My daughters graduation party was so stressful

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We invited 206 people to my daughters graduation party in mid June. 77 people confirmed they were coming and 81 attended. That number includes my husband and I and our kids etc. I was very happy with the number that showed up but was disappointed that I had guessed correctly that not a single person from my moms or my dads side of the family would come. It was the biggest party I have ever hosted and it also had the most things go wrong! It was so windy and chilly that day that the ballons on the balloon swag kept coming off. Worse was I didn’t know how to tie fishing line so I couldn’t get the swag up. We had quite a few decorations up but I had bought so much and it was going to be so gorgeous that I was so upset to not be able to do it how I planned in my head for months. About an hour into the party the police showed up. My daughters boyfriend was mad at my husband so he called and reported there was underage drinking going on at the party. The cops came and let us know what had been reported and no one underage had had any nor did they the rest of the day. When it came to the food mistakes there were a lot! I forgot to put crackers on the charcuterie board, I put the wrong flavor pudding in a dessert, we forgot about the salt potatoes sitting on the stove, 5 bags of ice were misplaced, we bought an extra keg that wasn’t needed and I forgot to give my mom the onions, tomatoes, lettuce and sandwich spread when she made the hoagies. Many more things went wrong it was just crazy one of the worst was my mom getting stung by a bee and winding up in the ER. Second runner up to being the worst was the cake. I bought a sheet cake for $95. It was whipped frosting and had a photo of my daughter on it. It was in air conditioning the whole way home and within 10 minutes of sitting on the table waiting to go in my sister in laws fridge the image blurred so bad you couldn’t see her face. I emailed them just so they were aware what happened and received a phone call the baker wanted to make another one for free but with buttercream frosting. I told my sister in law to keep it in her fridge and we would display the nice one. Thank god my dad drove an hour to get me that cake because when my sister in law looked in the fridge the next day the entire cake had a huge crack right across the center. I’ll never buy another cake from there again way to many problems over the years. This part my cost $2500 from start to finish. It wasn’t a perfect party but I hope my daughter enjoyed it and will look back on it with good memories knowing how hard I tried. Photo is unrelated to the post. It is a neat lamp I saw in a thrift store.