Don’t Forget the Kids When Doing Your Wedding Shopping!
Published on Mar 25th, 2009 by dorischua, under Wedding Planning & Wedding Shopping, Wedding Reception. (No Comments).
Most of us tend to forget the children when we are busy preparing for our wedding day and usually we don’t even think about them when we plan our wedding shopping list! The next posts will focus on 12 Ways to Entertain Children on your Wedding Day and here are 6 tips to kick off this 2-part series:
Weddings are family occasions and banning kids isn’t usually an option so here are some wedding shopping and simple ideas for keeping the children happy so you can keep the spotlight firmly where it belongs – on you!
1. Make sure that parents are told that their children are welcome but they are responsible for keeping them quiet in church. Ask that if their child creates a fuss that they take them outside so that the wedding isn’t interrupted. It’s a reasonable request if made diplomatically so it shouldn’t meet with any hostility!
2. Involve some of them in the wedding itself – perhaps as flower girls, junior ushers or even readers of bible passages where appropriate. When children feel part of the process they are less likely to spoil it! Besides, they get to be part of the wedding shopping too!
3. When planning a wedding, check if it’s ok with the church leaders to leave some children’s comics or books at the end of some of the rows of seats so that parents can give them to their children if they become restless. If the church objects to usual reading material, ask if you can leave things such as coloring books related to bible stories etc. This will also make your wedding shopping easier when you scout for these simple activity kits for the children.
4. Ask the church official conducting your service to remember that there are children going to be in attendance and while you don’t want to cut anything out of the service, the children’s attention span could be kept in mind when the official was planning any sermon.
5. If there are hymns to be sung during your wedding, make these appropriate for all ages (Sunday school hymns for example) and not just the older guests. Keep these little things in mind when doing your wedding shopping for your wedding music.
6. Consider having many of the children at the same wedding reception table so that you can create a children’s area. Another wedding idea could be to have the tableware child themed so that the children aren’t using crystal glass etc but something more appropriate for their ages. Wedding shopping for children’s ware doesn’t have to be extravagant. Coloured and child-friendly cutlery can be bought in kitchen and superstores.
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