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chelchel77
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party at meal time without a meal...
chelchel77
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a friend of mine is hosting her gender reveal party (i'll skip over my side-eye of this) at dinner time. she will not be serving a dinner, but will have appetizers and either pink or blue cupcakes.
how long do i realistically have to stay before i can say, "ok i need to go eat dinner now. thanks for having us!"?
now, i want to make it known that I don't believe it's her responsibility to feed me or her other guests, but there should be some expectation that people will not want to stay very long (especially as the only purpose of the party is to reveal the sex of their unborn child...once that purpose is fulfilled, is there any obligation to stay longer?).
I feel like it sounds like I have a terrible attitude about the whole thing and that's not really the case. I'm really just curious as to what the norm is in these types of situations...if there is a norm...
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Re: party at meal time without a meal...
I would skip it as well. Gender reveals are super AWish and I have no interest in going to one, especially if it is at a meal time without a meal being served. If you really are dying to go, you should probably stay an hour and decide from there if you want to stay longer.
1/12/13 DD was born
4/9/16 DS was born
9/17 CP
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Well, I'll say this- what kind of apps and how many is she serving? I've been to plenty of events where the apps were actually more than sufficient to serve as a meal!
However, that being said... a GR is SOOOOOOOOOOOO not a "must attend" event, and if you don't want to go, don't.
Or if you do, once the reveal is over, leave. I don't see why this is an event you have to stay a long time at.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
I'm excited to find out the sex of a friend's baby. I DO care. BUT. This doesn't require a party, and many people really don't care all that much.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
This. If I am going to host a party during dinner time, I would think it would be common sense to have food for the guests.
But depending on how close I am to the person holding the GR, I may skip it as well. If it's a close friend, I would probably just show up for an hour or so.
Ok, ok, I agree. I just didn't want to get flamed for expecting something like dinner at dinnertime or chairs for all the guests. you know...sillly things.
If it is a boy, cocktail weenies. Duh.
But yeah, I'd probably skip this with some kind of excuse. Not only are GR parties huge AWing events, but the host sounds like she is inconsiderate to boot. No thank you.
Actually if you host something at a meal time i think it is your responsibility to give the people you are hosting a meal. If you serve apps you can always serve enough to make up a meal.
I probably wouldn't go to a gender reveal at all. I don't like them. If you go just eat first or leave early.
If she is hosting at dinnertime she needs to serve at least heavy apps before she serves people cupcakes. If she is just serving chips, etc. and then having dessert she should have it after 7 pm. At least then some of the guests will have eaten dinner. We normally don't eat until 7-8 so I would be going expecting FOOD. lol
We host a Christmas party which starts at 4 and definitely runs through dinner time. I make some really heavy apps and then everyone brings their favorite app as well. It didn't start out like that...I made everything but everyone brought food to share so now I only do about 5-6 hot foods. There are about 60 people (counting kids). We supply the drinks (pop, juice, hot cider, coffee and liquor). We are doing white elephant (one year we didn't and there was an uproar - actually just a lot of disappointed people) and at the end every couple or singleton takes home a gift from us (we have a small gift for each child as well).