Three weeks ago I gave out 7 invites for a dinner that I told people about 4 weeks before that (total of 7 weeks notice). I asked people to let me know by last Sunday. I had 1 person tell me no, nobody else responded. I started to tack down the rest and ended up with 3 yeses, another no, and 1 person who still didn't respond. Two days later I was told that a yes became a no. Today another yes became a no and 1 person still didn't let me know. Tomorrow is the dinner and another person just told me that they probably won't be able to come.
Instead of a fun dinner for 7, I have a 2 people maybe coming over. It doesn't matter that I've started the cooking already, have table decor, and that I made sure to send out invites, etc.
People are seriously inconsiderate sometimes!
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Sorry, that sucks. Do you know these people well?
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That sucks!
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@bluestriped bee: Yeah, all "good friends" from church. I told Hubs that I am so tired of planning things and having everybody bail, church or otherwise. I'm done planning stuff for quite a while. We invited 15 to his birthday party that I put together in September and about 8 showed. i'm done
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So sorry sweetie!
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Ugh. That sucks. I feel your pain though, most of our friends are notoriously unreliable.
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That would annoy me. If you get an invite to something, reply! It's not something that is just to be ignored. People cancelling last minute drives me batty, too unless it's like a family emergency or something. I had a cookie exchange last year and one of my close friends had a family emergency that day. TWO other people didn't show because they didn't know me as well as they knew her.
I get it. Annoyed.
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That's so rude! Hope you still have fun eating your yummy dinner! What are you making?
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So frustrating!!! I'm sorry!!!
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That is so rude, I'm so sorry! My husband and I have an Oktoberfest party every year. This past year, we invited the usual crowd - about 60 people (knowing full well that some would be "nos," we still invite them because they're family and we have to). We got probably 40 responses, with 24 yesses. 8 people showed up. I was really upset, but my husband was FURIOUS. He says we're never throwing the party again.
You spend so much time, effort, and money to throw these nice parties for people, and they can't even have the courtesy and decency to respond! It's so disappointing!
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@artbee: We're doing a seafood boil with crab, shrimp, corn on the cob, potatoes, sausage. Also french bread and fruit salad. Plus I made mini-brownies, pecan-pretzel candies, and mini-rice crispy treats for dessert.
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That sucks! What is the final guest count?
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@Andrea: We ended up having our pastor and his wife (only original invite) and another couple from church. It ended up being a wonderful time! It was definitely "grub" food as we were all eating with our hands and chowing down. They were impressed with how the table looked (china, shells, etc) and said that the food was wonderful. Dessert disappeared in about 5 minutes!
All told, it was really different from what I had originally planned, but it worked out. I'm still not planning on doing anything else big for a while though. I'm still feeling a bit hurt. -
@MaisyMay: wow, that sounds amazing? Too bad I don't live closer I'd love to help you eat all that up!
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@MaisyMay: that sounds even better! i would be hurt, too. it is really frustrating when you put so much effort into planning and then people are flakey. glad it worked out!
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Sounds delicious! I'm glad it worked out in the end but I would still feel annoyed, too. I run into similar situations where people are inconsiderate so yeah, I just stopped trying.
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