<p>For an 18th birthday party, at a hotel with food served, waiters etc, would you prefer:</p>
<p>1) Friday evening (at a Holiday Inn, like around 7:30-12:30am, consider traffic, people from work etc, and of course evening is more formal, which is nice)
2) Saturday lunch (at a nice country club with ponds, nice views, but it’s only 11:30am-4pm, not as dressy cuz daytime. Holiday Inn also has Sat lunches and there are no windows so it can feel “night” for the dancing…)</p>
<p>Saturday evening is preferred, but alas, everything is booked! </p>
<p>What do you think? #1 or #2? What would you do?</p>
<p>This is for my 18th birthday. I am a Filipina girl and 18th birthdays are a big deal, “debutante ball”, but everything is pretty last minute because the party is going to be in late August or second week of September, so we’re not going to have elaborate cotillion waltzes or whatever. But I need to make a decision this week, what do you think is better, Friday night or Sat lunch??</p>
<p>choice #1 for sure, because everyone is going to be getting ready for your party for the night, and they reserved their whole night for you, so they’ll come feeling excited.</p>
<h1>2, the one that ends at 4 pm, people might wanna leave early, go do something else, because the night is just around the corner so they could get tempted to leave soon and do other plans.</h1>
<p>yea traffic and work will be involved but it shouldn’t prevent you from having a more formal get together.</p>
<p>course this is my opinion and what i’ve experienced…people are also (if i’m not mistaken) more energetic and look foreward to the party when it’s a night one vs. a day one because day time always occupies the mind to do other activities…while night time once the person does something, he does it for the rest of the night.</p>
<p>it woudl be nice to get dressed up for a formal party… #2 would just be the same as number1 except number1 has the 'formal’ness with it - which you don’t get everyday</p>
<p>To be honest, I don’t like either of them. The whole formal atmosphere - eh. It’s not a wedding, it’s an 18th birthday. For my 18th birthday (and my twin’s as well - lol) we just stayed home and had a nice homemade meal and cake - no mega party or anything. Though our family was never one to have b-day parties (I think my twin bro and I had one our entire lifetime). The way I’ve been raised, it’s kinda shallow to have a b-day party where kids have to get you a gift to show up or else they feel “left-out” because everyone else brings a gift and blah blah blah. So we never had any of that.</p>
<p>But, since I have to choose, I’d take the late-night one. But kill the formal thing. And if my friend had a party at a country club, I wouldn’t go, unless it was my absolute best friend (and in that case, he wouldn’t choose a country club to host his party).</p>
<p>in filipino culture, 18th birthdays are like the equivalent of the quinceanera in spanish cultures.</p>
<p>i was already leaning toward evening, so everyone’s input helped me confirm that. thanks :)</p>
<p>crypto: we were just inquiring at country clubs and hotels to see whichever one had an available hall/room/catering. the hotel seemed to have a better deal so we are going to book with a hotel</p>
(I’m a girl)</p>