What makes a great baby shower?!
What makes a great baby shower?
I've been to 1 baby shower and now i have to throw one myself. i've looked at websites that are supposed to help and they aren't. we are keeping everything extremely low cost. i have a few games picked out and the menu and party favors but what else? I feel like this is going to be a boring disaster and i'd really like to throw a great bash.
Answers:
good friends
good food
good music
sounds like a good time to me
good luck
If you let everyone drink alcohol and have a fun theme even for those that do not have nor want kids. Also, put out some easy, yet great tasting finger foods.
That's it. You're done. You can't plan too much, because you won't have enough time for the mom-to-be to open all her gifts!
Just make sure someone is nearby with a pad and paper to keep track of who gave what. It will make her thank you notes much easier to write.
Games, food, party favors.......sounds like you got everything covered. Everyone will have fun passing the gifts around and seeing what all the mommy to be got.
Here is a game I saw at a baby shower I went to. The hosts presents a wrapped package and tells every one to pass it around. The hosts plays music and then stops it as the wrapped package is being passed around. The person who has the package when the music stops takes off a layer of wrapping. The host has told the guests that whoever takes off the last layer of wrapping has to wear what is inside the package. She also tells them that it is a pair of panties that would fit any one in the room and they must wear them through out the shower. Every one is anxious to get the gift out of their hands before the music stops since no one knows which will be the last layer of wrapping. It is hilarious. When the last layer of wrapping stopped in the ladies hand, it was actually a pretty flower.
Here is a good idea take a diaper and a small bite butter figer candy and snickers on the diaper put in the microwave just so mealts you can also make it chunky if u want to then past it around make them guess the right candy even if they have to lick it !!!
joke : throw an orgy, then there will be a shower of babies 9months after.
answer : try a sleep-over pyjama party, if not just an afternoon tea-party with dimsum smorgasbord
Keep it simple and the games creative like the baby food tasting game,the ribbon game(everyone cuts ribbon to guess size of pregnant mom's belly) celebrity baby name game. Use recycled gifts (unused new gifts you got from your Secret Santa or nice stuff that your received that you just never had a use for) or nice things from the dollar store or mark down section at Marshalls,Stein Mart,or TJ Maxx for prizes for the games. Chicken or ham salad sandwiches on yummy rolls, chicken wings, meatballs,deviled eggs,chips & dips ,fruit and veggie platters can be served.
Horseradish,
I am not sure if this is what your are looking for, but I saw these as a wedding favor at a wedding in New York City that I was attending and everyone loved them for they were actually cute as well as useful.
Every guest was given a customized jewel box of these small but very strong magnets. The company is called Herculittles. They were so cute. I can’t do the favor justice by trying to explain it here. I suggest you look at their web site and see pictures of their samples as well as testimonials.
http://www.herculittles.com
I did end up using them and they were the provider of favors for two showers I was helping to throw. Really great idea, I think, for everyone was hoarding them.
Hope this helps.
the best baby shower is relaxed with tons of food and drinks. it's a social outing normally for girls.
i loved my shower. we had it in my mothers yard. five tables in 10, provencial french blue and yellow colors for a boy.
Centerpieces were diaper cakes with boy stuff wrapped in celefane with a big card for everyone to write their advice. It was awesome, b/c I had diapers for a while...
The game that was a hit was that my mom bought a white onsize per table and those paints that you use to decorate shirts... each table decorated a onsize and we hung them on a clothes liner which was really cute to dry and to judge. It was sooooo cute.
The gifts on the table were lotions.
My cousin had hers and it was fabulous. She did a pampering party, she had centerpieces with spa stuff and someone giving massages.
It was a blast.
The most boring baby showers I have been to, and at 50 I have been to more than I can remember, are the ones with women and children only. All those stupid diaper pin games, the guessing games about the pregnant woman's waist measurement is insulting, and the pastel colored everything is just inane.
The best showers, baby and bridal, were couple showers. You throw a real party for both the parents, with proper food like a roast beef or a turkey (and all the expecting parent's friends can bring pot luck sides), and a proper champagne punch (let the word out that people should bring a bottle of something to share).
And, the father gets presents too, from his friends.
You will find that by providing a prime rib roast or a turkey (cheap and welcomed) a couple punches (one non alcohol and one with) and letting the guests provide the rest (except for finger snack foods), is actually less expensive and more enjoyable for everyone.
If you have this shower around noon then bloody marys and mimosas are cheap and you can make them by the punchbowl, and you can serve cold salads instead of hot side dishes. There is no crime in asking the friends of the mom to be for help with the food. Get the girlfriends involved! That's what girlfriends are for!
Have lawn games set up outside, and have some of the better shower games inside (but not for the women, for the kids only) and have decent prizes.
Women go sooooo wrong with these parties, thinking that every single thing has to be baby related. I tell you, after attending at least a hundred of these functions I can pretty much call myself an authority.
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