I had never heard the term "first moon party" until I watched this video, which has gone viral over the past 2 weeks. Was the phrase just recently coined by HelloFlo's ad, or has the phrase been in use prior to that to refer to a celebration of a girl's first period? (assuming that people even have celebrations for a girl's first period…)
Learn English – When did the phrase “first moon party” come about
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Best Answer
It wasn't coined for the ad.
Oldest reference on Google books seems to be from a novel Catching Heaven by Sands Hall from 2000.
There's also this product from 1998: First Moon: Passage to Womanhood