it causes incovenience and that some people may find it difficult to come, but we're paying for the party!

I hope you manage to sort something out itsahardknocklife.

Thanks. I'm not at all agrieved by them specifying child-free - I wouldn't mind child-free days sometimes!

sorry, that came across a bit stroppy.

Just sorting out my own wedding and a bit tired of marginal guests giving me grief about this.

Will go and munch on some kit kats to increase blood sugar levels...

can I have a kitkat?

i had a child free wedding as the venue would only seat 80 and there would have been 27 children, breast feeding mothers were allowed and most people braught them to the evening do after they had been looked after by the hotel babysitters,as soon as we had finished eating they all came down.