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jennandrob
mom of two!
Member since 5/05 4368 total posts
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Jenn
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
$850 in my co-op community room for 50 people with entertainment
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Posted 6/15/10 8:38 PM  |
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
Posted by kerrycec03
around $300. We did a family party at my moms house.
decorations & supplies-$100
food & drinks & cake-$200
same here!!!
I'm not into big parties.
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| Posted 6/15/10 9:21 PM |
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OOSMommy
LIF Adolescent
Member since 10/09 860 total posts
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me
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
We spent less than $200. We had the party at home, baked the cake ourselves, the kiddo guests played with DD's toys, and everyone had a great time. We thought it would be better to save the bigger parties for ones she would remember.
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| Posted 6/15/10 9:28 PM |
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mooshyboo
So Blessed!
Member since 11/07 6297 total posts
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Christine
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
I think we spent around $1,000-$1,200.
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| Posted 6/15/10 9:37 PM |
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SweetCin
My green-eyed boy
Member since 5/05 13499 total posts
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Cin
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
We just had a backyard party with about 75 people & it came out to about $1200-1300 when all was said & done.
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| Posted 6/15/10 10:55 PM |
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BeachMom
Love my 4 kiddos!
Member since 11/08 8346 total posts
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Kristie
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
prob about $200-$300....
We did the party at a local park since we don't have that much room at our place and had 40 ppl(including 10 kids). Between cake, pizza(my DD's favorite), decorations, favors, and paper goods i'd guess around $200.
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| Posted 6/16/10 7:20 AM |
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bpmom
Feeling Blessed
Member since 6/07 2963 total posts
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
Posted by cookiemonster
We spent less than $200. We had the party at home, baked the cake ourselves, the kiddo guests played with DD's toys, and everyone had a great time. We thought it would be better to save the bigger parties for ones she would remember.
Same here...
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| Posted 6/16/10 7:42 AM |
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NinaLemon
It's a boy!!!
Member since 10/07 6453 total posts
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Jeannine
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
Not much, we had a party at home.
DS is a Christmas Eve baby so the house was already decorated for Christmas, we bought a cake, snacks, pizza and wings and I think I spent $30 on favors for the kids.
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| Posted 6/16/10 8:37 AM |
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Elbee
Zanzibar
Member since 5/05 10767 total posts
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Me
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
about $2,200 I think. I had 110 people + 35 kids.
Hall
Twinkletown Clowns
Catering (appetizers, main dishes, sides, fruit & cookies)
Balloons / tableclothes / decorations
Favors
Cake
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| Posted 6/16/10 8:39 AM |
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DRMom
Two in Blue
Member since 5/05 20223 total posts
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Melissa
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
About 200. 100 for decor, plates and favors. 100 for home cooked food and drinks-we made pulled pork snadwiches and BBQ'd a made a big pasta salad.
It was a Rodeo Cowboy Theme(it was on clearance at Celebrate Express)
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| Posted 6/16/10 9:05 AM |
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NoStressMom
My Heart and Soul
Member since 5/05 11122 total posts
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D
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
We will be spending under $300 just my family and his small we just moved into our house mid May so everything is not really ready for a big deal yet. It will be in the backyard heros, salads, cake, beer, wine and soda.
We will be holding off on the big parties when she gets older.
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| Posted 6/16/10 9:09 AM |
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Mkr09
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Member since 5/05 7550 total posts
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
We had a small party at a restaurant. With food, favors, decorations, cake...etc it cost us about $600.
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| Posted 6/16/10 9:10 AM |
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MarisaK
HELLO Manolo !!
Member since 5/06 14562 total posts
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Marisa
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
75 people in my backyard (and that was w/ cutting out a WHOLE side of my family, and literally 95% of our friends) and it cost us about $1500 -
The damn tent alone was $500 !!
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| Posted 6/16/10 9:31 AM |
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CaMacho
Sisters :)
Member since 7/06 15112 total posts
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Jess
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
I WISH we could just have a backyard bbq party... but we need a backyard to do that.   I love our house but now that we have DD I hate that we don't have a backyard.
It's August and we live in FL so it has to be indoors. The park near us that has an indoor facility wants $230/hour just to rent the space. So I think we're going to go with a restaurant.
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| Posted 6/16/10 9:39 AM |
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nferrandi
too excited for words
Member since 10/05 18538 total posts
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Nicole
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
We spent about $4000. We had 100 people at a restairant and it was like $30+ per person, then decorations and a clown. DS #2 is going to be atleast as much because now, 4 years later we have even more people to invite.
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| Posted 6/16/10 9:46 AM |
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babymakes3
Almost there!
Member since 7/06 7376 total posts
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
About $300. We had it in a party room at my dad's apartment complex and we made all the food and bought the cake.
I did favor bags for the children, which mostly consisted of toddler friendly snacks since the kids were all 3 and under, most around 1 years old. We didn't have entertainment either - at that age, being together was entertaining enough.
I didn't count the airfare and car rental that we needed to buy to get there since our families are OOS.  
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| Posted 6/16/10 9:58 AM |
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Xelindrya
Mommy's little YouTube Star!
Member since 8/05 14470 total posts
Name:
Veronica
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
Lets see
$6 for her cute bday hat
$20 tix to the zoo
$20 on food
$20 at the zoo for stuff
$10 on a cake
So about $80
Memories for a lifetime!
She got to feed the birds, play in their play area, look at fish, see the birds, ducks and butterflies. She had a great time. We got to spend it with our little one and it was perfect!
Since AJ's birthday is so close to mine and my uncle's (18, 20, 22) we had a family bbq that weekend but it was really informal, just stuff on the grill, potato salad type thing. No decorations or big deal.
For us her first birthday was more for us than her. She didn't understand the significance of the day. Why waste our money when we can use it for something she would appreciate? I have plenty of other bdays to go crazy about. This one was one year from us in a hospital and waiting for her and all the drama that came with that day. For us it was about the three of us celebrating that first day fo her life just us the way it started. But that was only OUR opinion, of course.
Message edited 6/16/2010 10:15:21 AM.
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| Posted 6/16/10 10:09 AM |
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EricaAlt
LIF Adult
Member since 7/08 22665 total posts
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Erica
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
Hmmm... maybe $1500 - $2000
had it at my parent's (although they helped a lot). With the food, cake, decorations, favors, and entertainment it added up. All good. About 75 pple and it was a fun time. Wouldn't change it for anything
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| Posted 6/16/10 10:11 AM |
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Bridex100
Two Under Two Mommy
Member since 3/08 10420 total posts
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Momx100
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
I think we spent around $3500-4000.
Food was $50pp plus tax and tip so more like $65pp.
Message edited 6/16/2010 10:14:38 AM.
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| Posted 6/16/10 10:13 AM |
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iamme
LIF Toddler
Member since 6/10 495 total posts
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
we had ds first bday party at my il's house. they have a huge backyard with a pool, and we had a john-deer tractor themed bbq. (everyone was dressed like it was a "white-trash-bash)probably about 50-75ppl, but between the invites, tents, table rentals, cotton candy machine (mil was mad at fil so she got it lol) presents, favors, food, etc it was probably around 5000. my il's helped with a majority of it, my sil's did the baking. it was so much fun, even though ds had no idea what was going on!
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| Posted 6/16/10 10:48 AM |
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JennB
My princess <3
Member since 5/09 2473 total posts
Name:
Jenn
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
I wish I could just do a backyard party but DD is a winter baby so if I have anything it has to be out and I would rather do it at a place and have everything taken care of than to do it at a hall and have to get everything ready myself. If we do a party out it will probably be at the same place I had the Christening so I'm going to say it would cost around $2-3k
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| Posted 6/16/10 12:10 PM |
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Annie91606
Brotherly love
Member since 12/07 1816 total posts
Name:
Anne
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Re: HOW MUCH did you spend on your child's 1st birthday party?
About $300.
Had a house party with family and close friends only. We ordered some great food and had a lot of fun. DS napped for part of it
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| Posted 6/16/10 12:22 PM |
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