Babies: 9 - 12 Months

Those of you having a lot of guests for 1st BDAY

How are you handling opening gifts?  Will you open in front of everyone or will you wait until later?  I've been to a lot of parties recently where people don't open gifts.  This is very new to me.  But part of me sees the value in it.  We're going to have between 50-65 guests.  That is more than just a handful of gifts and I don't know how much interest Asher is going to have in it.  During the holidays I was surprised by how very little interest he had.  I'm thinking that opening gifts could be a long drawn out boring experience for the other kids that will be there.  I brought it up to MIL that we may do gifts afterwards and I thought she was going to explode.  Apparently its like the height of rudeness.  So what are you honest thoughts? 
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Re: Those of you having a lot of guests for 1st BDAY

  • we have approx 50 guests or so and not opening gifts......
  • We are having a large number of guests. We are definitely not opening gifts. I don't want people feeling obligated to bring a gift.. I just hope that they come to celebrate! Opening gifts might make people feel uncomfortable if they didn't bring anything, or brought something small. It's about the celebration, not the gifts. Plus, I think opening gifts would only be fun for DD for a few minutes anyways..
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  • We had approximately 45 ppl at DS's 2nd birthday last year, and we did open gifts. He loved it, and honestly it was at a park and some people left early so it wasn't a big deal. We did it at the end, and some people watched while others were walking the trails and so forth.

    On his 1st birthday there was around 25 people, and he wasn't really in tune to opening gifts at all but we still did it and got it on tape.


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  • We will be having a large number of guests and not opening gifts at the party. All of the parties that I have been to haven't had the LO open gifts at the party. I doubt anyone was offended.
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  • We have about 70 on our list and are not having him open gifts. We will open them after with family and then send out very nice, personal thank you notes. 
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  • we had about 40-50 guests and were NOT planning on opening gifts, but ended up opening ALL of them, since we got requests to do so!  Turned out great!!
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  • Around here, it's part of every birthday party. We're having 50 or so guests and we will do gifts very last. That way, people can feel free to leave if they want to, but I know a lot of people will stay since 90% of the guests are family. DS loves ripping any sort of paper he can get his hands on.
  • we are having a large group, but even if its small, we won't open gifts . . when he gets to a point, where he can open gifts on his own, they we will see .  it is not a big part of parties here.  Actually, I have only been to two events, where they opened gifts . .
  • Oh man, 50 guests? We had 35 and the gift-opening started to get overwhelming for her toward the end. Maybe you could just ask who really wants their gift opened at the party, and say you'll open the rest later?

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  • We never open gifts in front of guest. It has never been something we do.
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  • I just don't see us having time. My plan is to bring then all home and take pictures of G opening them (or me I'm sure by the end). Our party is at a musuem and 2hrs long, in those 2hrs we tour the musuem and ride the carousel (about 45mins) and then we do food/talk/cake/presents? I mean if we have time then i will but I just seeing it go by in a blur!
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