To wonder how early to send out birthday invites for a September born?!

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Complete newby to this malarky (even though it'll be 5th birthday 😬) but then the hell do you send invites out for birthday parties?!!!! More so with September born as it's a busy month. Also starting school a few weeks before so what's etiquette on inviting class mates that early on?
I know first world problems but I literally haven't got a clue and it really isn't my comfort zone!

I would send them to the whole class soon after starting school- it may mean delaying the party till a couple of weeks until after their birthday.

Mine normally arrive 1 week, maybe 2 before party. Id leave it til return to school in September.

I was having this sane dilemma in my head the other day

DS will be 4, first party, he goes to a preschool/reception class, there's about 20 of them, do you address invites to individual names, and if so how do you know all their names? If I listened to DS it's just him and teacher, no one else 🙄

My son will turn 5 the first week of reception. I'm not planning on inviting his classmates to his birthday party as he won't really know them yet plus it would turn into far too many children. We'll invite his existing friends and family. Will invite by text probably about a month/three weeks before.

DD had a whole class party 3 days after starting school.
The school gave me a list of first names on day 1. Invites passed to class teacher the next day. Almost everyone came to party at the weekend.

Looking back it's a bit nuts but it worked really well.

I had this dilemma. We had an all class party at a local soft play. The teacher let me have a list of the names of all the class. We waited a couple of weeks after the start of school then gave out invites with 2 weeks notice. She had a slightly late birthday party but we'd had family around on her birthday so a "second party" was a treat!

My dd is sept born.

For her 5th birthday, we considered a whole class party but decided against it. So we invited people she already knew, some of whom happened to be at her new school. I already had those parents numbers for the invites.

For the following year, I had her friends' parents contact details, so I could send the invites out during August.

My DC has her birthday in mid September. When she started school, we booked a party for late September. Party invite sent out in the first week of school. Children are happy to accept a later date for a party. I explained to DC that we can’t invite people with a week’s notice,

Also if it’s via school you don’t need names. Our school helped with putting 30 invites in book bags.

Thanks all. I quite like @AntiHop idea, I'd rather maybe wait until the year after for school friends as I'm not keen on the whole class invite concept anyway - although I understand the merits. I also don't want any other parents to feel pushed towards hosting/paying for an all class party by starting that trend. Thinking about it waaaay to much!!
Concensus around 1month prior sounds sensible thankyou!!