How do you Politely say “no Children allowed” on your invitations?

View quoted message Ooh, I really love this!! I just might have to steal this 😊

We just politely said "please note that children are not invited".

I know for us, because our invitations are small and don't have a lot of space for wordy answers, I put that FAQs and RSVP is on our wedding website. I actually did answer it in the FAQ section of our wedding website and plan to only have the names of those invited. If they can't read, they can call me, because I am really good at saying no. That was my take on it!

I have a details insert card to direct people to our wedding website for all the important info, but also on that card, I have a little blurb that will say:

"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!"

If you only have a single invitation, simple saying "Adults Only" is fine.

Well....personally, I think the politest way is just not including their names on the invitations. Most people know that the names on the invitation are the people who are invited, and no more.

Then if the parents annoyingly RSVP with the kids included, you call them and explain that the venue only holds so many, and you weren't able to include children in the guest count.

Some people will be annoyed. Some will welcome the night off from kids. OH WELL!

A lot of people put "Adult Only"

One of the weddings I was most recently invited to has "Although we love your children, we regretfully cannot accommodate them at the venue due to restricted space"

Me and my FH will probably be stealing that entire line for our invites as well.

Oops! Hit send too fast haha I put “Kids-at-Heart Event (Adults only)”

On my evite drafts, we have “Children-at-Heart (Adults only)” on the insert with other info. I liked that wording 😊

Casey said it the same way I would ADULTS ONLY! Everything else is said for on the invitation.

View quoted message Great Idea! Thank you!

Bianca, we have struggled with this as well. The best way we have found is to simply put “adults only” on the invitation, and only address the invite to the adults.
We do have some small children in the immediate family that will be coming or will be part of the wedding party, and that way when we address those invites it’s to the whole family and they can ignore the adults only statement on the invitation.