How to do birthday party invites and RSVPs for middle schoolers
Middle schoolers find traditional Evites too babyish, leaving parents stuck trying to figure out whether to text individual parents or set up group chats. At the same time, parents worry about whether it is normal to invite an entire class or if they are just out of the loop.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Messaging each parent separately
- 2Sending a regular email with everyone benched in bcc
- 3Having the child create a graphic on an app like Canva and text it to friends directly
- 4Starting with individual parent texts and creating a group chat later for logistics
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I was planning on just inviting everyone in his class to his birthday party and then I realized that we have only been invited to 1 party the entire time he has attended so my question is it normal to invite everyone to birthday parties or are we just very unpopular?”source ↗
“I'm struggling with how to do an invite/RSVP situation. I've done evites in the past but she said she doesn't want one lol. It's too babyish... Anyway, do I make a group chat or message each parent separately?”source ↗
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