.. to organize my daughter's birthday the same weekend as another party??

[Jessiecakemaker]

DD's 7th Birthday end of April. Has invites made, venue and entertainment booked etc. Another mum has just put and invite on the PT group chat, her daughters birthday party will be the day before mine, the Saturday.
AIBU to go ahead with my daughter's party on the Sunday? Or is this bad form. Also worried parents won't want to do two parties in one weekend and so may not come ..

I haven't sent invites out yet fyi

That would be fine I would have thought? I thought you were going to say the same day. My DD is 5 and I’ve been to two parties on the same day before 🙈 a few times actually!

Not on the same day. You're fine.
Some families might not be able/want to do both days though.

Happened to us before (invited to two parties in one weekend) and we took DS to a party each and each had a little two hour rest at home that weekend so worked out OK.

Not a problem at all, unless both parties are identical.

I personally would ask my dc to pick one. It really eats up your weekend. It's usually 2-3 hours and you can't really travel back home before going back to pick up. Then it's a bit of a bother to plan stuff around it.

We've had a couple of these, it's fine. As the parent of guest children, I've come to quite like it. Rather than have to keep whole weekends free for the sake of one two hour party, it's efficient. We can plan other small activities around the parties and hopefully still have other entire weekends free.

They're not the same day so it's absolutely fine and even if they were sometimes that's unavoidable if you've had to book venues/entertainment in advance.

My DD genuinely once received 5 party invitations for the same weekend (1 Friday evening, 2 Saturday and 2 Sunday) We have a lot of friends with kids who have spring birthdays!

I personally would prefer 2 in 1 weekend that 2 weekends on the run affected by parties. All out the way in 1 weekend then, and plenty of time for people to plan in advance.

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Yes me too. Especially at 7 it shouldn't be too draining for most dc. Maybe send invites fairly soon or talk to other mum so it is clear that you had already booked too. April is tricky with Easter and bank holidays so hard to fit them all in.

Totally fine - often attended multiple parties on the same weekend when my DCs were younger and there were no issues at all.

Hope your DD has a great birthday party.

Totally fine - but get the invites out soon (like today?) so the people who will only do one party a weekend don't all end up at the other one.

We literally had DD’s party and then drove her to the next party with a lot of the same children. They all had a great day and not a single parent complained. I’d say it’s no issue to do two on one weekend.

Normal at an age where class parties are the norm.

Yes it's fine. We had a party all organised for a Sunday and then another child had a party on the Saturday.
Worked out fine and it's normal at that age