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<p> </p><h2>Child-free weddings have grown in popularity recently as many couples realized that they don&#39;t want to deliver their vows to a choir of toddler temper tantrums and frazzled parents...</h2><p>So, when a conflicted bride decided to consult the moral compass of the internet about whether or not she was exhibiting grade A &quot;Bridezilla&quot; behavior for strictly enforcing the &quot;no kids&quot; rule at her wedding, people were quick to help deem a verdict.</p><h2><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/su2fgw/aita_for_saying_i_would_throw_out_my_sister_if/">AITA</a> (Am I the As*hole) for saying I would throw out my sister if she brought her child to my childless wedding?</h2><blockquote> <p>Okay, I need a sanity check to see if I&#39;m being a bridezilla here.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>My fianc&eacute; (M27) and I (F26) are planning our wedding. We decided to have a childless wedding for several reasons. I know that the idea of a childless wedding is pretty heavily discussed on its own, but we&#39;ve been to both childless weddings and those with children and found those without just simply more relaxed and undisturbed.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Our wedding will be in early 2023, but we already &quot;warned&quot; our family that we don&#39;t want children there. We brought that up over the holidays and nobody complained back then. We haven&#39;t made official invitations yet either, but we wanted the info out as early as possible.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Last week I was at my parents house and my sisters were there too. Sister 1 asked me if my one niece might come along, since she will be over 16 when the wedding takes place (where we live that&#39;s also the legal drinking age).</p> </blockquote><p> </p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Since I think that my niece would be able to partake in the wedding mostly like an adult (aka staying there late, eating her food, don&#39;t start to cry or run around randomly, have a toast with us), I said that she can come along.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Sister 2 just laughed at this and basically just said &quot;Yeah as if she can control if you can bring your child&quot; and said she would bring her son (5 now) as well. I told her that I don&#39;t want children there and she just said that I can&#39;t stop her.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I answered that if she will just randomly bring her child we will just send her away and not let her in. She called me a bridezilla for that, and some insults and basically just left.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>My mom said that I should let my nephew come too, just for peace&#39;s sake. But it&#39;s the wedding of my fianc&eacute; and me, and we don&#39;t want children there. Am I being a bridezilla for wanting that?</p> </blockquote><h2>Having the audacity to assume you can simply show up to a child-free wedding with children and hope that there&#39;s &quot;nothing they can do,&quot; is rude for anyone&#39;s wedding, but your own sister&#39;s? Yikes.</h2><p>Couples who insist on adults-only weddings usually expect that some of their guests won&#39;t be able to attend if they can&#39;t bring their whole family. Finding childcare can be an expensive chore and if it&#39;s a wedding that requires any travel, it&#39;s easier to just send a fancy plate and call it a day.</p><p>If you do choose to attend an explicitly child-free wedding and think you can sneak your kids in because the bride will be too uncomfortable to play bouncer, you don&#39;t deserve the six hour open bar.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Kids can be loud, messy, sticky hurricanes of destruction at formal weddings and unless you want to see the hotel&#39;s ice sculpture shatter to pieces or the 7-tier cake crumble before the reception, it&#39;s best to only worry about drunk adults causing a scene.</p><h2>Of course, people were eager to weigh in on this wedding drama. Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>NTA (Not the As*hole). You might&#39;ve been the as*hole if you refused for the 16-year-old to come, but a 5 year old and a 16 year old are hugely different developmentally and in their ability to behave at weddings. - parishilton5</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>NTA. In my opinion you drew a clear line. 16 is close enough to an adult, 5 is not. The end. If your sister thinks she can do whatever she pleases at your wedding she&rsquo;s wrong. - HasturDragon</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>16 is almost an adult. 5 is not. A 16 year old can have fun, dance, talk and be expected not to whine, cry or loudly say MUMMY I NEED A WEE in the middle of the ceremony. Your sister is doing the adult version of &ldquo;it&rsquo;s not FAAAAIIIIRRRR.&quot; Don&rsquo;t give in. - NiobeTonks</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>NTA - you are not a bridezilla but she is definitely a sisterzilla - originalgenghismom</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>NTA. There&#39;s a huge difference between 16+ and 5. If you let your nephew come, then you aren&#39;t going to have room to tell other parents they can&#39;t bring their kids. Your wedding, your choice on allowing children or not. - Noelle_Xandria</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>NTA. 16 years old is not a child, but a 5 year old certainly is. - GreatWhiteNorthExtra</p> </blockquote><p> </p><h2>So, there you have it!</h2><p>Everyone agreed unanimously here that this bride is doing the right thing to stand firm on the rules of her wedding. There&#39;s a massive difference between a five-year-old and a teenager when it comes to how they&#39;ll behave in an adults-only setting, and her sister is being incredibly entitled.</p><p>If she shows up with her kids, does she also expect there to be a place setting for them? A Kids menu from the catering services, or any space for them to sit when they weren&#39;t accounted for originally? Not only do extra guests cost the couple more money, they&#39;re a massive inconvenience to the venue and catering crew who are already one tipsy aunt&#39;s cocktail request away from a breakdown. Good luck, everyone!</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Bride asks if she'd be wrong to kick out guests who show up with kids.

 Child-free weddings have grown in popularity recently as many couples realized that they don&#39;t want to deliver their vows to a choir of toddler temper tantrums and frazzled parents...So, when a conflicted bride decided to consult the moral compass of the internet about whether or not she was exhibiting grade A &quot;Bridezilla&quot; behavior for strictly enforcing the &quot;no kids&quot; rule at her wedding, people were quick to help deem a verdict.AITA (Am I the As*hole) for saying I would throw out my sister if she brought her child to my childless wedding? Okay, I need a sanity check to see if I&#39;m being a bridezilla here.   My fianc&eacute; (M27) and I (F26) are planning our wedding. We decided to have a childless wedding for several reasons. I know that the idea of a childless wedding is pretty heavily discussed on its own, but we&#39;ve been to both childless weddings and those with children and found those without just simply more relaxed and undisturbed.   Our wedding will be in early 2023, but we already &quot;warned&quot; our family that we don&#39;t want children there. We brought that up over the holidays and nobody complained back then. We haven&#39;t made official invitations yet either, but we wanted the info out as early as possible.   Last week I was at my parents house and my sisters were there too. Sister 1 asked me if my one niece might come along, since she will be over 16 when the wedding takes place (where we live that&#39;s also the legal drinking age).    Since I think that my niece would be able to partake in the wedding mostly like an adult (aka staying there late, eating her food, don&#39;t start to cry or run around randomly, have a toast with us), I said that she can come along.   Sister 2 just laughed at this and basically just said &quot;Yeah as if she can control if you can bring your child&quot; and said she would bring her son (5 now) as well. I told her that I don&#39;t want children there and she just said that I can&#39;t stop her.    I answered that if she will just randomly bring her child we will just send her away and not let her in. She called me a bridezilla for that, and some insults and basically just left.   My mom said that I should let my nephew come too, just for peace&#39;s sake. But it&#39;s the wedding of my fianc&eacute; and me, and we don&#39;t want children there. Am I being a bridezilla for wanting that? Having the audacity to assume you can simply show up to a child-free wedding with children and hope that there&#39;s &quot;nothing they can do,&quot; is rude for anyone&#39;s wedding, but your own sister&#39;s? Yikes.Couples who insist on adults-only weddings usually expect that some of their guests won&#39;t be able to attend if they can&#39;t bring their whole family. Finding childcare can be an expensive chore and if it&#39;s a wedding that requires any travel, it&#39;s easier to just send a fancy plate and call it a day.If you do choose to attend an explicitly child-free wedding and think you can sneak your kids in because the bride will be too uncomfortable to play bouncer, you don&#39;t deserve the six hour open bar.Kids can be loud, messy, sticky hurricanes of destruction at formal weddings and unless you want to see the hotel&#39;s ice sculpture shatter to pieces or the 7-tier cake crumble before the reception, it&#39;s best to only worry about drunk adults causing a scene.Of course, people were eager to weigh in on this wedding drama. Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say:  NTA (Not the As*hole). You might&#39;ve been the as*hole if you refused for the 16-year-old to come, but a 5 year old and a 16 year old are hugely different developmentally and in their ability to behave at weddings. - parishilton5   NTA. In my opinion you drew a clear line. 16 is close enough to an adult, 5 is not. The end. If your sister thinks she can do whatever she pleases at your wedding she&rsquo;s wrong. - HasturDragon   16 is almost an adult. 5 is not. A 16 year old can have fun, dance, talk and be expected not to whine, cry or loudly say MUMMY I NEED A WEE in the middle of the ceremony. Your sister is doing the adult version of &ldquo;it&rsquo;s not FAAAAIIIIRRRR.&quot; Don&rsquo;t give in. - NiobeTonks   NTA - you are not a bridezilla but she is definitely a sisterzilla - originalgenghismom   NTA. There&#39;s a huge difference between 16+ and 5. If you let your nephew come, then you aren&#39;t going to have room to tell other parents they can&#39;t bring their kids. Your wedding, your choice on allowing children or not. - Noelle_Xandria   NTA. 16 years old is not a child, but a 5 year old certainly is. - GreatWhiteNorthExtra  So, there you have it!Everyone agreed unanimously here that this bride is doing the right thing to stand firm on the rules of her wedding. There&#39;s a massive difference between a five-year-old and a teenager when it comes to how they&#39;ll behave in an adults-only setting, and her sister is being incredibly entitled.If she shows up with her kids, does she also expect there to be a place setting for them? A Kids menu from the catering services, or any space for them to sit when they weren&#39;t accounted for originally? Not only do extra guests cost the couple more money, they&#39;re a massive inconvenience to the venue and catering crew who are already one tipsy aunt&#39;s cocktail request away from a breakdown. Good luck, everyone!

Child-free weddings have grown in popularity recently as many couples realized that they don&#39;t want to deliver their vows to a choir of toddler temper tantrums and frazzled parents...  So, when a conflicted bride decided to consult the...