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Bianca - Those are fabulous and very thoughtful ideas for the children in your wedding and those invited! Thanks for sharing!

-- Contributed by: Melissa Mayntz

we will be getting married with our daughters as flower girls and only inviting the children who are related to us such as our nieces and nephews as they are our family and we know them well. i will be putting together a children's area in the reception with toys, books, colouring books, big cushions to sit on etc. and having a special gift bag for each of the children who are attending with a small gift and activities to keep them happy for a while. they can just dance and enjoy themselves like all the other guests. its a fun and happy occasion!!! why not!

-- Contributed by: Bianca

Kristi - What an excellent plan! Best wishes for your special day.

-- Contributed by: Melissa Mayntz

We are inviting children to the wedding because we know so many people with children who are traveling from out of state. During the ceremony, we have hired teens from the youth group to stay in the nursery and watch the children. In return, we are donating a little money to their mission trip.

-- Contributed by: Kristi

I think that any child younger than four is too young to sit through the wedding, unless they're actually in the wedding. I would have someone stationed by the doors, directing parents with children to a childcare area, where children younger than four would be required to stay during the ceremony, and, if their parents choose, the reception. It's very disruptive to hear a baby or todler crying during a wedding.

-- Contributed by: Annoyed

That kind of grouping is a good idea if childcare cannot be provided; another option may be to provide an entertainer for the children or to seat parents with young children near an exit in case they need to take the children out to quiet them or discipline them.

-- Contributed by: Melissa Mayntz

I have a great idea. Seat the parents who bring kids with other parents who bring kids. They can empathize and take turns watching kids. We were recently seated at a table with my brother and sister-in-law and their 5 and 2 year olds. They weren't having a good time trying to keep the kids in check and neither were we, having to listen to them constantly disciplining their kids, who, to be fair, are not old enough to sit still for the duration of a wedding reception.

-- Contributed by: Disgruntled
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