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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can invite now. I have two invites for March at the  moment. [/quote]

March?!?! This is a kid birthday party, not a wedding!

Who sends a birthday party invitation two months in advance?[/quote]

Yeah. That's tacky. It says. :My child is very important and I am sending this way in advance to ensure that none of you miss my child's very important birthday party." A text to the 1-3 best friends 5 weeks out, sure! I do that before I book. But to 22 friends? No. And if the idea is to get some RSVPs early, that is unlikely to happen anyway.

How old is your kid. At some point, birthday parties should not be about your family frieds but just the kid's friends. [/quote]

What?!?   No. It says “I just booked this and want to send the evite before I forget.”   Stop looking for ways to label others “tacky.”   That’s tacky.  (See what I did there?)[/quote]

I daresay it says "my kid would love if your kid could come to their party and since we are all up to our eyeballs in sports practices and swim meets and piano lessons and other sibling activities, we thought it would be courteous to provide advance notice so you can put it on your calendar and make arrangements to move things around if needed."  I don't think that's tacky at all.  In fact, I think the opposite - I can't stand when we get a party invitation for a party in a week, or even two weeks, because to me that says "my kid should be more important than anything you already have planned so drop everything and come to this party."  We are busy.  Everyone is busy.  So giving people the courtesy of a little notice is the complete opposite of tacky.[/quote]

Not helpful.  It isn’t like sports tournaments and meets disappear on weekends of you send us your birthday invitation 5 weeks ahead.  We are still obligated to go to sporting events and various things the kids have signed up for the year/season.  Going to your birthday party means we likely have to cancel or skip on another obligation.  Which is fine sometimes, but I don’t make that call immediately upon receiving your invitation unless it is closer to the actual event. [/quote]

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