Re: Bringing Children to Weddings
If the children are not invited then we do not take them.
If children are invited then we make sure that she behaves as she should in a formal setting. She is not permitted to run around as if she is in a playground. We see the invitation as an opportunity for her to learn the proper protocol for such occasions and use it that way.
While I believe that our children should be welcome at all social functions from births to weddings to funerals, I do understand when some folks exclude them as not every parent is diligent in managing their kids' behaviour and unruly, noisy kids can completely destroy the atmosphere that someone may have spent days planning and creating.