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[quote=Anonymous]I would just include them. My feeling is that if someone wants to come, then I'm not going to tell them no. I assume that it won't break the bank if you send your child to summer camp each summer and are hosting a party for x number of people. What is two more?

I had two similar situations:

1. I hosted a Bat Mitzvah for my daughter a few years ago. She invited a school friend from our old neighborhood in another state. I was not friends with the child's mother who drove several hours to bring her daughter to my daughter's Bat Mitzvah. Although I didn't invite her mother on the invitation (actually sent it to her dad's house; parents are divorced), when she RSVP'd that she'd be bringing her daughter down, I told her we'd be more than happy to have her join us for the party. She did come. We enjoyed having her there. And honestly, she might be in one picture. Who cares? So is my nephew's ex-girlfriend who we will never see again.

2. I invited my neighbors - just the parents - not the kids. When they responded that the whole family would come - parents and two kids - I rolled with it. No point in making an awkward situation out of it when we plan on living here for several more years. The kids came, had fun with the other 40 kids we had, and that was it. The kids are in several pictures because they had fun dancing and hula-hooping, etc. I don't care. They were there, so they are in the photos. 
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