Off again, on again event. Have you ever had one?

I had a similar party planning issue. When my sister-in-law was pregnant, I thought it would be nice to throw here a baby shower. Well my brother stopped me and said that her friends were planning one already and should he tell them that I would like to be included. I said that was fine, but our extended family was pretty large, so if they didn't want to have that many people, I would just plan our own thing. Well, one of her friends called me and said that it would be fine until I told her how many people we were inviting. Then she said she didn't have enough space for that many people. I said no big deal, I could thrown our family party separate if that worked better for her. She insisted, no, lets just all do it together. I said I would find a space big enough for everyone, and handle invitations and decorations, if she and her friends could organize the food (I would help with the food, I just asked that she figure out who was doing what). Little did I know that there would be some kind of teritorial nonsense if my sister-in-laws group of friends giving me additude for being a part of the decision making process. They wouldn't return phone calls, or give me a guest list, or even tell me what kind of food to bring, I thought they were just dropping the whole thing. I finally talked to my brother and told him to straighten them out. I was all set to do my own thing,it was their idea to do it all together. Finally, I talk to the woman who was organizing the food and she told me of the drama on her end, how this other woman thought I was taking over and blah blah blah. I was just like well are you coming or not? Are you bringing food or not? Just tell me so I know what's going on? About a third of their group didn't come even though they RSVP's yes. I was just glad it was over and my sister-in-law had a good time.

I've never had anything like that happen to me but it sounds like you had a most wonderful time! I never get invited out to anything like that anymore and wish I could get together with some Adult females!!! Glad you had such a wonderful time after all!!! ~Heavens~

We have had get togethers where we called it off and scheduled it for another day. Our family doesn't function well when things aren't planned out.

Every year on new years eve. It is always hit and miss. We invite people but we keep in low key so alot of people prefer to go out. So we make all the food, and it tends to be the same people. But we always have a great time!

Not really. I had some where they had no idea whether it would be on or not, but at least they said so. There was none that was on, that I went to, and found I was the only person there except for the hostess, and then when I went back home, they called again. Now they might have had the party anyway, but I doubt that they would have invited me back or at least that is what I would heard when I got a call back from someone saying, "you should have been there." If they did not want me in the first place, they would have told me first. So I am sure that the event or whatever had been canceled.