We understand that most of our items are given as the most amazing gift or the perfect birthday present, but these delays our out of our control, everything is hand made, delays can be caused from suppliers to human error and so on. If you are worried your item will not arrive in time please contact support@modernviking.com.au and our lovley team will happily send something else or give you a more relisitic outcome or we can issiue you a full refund. We highly recommend purchasing well before the birthday or go with another amazing item that is in stock.