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Yesterday my 9 yr old received and invitation in the mail. The party is Saturday!!!! Shouldn't you give a minimum of 1 week notice? Ugh!!! I told him he could go, but for a gift, it has to be something I have in my stash!!! We have very busy schedules around here and need to plan for these things!!! Am I wrong to be annoyed?
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OMG! My friends are the WORST about this! Luckily I kinda know when all of my closer friends kids birthdays are.. so I can pretty much predict when its coming.. but yes it IS annoying! I give AT LEAST 2 weeks notice.. and most of the time a verbal warning a good month in advance! Kinda like "save the date... so-and-so's bday party is going to be...."
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I have to admit: I was guilty of that this year. Our budget was so tight - spent on Dr.s and medicines, I wasn't sure I could even afford to have the Build-A-Bear party ds wanted, and wasn't sure how many I could invite. It was so hard for him to pick and choose among his classmates! We gave out the invites, but then at the last minute we found we could invite a couple of extra and a couple were accidently omitted that he really needed to invite and wanted to invite. We had to make some phone calls, apologizing profusely. The party was a success. DS was so into the party more than the presents, but they all really got him nice things, including a few that got outfits right there at Build-A-Bear for him.
I usually try to plan these things to a T, but sometimes, there are extenuating circumstances (his little sister was always getting sick, and I had to make sure she would be able to be up and about).
I completely agree - 2 weeks' notice, but if this is an isolated incident from this family, there may have been issues.
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If I know Im getting behind sending out invites I will call!! I at least try to give a week notice too (pref 2 weeks) but this year with her party after spring break I was off a week!!
Things do happen maybe it was a mistake I dont know!! but yes It is nice to get some better notice!!
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I send out the invites 1 month exactly before the party. I give myself the deadline and then I have to do it or feel terrible about it.
-Lucky
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I agree it's very annoying. I hope he has fun at the party though.
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This just happened to my dd last week. We got the invite on Wed. and the party was on Friday. Luckily we didn't have anything going on but it was still annoying. I try to give a week to two weeks for something like that.
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forgot to add that I just put money in a card as I had nothing on hand and with ball games every night no time to shop.
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This just happened to us this week for the first time. We got the invitation on Wed. and the party is this Sat. He already has to go to a party on Sat and we could have technically made this one too, but I just told him we had already accepted the other party and we couldn't make it. I told the mom the same thing. I always give 2 to 3 weeks notice. I love planning the parties and I usually have the invitations done a month early and am just itching to send them and get things rolling! LOL
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Well, yes and no. Sure it would have been nice to have some notice, but what if for some reason they noticed that your child didn't get an invite and sent it out late? I'd rather the child get it later than to be left out. So in a way I'd be happy at least my child was invited. I know I've procrastinated (nothing like a party though) where I'll 'mean' to put that stamp on but didn't have the correct address yada yada and it will sit there and then finally I'll say, "oh man I have to get that out today!!" Like I said , I've never done it for anything like a party, but I *can* see where it can happen.