Save the date emails / texts for children's birthday parties

[Pennies]

In the past two weeks I have received two 'Save the Date' announcements for children's parties. One is at the end of May and one is at the beginning of July.

AIBU to think that there is no way in hell that I'm going to start saving dates for these events? Weddings, no problem. Milestone birthdays, of course. Sugar-highed 5 year olds stroking a petrified rabbit? Err.. no.

It wouldn't bother me tbh and i think i would prefer it then i could put it on the calender.

Sending out invites on Friday afternoon for a party the following Wednesday. like what happens with my dd is bu!

YANBU. I won't do this. If DD gets an invitation and it is convenient for me to take her she goes. Save the date cards are just wank.

Depends who it is tbh - a close friend Ok. But just another little person in a class of thirty that DC aren't that interested in - nah.

Perhaps they're hoping it will avoid clashes, or those awful situations where you end up with three parties in one weekend and have to choose which one to go to. Or that people might realise birthdays fall a the same time and suggest sharing.

Anyway, just because they sent you a 'save the date' doesn't mean you have to.

I don't even understand 'save the date' notifications for weddings - just send out a bloody invite and be done with it.

I'd never even heard of the whole 'Save the Date' phenomenon until I watched the film Bride Wars.

It seems pointless to me. Once you've had an invitation and said you're going, that's a definite date. I wouldn't turn down a better offer for, or plan my holidays round, a 'save the date' notification.

Not that I've ever had one.

I see your point, but in my DD's class there are 5 little girls with birthdays within 2 weeks of each other. It was a struggle last year for them all to have a birthday party wioth their friends because that period was so overbooked. So save the dates might help.

yes I find this bizarre. I get all of these by text and then forget about them and then they get all pissed off when I get an invite 3 days before and I have no idea what they are talking about.

I can understand it for v close friends and family checking dates but I think getting them from parents in your dc's class for dc parties (unless potentially the best friend) is just odd.

Pterosaur Fri 04-Mar-11 13:19:40 is spot on.