Bride battles friend over 6-year-old "niece" who is banned from attending her wedding: 'She assumed [she] would be the exception'

Enforcing "no children allowed" policies at weddings can be treacherous territory. On the one hand, you want to manifest the ideal day that you've been dreaming about for (possibly) your entire life, and on the other, you run the risk of straining relationships and alienating friends and family with children who might struggle to find childcare for the day or weekend—and also those who could find childcare but complain anyways because they find it mildly inconvenient. 

I've probably written this a million times when these types of topics come up: If you think you're the exception to the rule, the rule was probably made for you. And besides, the problem is that if you make a hard and fast rule and then start making exceptions, you might as well not have made the rule in the first place because everyone is going to want to be the exception.

This bride ran into difficulties with one of her closest friends when she set a "no children" policy for her own wedding. To be fair to her friend, her children considered the bride to be an auntie, a fact that the friend has seemingly tried to emotionally leverage to get her to cave. The bride shared her situation with this online community, hoping to gauge whether her reaction of sticking to her decision was appropriate. See her account of events and the reactions below.

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