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Is it rude not to reciprocate children’s birthday invitation?

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CorneliusVetch · 08/04/2022 12:11

I’m trying to arrange a party for my little one at the end of the month (she will be 4). We have booked a soft play party package which includes up to 18 children, quite a few spaces of which are taken up with her cousins and children of close friends. She wants to invite some friends from nursery, but there are two children she hasn’t mentioned whose party she was invited to (one was at this same place). That would take us to 19, if I included all her cousins and the friends she has said she wants to come.

Is it rude not to invite back the children whose parties she went to, or does no one really care? I’ve never organised a children’s party before and don’t want to upset the parents, especially as they might end up going to the same school.

(I expect there would be space anyway because people won’t come, but I don’t want to over invite just in case. Also just wondering for future reference)!

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mindutopia · 08/04/2022 14:22

It’s absolutely fine. When they’re 9, you have to treat it all a bit more sensitively. But I barely even know the names of other children at my dc’s nursery, except for the 2-3 he’s close with, and he’s been their FT for 3 years. I would have absolutely no idea if there was a party he wasn’t invited to and nor would he. I think a party with 18 nursery age children plus 1-2 parents each is quite an undertaking already so I wouldn’t stress about this.

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