Please tell me whether my latest plan for dd1's party is ok

[fivecandles]

Want to ask 5 of dd1's friends to the theatre to see a children's thing (story told with puppet type thing) followed by Pizza Express lunch and cake. Problem is that it is a)poncy b) requires parents to drive 10 miles or so (but theatre is next to an outlet mall with cafes etc so parents can go a shop for an hour and a half before picking children up but they will have to pay parking). What do you think?

She's going to be 6 BTW and I'm just so bored of going to soft play centres but can't do cinema since they don't have times till the week before and I can't cope with not having it organised.

I think its a great idea.

It sounds great, can my dd1 come along too

Think it's a good idea.
Parents can always share lifts.

Oh thankyou. I thought it was a good idea but dh thought it was way too poncy and told me no one would come.

Is there any way you could do the driving yourselves -if you only have one car could you rope a friend in? Then you could just have the guests dropped off and picked up at your house.

My DDs have birthdays 3 days apart and one year (they were about 10 and 7) we took them and 3 friends each to see the BFG about 30 miles away - they all came here first for pizza and chips and it worked out brilliantly

It sounds lovely, not poncy at all, BUT as a non-driver, something like this would be very inconvenient - you'd need to check with parents and help to organise lifts I think.

For DS' party we took 10 children (including our own 2 obviously) bowling. DH took a car, as did I and I roped in one other mother who is my friend to also come along. Could you do something like that?

Sounds lovely but do offer lifts - the mother of a birthday child in ds's class asked around to make sure everyone going in a car could offer lifts to anyone who wasn't, IYSWIM. Very thoughtful.

sounds lovely, you could always ask people if they have spare places in their cars to accomodate non drivers like myself.

Thanks all. Will have a think about lifts.

yes it sounds lovely (a pal of DS1's did something simialr a couple of yrs ago) but I agree, try to organise lifts. How many can you take in your car? Is there another car you can borrow?

Like bozza (spookily so) we had our car, mum's car and a pal's car to take 10 kids bowling for DS1's party which worked really well. Everyone brought booster seats and it was totally fine. Let the pal bowl as a reward lol.