Christmas birthdays?! Personal experience and advice appreciated

[jessicajadexo]

Hi,
My LG is turning 3 and wanting her first proper party. Her birthday is the 30th December so a super awkward time, however thinking of booking her party for the 12th Jan to get Christmas and new year out the way first. I’m panicking people are not going to come due to it being such a chaotic time!
My LG nursery breaks up for Christmas on the 21st Dec and so thinking of handing invites on the 17th Dec to give nursery 5 days to hand them out to the children before holidays. Is this too early?

I was potentially thinking I could send a reminder text a week before her party to those who have RVSP due to Christmas being crazy.

Just wanting peoples experiences with having parties so close to Christmas, was there a good turn out? Did people forget? Or just not want to come due to a crazy December? Am I best handing invites earlier to give time for people to reply due to people possibly forgetting to rsvp due to Christmas prep?
(Please help with your experiences and your personal view)

Thankyou so much for reading!

Would I be best doing her party two weeks before her birthday on the 15th dec or two weeks after on the 12th jan?
Thankyou

My sons birthday is 28th Dec, I have managed to do parties on his actual birthday, I actually found parents like their kids having something to do after the chaos of Christmas, however I have done bigger parties around 2 weeks before and everyone turned up.

Have you had any experience with early jan parties? I originally booked it for the 12th jan as I thought just after the Christmas period may be good (however their is a chance people might forget then)
Thankyou xx

Jan would be better for a party in my opinion . Is usually hard to keep kids entertained so I would welcome an invite .

If she is just turning three I wouldn't worry about inviting nursery friends and just keep it to family, close friends and neighbours if you are friendly with them. Have a little tea party on the day and it will be something nice for people to do over the holidays?

My DS is 23rd December. We do a family treat like the panto on his actual birthday and he has a party with his school friends either the week before or early January.

When he was younger he had a soft play party on 28th Dec but lots of people were away or busy so now I stick to termtime for the party. I always make a big deal of all the special things he gets by having his birthday at Christmas - decorations to go and see, going to the panto, he'll never go to school on his birthday etc.

A lot of people get paid early for Christmas, and January consequently becomes a 6 week month. I'd actually push her party back to the last week of January, because you might have drop outs because people are skint.

Ds birthday is mid jan and we have arranged parties with nursery friends. Send invites out about a month before and have ever had a problem with people turning up.

Thankyou everyone.
Will defo send a reminder message to those who have rsvp in the New year just coz I know it's a crazy period and people may forget.
I wasn't going to do anything big but with her going to a few parties this year she's insisting on a party with her friends haha!!

Think I'm going to hand invites out on the 10th dec and possibly ask people to rsvp by the 21st (before Christmas properly begins) then if I get no responses think of doing something smaller with family!
Xx

Stickmangate would you recommend handing invites out around the 10th then??xx