My daughter is turning 3 this year and I am wanting to throw her a birthday party but with my friends who have kids her same age. My problem is, one of the persons I would invite is my sister-in-law (who was a friend before I married my husband). Do I invite her (SIL) w/ my other friends who have kids my daughter's age AND have a separate family b-day for my daughter or do I invite my whole family (keep in mind that there are about 25 of us, 9 of which are kids). Also, do I invite family to the friends b-day party or just have a friends b-day party AND a family b-day party? Any advice both bad and good is appreciated.
i don't know how soon your daughter's birthday is coming up, but what i'm doing for my son's 2nd birthday is having a birthday party at my mom's with family, gifts, cake and ice cream, etc, and then doing a "day out" at deanna rose for our friends with kids, without gifts or any of that other stuff. some of this includes family and i just invited those to both. hope that helps!
I am in a similar situation with my to be 3 year old. I am having a separate friend party and a family cake and ice cream party. I did not want to do two elaborate parties. Talk to your sister-in-law about it, and see if she wants her daughter to come to your party. If she doesn't show up to the family party too, that is okay. We have established two separate parties from now on, since the kids are getting older. Good Luck and enjoy the party.
I would ask your sister-in-law what she'd like to do. Maybe she'll want to attend both, but only bring a gift to one party?
I think it's fine to invite her to both.
I read this that you hadn't planned a separate party for family, just one for friends. I think that you should definitely do both or at least just have one big one for everyone. Your family will probably feel hurt and left out if you don't at least do a cake/ice cream "party" for them. Something we do in our, very large, family is just pick a night where everyone comes over to the b-day family house and we all just eat cake, ice cream and open presents. It's easy, no fuss, and everyone goes home in about an hour or two. The kids run around and have fun and you did your part to include everyone. Then you can concentrate on the friend party arrangements for your child. The last caveat, however, is the grandmas...they may very well want to be at any and all celebrations regarding your daughter, and that can sometimes be tricky, but if you don't care, let them come to everything, it makes them feel better.
