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My sons’ teacher invited the kids to meet her at school to take pictures with her before the wedding. The kids were so excited and she was too
When I was in second grade, my teacher invited me to her wedding, and my mom took me. I think it's a really awesome idea because it gives the kids to develop some real world etiquette and socialization skills. Some of them might have never been to a wedding!
In theory, it sounds like a great idea (goodness knows a lot of my students asked to come to my wedding). Check with your Union rep (if you have one) and your contract. With older kids, things get put on social media. You don’t want a kid taking pictures of you drinking/dancing/doing normal wedding things and posting it. If you ever have a student who is malicious in the future who comes across those images, they can twist them to something that they aren’t.
Also, I don’t know how many students you teach, but parents can be petty so unless you are inviting all of your students (for me that would be 150), you don’t want a parent running to the principal.
Years ago, my friends and I were invited to things for a teacher (birthday) and it was great, and I wish it were different now, but I know my school frowns on even friending students on social media, so just check that it’s allowed.
I invited my first grade class and their families to the ceremony only, not the reception. That way the was no drinking or anything inappropriate that could be put on social media and the kids were excited to come.
Love this idea! I think that’s what I’m going to do.
Thank you!
I was invited to two of my teachers’ weddings. They were just very discrete about it. I knew that I didn’t need to share it with classmates. My mom has become close to these two teachers. But this was in the late ‘70’s. I also babysat for them as I got older. Times are different but if you can do go for it.
My wedding was during the summer after my second year of teaching/ coaching. My wife was a color guard instructor and I taught high school and coached the swim teams. We each invited students from our groups, but we also invited the parents to attend. We talked to the parents before sending invitations to check and make sure it was okay with them. We had pretty strong bonds with these particular families and we wanted them to celebrate the day with us. Parents and students had a blast, even got to hear stories about both of us when we were younger. It was a fun day for the students, parents, and our bridal party. This was before social media and smart phones, so exercise some caution if you go ahead with the invites. Personally, if you’re picking the students you know the best/ spend the most time with, then invite them, but have a conversation about not posting to Snapchat or Instagram regarding the events.
I was a high school teacher and girls track coach when my husband and I got married. I invited the senior girls from the team to the wedding and they acted as ‘babysitters’ at the reception for the family members that had small kids. We set up a table in the corner with kid friendly activities and the girls kept track of the little ones. It worked out great!
My daughters orchestra teacher invited her students to play at her wedding ceremony
Just be careful of accepting gifts. We are forbidden from accepting gifts that are above a certain value.
I invited students to my wedding
Our admin is really big on professional/personal boundaries, so I think it would be strongly frowned upon at my school.
Call me old-school, I do not like the idea. Why invite the children we teach? There should be a line and that should be it. If students want to be involved, let them go to the church not the reception
I agree. Even if their families are family friends outside of school
I invited a student to mine. He was a good kid but his dad was also a coworker. 🤷🏼♀️
My husband was invited to his 2nd grade teacher's wedding and we were both invited to our high school teachers' wedding...
My daughter and her whole class were invited to her 4th grade teacher’s wedding. One parent per student was also invited. We were not invited to the reception, which was a good balance. There was a good representation from the class, social media was not a big thing yet, but even still, just the wedding should not have anything that could be uncomfortable in the future.
Check with your admin. Now a days things are harder to navigate. I remember going to a teacher's wedding when in JR high. Now I would almost be afraid to do that because of how our society is
I was a 3rd grade teacher when I got engaged. I invited my entire class to the ceremony only. A handful came and loved it. Now I’ve attended the ceremony of one of those students
Wedding ceremony, yes. Reception, no. I know of a young teacher who was fired because she invited students, whose families were also long time friends, to her reception. A vindictive uninvited co-worker took reception photos to admin and said that she was in violation of her contract because she was drinking with students; she had champagne and they had fruit punch. Nonetheless, by strict interpretation of contract language she was in the presence of current students while consuming alcohol, so she was let go
My students left early so this wasn’t an issue for me