Well my son will be 10 months, almost 11 when we are going to a cousins wedding, I would like to know some tips that anyone else knows on how to keep the baby busy during the ceremony:wave:

Our DD is very good & loves to people-watch...but follows are things I've brought along to events just in case:

Paci. She doesn't need or want her paci on any regualr basis...but she seems to enjoy it as a novelty if I do present it to her.

Bottle of EBM (remember you may have to burp if you still do that at 11 mo...I still do at 9 mo)

This book she LOVES to play with. She can play with this book for 20 mins straight & gets upset if you try to take it.

Cell phone with the keypad locked and on vibrate.

I am taking DS to a wedding tomorrow. He is 2 1/2 months. We went to an outdoor wedding last weekend. This one is indoors. Definitely bringing a bottle of EBM. In fact, I am getting there early to BF him and then hopefully he will fall asleep. If not, he will be eating through the ceremony the bottle of EBM. Then he should be quiet and content, and maybe doze off to sleep during the ceremony. This is a wedding of a good friend and I am not walking out of it! So I am going to do all I can to keep DS quiet and happy/content.

Cell phone with the keypad locked and on vibrate.

LOL!!!

Alex LOVES our cell phone!! And the remote. He will happily play with the remote (set to aux, so he doesn't change the channel). That is so funny. I often thought it was because we were holding there things so often, that he wanted it to :p (kinda like keys lol)

well yea the thing is, my son dont like to be held very much, he likes to just gooooo he can almost walk and is vert adventurous

My son is like yours, he can walk now, and never wants to stop. We went to a wedding a couple weeks ago (he was just over ten months then). Luckily the ceremony wasn't too long. We sat at the end of an aisle, and there was a break in between the next person on the same bench, which was my hubby's aunt. So we just let Logan walk back and forth inbetween her and us. He started getting a little fussy, so my hubby's cousin gave him her shiny bracelet to hold onto, and for some reason he was so thrilled with it. He shook it around, chewed on it, etc. I think if the ceremony had been any longer we would have had a problem, but we just made it through! Everyone around us was really good too to talk to him, and entertain him.

I would give him something new that he has never played with before. Infact, you probably want a few new toys - quiet ones, ofcourse! If your son does start to get noisy, just remember to be mindful and walk outside. If you miss some of the ceremony then so be it. I know this seems like common sense, but I have been to weddings where the parents won't get up and leave and it is very disruptive. Plus, many people have a wedding video and the last thing you want to hear is a child crying or wailing in the background. Best of luck!

Does your son usually nap in the daytime? If so, can you start getting him used to napping at the time you will be at the church, so that he is tired and ready to sleep when you get there?

I took my 9 month old DD to a wedding last weekend and she slept from the first hymn until the bride and groom walked down the aisle at the end of the ceremony. I was a bit lucky there, but you never know it could also happen to you. I did sit at the end of a pew and had her in a pushchair in the aisle (not the one in the middle the bride and groom walked down!), ready to walk out if she cried or disrupted the ceremony. She didn't cry until later on in the day when everyone cheered at the best man's speech - she was so startled she screamed and I had to take her outside.

At my own wedding there were children making happy noises throughout the ceremony and I was completely unaware of them until I saw the wedding video, so I wouldn't worry too much about him disrupting the ceremony unless he screams. Weddings are, after all, a celebration of family and most churches welcome children at weddings. At the wedding I went to last week, one child was walking up and down the pew in front of me (his mother was holding another person's sleeping child), tickling the people (who he didn't know) in the row behind him, and no-one minded.

Another option is to ask someone who he is used to to go with you to the church and play with him outside while the ceremony is taking place.