I'm so annoyed!
Dd birthday party is on Sunday. We are having it at her gymnastics gym because they have bounce houses and trampolines. This year we decided to keep it smaller. My SO is one of 5 siblings and they all have 1-3 kids each so keeping it small is kind of impossible and it can get pricey! Well the gyms rule is they have a 10 kid maximum allowed for liability purposes. I sent out invites 5 weeks ago and asked everyone to RSVP which rarely happens. Between my family and his there were 32 people invited including kids. I already have all the supplies bought and cupcakes order and what not. I SPECIFICALLY told my SO's mother we were keeping it small this year to save money with the holidays coming and another baby on the way. Well she calls SO today and tells him how there will probably be a lot more people because she took it upon herself to invite his extended family including his aunts, uncles, cousins, and their kids. Like wtf!!! It's not in my budget to just order facking more pizzas and cupcakes and I'm not going out to buy more plates and shat. Am I being crazy or would you guys be pissed too?
I'd be pissed! I'm pissed that my cousin invited her parents to my son's bday party tomorrow. No one should invite extras, ever. It's rude and you are the bad guy no matter what you do. I'm never inviting my cousin to a party again. My aunt is a facking loon and I didn't invite her for a reason!!!
He feels like he needs to just pay for the extra family members. His mom is very manipulating and if he tells her to uninvite these people she would turn around and put the blame on us and make people feel like she was doing a good thing and we must not like them or something. She very much likes to play the victim.
I texted her I'm sure she won't respond until tomorrow since it's late here.
Oh no. Tell her it is not in your budget and if she really wants all those extra people there that she has to pay all those extra expenses you didn't account for. Give her a break down of the expenses and if she doesn't want to pay then tell her to go open that mouth of hers again and uninvite them.
I'm going to text her and ask her who all did she invite because the gym can only hold so many people in the lobby due to fire codes and when she tells me I'll lie and make up a number. She will never know and it seems like a legit excuse right?
I'd ask the gym if they'll only allow those with an invitation in. Then I'd tell MIL she needs to tell those that she invited that they can't come because they won't have an invitation like the gym "requires". Why would she even think that it's appropriate to invite people you don't even know to your kids birthday party? I'd be upset about that for sure.
No way!! Our budget is our budget and that’s it. If my husband wouldn’t handle it I’d call mil and let her know I’m going to send her an email breaking down the costs that we’d be needing from her for her extra guests and when we needed it by. I’m not going to take all that extra money from my family to accommodate mil’s thoughtlessness over a child’s birthday party. Ugh ? I’m so annoyed for you.
My SO is not one for confrontation and he said he's just going to pay the difference. I'm just pissed because she knew what she was doing. I told him I don't want her church friends to come because I don't even know these people.
@kathy no she actually invited 2 of her church buddies as well who I don't know.
It's not like she invited one or two more people we are talking 8 more adults and 3 more kids than planned. I just looked online and it says for each kid after the 10 max it's an extra $15 so that's $45 more on top of the $215 it was to rent the place for 2 hours.
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