Birthday party question: can I do this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is really weird. So you will be serving full on dinner/lunch, but not to everyone? I don't see how you think people will be fine showing up at 4pm, and see the whole table with proper sit down lunch and them coming after? Plus, why are you catering to your adult parents paranoia? Your kid is having a party and it is all about the parents? Are your parents those snowflake boomers people post about on dcum? Who cares what old geezer grandparents want. Have them come at the end. Geez.
I don't see a way around this without offending people.

Presumably, OP will clear away the lunch food by the time the friend guest arrive, so they will just see family sitting around and the cake. I don't think it's strange to be invited to a friend party and know that there was a family lunch before the party. I'd also be okay with my kid jumping, having cake, and then heading home to eat dinner.

Not if she has the family coming at 3 and thinks she’ll have a meal and all evidence gone by 4:00.

Yes if she served lunch at noon and had the friend party at 3:00.

5 is also a weird time for cake. You don’t want cake before bouncing unless you own stock in Clorox, but while mid afternoon cake would be fine, cake right before dinner is hard on families.

[Anonymous]

None of this sounds relaxing, which OP said was what she wanted. Well, not relaxing for her!

[Anonymous]

If you do it, have the family food cleaned up by 3:45 and have maybe a veggie tray and a bowl of chips out in addition to the cake.

[Anonymous]

Can I send an email to a select few and say “please come bounce and eat cake from 4-5?”

Is that REALLY rude? I just want people to come and eat cake and enjoy the bounce house! If I’m spending the money to rent it, I already know several people who want to come bounce.

It's not rude, but if I got an invite like that, I would decline unless I lived relatively nearby. I wouldn't want to drive any significant way for something that would only last an hour. If it were nearby, I'd be fine with it.

[Anonymous]

OP, if we are friends I'd be totally down with this. Especially if you just say "we're doing a little family party, but I'm getting this big bounce house, so do you want to come post-party for leftover cake and a bounce?" I'd be all over it with both kids and I'll bring my own cheese sticks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

We can’t do two separate parties because the cousins must come to the family party and the cousins will also love the bounce house.

I suppose I could do friends from 2-3, but then they’ll miss cake. Unless I do cake at 3, and then dinner at 5 for family. But isn’t that backwards?

No that’s fine.

No, it’s fine. Serve cake at the earlier friends party and dinner with your family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, if we are friends I'd be totally down with this. Especially if you just say "we're doing a little family party, but I'm getting this big bounce house, so do you want to come post-party for leftover cake and a bounce?" I'd be all over it with both kids and I'll bring my own cheese sticks.

Sweet, be my friend!

[Anonymous]

Do you have any neighbors with similarly-aged kids? You could always do family time and then invite the neighbor kids over for bouncing and snacks. I know my daughter would always look wistfully at bounce houses reserved for parties to which she wasn't invited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have any neighbors with similarly-aged kids? You could always do family time and then invite the neighbor kids over for bouncing and snacks. I know my daughter would always look wistfully at bounce houses reserved for parties to which she wasn't invited.

No, but I would definitely invite them if they were there!