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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
would you/do you like to have a surprise parties?
my SIL and her DH turn 40 in Sept. I was surprised there hasn't been any discussion about anything going on for this, so I sent my MIL an email to see if she'd heard anything. There are several family birthdays that month - so it tends to book up quickly and I was just trying to plan my month/weekends. MIL says she hasn't heard anything and then says "what do you think?" so. ... I guess I've volunteered to plan a party for my SIL and her hub? I don't mind doing it, but I don't really know her/their friends, so we'd need to get the names of her friends from her, but then it wouldn't be a surprise either. Anyway. .. just a long rambling post - but in someways, I think I'd rather know who's coming and sort of what the vibe will be and from who.
Re: would you/do you like to have a surprise parties?
I don't mind planning parties, but surprise parties are really hard to pull off. I was going to throw a surprise party for DH 30th, but I just decided to tell him one day and it was so much better with his input in food, beer, people to invite, etc.
I can tell you that my family has never thrown me a surprise party. I tend to find these things out.
Ditto all the PPs.
I am not a fan. The only type of surprise party I can tolerate is when the spouse/partner plans it and has it in a restaurant or something like that, so that the guest of honor is prepared for a special event- otherwise it's too hard to get the guest of honor to the right place, looking appropriate, etc.
I hate surprise parties. All my friends and family know if they ever throw one for me, I will promptly turn around and walk out.
Like Jen said, they're just a PITA to plan. It's super stressful trying to make arrangements and keep everything under wraps and most of the time despite all the planning, the secret usually gets ruined.