BIG families and lots of birthday parties

That's not a bad idea at all!  I would def. suggest it.  I mean, I can undrestand wanting to spend time with all of your family all of the time, but if they life rather far away or expect you to bring thigns at each one....I love the idea of designating a weekend day each month to getting together :) :).

That would be cool.

With my DH's family, there seem to be a lot bunched together as well. The younger kids have their individual parties as normal. However, for the older teens and adults, we do two annual parties to celebrate the birthdays. Nothing big or amazing, really. Food, cake, lots of people.

It's crazy in the summer. In August, there are birthdays on the 8th, 10th, 12th, 2 on the 15th, 22, 24, 28 and that's just ranging from my daughter and SIL's LO to their great aunts.

We have done that.  My Mom will pick a Sunday during the month and cook a big meal and bake a cake.  We would all come and visit and celebrate the birthday folks.  That being said little ones still had small parties, but no hard feelings if somebody couldn't make those.  Now we all do not live close enough for the monthly get togathers.

I celebrated my birthday with my grandma, an aunt, an uncle and several family friends on most birthdays growing up. I did have a few kid birthday parties but most were family. Those were the Jan/Feb bdays, we also had several other months that we did group birthdays! I think its a great idea :D

 MY kids have birthdays beginning is March- end of May (4 of them) & then mine is in July & we have one in September. Plus my ex is in December. I feel if I do one party for all my kids combine then they might feel jipped. But I have thought about doing one big summer party for all 5 of them at the pool? And then if ex & I take them to dinner by themself on their birthday then we are making a big deal out of that day,

My family often did 1 big party and rotated where it was. Everybody usually brings a dish too to help split cost.
In oct we had 5 bdays, Feb 3... a couple months were mixed with bdays and aniv.

I think it helps save on gas, food cost, as well as not all weekend will revolve around parties. Esp in summer mom/dad work kids don't have school so weekends are still often used as camping, kid parties, relaxing ect

I think grouping birthday's together is a great idea - for the older kids. I have to say that I don't know maybe 5 and under deserve their own parties and after that group them in. In my family we often grouped parties - usually when the kids turned 12, but I don't see any reason to let it go on that far.

In our family, March, July, and November are the busiest!  And we have a party (some times 2) each weekend.  Now for us older 'kids' we either come together for ONE dinner or don't do anything any more, since we have more kids running around.  Now, my SILs had their kids' bday party together this past year and I did NOT like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!  B/c one was a girl and the other boy and then there were people there for one and not the other and then opening presents was a disaster b/c you couldn't watch both at the same time.  UGH!   I hope they don't do it again.  Its only a few months out of the year, so I would rather have individual fun than clumped into one.  :D

Dhs side of the family does that. Theres 3 birthdays in June so we just do something big and celebrate them together