My daughters 7th birthday was last weekend. We had it at home, a fairy theme, and I hired a 'Tinkerbell' fairy queen to entertain the kids. The thing is, it cost x dollers per child who attended (after the nominal fee). That was fine, but I explained this in the invites (which were given out 3 weeks ahead of the date), and asked for definite RSVP's from parents. On the day of the party, 8 parents who hadn't RSVP'd showed up and dropped their kids off, 1 mom even dropped off her other 3 kids, another mom dropped off her 9 month old! Am I right to be annoyed, is that incredibly rude or am I over reacting? I stressed on the invites that a fee must be paid per child, which is why RSVP was so important, I ended up paying out an extra $235 on the day to cover all the extra kids! Should I say something? Obviously I know not to invite them again, but to the parents who dropped off the extra siblings as well, do you think it's worth saying anything?
2007-07-15
16:57:59
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Sonja
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