Anonymous wrote:I've heard of people hiding the list because they think if they get a bunch of no's and the party looks to be lightly attended, it prompts other people to say no, too. I don't get this at all. Especially for a kid party, if it looks like it will be lightly attended I will make an extra effort to get my kid there.

I think it's weird to make it a state secret who is invited to your bounce house party.

Same here.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I do plan to invite the whole class so if I hide the list, it’s not because of exclusion.

I’m considering hiding it for the first time because of what one of the previous posters said: so that if it’s low attendance, ppl won’t know or if ppl are only accepting depending on who else is coming. Im nervous as I have only met a few of the parents. Hmmm I’m not sure what to do now!

I have never noticed whether or not the acceptance rate is low. I assume that there are sometimes double invitations for the same kid, if you're sending it to both parents' email, for example. We go if my kid likes your kid and we don't have a conflict.

I've heard of people hiding the list because they think if they get a bunch of no's and the party looks to be lightly attended, it prompts other people to say no, too. I don't get this at all. Especially for a kid party, if it looks like it will be lightly attended I will make an extra effort to get my kid there.

I think it's weird to make it a state secret who is invited to your bounce house party.

OP here. I do plan to invite the whole class so if I hide the list, it’s not because of exclusion.

I’m considering hiding it for the first time because of what one of the previous posters said: so that if it’s low attendance, ppl won’t know or if ppl are only accepting depending on who else is coming. Im nervous as I have only met a few of the parents. Hmmm I’m not sure what to do now!

Don't hide the guest list.

I usually take a look to ensure that I don't accidentally talk about an invite with other parents whose kids aren't invited.

It so helpful to know who else is going for carpooling. If someone is onlny willling to go if a certain other kid is going then they can just not come.

I sometimes hide the guest list because I'm not always the most organized and sometimes forget to add people till after it goes out. Or for those big pre-covid backyard BBQs where the list would be really large and I didn't want it to look weird if we invited 100 people and only 20 came because we invited friends from our old town "just in case, " realizing many wouldn't drive 2 hours to a BBQ.

Re: exclusion, I think it's more important to show the list when you're having a small party so people know not to talk about it or who might be able to carpool.

hmm yeah - I have the same question.

Anonymous wrote:I hide guest list for regular parties but made it visible for sleepovers.

Sorry I didn't see you question about motivation. I hide because the guest list should not matter to someone's acceptance. I am inviting you or your child to the bounce house in the morning- why do you need to know who is present? For sleeovers, I think parents should know who is there.

I just sent out an invite to the whole class for my kindergartener. I hid the list because everyone else seems to be doing it lol. Also I thought maybe people would decide whether to accept based on whether their kid’s best friend was coming or something like that, and I didn’t like that idea.

I hide guest list for regular parties but made it visible for sleepovers.

We sent a whole class invite and didn't have a guest list - just a link to the party invite that the teacher distributed for us. I think you could see who accepted but I don't know for sure.

Excluding kids starts early in these parts!

Yes

When we used to do preschool birthday invitations, we would not hide our guest list. We did invite the whole class. We received 2 invitations recently for my daughter's kindergarten class and both hosts chose to not display the guests. What is the motivation of hiding the guest list? We plan to send an invitation next week and now I am wondering if I should hide the guest list.