OP here. I think 2-4 is the only time frame you can get away with only serving cake. 1:30-4:30 is probably safe. My opinion is that if you bump into 12 or bump into 5, you should serve a meal or appetizers that are close to a meal. JMO. |
With your caps and exclamation points that you seem way more worked up about this than PPs. |
You are so incredibly high maintenance and entitled. Seriously. Give it a rest. |
++++++++!! Every time I log-on to DCUM, this thread has several more pages. Having a party during a normal mealtime? Serve food. Having a party between meals? Serve cake and drinks. |
When we get invited to a party, we are just happy to be invited. If you don't want to be invited, just let us know and we won't invite you next time. No skin off our backs! |
Yes yes yes! THIS! |
Yes, relax. Go buy yourself a piece of pizza, if you want one so badly. |
PP here. Agree. |
Another poster in agreement, here. Unless the party is during lunch or dinner time, why would anyone need to provide food besides a freakin' cake? Kids and adults don't need to eat every 1.5-2 hours, unless they have a medical issue. Even when we we've attended lunch hour parties, the kids hardly touch the food. All they want to do is get up and play. |
Yeah, the kids always eat two bites of the pizza, three bites of the cake (frosting only), and then get bored and move on. I only have a DD and no sons, so maybe this is just with girl parties, but, really, there's so much food left over anyway, it's just criminal. |
We hosted a party at My Gym. Those kids could barely sit still for the cake. They only had an hour and a half of playtime. All they wanted to do was run wild. |
I love you! |
Huh? I don't think many posters have argued that you need a full meal at 2:30 in the afternoon. But if your party ends at 12:30 or 6, you should provide something. And not just for the kids, unless it's strictly drop off. I think people are annoyed because they're being invited to parties that end at 1:00 and no food or drinks are offered to the adults. A cupcake party at 2:30 is totally fine. A cake-only party that ends at 12:30, or where each kid gets a slice of pizza and parents get nothing, is rude. How about this - if you do not plan to serve food, make sure that your party does not interrupt other people's mealtimes. This madness doesn't stop with kids' birthday parties...i was invited to a party from 7:00 to 9:00 recently. No dinner, and clearly not enough food out that everyone was expected to make dinner out of that; tiny appetizer plates. After being told to make sure we were hungry! Ti. It was ridiculous. These people were massively wealthy and had hired staff on hand for this small (25 people) party so I don't know what they were thinking. Party was out in the 'burbs, too, and not many places were open for dinner after that. So you get home at 10:00, hungry. |
Ummm.... I have a baby, so this is all new to me. But am I to gather from these posts that I will be forced to attend birthday parties with 20+ toddlers and it will be considered "normal" for no one to offer the adults wine or beer? Yikes. |
we had beer & wine, (+food) at our DS's 1st and 2nd bday parties. We'd have it at his 3rd, too, but it's not in our home. |