How much money....

LaBellaVida

Did you, or plan on spending on your LO birthday party?

cafecreme

I wrote out on one of them, but it looks like it was deleted. I said 150-200. I gave a run-down of expenses, and it was somewhere around 150-160$. 

we had about 20 people at her party. 

momofcatan

I would like to keep it under $100, but I'm guessing it will be $100-$150. All I'm buying is food, plates, cups etc.

ETA to add I'm baking and decorating (with a friends help) cupcakes. So I guess I'm saving a lot of money there.

ilovemarfa

My dinner food alone is $280. The cake, cut outs for favors and smash cake is $200. Then I'll spend at least $200 on appetizer food, beverages (beer, pop, wine) and decorations. If I decide to rent a bounce house that is an additional $150. We are only having 25 people including our family of 4. I wish I could spend only $150 total.

LaBellaVida

Owens will be over 300. His cake alone is over 300. That's the only "decoration" I'm having though. I might get a few balloons.
The rest of the money is on food. We won't be having any adult beverages, so I'm getting soda from costco, and making a punch for the kids.
I've gotta few family members who have offered to bring a side dish, which will cut down on cost since we are having a large party.

megaroo64

I think around $100, maybe a little north of that.  That was food, decorations, drinks.  

musicalsilver

I said $150 to $200.

If we hadn't bought really nice beer, it might have been half that ;-)

BC&LM

Oh, goodness gracious.  Waaaayyyy too much--around $500 or more I think.  I had no idea it would be that much! The park pavilion rental alone was $120 and the cake/specialty cupcakes were about the same.  Then we had to buy food, paper for invitations, paper products and tablecloths, a lawn game, goody bags, etc.  It all added up much more quickly than I thought, and we didn't even do a "Pinterest party"; we just got party store decorations.  I won't do anything this big again until maybe HS graduation.

ColieAnn31

It's definitely over $300. His gift alone was $200. But I've been buying things for his party since January. So it's not this big chunk of change at once.

HeartLikeMine3

Probably around $350. I spent a lot on decorations and LO's cake smash outfit. And we fed 55 people so there is that. I didn't include his present.

numbersgirl08

Over 300.  Typically, given our personalities, it would have been cheaper, but since we are in a temporary living situation this summer we had to have it at a playground, and pay rental for that, and had to have food catered instead of cooking, and have to do more work decorating.  

dmlk413

I'm guessing 200-250 max.  We're having a family bbq but even with burgers and hot dogs, I think it's going to be spendy.  We had to rent chairs because we do not have enough seating.

WasNotWas

You guys are making me feel better about the grocery bill I just racked up, to be fair, we are making enough food to feed an army in hopes we can have leftovers on Sunday

Food is at $250 (including cupcakes and free smash cake)

Bouncy house is $150

Favors/paper products/etc is at about $50

So total is probably just at $500, we spent about half that on Bradley's 3rd birthday, which is more in line with what we usually spend. We are building a base of party gear so parties at our house in the future will be a lot less expensive. If someone would convince my husband that we should just buy a damn bounce house, parties would cost next to nothing!!

Nix55

We need a picture if the cake @LaBellaVida‌!

We probably spent around $500. That's just a guesstimate though. I think someone should redo the pill up to $1000, so we can get more accurate results.

LaBellaVida

@Nix55 I'll Def post a picture of the cake.
His party is next Sunday the 22nd.

Between the cake and the bounce house I just reserved is over $500. Yikes.

I've still gotta buy food and drinks. I'm not doing "decorations" but maybe I'll use the food and get creative with it for decorations. Depends on how I feel that day.

AlsGal01

I think it's somewhere between $300-500. I over estimated on food because I had no idea what I was doing and spent $200 on that alone (15 people + 3 children under 3). I wish I had spent <$200.

MorganWP

I guessed around 100-150 because so far I've only bought the decorations and tableware that was about $45.

We're having it at home and Im going to make all the food and cake.

mamainVA2013

My MIL is super crafty and made a lot of the decorations, my aunt made the cake, andI  made the food, but I'd say we still spent over $300 with the cost of all the supplies, the outfit for DD, and the food and alcohol. 

bumpuser8448316

I go big on the first birthday and then very year after that is a small family lunch. Everything, including gifts and food is totaling about $300

cynthia2007

-well over $500 between the decorations, cake (holy crap these are expensive-ordered vs made since we're traveling) and food. BUT I knew we'd do the first one big with lots of family and friends (over 60 people coming) and the next ones won't be so big.

JessicaKS

Honestly, I haven't kept track of how much has been spent for the party. Definitely over $300. Probably over $500 by time we pay for the food.

But I really haven't done anything crazy extravagant, other than refusing to attempt any DIY. I am horribly uncreative and like to outsource that stuff. Stuff just adds up!