DD invited as a last resort

[Lizzylozzy444]

Hello,
Just wanted to see what others think regarding this...
recently received a party invitation via Facebook Events very late last night. Party is for this Saturday coming for my daughter to attend. Very short notice but I'm always happy for her to attend parties and she enjoys them so I clicked the accept button. Then I noticed that the party event page had been set up in June and people on there had been RSVPing since then and there was something written about a reserve list and my daughters name was on the bottom it?! I messaged the mum and thanked her for the lovely invitation and she replied saying sorry it was short notice but she was waiting to see if there was space for my DD if someone else declined their invitation.
I find this a bit rude but I'm probably wrong, I don't know? I'd never do this to someone, or at least not tell them they were a second choice! I've always had the other child at DDs parties and their siblings and made them welcome!

Really odd waY to arrange a kids party. Public reserve lists 😂😂. Bonkers.

If the host was a good friend I would have to say how odd I found. The whole thing.

Does she usually struggle with social stuff? She must lurch from one social disaster to another😊

Mine wouldn't want to go under those circumstances and if you don't say anything she's bound to find out.
what horrible people, your dd can do better.

Kids are indeed friends, 30 plus children at a church hall set up.

In this case, I think her being placed on the reserve list is just plain rude or shows that she doesn’t view your friendship or the children’s the way you do.

@Lizzylozzy444 Are you letting her go? She can still have fun with so many kids, and she’s so little still and again doesn’t know.

I’m in agreement with a pp, don’t put a lot of energy into finding a perfect gift.

If they are not school friends then I kind of understand why she might be more of a reserve.

Not nice how you found out but tbh if she will enjoy I would still take her.

Are you sure this isn’t a whole class party?

30+ kids to a church hall with entertainer?

It doesn't sound like the sort of party where it's going to be that much extra per child.

And they're only 6, where parties are bigger, and not contained to just good friends.

So - what would've happened if all the A-listers had accepted?

Your DD wouldn't have made the cut? How would that have played out - I mean, it's not like you wouldn't have known it was her birthday ... and that there'd be a party.

Your friend is weird.

I've sent messages before saying we have a last minute space and would love little Jonny to come if he's free

I think it's better to be upfront and friendly

Blimey, terribly rude and self important putting a reserve list on fb for public view. If it was me and the invite involved a good friends child I would at least have forewarned my friend of the situation when the invites were first sent out.

I wouldn't be inviting her other children's to any more parties in the future but I would let my dd go if she wanted to. I wouldn't be able to help myself being decidedly cool towards supposed friend though.

It is very mean to have a Reserve List in any case. Who does the stupid woman think she is?

If they are friends but not school friends I can see what’s happened here. Etiquette and proper respect for little kids feelings decreed that everyone in the class had to be invited and ‘proper’ friends could only be included once the duty invitations had been declined.

At the age of 6, I would say the 'duty' invitation is to the child of my 30+ year friend.

Besides, that still doesn't explain the public reserve list, posted for all to see, with the OP's DD right at the very bottom!

30+ kids and your dd didn’t make the cut first time despite their dcs being invited to your dds party. I though it was a much smaller affair.

Lizzylozzy444 it is weirder at a 30+ kids church hall set up! Although at 6 children should be choosing their own invitees not having to accept their mum's friend's children being invited over and above friends they've made independently at school, clubs and locally. In a church hall though there's be capacity for the child's own independent friends and mum's mate's children you'd have thought...

Odd, yes, in that case really very strange and quite rude. Very different to an expensive per head limited numbers "activity" party.

Although as starlight says perhaps she's communicated very badly that it's a whole school class party... I suppose the entertainer or venue if the hall is small might have number limits (do entertainers care?)

Whole school class party and capacity for other friends only if school classmates decline is not a snub but if it is the case there has been a communication failure!