Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 03:50     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
Anonymous wrote:I was having a discussion with a friend about birthday parties. I was telling her for my child's party, I was going to have it at bounce house, but my child wants a ballerina cake. She told me that was tacky and that if I'm going to have a ballerina cake, I should have a ballerina themed party. I told her most parties I've been too at bounce houses have character cakes or they're plain she said plain is fine, other than that, it's just tacky. What do you guys think? Should a birthday cake go with the party theme?


Of course it's not tacky. Make your child happy and don't fill her/his head with silly notions like your friend's. I doubt anyone care, and tacky? For gosh's sake!
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 03:06     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
Anonymous wrote:If the party is for your child give her the cake she wants.


This.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 02:13     Subject: Re:Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
I throw big, themed parties for my kids. I hand make costumes and decorations and do a theme cake. I'm nuts. It makes me happy, my kids love it, the other kids love it - yay! That's my thing. And, it would never occur to me that a bounce house and ballerina cake were tacky. Or in any way conflicting. If it makes you and your kids happy - yay! Serioulsy, WTF is UP with your friend?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 01:06     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
She must get very tired judging all those tacky parents. Good thing her kids have a Mom who creates great themed parties...yep, no future therapy for them...snort...
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 01:01     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She's a weirdo. It's a kid's birthday party. Isn't it supposed to be tacky? Give the kid the cake they want. Tell your friend she spends too much time on Pinterest and she doesn't have to come.


Lol, she does! All of her kid's parties look like something you see on Pinterest!


00:53 here. I obviously didn't read the other replies before posting my own (redundant) response. It's good to see my Pinterest addiction diagnosis confirmed, however!

Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 00:59     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
I'm struggling to understand what, absent being purchased at an erotic bakery or the like, could possibly make a child's birthday cake "tacky". I want to believe this is a joke post, but I find it all too believable.

Please, give your kid the cake she wants!!
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 00:53     Subject: Re:Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
I recently attended a 4-year-old's birthday party at a firehouse. There were fire truck plates & cups, a big fire truck balloon & another balloon shaped like a dalmation & all the guests were given plastic firefighter hats to wear when the birthday boy blew out the candles on his birthday cake, which was decorated to look like a giant.... soccer ball Miraculously, this enormous faux pas did not ruin the party & ,despite being so horribly uncouth as to serve their guests a dessert that -- gasp! -- clashed with the party's theme, the hosting parents have not become social pariahs.

OP, it sounds like your friend has spent so much time on Pintrest that she's lost touch with reality. I promise you, no decent, sane human being is going to judge you because your DD's birthday cake doesn't match the party's "theme".
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 00:14     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
I'm a WASP who comes from old money and it's not tacky.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 00:14     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
Anonymous wrote:Damn it! Now I want cake.


+1000 I ate all the leftover birthday cake from the last party earlier today.

And another voice that says it's fine! What the hell kinda cake were you supposed to have? One with a bounce house on it? And, I think bouncing and ballerinas kinda go together anyway.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2015 00:12     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
Ask her if a bouncing ballerina would be acceptable...
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2015 23:11     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Uninvite her.


+1.

She would hate me - we had a dump truck cake at a fire station birthday!


Nooooooooo! So tacky!


Anonymous
Post 02/10/2015 23:10     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
Damn it! Now I want cake.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2015 23:08     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
Anonymous wrote:Uninvite her.


+1.

She would hate me - we had a dump truck cake at a fire station birthday!
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2015 23:05     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
This is ridiculous. No one cares!
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2015 23:03     Subject: Birthday Cake doesn't match the theme?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She's a weirdo. It's a kid's birthday party. Isn't it supposed to be tacky? Give the kid the cake they want. Tell your friend she spends too much time on Pinterest and she doesn't have to come.


Lol, she does! All of her kid's parties look like something you see on Pinterest!


Original pp here. Ha! Nailed it!!