During celebrations, like birthdays, do yu prepare food and invite visitors?

Here in India, we have the same culture of celebrating birthdays and anniversaries and all. We also prepare different types of dishes at home, then we prepare cake or get it from market, decorate the house and celebrate it very nicely. This helps us meeting family and friends frequently and enjoy with them.

am now 27 and i still do this.. and i agree with you that family ties are stronger here because of these celebrations, more of a family reunion.. but unlike when you are kids where you invite all your classmates, now its more of a family gathering celebration.

well in india we prefer to cook food for celebrations like birthday parties etc as it is money saving as well as it increase ytour enjoyment as you feel more involved in party .however few things that cannot be made we order for them.

For me parties are not like eating or drinking as i am happy but its the time when i be with my family and friends in order to see and have personal meetings so that we should really get to know what is going on because now a days one don't have time even to ask a friend about his health of plans so i love to be in parties in order to find my friends and ask them how are they and family parties always have good impression on ones mind because family members are one who will and are caring for you even if you are not with them.

That depends, since most of the things here is "do it yourself"....I will prepare food and invite some visitor only when I have the time and money for it (since things is quite expensive to throw a party regularly). But I try to always celebrate my daughter b'day....by inviting family, her friends and our friends. As for my husband and my own b'day party we prefer to celebrate it by dining out or just going somewhere and doing something special together with my daughter (sometimes with my other family and friends). I like preparing food but it is also nice if I won't be spending the whole time in the kitchen cooking with smelly clothes and running back and forth asking and serving my guest/ visitor....at least not on my own birthday. But if I get some extra help....I might celebrate more often....

My family is very big on celebrations. We have a family get together for just about every holiday. We have food and desserts and it's a very good time.

When i was younger, i invited a lot of people on sandwich party with sandwitches and cake. Now i prefer to invite just a friend or two anywhere outside-club or restaraunt.

Food is a big deal with my friends and family. Even on days where there is nothing to really celebrate like a birthday we will have people over and eat.

Don't we all enjoy get togethers and nice food here in the Philippines! I think it has become more of a culture to celebrate whenever there's an occasion, and to make an occasion in order for us to have a reason to celebrate. :) We love parties, bonding and chit chat with friends and family while enjoying the different dishes we deliciously prepared.

When ever there's a celebration here in my family specially birthdays. I personally plan it if I can afford to have a little party in my house or just to go out and spend some time to eat in restaurant and go to the movies. I want to be practical sometime and if gathering a party you know that in our tradition inviting one is a must to invite others coz they will get mad at if you will not invite them. And for me it is not so practical now a days that It's very hard to earn money just to treat others.

Yup!we love to prepare food and invite friends during celebrations like fiestas and birthdays, other than that i would rather celebrate it with my family. It's a filipino culture i guess.

For birthdays here in the uk most of us have parties and celebrations for birthdays, christmas ect, and invite family and close freinds to celebrate with us. It is not something everyone does but is extreemly popular, I think less so tough when we get older except every decade celebration. The main ones once you pass 16 are 18,21,30,40,50 ect. I think it is nice that you can gather so often but with teh UK being such a busy place with everyone rushing about sometimes it is hard to get all the people you care about in one room at once which is a shame.

yea. we'd prepare food we'd invite some family and friends(=

yeah of course foods and visitors are kinda important in a celebration. as it keeps the party to go on... and makes people more happy with the occasion.. hehehe... but what really matters most is the presence and their true friendship to everyone... that would make the celebration better...

In the Philippines food is something that completes a gathering for it is something that we look forward. We prepare food in speacial occasions but its more of a very private thing for us specially on birthdays. We dont celebrate fiestas coz mom does not like so much preparations, we just go to our relatives living in the compound with us and celebrate with them.