My Boys Want a Joint Birthday Party...

I say go for it. My kids have birthdays in July & August, they are 25 months apart. They have always had joint birthday parties. They love it because they get to have a bigger party because they share. Neither child has ever known a party of their own and they are fine with it. We celebrate with a special dinner and presents for them on their actual birthday and one big party. No guests have ever complained about bringing two presents, just think, if you had two parties in a two month span the guests would likely by both presents at the same time anyway. If a joint party is what the kids want, go for it, it's all about them anyway. :)

I always do a joint party for my girls. They are two days apart in September. But everyone I am inviting would be coming to both birthdays anyway.

If the people you would invite would come to both anyway, I don't think you should worry about it. If they would normally only come to one child's, then I would just tell them, the party is a joint party but you don't have to bring gifts for both or either of them...we just enjoy your company. I always tell my friends that I invite this. My friends usually do a fun combined gift, like a board game...which is perfect for my girls.

My kids birthdays are exactly one month apart and we always do joint parties. I print up my own invites - on the ones to family, family friends and joint friends, I write both of the kids names. For school friends of each child, I just write that child's name so they won't think that they need to bring a present for the other sibling whom they might not even know. Works out great!

if they would have come to both parties anyway, I dont see any reason to feel guilty. It sounds like a great idea to me, my brother and I used to do it, our birthdays are 5 days apart at Christmas (his right before, mine right after) so we'd have a joint b-day party at the beginning of the month.

I would love to go to 1 party vs 2 parties a month a part. If your boys are happy sharing the birthday party I say go for it. Good for you for having kids who love each other and want to share things with each other.

I think it's a great idea. With how many birthday parties we get invited to, this would save me time as a guest. Just put on the invite something about not feeling obligated to give 2 gifts (or any). We put that on all of our invites just for ONE child, since my kids have enough stuff and I am a minimalist, so I HATE my house full of things the kids will never play with.

My 5 and 8 year old only want GameStop gift cards, so maybe suggest ToysRUs gift cards for your boys, so the kids can get things THEY want and you can spread it out over months. LOL

We had a joint party for my boys one year. They are 3 years apart. I too was worried that people felt the need to bring two gifts, which I really didn't want. I worded the invites in such a way that it was clear they only have to bring one gift. I wrote something like:

Jimmy is invited to Luke's 3rd birthday party. ....and at the bottom I wrote something like .... Ben will be celebrating his 6th birthday at the same time.

I was able to do it in such a way because the little guy invited people from the preschool and the older from First Grade. Everyone seemed to understand - nobody brought 2 gifts. It was a fantastic party.

My two oldest daughters are 3 years and 12 days apart (11/30 & 12/12), and I have always had seperate parties for them because I didn't want them to feel like they didn't have their own special day. Last year, they both wanted to have roller skating parties (they are now 10 & 7). I told them that if they both wanted to have the same type of party then we should consider having one big party together. They were SUPER excited about it. I did photo invites from Sam's Club with a picture of both of them together. I worded it in the fashion that "Join us in celebrating Sue's 10th and Kate's 7th birthday!" I sent the invites to the regular family and friends that would normally be invited to both parties anyway, then I let them give them to whatever friends/classmates they wanted. I worried that maybe friends (parents) of my younger one would feel like they should bring a gift for the older one too (and vice versa), but no one did. It worked out just fine, and they're already talking about what "they" want to do next year for "their" birthday party.

My boys are 3years and 1 week apart and they always have a joint party. As far as friends are concerned I just put my oldests name on his invites for his friends and same with the younger. They have a couple brother sets of friend but it's no biggie. It's no surprise to our family that it's their birthday(hasn't changed) so they should expect to but 2 gifts in July and they don't have 2 weekends taken up. I say share their party. It saves you money and stress. Just send the invites a little earlier than normal so it gives people time to buy 2 gifts if they have to.

Only the kids that are friends with both kids and family would be getting an invitation to both and thus bring two gifts. Others should just be invited to the one child's birthday and hence just bring his gift. Also, you help by not scheduling two parties close together. I say go for it. Keep in mind that when the time comes for the bigger birthdays (teen, 16) you will definately want to do separate ones and maybe once in a while in between too.

Also, I have a relative that has four children. Two with January and two with February birthdays (oldest three are each a year apart and the youngest is two younger than that). Not more than one month between the first and fourth birthday and she has always done a joint party at the end of January/beginning of February for all FOUR!

My boys are a little less than 13 mos apart and we have done 2 joint birthday parties. I did the same thing that someone else said they do and had both of their names on the invites for close friends and family and only one child's name on the invites for school friends. I wouldn't feel bad about the two present thing either- people would be buying two presents if it were two separate parties anyway. I personally, would not have a problem bringing two presents. Since my kids are so close in age, they have many of the same friends and go to a lot of the same bday parties so ofen times, I end up bringing two presents at birthday parties for a single person--so, I am used to it!