I am never throwing my son a big party again. We are literally spending over 1k and I’m so stressed. I did not want to…

You could make the food for way less. Just get some crock pots and make some carnitas meat, chicken, etc. then make a couple pots of rice, and beans. It would cost under $100 for all the meat, rice, beans, tortillas, and then maybe $30 for some drinks.

That's the latino culture lol. I spent close the a thousand for my daughters first birthday. Now we only do food, cake and pinata. And only invite our siblings and parents. That's already like 30 people right there. But not nearly as expensive.

For my daughters baptism we spend over 7k 🤦🏻‍♀️ it was more than 200 guest my husbands family is huge they always wanna go all out in party’s I’m debating whether I even wanna do something like that for my second baby for bdays we just go to Disneyland

With that many people I would of done a potluck, that's stressful too tho because you have to communicate with everyone to make sure what they are bringing

@doubleksmommy, @mamagunn.no.1, @kaitlinl20, girlllsss for the last 2 birthdays my son had we cut a small cake wished him a happy birthday. A few gifts and called it a night. We have a Disney anual pass, and as far as I’m concerned it’s a birthday celebration for him any time we take him. But my MIL is on some other shit. My hobby is buying used furniture and refurbishing it for our home. And she literally had the audacity to tell me that i shouldn’t have bought that and saved that for the party... like, what!? In who’s right mind would they rather spend all that money on 1 day then a nice looking place!?

Omg 1k on a kid party! Lol, and here i was complaining about spending 200 on my 2 year olds bday 🤦‍♀️🤣🤣🤣

If your MIL thinks it needs to be that extravagant, tell her she needs to put some money towards the expenses or your going to be shortening the guest list by a lot! That's way to much to spend on a kids party. I know they can get expensive, but that's just beyond. I would tell her to either help, or all that extended family will not be able to attend.

60 people?! That's insane, I don't even want to invite 16 people to my daughter bday lol.

I remember spending 1k on my daughters first bday party. We invited all kinds of people and it was a Minnie Mouse theme. Never again I would spend so much money. Her 2-4 bday party’s, they have been under $300.

@mumstasin, @laniejay, yeah make her throw it. If she wants it, she can pay for it

@maddiesmommy16, @_teenmamaof2_, @laniejay, this is the first party I’m throwing him and the last. We usually just celebrate one day at my husband side with immediate family and the next day at my moms house. It’s small intimate and doesn’t cause me this much stress and anxiety. My mother in law is the one always complaining about us not inviting her extended family

Time for a backyard pot luck!

That’s insane! I don’t throw my son a big birthday party since he won’t remember it😅 I bake him a banana bread cake and get him presents. Usually friends and family drop by to give him presents a couple weeks after his birthday

Oh my!! I hope he has a great birthday! I thought me renting out a gymnastics place for $100 was a lot 😬. I think we’ve spent maybe $300 total so far.

@jellybeans33, @phoebesmommy, we will be doing that moving forward. We invited all of our extended family this time. My mother in law doesn’t understand how expensive things are. We actually got into a argument not so long ago, because she thinks we shouldn’t be complaining about spending so much money. Which I disagree. We have 2 kids. If we throw big parties like this twice a year that’s over 2k

@mumstasin, ^^

@laniejay, @jellybeans33, all of our extended family is over 60 people. It’s 500$ just for the taco we are having. It might rain so I might have to rent out a location for 350. That’s not including tables, decoration, cake, party favors, drinks... z

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What kind of party is that?!?