Birthday party a month after your actual birthday?

[BlondieMuver]

If you were away for a milestone birthday, would you hold a party a month after your actual birthday?

Personally I wouldn't bother to hold a party that long after my birthday.

It's a month due to family holidays and availability.

AIBU?

Op have the party
but if your dc suggested and are very keen, let them organise

Turning 60 is worth celebrating especially if 50th was a washout

Why not?

I had my 50th birthday party two months before my birthday. It was a joint party with DH, who had his 60th four months earlier. But even if it hadn't been a joint party, I'd have happily had it a different month if that worked better round other events and the weather!

For a non-milestone birthday I'd probably keep it within a couple of weeks or so ideally, and otherwise just have a non-birthday party instead. But wouldn't judge someone who did differently!

It’s totally fine!

I’m holding DD’s 16th birthday eight months later and she had constant mocks all year, and wanted a joint 16th/ post exam party.

And you can do a lot more in the summer months.

A party is just a party - people can enjoy it whenever it is.

Not for me. It’s not the same so long after.

No, it's not the same. It's MUCH BETTER , if you are having a party, to have it when you think most of the people you want to celebrate with, are available. Hence, for people with August birthdays, holding it in September is much better.
People with Christmas Birthdays - holding it after January payday is better.
People turning 18 in the middle of their A-levels? - holding it after exams have finished is much better.

As a pp said, on receiving an invitation to a party, I think a) do I want to go? b) logistically, can I go? and then I accept (or decline). I don't go trawling through the internet or hunting out old diaries or 'Dates to Remember' books, to check if the host is holding the celebration within some sort of fixed number of days limit that I hadn't previously heard about.

I'm something of a Mumsnet outlier in that I LOVE both birthdays and parties (I even open the door when I'm not expecting somebody).

For my 40th, not only did I have a massive party, I then took a year out to go traveling on a 'grown up gap year' (even though it ended up only being six months, because covid).

So, fuck, yes, life is short, have a party.

A birthday party a month later in some circumstances (illness, an operation, not being the same time say as another's wedding) seems reasonable to me.

Regardless of falling for the nonsense of milestone birthdays.