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"We helped a reader who was overwhelmed by registering and another with a broken engagement. Today, we have a reader who&amp;amp;#8217;s worried about kids at her wedding. Writes stacieface012: &amp;amp;#8220;I have good friends that have multiple children (one I am the godmother to) and some &amp;amp;#8216;just friends&amp;amp;#8217; with children as well. Would it be ok to invite some of my friend&amp;amp;#8217; kids and not others? Here are my thoughts: There are plenty of reasons to invite kids to a wedding: They&amp;amp;#8217;re adorable, you love them, and you know they&amp;amp;#8217;ll have to blast. There are also plenty of reasons not to: They&amp;amp;#8217;re not always adorable (particularly when crying or screaming), you&amp;amp;#8217;ll have to pay to feed them, and their parents (the reason the kids were invited in the first place) might not have a blast if they&amp;amp;#8217;re chasing around a baby on a sugar high all night. So what&amp;amp;#8217;s a bride to do? There are several options. Have the kids you know and love be your ring bearers and flower girls. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t think you can ever have too many miniature attendants. Invite the kids that are in the wedding but not the rest. Totally fair. Invite all the kids, but hand them over to a sitter after cocktail hour. It was important to me and Rory to have our close friends&amp;amp;#8217; kids in our wedding. But it was also important that their parents have fun&amp;amp;#8212;which meant not chasing after their kids all night. So we invited all the kids, but explained to the parents that the kids would need to be cleared out after cocktail hour. We also offered to pay for a sitter (or several sitters) to watch the kids back at the hotel during dinner and dancing, but most just had a grandparent come and pick them up. A couple parents asked if their kids would stay longer (&amp;amp;#8220;He&amp;amp;#8217;ll sit on my lap and share my dinner&amp;amp;#8212;he just loves to dance!&amp;amp;#8221;), but we refused to make exceptions. Maybe not the most politically correct option, but it worked for us. Invite just the kids you want to. This option might not sit well with all your guests&amp;amp;#8212;and you might get a few unexpected kids (&amp;amp;#8220;Well, I heard her kids were invited so I assumed mine were!&amp;amp;#8221;)&amp;amp;#8212;but at the end of the day, it&amp;amp;#8217;s your wedding, and while you can&amp;amp;#8217;t make every guest 100 percent happy, you can do your best to make yourself happy. How do you guys feel about kids at a wedding? Do you think they make the day more fun? Or do you think they&amp;amp;#8217;re more trouble than they&amp;amp;#8217;re worth? Will you (or did you) invite kids to your wedding? More reader&amp;amp;#8217;s dilemmas, solved! * &amp;amp;#8220;Help! I&amp;amp;#8217;m in a Serious Funk!&amp;amp;#8221; * Have You Ever Had a Pregnancy Scare? * &amp;amp;#8220;Um, My Boyfriend&amp;amp;#8217;s Parents Walk Around Half-Naked. Weird?&amp;amp;#8221; More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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