Only two children and their parents turned up at a birthday party!!!

Awww sorry to hear that. I have not experienced this and I would of been disappointed for sure if that happened to my son. He is turning 5 in three days but because we are new here and he hasn't made any friends, we are not going to hold a special birthday party for him, but instead take him to Seaworld in Orlando Florida. By this time next year he would of hopefully made some friends.

That happened to me when i was a child, and we were very poor. my mother scrimped and saved for weeks so i could have a party for my 10th birthday, and invited my whole class. only 3 people showed up. it turned out that another girl had decided after receiving my invitation that she should have HER party on My day. She even threatened others that if they went to my party she would get her father to stop doing business with theirs'. My mother was livid, and stopped shopping at her father's store.

I don't know what's happening in this situation. But I have some suggestions which may cause the situation. Maybe: 1. The invitation card were not sent properly and therefore many guests were not aware of the actual celebration date. 2. Coincidently the time was not suitable for all of them to attend. maybe everybody had other more important events to attend or emergency things that couldn't be avoided. But this is a rare occasion to happen when almost everybody didn't turn up. 3. The person throwing up the party is not in good terms with the guests, maybe they seldom turn up during others' parties, so other people decided to turn their backs this time. They are only my guesses, I hope it is not true. I would call all the guests three days before the party to confirm their attendance. Then I would make another call a day before the party to confirm the second time. I think this will solve the problem and I can have some back up plan.

Oh, that's very sad, and i'm sorry to hear that. We will be celebrating our son's birthdays next month (they are sharing a party this year) and we have told everyone of it already, and will be sending out the invites next week. We told everyone to mark it on their calandar though, b/c we live about an hour and 1/2 away from everyone else.. and we want to make sure they come.. i suppose the only thing you can do is call people and see if they are coming.. (which we may do for some of them) That's sad, b/c they spent all that money on food, and could have used it to buy more gift for thier little one. Poor thing, hopefully she had a wonderful party anyways.

Birthday parties in the summer are tough and you can sort of set yourself up to fail if you send out that many invitations and you don't hear anything back from the parents. The key here is to put in a phone call to the parents a few days before the birthday party. Right now a lot of people are on vacation or doing weekend or day trips. Offer to pick the child up and drop that child off if they don't live that far. But I would not have let the party day come and go without having made phone calls to see about a confirmed head count. This happened to my brother one time, who's birthday is the middle of June. My parents took him and his one friend that showed up to get some pizza and then to the best fishing spot around. The two had a great day and my brother forgot about being disappointed.

I would not invite 20 kids :) but rather the people that are actualy the friends of my child. I would also get confermations by there parrents. I dont believe partys need to be big and full of gifts to be good. And i dont want my child believing that either. Rather i would take the time and make the day abotu the actual Birth Day and not about money, gifts, numbers of people. Im not saying (jsut so you know) that i think it is imoral to have a big party, but this is how i would avoid this problem and create character in my child.

I'm really surprised of the outcome of the guest. Based on my own experience with my children, they just love to go and celebrate birthday parties with their friend. I just don't know what really happened or maybe the invitation was given and probably misplaced by the children themselves. It's very important not to rely on just the invitation. Maybe if you have given them personally or make a personal call to confirm the invitation to your guest will make a big difference. I'm really feel sorry for the young girl whose probably expecting a big crowd in her birthday.

sorry to hear this about your friend and specially the birthday girl whe might have been hurt. It depends on the kid also, she should keep on remainding her friends about it so that they will not forget it as some are forgetful. And mom also should do that same in that way there will be a grand celebration. I have never such situations till now and hope not in the future also.

It was really a big disappointment not only for the birtthday girl but with her mom too,I'm afraid she'll have phobia or when another birthday celebration comes her way. what happened? Did they asked the invitees to respond and tell them if they are going to attend or not, at least they can gauge if how many kids are going. Or does they know if there is another celbration within thier cirle of frineds? Anyway,that's over. I just hope she'll have happy celebration next year.

That is too bad. I hate to hear about children being disappointed. Did everbody send a response back to the original invitation? With my kids I never really had this happen before. If somebody could not make it we would always know when they sent back their invitation card. cheers,

Wow, that must have hurt them a lot, with all the budget and expenses. Whew. Why didn't the other families show up? Didn't she ask for confirmation that they're coming? She should at least try next time to make sure which ones are coming and which ones are not. RSVP thing. But I doubt she'll have another party like this ever. Yeah, I agree with bringing the kid to a special place rather than having parties. I pity the parents and the child. I am puzzled to the actions of the parents, weren't they close? I mean do they know these people or they just sent out invitations (are they sure those parents got it?) What are the odds of out of 20 only 2 right?! That's tough luck. What did she do?