Rubi, a small-town Mexican teen, is expecting more than a million guests at her 15th birthday party Monday after her parents' video invitation to the milestone event went viral online. Girls' 15th birthday parties are often a huge deal in Latin America, where families traditionally pull out all the stops to welcome them to womanhood. But Rubi's "quinceanera" party could take the phenomenon to a whole new level, after the invite became an offbeat internet sensation. "Hi, how's it going? We would like to invite you this December 26 to our daughter Rubi Ibarra Garcia's 15th birthday party in La Joya," her dad, Crescencio, says in the video. Now it is time for the family to deliver: 1.3 million Facebook users have replied they will attend. It promises to be a massive affair for La Joya, a village of 200 people near the city of San Luis Potosi.
The family say they were originally expecting around 800 people for the party. Local authorities have since decided to move it to a large open field and send a security detail for what Mexican media are calling "the party of the year."
