Hi all,
I'm getting married this year. Yay! I'm just trying to work out how the logistics will work for our guests.
We are having a 'semi' child free wedding, in that we're hiring in a reputable creche nanny to cover the ceremony and early reception/photos bit, that parents can choose to extend to the evening if they prefer. Fine with kids in the evening, or parents ducking out/taking turns to babysit, but my fiance and I are sure we don't want them toddling around/howling during the ceremony.
However, my sister is due a couple of weeks before the wedding date. She is a bridesmaid. I am thrilled for her, and I absolutely understand that she may be in no fit state to do wedding duties, am fine with her being a guest, to being up to attending - anything really.
My plan is now this:
- I trust my sister - if she can attend - and her husband to take their baby out if it cries, but I know newborns are mostly just asleep.
- I would keep the creche for the four other babies attending - 6m, 22m, 16m and 11m. If the parents decided they were uncomfortable leaving their child, they could stay with the baby/visit the on site creche, but not bring them into ceremony etc. The 11m old is the Best Man's child, and I would expect that his partner (who we barely know) would stay with the baby if she wanted for the ceremony. She doesn't have a role in the ceremony. They could sort it out between themselves after the ceremony is done.
- Any children of evening guests welcome as their parents prefer. Coincidentally, our evening guests mostly have older kids.
Originally it was going to be 2&3 only, but my sister's baby blurred the lines. I think this is still fine - thoughts?