Young children at evening do?

[hulahoopqueen]

Hi all!
Currently in the depths of planning for our July wedding next year. All our day guests are accounted for in terms of their young children, but would you invite people with young kids to the evening only?
We have a few friends who are single parents and we love their kids, and would like to invite them too, even if they just come for a little while (reception to start at 7.30pm). That being said, would you bring your little one (ages 3-5 roughly) to an evening reception?
(So as not to drip feed, we unfortunately don't have capacity to invite them to the day and evening, it will be close family only).

I personally wouldn’t if it’s a 7:30pm start.

I wouldn't bring my LO to an evening do. Sorry.
I would ask my parents to babysit so I could go though.
I think you should just extend the invitation but say you know it might be too late for them etc and leave it up to them to decide

People tend to put cushions and blankets down etc in the corner of a room for the younger kids to sleep on plus some can sleep in their push chair

Invite them and let them decide if they can make it. If you are offering to invite the children, you've done all you can!

I would invite the parents but not the children. I would say it's adults only in the evening and you hope they can find a babysitter but if they can't you would understand.

As a parent of young children I would be hurt if I wasn't invited because of them. I wouldn't want to bring them! I'd get a babysitter.

Invite them and leave it up to the parents. Mine would have come along, danced a while then fell asleep in their buggies (by 5 they'd have just continued dancing)

No I wouldn’t bring mine. I’d happily take a younger one that would sleep in the pram but it wouldn’t be at all enjoyable to take my 4YO who usually goes to bed at 7 to anything that starts at 7.30. If it were local and you were known for throwing a good party then I’d get a babysitter. If not then I would respectfully decline.

But I agree invite them and leave it up to parents!

We had kids at our wedding, including our own. For the evening we invited households and asked them just to give us numbers. We had a kid friendly venue though and lucked out with decent weather so they could run about outside. That suited us and our situation. But, there is no right or wrong way and no-one is entitled to be invited to a wedding or evening do. So, do what is right for you and your day.