Early planning - graduation party question

[Anonymous]

Our HS graduation is on a Wednesday. When would be the typical time to have a graduation party (extended family, close friends of the graduate, close family friends)? All the attendees either live within 5 miles or would be flying in, so no one is driving 2 hours.

Would it be the weekend before? Or perhaps the Monday or Tuesday night before graduation?

[Anonymous]

Weekend. Not a Monday or Tuesday night.

[Anonymous]

Just keep in mind that all your kid's friend are also graduating, and will be having their own celebrations. So you may not have too many people beyond the graduate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just keep in mind that all your kid's friend are also graduating, and will be having their own celebrations. So you may not have too many people beyond the graduate.

Interesting. I assumed kids would all swing by each others’ parties.

[Anonymous]

"Interesting. I assumed kids would all swing by each others’ parties."

Wouldn't it be rude to run off and leave behind your guests at your own party?

[Anonymous]

Teacher of high school senior.

Everyone seems to do them the weekend before graduation. I’ll get invitations to a half dozen all on the Friday/Saturday/Sunday before.

[Anonymous]

We did ours the weekend after and lots had already gone to the beach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Interesting. I assumed kids would all swing by each others’ parties."

Wouldn't it be rude to run off and leave behind your guests at your own party?

This. Even if you have 5 friends having a party on the same day you leave your party and spend the day going to theirs? And none of them are at home because they're doing the same thing?

[Anonymous]

We did ours on the weekend, and made it a six-hour open house. That created space for the kids going to five parties that day to come by, eat, stay for an hour, and move on.

[Anonymous]

Drop in, weekday, 6-8. All the kids come and go to each other's parties all week and weekend from the weekend before to the weekend after. There is no right or wrong time to do it!

[Anonymous]

I have been to several such parties in recent years and rarely see other seniors at the parties. They have all been on weekends, either the weekend before or after.
They are usually extended family and family friends.

[Anonymous]

My DD graduated last year. Parties were on the weekend for several weeks after graduation.

[Anonymous]

My kid graduates during the first week of June. She's doing Beach Week and then we are having a family vacation the following week. We settled for the last weekend in June to celebrate with family and friends.

[Anonymous]

DD graduated yesterday. She’s been going to parties for weeks. Most of them on the weekend. 12 of them. We didn’t do one for her because she didn’t want one. She was partied out.

[Anonymous]

If you do it 2 weekends before - you will get all the HS guests bc usually Friday thru Sunday before is the one that is PACKED with parties. If you do it the weekend before graduation, I agree with the 6 hr open house style party so HS guests can stop by whenever they wrap up at another party.

I wouldn't wait until the weekend after. You'd be shocked how fast the excitement for HS dies after HS ends. And in this area where everyone vacations a ton, A LOT of HS friends will already be packed up and on a plane with their families by Friday if grad is Wed.