Children at your Wedding?

Should you invite children to your wedding? We get this question very often and so I wanted to share our response…

More and more of our brides want to include children on the guest list. Sometimes the couple has children of their own and other times they have family and friends with children that they don’t want to leave out.

As a mother myself, I can tell you that there are a few things to remember when inviting children to the wedding particularly if they are younger than the age of ten.

1. Sitting still and quiet during a wedding ceremony is nearly impossible.http://blog.belfiorebridal.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

2. Sitting still and quiet during a five hour wedding reception is definitely impossible

3. The more the parents want to talk to the friends, the more attention the children need.

4. And finally, the dance floor is a great place to run around and burn off energy.

With that in mind, couples ask usall the time how to entertain the children.

Here are a couple of great ideas for entertaining kids at your wedding:

* Create a play area for them. Put in a low table covered with butcher paper and stock with crayons so they can work together to create a mural. Make sure to have extra paper for those artists who like to work solo.

* Serve them food they will enjoy. My little ones love to choose what they eat, so I think a kids’ buffet is a fun idea that will keep the group entertained for a while. If you don’t have enough children attending to warrant a buffet, serve them a plated meal of kid-friendly food.

* Put up a children’s bar. Stock a children’s bar with soda, water and mixers to make Shirley Temples. It will make the kids feel special and it will keep them from crowding the adult bar.

* At some point in the evening, ask your entertainment to play kid-friendly music It doesn’t have to be for long, but the kids will have a blast if they have the opportunity to dance to some music that they recognize. You will also get some amazing photographs and video!

* If you have the budget, bring in some special entertainment. Caricature artists, face painters, and balloon artists are a small sample of the fun entertainment you can bring in for the children at your wedding. A few of my clients have done a separate room with supervised Wii tournaments, kid’s DJ, movies and more!

What are your ideas? Or what have you done to entertain children at your wedding?

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