Any suggestions on how to nicely word "we dont want kids at our wedding" on...

We did a poem on the invites x

We put please note this is an adult only event on our invites. Short and to the point

So that parents can relax and enjoy themselves our wedding will be adults only

We haven't decided how to word it yet bit will go along the lines of so they can relax and have a night to enjoy it'll be adults only

Why don't you just tell people face to face?

We put like above. We are sorry but due to restrictions on numbers we are unable to extend this invitation to children not named on this invite, we hope you will still see this as an opportunity to celebrate with us and let your hair down.

"No sprogs!!"

This is what we're using

We just told people to their faces that due to number restrictions we were only allowing close family children. Everyone understood and appreciated been told to their faces. Xx

We have put "due to number restrictions at our venue we are unable to extend this invitation to your children and can only accommodate the individual(s) named on the invitation" or words to that effect. We didnt say anything about relaxing and enjoying a night off from the kids we just decided to say it politely but to the point.

Carla M, in answer to your question from my perspective ... unfortunately too many people do not control their children and it is particularly annoying for people when said parents seem to be able to ignore screams and tears from over tired children, instead of thinking that they may be spoiling things for other people. It's a case of a few spoiling it for many as obviously not all parents are like this.

For my first marriage we said no children but this is my second and my H2B has two small grandchildren and one of my friends has a small one so they will be welcome at our wedding but then it is not the very small ones that are the problem.

Just put adults only, people will get upset however you say it

I will be saying something like, "Due to restrictions on numbers only children of the wedding party are invited to the ceremony and wedding breakfast, however all children are welcome to join us for the evening reception".

Vicky Rhodes x

We wish we could include all children, but we are unfortunately only able to invite the children of immediate family

We had our dogs invite our guests so we had 'no dogs or children to allow our humans to enjoy themselves' 🐶🐾

'As much as we love to watch children play this is an adult only day 😊

We just explained when handing the invites out... No one had a problem with it. The reception was just my own two as we only had 50 including our family of 4... And we explained that children were very welcome at the evening but if they didn't want to bring them it was fine too... A lot welcomed the break and night off from them :) x

Just name the people on the invite that you want or put a line in invite saying immediate family children only

I put the names on the invites of the people who were invited.... if the kids names aren't on the invite then surely people realise they're not invited. It's not rocket science.

We got married two years ago and my cousin married a year later and specifically wrote no children had more than half of his guests not turn up for this reason unfortunately most people have children so if you don't mind been disappointed then just write no children but it had a massive impact on my cousins wedding. Hope all goes well.

I dont get how people become confused by this surely if they arent named on the invitation then its clear they arent invited

We just didn't invite them. Just put the adults names on the invites. X

We have put "Due to limited space we regret that we cannot invite children" Although we will no doubt have to tell people aswell

We just added to ours this :
Unfortunatley due to numbers we will not be extending the invite to children

Hope everyone understands, and cant wait to see you all

We just told all our friends with children that it will be adults only so they can have a child free day. Everyone was fine with it x

We tried ..... Due to cost restrictions ..... Unfortunately some folks couldn't handle being separated .... So we crumbled for the evening .... Thus children are coming ... We wAnted to see our friends ....