When you filling out Birthday Pary Invitations what do you put in the For: blank. Do you put the name of the person having the birthday party (ie. For: Megan's 7th Birthday) or do you put the name of person you are inviting to the party? I have always put the name of the person having the birthday party but this year my kids have gotten almost all of the invities from classmates with their own names in the For: blank. I am thinking that maybe I am wrong??? Although with the method that others use I often have a hard time figuring out who exactly is having the party...I have to go through the school directory for their class and either look for the classmate with the same phone number as the one listed to RSVP to or look for a child with parents named the same as the names in the RSVP spot. How do YOU fill out invitations?

By Kate on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 10:11 pm:

Always with the name of the birthday child. Never the guest.

By Yjja123 on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 10:31 pm:

I put the name of the person we are inviting and who the party is for.
I never use preprinted invitations so I do not know what the fill in the blanks are.

By Reds9298 on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 10:44 pm:

I put the name of the person having the party - like Natalie's 5th Birthday. Never the guest.

By Bellajoe on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 07:52 am:

I would put

FOR: Isabella's 9th Birthday


or something like that

By Kate on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 08:34 am:

Tammie, just the fact that you have to do so much sleuthing is enough to tell you that THEY are doing it incorrectly! What a hassle they're putting people through!

By Dawnk777 on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 03:21 pm:

Ditto everyone else. I would have put Sarah or Emily's nth birthday. You have to put on there, who is having the party, so people aren't confused. I think the other parents are the confused ones.

By Mommyof5 on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:19 pm:

I thought I was doing it correctly but I keep getting them the other way so I began to doubt myself. We mostly get them from kids in ds class (he is in Kindergarten) and for many of these parents this child is their oldest so maybe they just are as "experienced" as I am at throwing birthday parties or getting bd invites. My son is the youngest of 5 and when my oldest dd was in K I was one of the "young" parents now I am definetly on the "older" side of the class parents. :-)

By Texannie on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 08:25 am:

I truly have never heard of putting the invitee's name in the 'for' blank.

By Yjja123 on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 10:39 am:

Ever have kids come to a party that were not invited? We did, once. After that we simply started writing to: (whomever we are inviting) at the top of all our invitations. It cleared up the confusion of having much younger siblings coming, or even parents for that matter.

By Mommyof5 on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 04:31 pm:

Just this past year at my son's birthday party one of the kids in his class came with his older brother. It was a little irriating as we had to pay by child and it was $15/child. I don't know why you would think you were invited to the party if you don't even know the child having the birthday????