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16 mo old daughter to be flower girl, not invited to reception. Both parents in the wedding party.
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Does SIL not know any children that are walking age? A 16-month-old might be toddling all over the place, but certainly not without tripping. This is a lot to expect from someone with less than a year and a half of life experience!
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It's the bride and groom's perogative to have a child-free wedding. However, choosing to allow babies at the ceremony – the most boring part of a wedding and the point at which disruptions are most likely to occur – is wild. SIL clearly just wants to use her niece as a cute prop and nothing more.
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Bride demands 16-month-old niece be flower girl at her wedding, opts for child-free reception at the last minute, ostracizing sister-in-law: "Just figure it out"
Being a flower girl is a pretty big deal. It may not seem like much to walk down an aise and sprinkle some flowers petals here and there, but for a 5-year-old, it's a big ask. To a tiny kid, the aisle seems long and neverending. What might be just 60 people seem like thousands as they peer over you from their seas. You have to wear some scratchy white dress that you had no say in picking out. I know this from personal experience. Plenty of grade schoolers cave under the pressure, so how could anyone imagine a child a little less than a year and a half accomplishing the task?
This is what the bride expects in our story today: a child barely over toddler age to be her flower girl. Mom, our protagonist, agrees despite having her doubts. However, she later finds out that the reception is child-free, meaning that she will have to peace out with her baby after the boring part of the wedding. Feeling like her child is being used like a prop, she begins to question whether or not she will attend at all.