We love your kids but not at our wedding

I have 12 nieces and nephews!!!! i dont want kids at my wedding.... so i put on the invitations "We respectfully ask that children do not attend" and no one was upset about it.. I dont have kids, so they get why i wouldnt want kids around on my wedding day

View quoted message This is cute!

We included a details insert with our invitation to give guests our wedding website for RSVP and registry details. I put a blurb on it to let guests know about our 'no kids' rule:

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View quoted message LOVE this. That’s perfect.

I was going to put something that suits me and my FH best - because we are like adult children... lol so something along the lines of: "To allow all guests to relax and enjoy themselves we have chosen to make this a big kids only event (18+)."

Adults only seems to be simply easy to phrase without a second thought.

This way plans for babysitting or having family watching their kids will be arranged for your day.
Kid Free Evening is another way to phrase it.

View quoted message I think this is my favourite! Simple, quick, to the point but not rude!!

We phrased it as "take a night for yourself and give the kids a sleepover with the grandparents!" people tend to get the hint.

Love the date night idea!
We are also doing adults only ( aside from our immediate family as 2 are in the wedding party and we can’t exclude everyone else)
Still trying to figure out the wording on our invitations but it will say adults only somewhere and our siblings will know to ignore that part!

Here's a good article with different ways to include that it's a kid-free event:

https://theweddingplaybook.com/adults-only-wedding-wording/

I am also having no children because I have a lot of large families of children in my family. 7 Cousins from my dad's brothers alone all under 13. I was thinking of something like “To give all our guests the opportunity to celebrate without having to worry about little eyes and ears, we politely request no children.”

Date night !! I absolutely adore that..
I think we will have the same response.. I'm sure most people don't really want to bring their kids, but some will. This is perfect - Thank you so much!

On our invites, we put “We adore your children, but have limited space. Please make it a date night!”
I had a lot of parents mention they really liked how it was put, and they all loved having an excuse to have a kid free night!