Sikh Wedding

[MrsJamesMartin]

We have been invited to a Sikh wedding by a colleague of DH.

The wedding invite says it starts at 9am with things ahppening at 10 and 11 am then wedding reception at 2pm at a separate venue.

The kids age 7 and 4 have been invited but I don't know whether to take them as there is 5 hours in the Gurdwara and they would be unable to sit quietly for half and hour let alone 5 hours!

Has anyone got any experience of what will actually happen during the ceremony and what do the young children of Sikh families do during the ceremony usually?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Get DH to ask for more info! I've only been to a Gurdwara a couple of times, but the children I remember where wandering about - not being really noisy or anything, but def not sitting still.
If you don't get a response from a Sikh person, try googling a bit?

Hope I am not too late. I'm married to a Hindu but there is plenty of Sikh/Hindu intermarriage such that I have been to quite a few Sikh weddings.
Lots of children are there - it's important to be respectful and for them not to be going wild, but like IITLALL says, they generally are milling about as too much to expect for them to sit still for ages. People do discreetly pop in and out.
It would also be totally fine for you to turn up late (although parking might be a nightmare!). I take my children (1 and 3) although it is hard work, children are generally welcomed and in fact (within a family) expected to be there. I take toys and things and if need be sit outside the ceremony hall to keep them occupied for a bit.
If it was just a friend/colleague wedding I might try to make other arrangements for them as, like any wedding, you might have more fun without.
You dont say if they are boys or girls but in a gurudwara men and women sit separately (different sides of same hall) - take a scarf to cover your head (they usually have hanky-type things for the men to use) and you have to take off your shoes.