Birthday cards: everything you need to know, part II – birthday greetings

Last time in ‘Everything You Need to Know About Birthday Cards’, we looked at all the basics of birthday cards: Types of birthday cards When you’re expected to give someone a birthday card Choosing a birthday card design Kids birthday cards versus adult birthday cards The basics of wording a birthday card. This time round, …

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Everything You Need To Know About Birthday Invitation Wording

So you’re throwing a birthday party and you’re prepping your invitations, but then you sit down to actually write the things and… hmm… Birthday invitation wording can be a little intimidating, and actually getting started is often the hardest part. Information that needs to be included in your birthday invitations: The most important thing about …

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Pros & Cons: Professional Invites vs. Party Invitation Template

Choosing invitations for your wedding, birthday party, baby shower or other event can be tricky. On the one hand you’ve got fancy hand-printed luxury invitations from boutique printing companies, and on the other, you’ve got free party invitation templates that you can download online and print at home. What exactly is the difference? What sort …

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Beyond Sweet 16: Milestone Birthdays You Didn’t Know About

In Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, it’s all about the big three birthdays: 16, 18 and 21. These are celebrated largely due to their legal importance in the Western world, with freedoms like driving, voting and buying alcohol bestowed around these ages. In other cultures, though, different birthdays are considered significant milestones, …

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Why We Celebrate Birthdays (and why there’s cake, candles and singing!)

Birthdays are one of those things we celebrate every year without thinking much about it. Most of us have been celebrating our birthday since childhood, even if the celebrations are small. Like everything, though, this tradition has to have started somewhere. Who started it and why? How did a party complete with birthday invitations, a …

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