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Post by holly on Apr 1, 2016 14:18:28 GMT
My oldest is graduating HS this year so this is all foriegn to me. He graduates in June. I am trying to figure out what day to have his party/open house. They graduate on a Sat morning at 11am. No grad night after (they are doing it the week before). Should I do it sometime on Sat or wait until Sun? I will have some family in town so I do need to check when they are leaving. I have been thinking of doing in Sat afternoon. But I'm not sure of the time. I know it will be mostly my friends and a few of his dropping by as they party hop. He only has 70 kids in his graduating class.
The two other HS is his district are graduating Fri night and they have grad night Friday as well so they will be tired on sat. So not sure how many parties will be happening Sat. But I'm not too worried about them affecting my DS as all of his friend are at the school he attends and same with his friends. Just giving extra info.
We are planning on catering with a taco bar. So what would be a good time? TIA! I have to head to work so it may be awhile before I get back.
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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 1, 2016 14:56:16 GMT
Can I say I am glad those days are behind me...lol... I had two kids two years apart in school... so friends who were their age, or above or below them... so parties for about five years....LOL
Both my kids graduated on a Saturday morning and we had our party that afternoon. Worked for us and they weren't going to many other parties so that was never an issue.... otherwise... Saturday afternoon worked perfect.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Apr 1, 2016 16:50:12 GMT
My only suggestion is to see if you can do a combo party with a friend or a couple of friends. We did that for my nephew (my sister's ds) and my niece (my BIL's dd) and had two other friends, so 4 grads total. It was nice because it helps them not have to go to so many different parties in the same day  |
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 1, 2016 18:12:36 GMT
No advice on time. I just want to throw out there - keep the receipts, your lists, and jot down notes about what you had too much of, what you had not enough of, etc. Then you'll have it when the younger one/ones graduate. It was a big help to me to have that info.
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Post by littlemama on Apr 1, 2016 18:30:59 GMT
I think it depends on what is common in your area. Our kids graduate on Thursday, June 2. DS has parties to go to every weekend from the one immediately following graduation all the way through mid-August. The most common party date so far that we have seen is June 18. The girl having the party on June 5 apologized for it being so early, but she has out of town family who will be in that weekend. The Saturday immediately following graduation is district play for baseball and softball and possibly some other spring sports as well. Things wind down for HS sports a week or two later.
If it's common in your area to do it the day of graduation, then go ahead. Around here, that would be odd! As for time of day, that depends as well! in our area, if you are having an evening party, it is generally understood that there will be alcohol for the adults. If you are having a day time party, then it isn't as expected. As long as your taco bar occurs at a meal time, I don't think it matter what meal that is.
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Post by scrapbug on Apr 1, 2016 18:35:00 GMT
A few years ago my son graduated in the morning and his girlfriend's parents had a party for her in the evening. A lot of people couldn't go because they had their own family parties and celebrations they were doing, but they knew this would be case. We don't have family within 2000 miles of us, so we were fine with going and took my parents along. Having it in the evening was nice because it gave us a chance to re-coup and to do lunch with the family, etc.
This year my daughter graduates and she is not a party person, so I'm guessing it will be just our family. We are expecting a niece to come as well as my parents, we can't count on the in=laws - so we'll see what happens.
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Post by holly on Apr 2, 2016 3:53:25 GMT
Thanks everyone. I'm not really sure when people have their parties, they seem to just have them whenever. The two big high schools always graduate at night so no one usually has a party on the night of graduation because they then usually go to an all Nighter event.
This is the third graduation for my DS's school so I haven't been to any graduation parties for anyone who has attended his school previously.
I think I'll just stick with Saturday and whoever can come will come.
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Post by iowgirl on Apr 2, 2016 13:15:45 GMT
No advice on time. I just want to throw out there - keep the receipts, your lists, and jot down notes about what you had too much of, what you had not enough of, etc. Then you'll have it when the younger one/ones graduate. It was a big help to me to have that info. THIS! Do this! I refereed back to my notes so many times. I kept my recipes in there too, since I was making "big batch" recipes, I kept notes of any modifications that I made to the regular recipe (if you are cooking your own). Keep your address list too. I did mine on labels -and this was handy to have each year. We modified each year - but it made it a lot faster. I also printed out a set for them to use on the Thank You's. I planned my party so that it wasn't when everyone else was having one, and to accommodate family from out of town. We usually had around 175-200 guest. I made all the food. Boy. What a lot of work! LOL |
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Post by cindyupnorth on Apr 2, 2016 22:00:10 GMT
Yea, I would do it Sat. afternoon. Then family and friends can go to graduation, and then hit up the parties. Our graduation is always Friday night. Some even do the grad parties that night, but most do them Sat and sunday
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Post by Basket1lady on Apr 2, 2016 22:40:58 GMT
DS graduated at 9 am on a Saturday and we had that party that afternoon. We're a military family and the family was in town for the graduation. I think it worked well. We had some area friends and some of DS's friends and it was all good. Our big conflict was a private church event that took away a lot of those guests. But there is always going to be someone who can't come. I did almost all the prep the day before and just did some minor decorating and food stuff on Saturday after we got home from the graduation. Family helped and by 7 pm, I was sitting on the deck with a big glass of wine and chatting with friends who stayed late. It was a really nice day. DS has Asperger's and HS was a big push. But he graduated summa cum laude and got a huge scholarship. I celebrated as much as he did!
My big tip for you is to start the slide show now if you are going to do one. It was so worth it, but it took me months to scan in photos, redate them, label them, put them into albums, etc. It's wonderful to have them all done now, but it took a long time. And I did all my ugly crying while making the slide show and then did great for the entire grad day.
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