How Do I Say No Kids

I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM!! i am also getting married in aug,(18th).
I talked to my fiance` about it and hes apolled that i dont want little brats running around not conducting them selves. ( he says the kids on his side are well conducted and there 2,4,5,7 yr olds!!!!! knocking things over and what not.
I tried to use the excuse ..."but honey there is going to be adult drinks all over, and i dont want a little one to get ahold of them" ..in which you could say to parents its a "adult setting" but it doesnt work if you have teens there.
Hmmm how does your fiancee feel about the "kid" thing?? if you both are on the same page, i would think you could get away just saying " this is are wedding and this is how we want it" on theother hand you have to think about who has kids.... They might not show up cause theuy dont have a baby sitter Do you really want them not to show up??, also think about if your having a ring bearer and flower girl that is a "child" the parents that have little ones might be reaaallly upset to see that they got to come but theres didnt.
I hope i could of helpped in some ways.....

Hi Lisa, I had the same problem... And in invitation we had "adult only" .... It worked! Good luck....

Hi, I had all my nieces and nephews (8 total) in my wedding, but other than that I did not want children at my wedding but only because I was limited to 250 people at my reception site and each child counts as 1 person. All of our friends seem to already have children and we would`ve had to cut back on our guest list. When people asked if children could come (after receiving an `adult reception` reply card) I explained we could only have the children who were in the wedding.

I don`t know if you just don`t like children or aren`t comfortable with them, but if you can afford to have children at your reception they really do behave well and they have the most fun of all.

I agree with Tammy. Children usually have the most fun of all at weddings because it`s such a care free dayfor them. Hopefully, some of the kids that are possibly coming aren`t real brats because of so then you might have a problem.

We had similar discussions. Of course we wanted kids there...just not 50 of them on a 200 guest budget. We ended up only inviting children if they were immediate family (and that was only 2 of them), if they were in the wedding or a sibling of someone in the wedding, or helping with the wedding (guest book, gift attendents, programs, etc.) or if they had to travel from way out of town to join us. It has worked out well so far, but we`ll see what happens when we start getting response cards back!