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    EmEv    August 21, 2010  

    My fiance and I have about 6 friends/family members with babies under a year.  I didn't originally want all these babies at the wedding.  (With so many of them, I feel like there's a good chance that at least one will crying at any given moment!), plus parents will need to bring in strollers or car seats which wont look too pretty.  But.. my fiance and posts on here have convinced me that I can't exclude a nursing baby. We are however, not inviting any kids over 1 (besides the wedding party kids).

    So.. now my question is, do I put the babies names on the invitation? We only have an outer envelope, so would we write the babies names underneath the parents? My hope was that we could leave the names off, to give the impression that we'd prefer parent's find babysitters.  Of course if they ask to bring their babies then of course we'd say yes. 

    What should we do about this?

     

     
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    Jacqi    February 28, 2009  

    I wouldn't put the baby's name on there. The parents will ask if they can bring their babies if they are unsure.

     
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    I would just put the parents names.  They will ask if they are unsure whether they can bring their baby anyway.  Maybe you could seat these families together at the reception?  They would have a lot in common, and you could keep all the babies in one place, so you could maybe have a table with more room around it for the strollers, etc.

     
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    chelseamorning    November 1, 2008   Washington, DC/Atlanta

    If you want to include the kids without spelling out all the names, you could address the invitation to "The Smith Family."

     

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