KIDS PARTIES

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rubennin for nine marty and Campa for breakfast. I didn't
know there were party planners for kids' birthdays.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Marny enchanted Party higher. Event stylist is Kylie Kylie Hint.
That's her title, and she has seen expectations skyrocket in
recent years. This families look to outdo themselves every birthday.
It's not just about cakes and balloons anymore, she said,
it's about picture perfect custom balloon installation, theme tables, personalized
party favors, elaborate backdrops, and the setup alone can take hours.

(00:29):
The average cost for an event styling would be approximately
three grand. Now that's not including catering, entertainment or venue higher.
That's nuts. She said. We've been to parties with pony rides, magicians,
circus performers, even mermaids swimming in the backyard pool as
you do. And she said their most expensive party, which

(00:52):
is about fourteen hundred dollars, This includes a stretch hummer
ride in a pink Hummer and a disco. However, they
have been to parties that have been so elaborate. She said,
I've got no doubt that the minimum spind was about
ten grand.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Wow, that's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Something that's coming through now. Twein girls are favoring the
Taylor Swift disco spa spa and brow parties. Boys a
loving sport gaming theme parties.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I only ever had, as I said, pin the tail
on the donkey, pass the parcel and a few jelly cups.
Mum bought the punch bowl out for flash occasions in
the backyard, and the whole class was allowed to come
because you know, Mum could afford two plates of fairy blue.
But I mean, honestly, I get it. I get it
because I went all out for my son's birthday and
I had I don't know if you remember the photos.
It took me. It took me six months to plan

(01:43):
this party, and I had the petting zoo there and everything,
but I was so emotionally scarred from it. I've never
thrown a party every again. I take them to bounce
or something. I seriously was I've never done anything like
that ever again in my life. I said to him.
I often show him on Facebook and I'm late, mate,
see this. I know you don't remember, but that's just
so you know what happened.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, we had an Anna and Elsa party. Okay, now,
Georgia was the only one to be Elsa.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Don't be coming.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
As No, don't yes, because there were big fights at
school over who was Anna, who was Elsa? So Georgia
just wanted to be Elsa at the party, so everyone
else had to come as Enna. Is there any boys
had to come as either the yeah, I laugh or
the carrot? What's the snowman? One kid turned up with

(02:33):
a carrot on his nose. Anyway, it cost a fortune.
We went the boondle Ice skating center was catered yea.
My wife paid like three hundred bucks with the cake.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
It was.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
It was ridiculous. I'm going I don't want to do this.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
It's got look, it's got crazy. But we've all been
there where we've done it at least once, or witnessed
a party that we've gone. But please share with me
what was your most expensive party thrown for the kids?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
What did you pay the party? Venita in Bodesert, Well,
my son was.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
In the grade two was allowed to have ten friends
from his class at McDonald's party, plus his ten cousins,
and he gave the note to the teacher to put
on the whiteboard and the entire class turnder Oh Wow,
we're at McDonald's expecting twenty children and we ended up
with forty. Got cost a few several hundred dollars, no doubt.

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I was studying at the time, so I wasn't even working,
so it was an absolute nightmare. But what do you do.
You've got these little faces looking at you. You can't
have a happy meal.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
And there's a lot of happy meals to bring out.
I know I've done a McDonald's party before and they
get how many happy meals?

Speaker 4 (03:41):
How many of these?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Because someone wants something different? And you can see the
poor staff behind the registered.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
I felt so sorry for the poor stuff. They were
not prepared for an amount of children.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Oh I get it, I get.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
It, no doubt. All right, well, thank you, thank you.
Sonny's in Regent's Parks. What was your party, Sonya?

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh so a very very long time ago. My daughter's
now thirty, but when she was five she was assessed
with fairies and a bookshop at Manly had a little
enchanted garden with secret tunnels and what have you. That
was the one and only time we didn't do a
home birthday party, and it was very expensive in the day.

(04:21):
I think it was equivalent to my whole week's way
to be honest.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh yeah, I get it, I know, but we do
it once and I don't know if you're like me one.
I was so scarred from it. Yeah, I was like, no,
we're not doing this, absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, no, never again.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh well, thank you so well? Like Sonya, you know,
it was it wasn't cheap to pay for everyone for
kids to go to Ice World a boodle, I know,
you know, thinking they're in Frozen, it's ridiculous. What did
you pay the party?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Good morning?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, I had a Hungry Jack's party and like the
other lady, a lot of people turned up and they
only had one host, dess.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
So it was like, oh my god, and the parents
should drop off and go, don't they.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
You know, this is great. You saved the day two hours.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I think that costs me about five hundred bucks back then.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Crazy people just do these things like I'm traumatized by it, Michael.
My daughter has a party next year, because I said
when we only do them every couple of years, and
I'm absolutely petrified of what she's going to ask for
because she's ten next year and he's inviting everybody, and
I'm like, oh, gosh, I'm gonna have to start budgeting now,
and she's right after Christmas. Perfect timing, you know, when
all the bills come in and it's her birthday like

(05:42):
two months after.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's when they start asking you ridiculous things like can
we take our friends snow skin?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh yeah, no, I thought. I thought the glamping experience
in the laundering with the tents was bad enough. Campire,
I'm not ready for that.