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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've always lived in fear of no one wanting to come to my party. May parents threw sporadic birthday parties for us and I always hated the lead up. In those days I don't remember whether my parents requested RSVPs or not- in my 40s but for me I always feared that on the day no one would turn up. I would even refuse to get ready  until the last minute and pretend it was just a normal day so I would not be disappointed.

Now this anxiety has been transferred to my kids. I dread them being disappointed by either only a handful of guests coming or none at all. For the latest party for my 6 turning 7 year old, I sent out the invitation ~3 weeks before the party and one week to the party only a quarter of the invitees have responded. Even though this has been the pattern in the past to a lesser degree I just don't understand why people don't just reply when or soon after they receive the invitation. I do but I that's just a hangover from how I feel when I'm waiting for replies.

Having said that we've had parties for the kids every year for the past 15 years and the parties have all had almost 100% turnout. Yet I'm sitting here checking every couple of hours for new responses! You just never know if this will be the one.

The question still stands though, why not do people not respond early to invitations? [/quote]

You really need to relax.  Just send out a reminder and be done with it.  It is a bummer, but most people these days don't RSVP.  Yes it's rude and yes they should, but they don't.  Maybe you should get some help for your anxiety.[/quote]

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