Kid-free Wedding

A simple phrase to put on the invitation is Adult Celebration Only. It will say it all for your guests to understand and have to make arrangement for the kids to be watched the time they attend your wedding. The idea of names and numbers of guests placed on the card is for them not to add on as they would be RSVPing to their names as indicated.

As long as you are very specific who you address the invite to, specify the number of seats reserved, and address it on your website you should be ok. Like others have said, some guests might play dumb and try to bring their kid anyway, but I personally think it's acceptable in those circumstances to ask them to leave the wedding.

By so be it I mean they can stay home 😂

We sent our invitations out and wrote “in an effort for all guests to celebrate and relax, we are hosting an adult only reception”
We’re getting married in the mountains in December, everyone is travelling so I figured that would get the message across just fine to not bring the kids, being as our ceremony is at 5:00 and flows right into the reception. Most parents would like a night out without the responsibility, don’t stress about it. It’s your guys’ day- if you don’t want any possibility of whining or fighting during the ceremony or reception, just tell your guests to get a babysitter and don’t feel bad about it. If you have some guests that won’t come without their kids, then so be it. Enjoy your day… and remember… it’s YOUR day.. and they’ll enjoy theirs. 😊

We addressed the invites to exactly who was invited and then on the website to RSVP you had to enter each name (WithJoy website - sooo great... NOT weddingwire) which would match with each guest actually invited. Also they had to pick a meal.... I had one friend and my husband's cousin ask but otherwise everyone figured it out. Or they intended to not bring their kid even if they were invited 😆. When they asked we said we really want you to enjoy the wedding with us stress free. There were no issues at all thankfully.

View quoted message I love both ideas that Brianna presented! Those are very crystal clear mention that they will definitely not miss! Make sure it’s bolder and asterisk in red! Haha

We are also having a kid-free wedding and I've been researching ways to say this! haha

One I've seen a lot in small print at bottom of invite is "Although we love your children, we respectfully can not accommodate them at this event. We hope you will still attend, and see this as an opportunity to let your hair down and enjoy the party with us!"

Or similar but shorter to that one is “While we love your little ones, we kindly request a child-free wedding”

A way shorter not so to the point but should be clear enough option "Adults Only Affair".

Just a couple options I'm considering!

Are you doing online RSVPs? If so, you're pretty much forcing them to go on the website. And they'll need to choose their meals under each name so that will further drive home the point.

But as Megan says, you can write it in big bold betters in the invite or the website and some people may ignore it cuz they feel like they can do whatever they want.

I have seen invitations that say "we have reserved ___ seats in your honour". That should make it clear that whoever is written on the invitation is who is invited. But I also think there are people who play dumb and bring their kids even though they know they aren't invited.