to expect bloody manners regarding invites/attendance for DC1's party??!!!

[FarTooShy]

Recent party for DC 1 resulted in no reply from one Mum, even though her Dad is engaged to my mum

Another person ummed and ahhed about coming, said would let me know a few days before the party, said yes they would be there and then didn't turn up at all - with no message, e-mail or text to say they wouldn't be attending and I then find out they are on a weekend jolly..er thanks for letting us know!

I mean food, cakes and party bags with loot are not cheap...I do not want to have to allow for people, only to find it ends up wasted

Ok, the party was lovely, regardless of this, but what happened to manners??!!

You know, I've found that if you invite by text, you nearly always get replies - it's so easy to reply to a text.

Of course, you can send out the children's invitations first, and just follow up with a text.

YANBU, I hate this.

At ds1's party we had a few non-responders who i didn't get to see so stuidly assumed they would be coming.

4 didn't turn up. I was upset for DS1 but thankfully his close friends did mostly come.

Twins were invited and after not turning up their mum approached me the following Monday to tell me they'd been away all weekend. Now why couldn't she have telephoned or texted me to say that before the party.