combined Childrens party, invitation protocol

[pigletmania]

I am teaming up with another mum of dds friend to have a combined party as their birthdays are the same week. Were are having a MacDs party and have sent separate invites to the childrens respective friends. We did not want to put that it was a combined party on their invitations we did not want the parents to feel that they had to buy a present for each child, were we right?

Are they in the same class at school?

They are at preschool, dds friend does mornings and dd does afternoons, so different sets of kids.

yes i think thats fine , I have had a joint party for my ds and another child in his class and i sent out invites to the boys and the other child sent invited to the girls (she is a girl) that way they dont feel obliged to buy two presents :)

If they are different sets of kids altogether I think your way is good actually.

We had one of these recently and it was a joint invite but had a little bit on the bottom about IF we wanted to buy a present please bring one and not label it with either childs name and they would divvy them up at the end. I thought that was nice.

In that case, I think it's quite reasonable. It would be odd to expect the attendees to buy a gift for a child they don't know and who, technically, didn't invite them.

Yes they are, because the children go at different times of the day, they dont know the kids in each others session.

The thing is giantfrilly dds friend is a boy into pirates, and cars and knights so not into the things dd is into.

Sounds good then - have a good party!

Thanks schmee