Wedding night · Brooklyn
Stay for the last dance. Don't check the time.
Wedding nights are the longest evening you book all year. Cocktail hour at 6, ceremony at 7, dinner at 8:30, dancing until midnight, the slow ride back across the bridge. The sitter has to hold through all of it.
Why wedding bookings are different
The hours are long. The arrival home is unpredictable.
A normal date night is 5 hours and ends at 11. A wedding is 7–9 hours and ends "sometime after midnight, depending on the cab." That's a different kind of booking — the sitter has to plan for an open-ended end time, not a clean pickup at 11 sharp.
We block the full evening with a buffer on the back end. If you're back by 11:30, great. If you're back by 1, the sitter is already expecting it. No frantic 10pm text saying you'll be late.
Variants we cover
In Brooklyn
Wedding at a Brooklyn venue, kids stay home with us. 6pm start through whenever you're back.
Manhattan, late return
Reception ends at midnight, you're back to Brooklyn by 1. We hold through the late return, no surcharge for "we ran over."
Out of town overnight
Wedding upstate, hotel-night, kids stay home. We do bedtime, sleep block, breakfast, you're back by lunch. See overnight care.
You're in the wedding
Bridal party day — sitter starts in the morning, gets the kids dressed if they're in the ceremony, holds through the long night.
Lead time
Book the sitter the same week you RSVP.
Wedding-night blocks are long, which means each one takes a sitter off the calendar for the whole evening — no second booking that night. If your wedding lands on a Saturday in May, June, or September, lock the sitter the same week the invitation comes in. Inside two weeks for a Saturday is a coin flip.