A mother accidentally invited nearly 500 guests to her 1-year-old daughter’s birthday party

Emily King, who shared the hilarious event in a viral TikTok video with more than 12 million views, recalls the moment on April 10 when she noticed the online invitation service she was using The user has sent invitations to all contacts in their contacts.

She said while preparing an e-invitation for her daughter Ivy’s first birthday in June, her phone’s online invitation service offered an option asking if she wanted to ‘import her contact list’. me’ or not. “I saw this tab that said ‘import guests from previous parties’. And I just threw a St. Patrick’s Day party so I thought, ‘Oh, perfect,'” Emily shared with Good Morning America.

Emily thought this tab would let her choose who she wanted to invite. But no, the invitation was sent to all 487 contacts on her phone including all the acquaintances she had ever met, including her boss, colleagues, students, all on the guest list. invite.

What’s interesting here is that everyone received invitations using the names they were labeled with in her contact list. “From ‘cute guy from the bar’ to ‘old guy next door’ to ‘Derek eye rolling emoji’ and one time I hit this girl’s car in the parking lot of a store grocery store and I put her name in my contacts as ‘Jess – crashed her car in the parking lot,'” Emily shared.

She estimates that within five minutes of realizing what she had done, she quickly deleted the event. “At first I felt embarrassed but then I laughed because of this funny incident,” Emily said.

For her daughter Ivy’s first birthday party, she said she will still hold a party with a “Lord of the Rings” theme. In addition, she decided to expand the guest list from 50 to 70 people.

Emily shared: “This will definitely be her baby’s memorable first birthday. I feel very excited when Ivy is older so I can tell her this story.”

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