etiquette question

[tielan]

Is it impolite to host your own birthday party?

*is curious*

eta: no, I'm not asking for permission, I'm asking out of sheer curiosity.

Comments

[wrabbit]

Nooooo! Not at all. Do it.

[alexseanchai]

Whyever would it be impolite?

[jamie]

Nope. Have done it multiple times.

It's how I make sure I get exactly what I want instead of what people think I should do.

[copracat]

My experience is that you are more likely to be the host of your own birthday party than have a host once you are an adult.

Unless you mean MC?

[rmc28]

Err. That's what people usually do in my social circles. OK, apart from children until the mid-teens where parents do the organising, but even then the social fiction is that the child is hosting - invites go out in their name, and probably they have some say over venue and guest list once they're able to express that kind of thing.

But certainly since I've been an adult, I've organised and hosted my own birthday parties and so have my contemporaries. (Couples might jointly organise and host, eg my spouse's 40th last year.)

I feel like I don't understand the question. Who else is supposed to host it, if not you?

[gaffsie]

That's usually how it's done here. I wouldn't even know what a surprise birthday party was if I hadn't watched so many American sit-coms during my formative years.

[justhuman]

I host my own all the time. It's the perfect excuse to make all the things I love and not focus on what everyone else would like.