No children wedding wording
To avoid any confusion, and to spare everyone’s feelings,
we thought we’d share a few wording examples to make things easier.
we thought we’d share a few wording examples to make things easier.
Your venue doesn’t allow children
We are very sorry, but due to restrictions at our venue, we cannot accommodate children.
Due to safety reasons/limited space, we are unable to extend this invitation to children.
You are keeping costs down
We are very sorry, but due to restrictions at our venue, we cannot accommodate children.
Due to safety reasons/limited space, we are unable to extend this invitation to children.
You are keeping costs down
As much as we would like to invite all the children of our friends, it is only possible to accommodate the children of close family.
We regret that due to cost restrictions, we can only accommodate close family children.
You are allowing close family children
Unfortunately, as much as we’d love to invite all of our friends’ children, we can only accommodate a few close family children. We hope that you will understand this decision and we very much hope you will still be able to join us on our special day.
In order to keep numbers to a minimum, we can only invite a small number of children. We also thought you might like a day off!
Simple wording
We are sorry we are unable to accommodate children.
Regrettably, children are unable to attend.
With respect, we would like our special day to be an adult only occasion
Formal wording
In order to allow all guests, including parents, an evening of relaxation we have chosen for our wedding day to be an adult-only occasion. We hope this advance notice means you are still able to share our big day and will enjoy having the evening off!
We would love to give all our guests the opportunity to let their hair down and have a good time without having to worry about little eyes and ears so we politely request no children.
Fun wordingAlthough we do love all of your little cherubs we would request that our wedding remain adults only. So book a sitter and dust off those dancing shoes!
Children allowed for ceremony but not reception
Children are welcome at the ceremony, however the reception is an adults-only affair.
Children allowed for reception but not ceremony
Children outside the bridal party are unfortunately not invited for the ceremony, but are welcome for the reception.
We would like our special day to be an adult only occasion, however we would like to open the invite up to your children at the evening reception.