As you begin thinking about your wedding, you have many decisions to make. Some will be easy, but others will be very difficult.
How do you feel about inviting children to your wedding? You know, you get to choose.
As a couple you may have very strong feelings, or there may be family members or friends who will attempt to influence you one way or another. You may feel pressured by both those who do not want children underfoot to disrupt the wedding. Others may be insulted if you did not give consideration to their children.
Some people are neutral about kids attending adult events like weddings, others are emphatically for the kids or against them. What is most important, however, is how you feel.
What is in your heart? Are you focused on the union of man and woman? Or, are you dreaming of a family? Not everyone views life the same way, so what is your dream?
How will people feel about this decision or that? Do you care? How can you work with people who have differing ideas, opinions, and feelings?
Like many other decisions you will have to make concerning your wedding, deciding to invite children or not can be full of emotion and challenges.
Since many children are well able to attend weddings without posing particularly big problems, you may well decide to invite children to attend your wedding. This does not require you to have children participate in your wedding party itself.
You may welcome children and help them find suitable ways to participate in your event. In some cases, you might provide a nursery or child care facilities and even staff it. In other cases, you might provide some quiet coloring projects for the children, or ask their parents to bring the childs favorite quiet toy to keep the children quiet. You have many options.
Perhaps, the simplest and most common decision on this issue is to bury your head in the sand and let the guests decide about their children on their own. Again, if this is a family styled affair you will probably have no problem. However, if this is a definitely adult setting, the parents will usually manage to remove their children without your having to say a think.
The children themselves my really be excited about your wedding and be thrilled to attend. In most cases, the children will sit with their parents and behave like ladies and gentlemen under the watchful eye of their parents.
Some children are cute, cuddly, and fun to be with. Children bring the whole family together. Many photographers love kids because they are so cute. The presence of children broadens the scope of the wedding making it more of a community event. You may even have a family or community tradition of including children in social events like weddings. Certainly, children learn a great deal for watching and participating in family events. It teaches values and principles that can affect a child for a lifetime.
Perhaps the key to making this decision is how you feel personally about children and you wedding. The presence or absence of children will affect the wedding. If you are concerned about potential disruption, you may solve that problem with a little planning rather than excluding them entirely. If you are concerned about children feeling left out, a little planning can solve the problem too.
How do you feel about inviting children to your wedding? You know, you get to choose.
As a couple you may have very strong feelings, or there may be family members or friends who will attempt to influence you one way or another. You may feel pressured by both those who do not want children underfoot to disrupt the wedding. Others may be insulted if you did not give consideration to their children.
Some people are neutral about kids attending adult events like weddings, others are emphatically for the kids or against them. What is most important, however, is how you feel.
What is in your heart? Are you focused on the union of man and woman? Or, are you dreaming of a family? Not everyone views life the same way, so what is your dream?
How will people feel about this decision or that? Do you care? How can you work with people who have differing ideas, opinions, and feelings?
Like many other decisions you will have to make concerning your wedding, deciding to invite children or not can be full of emotion and challenges.
Since many children are well able to attend weddings without posing particularly big problems, you may well decide to invite children to attend your wedding. This does not require you to have children participate in your wedding party itself.
You may welcome children and help them find suitable ways to participate in your event. In some cases, you might provide a nursery or child care facilities and even staff it. In other cases, you might provide some quiet coloring projects for the children, or ask their parents to bring the childs favorite quiet toy to keep the children quiet. You have many options.
Perhaps, the simplest and most common decision on this issue is to bury your head in the sand and let the guests decide about their children on their own. Again, if this is a family styled affair you will probably have no problem. However, if this is a definitely adult setting, the parents will usually manage to remove their children without your having to say a think.
The children themselves my really be excited about your wedding and be thrilled to attend. In most cases, the children will sit with their parents and behave like ladies and gentlemen under the watchful eye of their parents.
Some children are cute, cuddly, and fun to be with. Children bring the whole family together. Many photographers love kids because they are so cute. The presence of children broadens the scope of the wedding making it more of a community event. You may even have a family or community tradition of including children in social events like weddings. Certainly, children learn a great deal for watching and participating in family events. It teaches values and principles that can affect a child for a lifetime.
Perhaps the key to making this decision is how you feel personally about children and you wedding. The presence or absence of children will affect the wedding. If you are concerned about potential disruption, you may solve that problem with a little planning rather than excluding them entirely. If you are concerned about children feeling left out, a little planning can solve the problem too.
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