Over The Top?

I agree...the kid will have no recollection of this party whatsoever...why waste all that $$

Outragous!
That is beyond crazy. over 100 invited people? that is insane. when my son had his first birthday it was me, my mom, my sister and a few of her friends. My husband was at work! We had a bit of cake and opened some preasents, Ok my sister and her friends opened the preasents for my son! A 1 year old is going to be overstimulated and very upset the whole time being exposed to that many people. It sounds like she wants a time to play hostess and get things for her son from other people rather then take into account how hard its going to be for the baby! I would imagine that by the time the party is over that child is going to have screamed for several hours and napped the rest of the time! At my sons 2 year birthday i had the neighbors kids, 3 of them, and my family, as well as the grandparents over for cake and burgers, THEN they left and we opened gifts, it took all day. His 3rd is coming up and i plan on taking him to the park and having another bbq for my family.
That is totally insane to think a 1 year old can stand that kind of party and exposure to that many people.

i agree with you! it is a competition for the parents!
well i am not one of them! i just celebrate it at home with family and friends i see often! with some food and cake nothing more! last year i had a barbeque too and we had a great time! and i now for sure that a one year old one doesn't remeber his first birthday at all!

I think that is way over the top! Why does a one-year old need all that? I mean come on, does he really have 100 'close' friends and family?

My daughter hasn't had her first birthday yet, but I can assure you it will be a much more low-key affair! The grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, which will be maybe 20 people? They're the ones that matter most in her life and should be there to celebrate the special occasions.

I don't know, our family has always made a big deal of birthdays, any age. I know when my daughter turned 1 we were living in Texas and very few of our family could be there. We invited close friends and what family we had there. Most of our friends were co-workers of my husband and had been an important part of our lives from "pregnancy". There were around 60 people and every one of them would have been hurt if we hadn't invited them because most of them were away from "blood" family and thought of us as family.

We video taped a lot of the party and are now, 21 years later thankful we did because often when we talk about this person or that the kids don't remember them and will get out that video tape. It's great fun and we are very glad we did it when we look at that video and see how happy everyone was even though we didn't have real family around.

I complety agree with you. The child will not remember this party or most of the people there. I have three kids myself and have always had a small party for them. You know family and if they had play dates with anyone special I would invite them. I think that is plenty.