How much did you spend on your kid’s first birthday party?

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The first birthday we actually properly celebrated with a group of his friends with invites wasn’t until he turned 3. It was like 15-20 kids. We spent like $400ish on renting out a play place which came with a pizza lunch. Then cake, decorations, goodie bags, etc. So probably like $600 all said and done. Too much. But he absolutely loved it.

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My in laws wanted to celebrate my daughter first birthday. So they spend around 1.5-2L for 1 night gathering. Invited around 200-250 people.

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The cost of a croissant? Her birthday fell between the high holidays so no celebrating. Spend about the same the following 3 years too.

Probably $350 between food, drinks, decorations and cake for ~25 people. It was really an excuse to get our family and friends together for a summer bbq.

We spend about $500-600. You could say it was for her and us parents. It was a cookout at a near by park with our family and friends (50-65ppl) . We had just moved back closer to the city so it was an excuse to see everyone again and fellowship. But her 2nd birthday cost us less than $150. Dinner, Aquarium, and build-A- Bear ( bear cost the amount they turn so $2)

numbers in INR.. 1500rs for cake.... some 700rs for dress.. home cooked Briyani 5 kg cost around some 1000 - 2000rs..

Maybe $50 for cake + some paper banners

$1000

The beer and wine was probably $100 and I smoked a brisket. Otherwise we had a backyard birthday party for all the kids.

$1100 plus tips for staff. Winter so no outdoor options. Two year old, didn’t want to have the chaos of hosting at home. Play gym + pizza and cupcakes.

Maybe $400 or less. Had a backyard bbq with friends and family, just paid for catered food, alcohol, decorations. Grandma made cupcakes. We are lucky to have summer babies & a big backyard.

around $450-600

Close to $8,000 - this included travel and hotels for family members, as well as all meals for all days, entertainment, and a photographer. I’m never spending that much money on a kids bday [party] again!

Yeah - we were young and stupid and didn’t have a clue as to what type of precedent we were setting. Never did it again and don’t plan to!

300-ish? Coincidentally we had some family coming into town the weekend we wanted to celebrate so we took all the family out to a pizza joint and got a bunch of pizzas! It was a lot of fun, did homemade cake 🎂 at home with the crew afterwards. We had a November baby and it happened to be a pretty cold weekend so that’s why we opted to eat out, otherwise we would have done it in the backyard with delivery.

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