I need advice..

Is there any way to politely exclude children from a party? Kind of a wedding shower/house warming type adult drinking party.
When you invite a couple, and address the invite to the couple only is that enough?

Some friends of ours are getting married, and we are having a wedding shower for them, they JUST bought a house yesterday, and want to have it there.

well people are stupid. Addressing just to the adults SHOULD be enough but you are bound to get someone who thinks their kids are them. I would put adult only. It saves the phone calls of can my kids come? and just plain stupid people who will bring them anyway without asking. I don't think it's rude to exclude children (as long as ALL children are excluded... I have a friend who has all sorts of adult only gatherings but lets HER kids come) from a wedding. Now if it were a 5 yea olds b-day party it might be rude to say no kids but....

I would put "come join us for a kid free time and a carefree night!"
You are invited to enjoy a few drinks, and lots of adult fun on May 3rd, at Joe and Barbras new house!!

So line up a babysitter, get out your dancin shoes, and pick up your favorite libation, head on over and lets celebrate their marriage!!

LOL Chelle.
The reason is, 1) they don't have kids, and 2) their new home and brand spankin new furniture is not "kid friendly".3) I am not taking my brat, so noone else can either dangit!

Mention chelle will be greeting them at the door with her gun.

edbson wrote:LOL Chelle.
The reason is, 1) they don't have kids, and 2) their new home and brand spankin new furniture is not "kid friendly".3) I am not taking my brat, so noone else can either dangit!

You don't need a reason. If you're throwing the party, you get to decide who is invited.

LOL Lucky. I am actually close enough that I could hire out

I agree with Karen. They have that right. and you can either
a) be blunt. "this is an adult only event"
or
2.) be fun about it.
In the above post I mentioned it at least 3 times that kids were NOT welcome. So I am betting that if you did it that way, you would have one in 50 show up with their kids.

I am going to word them something like that, I need to send them out early next week.....

even if you don't want kids/men/dogs there, some peple are stupid and don't/won't get it

I agree with Chelle (great wording on that hypothetical invite) and Karen... it's your party, invite who you want.

And don't apologize for it... just let them know, it's a couples thing, or a girl thing, or whatever.

And I would have done a quote... but for the life of me, UB is acting weird today... I don't have the wonderful deep blue, I don't have the yellow stars, nor do I have a quote button ... grrrrr, probably just my computer getting ready to 86.