So am interested in thoughts. Invited a group of three sets of parents and children, from children’s school, with whom we are pretty good friends, around for fireworks and some food. Catered the children and grown ups with a nice meal and said we will have some fireworks so bring selves, booze and sparklers and, don’t worry about fireworks. Of three families invited one bought a nice firework to contribute (lovely for sure but not obligatory) plus sparklers, and two turned up with booze for parents and nothing else including sparklers for their kids. When sparkler time came though, all out ready for sparklers so the two families who contributed (us plus the other family who came with sparklers and a firework) ended up giving ours to the other 2 families who bought nothing. I guess the fairest way to deal with would be to call kids whose families brought them sparklers forward but we felt a bit bad and now feel it’s a bit rude that some families turned up worth sod all but took other families’ hospitality for granted. Sparklers cost 2 quid max. My feeling is to turn up, eat a nice meal, watch fireworks and then also take others’ sparklers, bringing nothing to contribute for is rude. Thoughts?