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I always have problems with daycare parents RSVPing. In my experience, if you don't hear at all, they don't come. But since you invited the whole class, I would ask the teacher to remind parents to let you know if their child will be attending. We've done that in the past with good results.

For my son's birthday party I wrote a note to the parents who hadn't RSVP'd and left it in their cubbies just reminding them to please let me know one way or another. That being said, I did get almost all my RSVPs right at the end - I think people look at it, think "Oh, I'll reply to that later", and then set it aside until right at the deadline. I absolutely do (or rather, did - it was so annoying when I was planning my own party that now I reply right away).

I did paper invites for my son's preschool class. Out of 23 kids, I got around 10-12 RSVP call backs. I ended up calling one parent because my son loves her daughter and I wanted to see if she could come, I didn't bother calling anyone else. I had a friend in the same situation and she had someone call about an hour before the party and say "my kid is coming", they didn't even ask if it was too late or anything. I invited a couple friends outside of his class because I knew not everyone from preschool would be there. We only ended up with 9 or 10 kids (after 2 got sick and couldn't come) which was actually a great number.

I would ask the school to email the parents for you. The class invites were the only ones we didn't hear from. Or said they would come and didn't show up. So we wasted $$ on those kids. So rude!

Ugh I just sent out paper invites for my sons class today... we invited 23 people and my guess is we'll get about 10 to come. I am also torn with inviting other friends. I know my son won't know, but I'm so nervous no one will bother lol. I hope we get a couple right at the start so I can not over think this.

Honestly, if I'm in your position in a few weeks, I would assume if you haven't heard that it is a no. I would reach out to other friends to pad the numbers a little bit.

@Chuckles: so much stress! we only got one rsvp day one and it was a no from a little girl who has been at the other parties so off to a bad start! he's so excited I hope a few people come!

@reverie: We had this same issue last year (June birthday!). I asked my son's teacher to put the invitations in the folders of all of the students and almost nobody responded. I then sent a follow up email a day or so after the "RSVP deadline" and got a few more responses. We actually had some people who had not RSVPed at all show up at the event and a few who did RSVP that they could come not show up without any notice. Why are people so rude?! This year I think I'm going to just do an evite or paperless post invite to make the inevitable follow-up easier and I'm hoping that if responding just involves a few clicks that maybe people will be more inclined to respond. If I were you, I would probably send out an email the day of the deadline and ask for a response and then invite some additional friends if you are still under your number. I highly recommend bringing a few extra goodie bags, cupcakes, etc. just in case you get any people who just show up.