Ideas for a 25th Birthday - suggestions and advice please :)

[keith_d]

How about an iPod nano with birthday greetings from everyone she knows on it?? Might need a bit of help getting some people to record .mp3 files but it's cheap and effective.

[Paul the 6th]

looks like it's going to have to be the dinosaur after all - about 10 of her mates have just announced they aren't coming from middlesbrough anymore and "Can't you just delay your birthday for later in the year?"

complete set of cnuts if you ask me, vic's well upset about it I've just rang about 10 people who are still coming to the main bbq, but to try and arrange a suprise dinner at a restaurant for next wedenesday. 9 didn't answer and the only one who did, answered the phone and shouted "I'll call you back", only to slam the phone down.

Is it just me or is trying to arrange stuff always this hard work?

I'm surprised that Ping's not come on here suggesting tank balling.....

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

looks like it's going to have to be the dinosaur after all - about 10 of her mates have just announced they aren't coming from middlesbrough anymore and "Can't you just delay your birthday for later in the year?"

complete set of cnuts if you ask me, vic's well upset about it I've just rang about 10 people who are still coming to the main bbq, but to try and arrange a suprise dinner at a restaurant for next wedenesday. 9 didn't answer and the only one who did, answered the phone and shouted "I'll call you back", only to slam the phone down.

Is it just me or is trying to arrange stuff always this hard work?

No it is very hard work, i organised a suprise 32nd birthday meal for my fell ,treacle on here, and had a few drop out through no fault of their own & they were good enough to tell me well in advance, but trying to get his work mates to give me an answer was a nightmare! they decided to join us the night before! , luckliy i had great support from bbc on here
It'l be hard worth but trust me mate, the look on their face will be worth it-look on Treacles face was priceless

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by Paws

No it is very hard work, i organised a suprise 32nd birthday meal for my fell ,treacle on here, and had a few drop out through no fault of their own & they were good enough to tell me well in advance, but trying to get his work mates to give me an answer was a nightmare! they decided to join us the night before! , luckliy i had great support from bbc on here
It'l be hard worth but trust me mate, the look on their face will be worth it-look on Treacles face was priceless

cheers for the advice paws managed to get 2 of our close friends booked in for next wednesday, trying another 2 and vicky's cousin who she's really close to if I can get 8 of us in total, I'll be happy....

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

cheers for the advice paws managed to get 2 of our close friends booked in for next wednesday, trying another 2 and vicky's cousin who she's really close to if I can get 8 of us in total, I'll be happy....

I had 20 of us to organise , had booked a table at a resturant and had to make sure everyone was there BEFORE i got treacle there & i also had to find a way of persuading treacle that we HAD to go to THAT resurant at THAT time , if you can get one of her mates to help organise things itl make life alot easier, but trust me itl deffo but worth all the stress and hassle

[Paul the 6th]

well it sounds like 10 people have already written the bbq off (and that was meant to be 30+ in terms of numbers), so just scraping a small gathering of friends together midweek considering they'll have to drive from middlesbrough or west yorkshire to York is going to be quite an acheivement lol... just seems like so many of her friends are a bit complacent about it all. "can't you just delay your birthday til later in the year" or "No, I don't want to drive 40 mins from boro to york for your 25th birthday, its too much effort"..

pretty shiite to be honest

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

well it sounds like 10 people have already written the bbq off (and that was meant to be 30+ in terms of numbers), so just scraping a small gathering of friends together midweek considering they'll have to drive from middlesbrough or west yorkshire to York is going to be quite an acheivement lol... just seems like so many of her friends are a bit complacent about it all. "can't you just delay your birthday til later in the year" or "No, I don't want to drive 40 mins from boro to york for your 25th birthday, its too much effort"..

pretty shiite to be honest

Does it HAVE to be midweek? im guessing her birthday is in the week but you guys could do something special together and then have a BIG SUPRISE party at the weekend? more people may would be more willing to turn up? I was lucky as treacles birthday fell on a sat this year but thats what i would have done mate

Originally Posted by Kinvig

I'm surprised that Ping's not come on here suggesting tank balling.....

I've only just seen this thread... but I can't be bothered.

I hope whatever they get round to doing is great fun though.

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by Paws

Does it HAVE to be midweek? im guessing her birthday is in the week but you guys could do something special together and then have a BIG SUPRISE party at the weekend? more people may would be more willing to turn up? I was lucky as treacles birthday fell on a sat this year but thats what i would have done mate

that's exactly the problem - the big bonkers birthday bash bonanza type thing has been planned for the saturday for about 6-8 weeks, which is why 30+ people were meant to be turning up. I'm still not quite sure why all of her supposedly good friends/ex-work colleagues have decided they all can't be bothered coming on the saturday now.

To try and make up for the disappointment, the surprise is the fact that on her birthday (wednesday 29th) it'll appear that it's just her & me going for dinner, but there'll be a few of her closest friends lurking in the restaurant...

getting wound up about how people can be so lazy or selfish or generally not give a sh*t... the number of times I've driven 100-200 miles to show my face at a mates birthday/other special occaision, then there's these lot who've known about it for nearly 2 months + it's literally 45 minutes down the road... and then they all turn around and say "well, I don't want to drive or get a minibus together or get the train so I can't be ars3d anymore"... rubbish people

anywho, I'm ranting now lol. Hope everyones having a nice day & thanks for all/any advice