babysitter for a wedding

bk1980

Hi Ladies,

I am mostly a lurker, but wanted to introduce myself and also ask your expert advice.  I live in Brooklyn with my DH and DD, who is just about 6 months old.

Here is my question:  I am a bridesmaid in a wedding in Washingtonville, NY (Orange Co.) this June.  It's too far from Brooklyn to not spend the night up there so my DH and I were thinking of making a weekend of it.  The only thing is that it's not really a baby friendly wedding.  I could bring my DD if I had to, but it would be best if we could find a babysitter for the night.  Do you ladies have any idea how I could find a local babysitter for the night of the wedding?  I thought about calling the wedding venue and asking their advice.

Have any of you had to deal with finding a babysitter at an out-of-town wedding?  How did you handle it?

 TIA!

 

musiscout

If you don't know anyone around here, would you be better off bringing her with? Is it a family wedding or friend wedding? If it's a family wedding, you could drop her off with someone recommended by a family member. If it's a friend's wedding, maybe the bride knows someone or another bridesmaid. I would be ok leaving my future baby with most of my good friends' moms.

MrsKocal

I would ask the bride if she can help you find a sitter in the area that can watch the baby in your hotel room.  For our wedding, we asked one of my bridesmaid's sister and her friend to watch the children of our OOT guests (there were about 8 of them, and half of them were from Spain and didn't speak english!)  We paid for the sitters, since we were the ones who said "no kids" at the wedding.  But even if your bride doesn't pay for the sitter, maybe she knows of one in the area, or maybe someone she is inviting to the wedding has a high school or college age sibling who could baby sit for you.  Also, ask the hotel - a lot of times they will have babysitters they can call.

newporter

Definitely call the wedding venue & hotel - places deal with this all the time!  They usually have people they can recommend on file.  

bk1980

Thanks everyone!  It looks like a fellow bridesmaid may have a recommendation.  If that falls, though, I'll call the venue.  The bride told me that her mom e-mailed the venue asking about babysitters and they told her they couldn't help, but maybe if I call I might talk to someone who knows.  Fingers crossed my lead comes through.  Darned out-of-town weddings that are really not so out-of-town -- if that makes any sense.

 Thanks again, Ladies!