The first birthday party invitations are the most exciting out of all of the birthday party invitations you'll buy for your little one. It's such a huge milestone at this point in the baby's life and it is so exciting. No other birthday is as special. The first birthday party invitations need to be special as well.
First Birthday Party Invitations
Now that you've got a special first birthday party planned, you need some special first birthday party invitations. You can make them yourself easily and for FREE through Events Listed.
First, you create a web page about your first birthday party through use of over 60 multi media tools. All of the tools are in a Web 2.0 environment and are very simple to use. Use these tools to completely personalize your first birthday party page by including pictures, videos, audios, and more. Add some birthday music to the page and even implement a count down element to add some anticipation for your special one's special day.
You can add a present wish list and post notes to the parents such as, ?We will require you to attend the party as well to ensure all little ones are well supervised.? Why not post a map and directions? Short of hanging the moon itself, there is almost no end to what you can do to personalize on your first birthday party web page.
Birthday Invitations
Second, you will electronically invite your guests to your page by sending emails with direct links to your page. Once they arrive, they'll see many things, but here are two biggies:
* The guest list. They'll not only be able to respond to your invitation, but they are able to see how others have. All your guests can see who has confirmed, who is declining, and who hasn't responded.
* Networking. Your guests will see that they can network with each other, right there on your page and they'll love it. They can send well wishes to the birthday baby; give suggestions for the party, and more. You can even allow for more networking by cross referencing other first birthday party online groups.
If anyone can't make it, they can still enjoy some of the party. They can see and hear photos, video feeds, micro blogs, and more being implemented during the party. There's that fun element again. Too bad you can't shove some cake through to them.
If you have party helpers, don't be shy with the managerial skills. Take advantage of the task manager to assign your helpers the tasks they've agreed to. You can also make sure no one forgets by sending out email reminders that are on auto pilot. You can even post a budget right on your web page and manage it from there. That's pretty snazzy, huh?
Events Listed wishes your little one a great first birthday and you many successes with these first birthday party invitations. Don't forget you can network before, during, and after the party. All for free.
It's true creating your own birthday party invitation really is so much fun, and something you could do together with the birthday kid. If you're not very crafty don't feel like there is nothing to do but to buy some readymade invitations from the local store, there are so many birthday party invitation ideas on the internet you could enjoy finding these together.
If the birthday party you are planning has a particular theme, simply surfing the internet is sure to bring up a fan site or two. If your theme is a popular kids birthday party theme you will find that many of these sites even have birthday party templates ready for you to fill in and print. But certainly these sites will have clip art pictures that you may be offered for sharing and including on the invitations you can put together.
While looking on the internet for birthday party invitations you will very likely find some template software that will guide you step by step through the process. Template software gives you the best of both words, it is as easy to use as readymade invitations that you really get to create yourself.
With or without software templates making your own invitations is not such a difficult task. You could use MS Word, or even just your rich text editor found in all windows operating systems. Simply choosing large bright text and using a few of the clip art images you found on the internet makes for great looking presentations.
Certainly lots of colored cardboard, glitter and clue and having an old fashioned craft night in makes for beautiful, and personal treasured birthday party invitations.
The most important thing of your invitations is the information. Start with a nice big heading announcing the birthday party and be sure to include the theme of the party if you want to have your birthday party with a fun party theme. Pick a nice large bright font for this, but try to keep yellow for highlighting only, yellow is a little hard on the eyes. Then move on to the birthday invitation details.
. Whose party is it - First things first announce the name of the birthday boy or girl. Be a little bit creative "You are invited to Ben's special day.", "Sally would love you to come to her 5th Birthday Party."
. How old - It makes so much easier for the parents of your child's party guests when they are selecting cards and gifts.
. When - when putting in the date it's a good idea to include the date in long form, i.e. Saturday 3rd June simply writing 3/4/07 may get confused with the 4th of March.
. Where - be clear, especially if the party is not at your house. This would be a great place to include a few easy directions using the school or a common known landmark as the starting point. Parents love maps, perhaps you could find one on the internet to include stapled on the back or just as a slip included in the envelope. If only needing a few streets you could even include the short map in a small area in the body of birthday invitation.
. What time - be sure to include both the start time and the end time. You seriously don't want tired party kids still there long after the other kids have gone home.
. Theme - If you are having a theme, your birthday party invitation should reinforce this and perhaps include a couple of dress up ideas
. RSVP - For your own sake please remember to ask for an RSVP, there is nothing in the word more stressful in trying to plan a party not knowing how many kids you might be expecting. Including a special RSVP slip in with the birthday party invitation is a nice polite reminder to parents that you would really love to know as soon as possible.
. If you have any other information you would like consider writing it on the invitation instead of having to remember to tell everyone. If you would like parents to stay with their children, it's not impolite to say so. If you would prefer parents just to leave their kids in your care due to room restrictions you are far better to say something here than go through the stress of having to entertain the parents while trying to host a kid's birthday party. If you have a large space and lots of patience you might feel good about suggesting close age siblings may also be welcome.
Remember when sending out your birthday party invitations to keep a list of who has received theirs and check them off as they reply. Also most important, be sure to make up a couple more than you think you will need. Without fail you will have forgotten some poor kid, it's just in the rules it seems.
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